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Don't pay attention to the negative nellies. Even these tiny "worthless" projects end up having value because they build a tool chest of skills and code snippets that make each subsequent project quicker and more sophisticated. Eventually you'll Frankenstein pieces of a dozen of these together into something big.


100% and aligns with my personal experiences as well. I've built countless things that never went anywhere or materialized.

Yet even today I continue to refer back to these old projects because I need to use again something I've built before.


Not to mention even these tiny "worthless" projects end up having value because they are FUN TO DO! :D

Not everything needs to be a hustle. Worth doesn't need to be in money terms


Much of the stuff on which I tinker are useless/masochistic. But: "what I cannot create, I do not understand"!


As a reader of that site and a student in tech, my friends and I have already received value from it.


Doing that right now for my app idea.




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