Speaking as the author of a tremendous amount of software noone uses, I found this ridiculous. Sometimes it does hurt- mainly when you explain why what you're

Speaking as the author of a tremendous amount of software noone uses, I found this ridiculous. Sometimes it does hurt- mainly when you explain why what you're doing is better (or at least attempt to in objective terms) and someone still uses "the big thing". As an ops guy for a big startup, even though I get that it still kinda sucks. But if it's causing you to feel burnt out you're taking this too seriously. > Releasing FOSS is generally at least partially ego-driven: we want to write something that people use and love and talk about. I think this is self regulating. Those projects rarely take off, because there's not enough motivation to be awesome. The projects that get traction are the ones the author HAS to build to see if it'll even work.