What worked for me is a change in perspective and how to mentally track progress. If you're thinking of the development being 95% done the remaining work is goi

What worked for me is a change in perspective and how to mentally track progress. If you're thinking of the development being 95% done the remaining work is going to be a slog. OTOH if you look at the remaining items as a burn down list and ignore whatever the percentage completed may be, then progress feels more apparent. Going from 11 to 10 items feels better than going from 96.4% to 96.9%. You also have to change your sights to a farther goalpost. Instead of thinking that completing development is the target, think that completing development unlocks the next phase which is sharing the work broadly and interacting, getting feedback, making a landing page for exposure. It's a whole new area to explore a new 0% to 30%. Similarly change from a developer/devops hat to more infrastructure/ops one, etc. Enjoy the journey--and don't think about how slow the last y% is compared to the first X% (that really only means your percentile estimates are way off). The last thing was that I learned to polish the chores. For 'the fun of it' I completed a side-project with landing page, posted to Product Hunt, and even automated setting up a new customer and billing. I never did much sales/marketing for it, but to this day I have an automated monthly Paypal payment of $0.02 to myself to show that everything's still working as it should. I'm glad to have done it once to know it's all there to copy/paste if I need it for something I really do want to put the effort into marketing.