Or consider it a viable solution to the itch OP was trying to scratch with their own development.
It's easy to brush aside a monumental amount of effort and thought that gets poured into projects like these, marking them internally as fruitless, when
1) we're not the ones that spent the long nights and weekends obsessing over the nuances of the specific problem OP was trying to solve.
2) any of us on HN are usually here shit posting because we're avoiding putting in the same effort for our own projects.
that's true to an extent (it was nearly two decades :) and adds to my answer for the parent question: there has been a lot of mockery along the way during the interesting parts, as well as depression when things I was very passionate about (e.g. gosu) were ignored or failed
