The only reliable way that I finish my side projects is by using them for something I need to do anyway. If I can use something I made by going slightly out of

The only reliable way that I finish my side projects is by using them for something I need to do anyway. If I can use something I made by going slightly out of my way, I get to improve it to completion (at least for the use case I'm doing). But if I have to go significantly out of my way to use it, then it gets abandoned like everything else. That, and I have a tendency to put most of the documentation into a quick overview and really, really detailed error messages. In fact I'll often have quite a bit of code trying to guess what the user's intent was, because that makes things easier for future me.