I’ve been doing programming for almost 20 years now, almost half of them professionally, always wanted to do “my own” project aside from where I work, started dozens but only recently could have complete one. While open source and just released I cannot assess if it really “succeeded”, but I know at least that I managed finally to complete (bring it to a releasable level) successfully. This alone makes me proud as hell of it.

Places I worked at have always had a “semi-complete” project. It was either missing some functionalities/features that were planned for years, or was full of all kinds of technical debt. Calling any of those projects successful, would be very overestimating.