Lot of times we end up measuring our unfinished projects as failures. I don't want to argue whether unfinished is a failure or not, but draw our irrational minds towards this observation. The journey to this ratio will be helpful to some of us.<p>And then I need some data also for my research, which I will share.<p>Do share how you reached this number, what assumptions you made, etc.<p>Every small projects count :)
I’m not a programmer by trade so I exclusively work on smallish projects, not profit driven but rather interest driven.<p>Percent of seriously considered side projects that I actually start: ~10-20%.<p>Percent of projects started that are ‘finished’ to a functional bare minimum: ~50%. Let’s say this is around 20 projects over the past 10 years. Range of maybe 30-300 hours invested per project.<p>Percent of finished projects that have enough reach or impact to feel successful: ~15%. Of these, probably 200-300 hours invested per project.<p>If I were trying to do profit-driven projects based on an uninspiring idea to address an uncertain market gap (that I otherwise wouldn’t care about) then I think the failures would be more painful.