I dunno man my 50 unfinished "this is gonna be so awesome" projects ain't really something I'm proud of. Like they are but they aren't. I can't show them off and be proud.
Though it seems I've found one project I just keep coming back to and it's been going for a year now, and I think it is going to be awesome. It's just a solo endeavour to build a non-toy example project to the level of polish you'd find in a real company. It's an absolute mission, but I just use it teach myself new aspects of the job and explore different approaches to things in a semi-realistic piece of software. It's still kinda half baked at the moment but there are definitely parts of it I'm really proud of and each time I manage to finish one part of it to a decent level of polish it elevates the utility of the entire project to me. I refer to the concept as a "project stack". It's the only approach that has seen me get all the way through something.
Self acceptance is super key to adhd... Do you have a portfolio site or presentation? I've gotten good at presenting the concepts of past projects... People rarely have time for more.
It's one big umbrella project under which you can do many mini projects that build on one another. For example you make an API first. Now you have an API you can do a front end. Now you have a piece of working software you can do IaC. Now you can do CI/CD. Now you can do Chaos Engineering or dashboards or anything you like.
The key thing is you aren't trying to build and launch a piece of commercial software, just incrementally building a series of smaller related projects which are additive in nature.
Though it seems I've found one project I just keep coming back to and it's been going for a year now, and I think it is going to be awesome. It's just a solo endeavour to build a non-toy example project to the level of polish you'd find in a real company. It's an absolute mission, but I just use it teach myself new aspects of the job and explore different approaches to things in a semi-realistic piece of software. It's still kinda half baked at the moment but there are definitely parts of it I'm really proud of and each time I manage to finish one part of it to a decent level of polish it elevates the utility of the entire project to me. I refer to the concept as a "project stack". It's the only approach that has seen me get all the way through something.