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by hulitu 500 days ago
> . Can you make an editor anything like VSCode or a cache like Redis?

No, but you can make a video player like MPlayer, a video library like ffmpeg, an image viewer like xv (not technically open source but close), a widget library like GTK1, an operating system, and so on and so forth. There is a lot of useful software which started as a one man show.