As fortune cookie as this sounds, and as someone with many successful repos on GitHub, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is whether or not you enjoyed what

As fortune cookie as this sounds, and as someone with many successful repos on GitHub, it really doesn’t matter. What matters is whether or not you enjoyed what you did. Don’t let the validation of others, or lack thereof, define you. Love your craft, and keep loving it. Even if you change the world by building something as well received as Redis, just take pride in completion. Completing a project with self verifying tests is not easy. What sets a good programmer aside from an outstanding programmer is completing something in full.