Building a half-baked Cpanel clone isn't a bad way to start and fail. Everyone had to start somewhere, even the guys who built Wordpress, Cpanel, Drupal, etc.

Building a half-baked Cpanel clone isn't a bad way to start and fail. Everyone had to start somewhere, even the guys who built Wordpress, Cpanel, Drupal, etc. Ego wasn't really the problem in your case. It's good to have an ego so long as it's not divorced from reality. I don't mean to lecture, but it seems like your issue was trying to find a problem in need of a solution and under the belief that's how people make money. For starters, what did you want your project to do, that all the others couldn't? How did you expect it to differentiate itself in terms of speed, interoperability, new features, or any other variables. What, in real terms rather than aspirational ones, made it better?