Well it worked for me. I released an indie game title this year while my github is full of half finished old projects. Pretty much only thing I did differently

Well it worked for me. I released an indie game title this year while my github is full of half finished old projects. Pretty much only thing I did differently was a public deadline and a few people that supported me to finish it on it (more like nagging tbh :)) I am sure this is not for everyone but I agree with OP about being public. Otherwise you just find a thousand excuses to not to finish anything