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> Ultimately it gets abandoned and forgotten and put on the graveyard of all the other side projects

Could be worse. I used to have this problem all the time, and at some point managed to fix it. Now I've spent 3 years on a side project (which I originally thought should take a couple of months, and considering its lack of complexity really only should have taken at most a year), and even though I'm fully aware its an "unworkable" idea, I can't stop until its done.

I've read tiny projects in the past though and really like it, I really want to try a similar thing at some point...just as soon as this current project is done ;)