Ah, but that isn't a programming problem (or at least, usually not primarily a programming problem). It's a product and marketing problem.

You're being downvoted despite being a realist, having integrity, and putting things in perspective.

But I can tell you there is no shortage of oversellers in the programming community.

A programmer who's really a sleazy salesman at heart would jump at figuring out a fizbuzz solution on their own for the first time in their life, and would proceed to mark it as the biggest achievement in the history of mankind, make a webservice out of it, shout at the top of their lungs on social media, and would start knocking on VC doors. (hint hint: many of them actually get away with something not too different).

I face the same problem, I think that programmers can be skilled in a lot of different tasks, but for large projects, our two hands and our brain are not enough, no matter how smart you are, you need co-founders, loneliness leads you to procrastinate eternally.

I completely agree. Writing apps for the app store is the perfect example. I started out coding well coded apps that didn't make money, and as time has progressed my apps have lower code quality but I make more money. I focus less on code quality now and think more about marketing and appeal.

In addition my concern with this is that it’s totally ok in my opinion to not do any of these and I doubt for most people doing these projects will make you better at your job (unless you happen to be doing this as your next project), so if you want to tune out in your spare time that’s ok too.