While having started a widely-used project looks impressive, I'd much rather see a steady stream of improvements to existing projects from a potential hire than

While having started a widely-used project looks impressive, I'd much rather see a steady stream of improvements to existing projects from a potential hire than a bunch of their own projects that no one else uses. While the latter may tell me a bit more about how someone's design sense, the former tells me more about how well they work with other humans, which is much more interesting.