I have been learning web development for over a year now and I developed 2 projects with the stuff I learned so far. Even though I am happy with what I developed, they did not get much attention. This website (Flick Articles) gets no visitors whereas my second project (KelimeSavaslari - Turkish Scrabble game) gets around a few visitors once in a while. Now I am not writing this article to complain about how no one cares about my projects, but rather to discuss "Now what do I do?". Do I keep improving those projects? Do I start new projects? What is my metric for success? Is it my own satisfaction with the projects? Is it how much visitors they get/how much money they make? Or Is it some combination of both or is it something completely different? All of these questions keep dangling around in my mind but I seem to have no definitive answer to them. Maybe this is okay yet I would like some intrinsic direction of where to go. 

Metrics of Success...

Is money/visitors that relevant to my satisfaction? I feel like they are not, however I still need to survive. For that I need visitors/money. So in an ironic way, they become important. I don't care about them, yet satisfaction requires healthy survival. For that, it seems like, you need money. Although I would not frame the success as how much money the product makes, it still seems like a metric that is relevant to ones life, for it promotes survival in some ways. I say in some ways because you can't literally eat money or use it as a shelter, but ,in societies that use money, you can buy stuff with it.

Another question would be "How do you measure success if it is not with money?". My own satisfaction as a measurement of success of the projects seems awfully one sided and selfish way to look at it. What if my satisfaction is irrelevant? Maybe my projects are bad yet I am satisfied with them. If only there was a measurement tool that grades your projects' success, then I would not have to worry about these things. However no such tools exist so I have to rely on my own judgment and maybe some others.

Where to?

Now that I developed 2 projects, where do I go from here? I feel like I should start a new one that could potentially get more visitors. Yet I am unsure about it as well. Maybe I should improve upon this website, maybe the Turkish game. Why though, if no one visits them? Do I do it as long as I enjoy it? Nah, I think I am gonna start something new. But I don't know what the project should be. I research the web, I ask chatgpt, yet none of the ideas seem appealing, especially since most of them are slightly changed versions of existing ideas. I mean you can't get truly "original" ideas, all of them will be derivations of existing concepts. Nonetheless it is hard to escape that "Nah, it is already done" type of thinking and resent whatever you come up with. I mean this article writing website is nothing original, there are tons of websites just like this one all over the internet. Yet I developed it. Now, I am looking to develop something else...