I consider myself reasonably fortunate, in that most of my side projects were made to scratch my own itch, and they all served me well. In that sense, none of

I consider myself reasonably fortunate, in that most of my side projects were made to scratch my own itch, and they all served me well. In that sense, none of them failed, since their primary purpose was to statisfy one of my own needs, and so they did. However, most of them never gained momentum, I stopped maintaining most of them after about a year, and hardly anyone missed them. There's one or two where I still get a few questions, whether it's still in development, or "what happened to it?", even after years of stopping work on them - one can either view that as a failure, since the projects were shut down; or as success, since some still remember them fondly. Being an optimist most of the time, I treat them as success.