I think it's a perfectly fair option. I have projects which I have considered open-sourcing, but haven't because I don't want to deal with the public maintenan

I think it's a perfectly fair option. I have projects which I have considered open-sourcing, but haven't because I don't want to deal with the public maintenance and community management aspects. I think there is sometimes too much pressure around what is the "right way" to do open source, that a project has to tick certain boxes to be a valid open-source project, and I think it's perfectly fine for an individual to want to tinker away at a pet project on their own, and share the results with others.