[zoidb]

Not the OP but, I can relate to this with a side-project I created many years ago that is an online tutorial for shell scripting. It's all open-source, requires minimal resources to run (small VM where I run a bunch of other stuff) and it is used most frequently by online schools to brush up on shell scripting. I get a lot of weird requests from random people which can be a bit annoying sometimes. This is for a site that gets around 100k visitors per month.

With that said I think there is some value in putting stuff out there without any marketing. Even if you don't have plan to monetize it can be rewarding in itself. The trick for me is to have a good way to minimize maintenance, which means use the same scripts and mgmt utils for several projects so you don't have any snowflakes that require special configuration.