Why build something? And what if nobody ends up using it?
There are good answers to the first one. You build because you need a thing that doesn't exist yet. You build to see if you can, the technical challenge, the "is this even possible?" You build to impress someone, or just because you think it'll make people's day a little less annoying.
All of those are real reasons, and at different points, I told myself most of them.
Then, a few days ago, late in the day, at the end of a coding session, five months into the project, I asked myself those two questions back-to-back. And for the first time, I couldn't answer the second one.
Zeri worked. Every feature did what it was supposed to do. Both processes handshake cleanly, a variable set in one context showing up in another a second later, the TUI rendering exactly as I'd pictured it. And I sat there and couldn't come up with one honest sentence explaining why anyone would actually download it.
