1) This may be helpful on a small scale: Like many, I love building new features, and don't love fixing bugs. But after a while of not fixing bugs, I get this

1) This may be helpful on a small scale: Like many, I love building new features, and don't love fixing bugs. But after a while of not fixing bugs, I get this 'ewww, my code is icky' feeling, and slowly start to hate my project. That's when I know I need to spend a whole day fixing bugs. By the end of the day, I feel differently. There's something about quality that's viceral, the sheen of quality makes it easy to love my project again. 2) If you are really questioning the value of your project, ask: - how could I morph this into something else? - What else could I use my existing network of contacts for? - What is an adjacent problem? I recently went through this after feeling very trapped in my problem domain, and it resulted in a great new insight and, I hope, and entirely new set of products in an adjacent domain.