I try to be deeply convinced that my projects are not about progress, deadlines, or results. They are about working on them regardless of their level of comple

I try to be deeply convinced that my projects are not about progress, deadlines, or results. They are about working on them regardless of their level of completeness. It is very easy to think that the result matters, so I'm saying I try. Ergo: (1) If you care about the topic of your pet project, then rewrite it from scratch, avoiding all you feel is technical debt. It will take way less than six years to have the same features you have now (hopefully more maintainably then). (2) If you do not care about the topic anymore, abandon the project. For a personal project, it is not lost work at all, because you've had your fun hours with it.