Learning by doing is so important! One thing I wish I had learned earlier: never let your code get cold. Don’t let the project fade away— at least not without explicitly deciding you’re done with it. You can refactor something endlessly and you’ll learn a lot in the process. The time you put into doing code clean-up work is, in my experience, always rewarded with brilliant new ideas for the direction of the project that you couldn’t have conceived of at the beginning. What started small can become an enormous success. But if you take a break for too long, the code can feel unfamiliar (especially in those early stages if you didn’t do great documentation the first time), causing you to lose momentum. Stick with it, especially when you’re bored with it. Boredom breeds creative new ideas!