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Why yes! This is how I got into software development in the first place! I wrote all kinds of silly programs. First ever "serious" piece of software I wrote was for my parents, to help them calculate their taxes. In Borland Pascal, no less. Another time I had an old keyboard where one key stubbornly produced two key press events every time I pressed it - wrote a piece of software to intercept those and translate into single key press events. Slightly more recently, a program to parse my bank statements from PDF to QIF, because my ** bank doesn't have a QIF download (not even CSV). Etc., etc. And this is the kind of stuff I was/am truly passionate about!

Was lots of fun. I still do write "personal productivity software" (never call it that way, though). But the truth is - most of these issues are either already solved today or don't exist as a problem in the first place, provided you can afford paying for a solution and value you time more. Which is a good thing, but slightly less fun.