It's not all that different from the countless hours countless infinite people have spend on infinite projects that never meant much to anyone else. Like hacking on bicycles or model trains or something.
It's just that an app can be published, documented, and archived easily like this while "all that time I spent cutting and welding weird bike parts" can't, unless you do it all on youtube, which a lot of people do, and that does serve some purpose but does also kind of miss the point a bit trying to turn a passtime and personal persuit into some kind of product with a goal other than itself.
Anyway, I don't mean to suggest there is anything wrong with a post like this. You don't sound like you're complaining or upset, just what you said at the top "I just want to document this somewhere somehow". Most of my own github is just the same.
This is profound. What is possible serves as an anchor in our assessment of what actually took place.
This premature adjustment of judging criteria is probably not so useful, obfuscating the actual outcome. In this case, it would be easy for the author to be ashamed of such "wasted" effort, when the more appropriate reaction would be appreciation for the lessons learned. And the lessons learned on a project like this are immense.
It's just that an app can be published, documented, and archived easily like this while "all that time I spent cutting and welding weird bike parts" can't, unless you do it all on youtube, which a lot of people do, and that does serve some purpose but does also kind of miss the point a bit trying to turn a passtime and personal persuit into some kind of product with a goal other than itself.
Anyway, I don't mean to suggest there is anything wrong with a post like this. You don't sound like you're complaining or upset, just what you said at the top "I just want to document this somewhere somehow". Most of my own github is just the same.