[freedomben]

> "it started as a joke and then quickly got out of hand"

heh indeed, I've actually stopped writing joke projects because I'm extremely prone to this scope creep. At some point I realize "hey if if I were to just add X simple thing, this might actually be useful" and then pretty soon I've got a project I don't want to build and don't want to maintain, but feel like I need to. In the worst case (which was a rubocop wrapper that initially added silly/joke things on top of rubocop intended to be entertaining and bring some light-heartedness, but turned into an actually useful and easily extendable linting tool for our dev team) at least the company failed-ish and pivoted so we just abandoned it and escaped our self-created prison.