[ankurdhama]

The project is your vision, all the decisions about the future of the project are being made by you (or your business people), how can you expect a developer to feel invested or engaged in the project? Are you willing to give the developer the same decision power as the business people?

The reason developers love to work on personal projects is not primarily because it is using some shiny new tech but because they own the vision, they own the decisions, they started the question and they want to build the answer.