How to not quit your side project

The best way I've found to stick with a project is to get customers.

Once other people care (because they've spent money), suddenly I really need to care too, so as not to let them down.

Now there is a force other than my internal motivation to push the project forward.

I've encouraged people to keep going and not give up. Your side project is something that you're passionate about, and it's worth pursuing. Remember, side projects are meant to be fun and rewarding. So don't quit, and keep up the good work!

Thanks for writing this up. I think Indie Hackers biggest mistake is giving up too soon. Just because you don't have a boat load of customers in month 2, doesn't mean your idea is crap. You just need to keep working on it.

"deploy his code like personal servants" 😎✅

The way I have found to stay on it is to commit to a small amount of time each day. I make sure to take 20 minutes each day to work on my side projects. 9 time out of ten, it becomes more than that.

I agree that the side project is something not about money, but about the soul, sure thing sometimes happens when the side project grows, and this is another story.
if you want to grow your project pay attention to Guerilla Marketing. Sometimes it really helps and boosts the traffic.
Btw, posting something on Indiehackers is also Guerilla.

While sometimes your side project might take a bit longer to become successful, there's often a chance to monetise the "how you build it" instead of the "what". Somewhat related: While you should default to using off-the-shelve services, another strategy can be productizing the services/tech you're building that's powering your product. I did this once and suddenly was talking to dozens of top 1% companies (From Amazon, Dropbox, Box) and eventually selling to Atlassian. The services the team and I build are now powering all attachment + link experiences across Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket (LFS) and to some extend even Trello. We've started doing the very same now, right from the get go (Offering scriptable.run which powers extensibility of Questmate.com), and it's already bearing fruits.