I definitely can relate! As was mentioned above I think building something you can use yourself daily (or regularly) helps. When I my side project that’s where

I definitely can relate! As was mentioned above I think building something you can use yourself daily (or regularly) helps. When I my side project that’s where o get excited about continuing to develop it. And as you mentioned in your post I’d recommend not “obsess[ing] over every UI” detail. Might be a good idea to just make it ugly/imperfect for V1 intentionally? Really just try to add the basic functionality MVP style. And since you’re using it regularly you will find little features you really think are necessary or bugs throughout the day to add to your list of things to do on your next planned programming session. And I’d recommend picking only one side project and sticking to it, only one is important so you see more progress quicker and sticking to it is important because sometimes you just need to keep doing it to finish v1. Then you’ll have that as a milestone.