I totally agree. I personally will never work on any of these things unless the end result is being used, either by myself or someone else. Or I'm getting paid

I totally agree. I personally will never work on any of these things unless the end result is being used, either by myself or someone else. Or I'm getting paid for it. Spending all that time working on something that ultimately reinvents the wheel and just ends up gathering dust in a github repo just feels so pointless to me. No offence if you enjoy this sort of thing though, of course. Just not my bag.