That's so true. I still work and put a lot of energy and work into a project I began to love during my time at the university: https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix
I've spent so much of my spare time working on the project with some gaps since 2012 (and before under a different name at the university since 2006 or 2007). Last year during Hacktoberfest I got first contributions and since then at least another guy, Moshe works constantly on clients for Python and TypeScript and a frontend using Svelte: https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix-svelte-front-end
I've got a lot of great contributions since october last year and it's such a good feeling, despite spending money for the domain https://sirix.io and stuff like a logo and so on :-)
I've spent so much of my spare time working on the project with some gaps since 2012 (and before under a different name at the university since 2006 or 2007). Last year during Hacktoberfest I got first contributions and since then at least another guy, Moshe works constantly on clients for Python and TypeScript and a frontend using Svelte: https://github.com/sirixdb/sirix-svelte-front-end
I've got a lot of great contributions since october last year and it's such a good feeling, despite spending money for the domain https://sirix.io and stuff like a logo and so on :-)