Comment by hnlmorg

That seems like a silly reason not to do something educational.

Build something for fun. Build it for yourself. If people want to use it then they’ll use it. But more likely they won’t.

The only thing I would advise against is building something expecting other people to use it.

As I said elsewhere, not enough people these days build things for their own pleasure without any expectation nor desire for it to be used by anyone else. Sometimes just doing something for yourself is its own reward.

And it’s far more likely that DIY projects will teach skills that you can then directly contribute to established projects with, rather than DIY projects fragmenting those established communities.