[hiAndrewQuinn]

>Beeminder API

Hey, I recognize that name. https://github.com/hiAndrewQuinn/anki-zero

Put yourself in the shoes of a person looking to recruit someone for a job. What is more important to you: Getting the best possible talent you can, or getting talent that won't fuck things up? Most of us need to hire for the latter.

>I would be a little upset with myself if I give them away and get nothing when there is a chance to make some income.

Putting well-developed projects on Github creates a hard to fake signal that you at least kind of know what you're doing. You are aware not only of how to program, but of several of the other things around how people build modern software nowadays. If you get some stars or whatnot, even better - that shows you know how to create software other people are actually interested in using.

In other words, if your projects end up being even 10% of the reason you manage to land a job in the industry, then they will have been worth many hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your life. That's how I have always seen it, at least.