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My original method was to just move my project to I:\home\projects\dead. After accumulating a few hundred of these, I started going back and reviewing what I'd accumulated - a short one-line description, and a screenshots folder, following a naming convention under a ".projnfo" folder (description.txt, visibility.txt, screenshots\*.png, etc.), with a quick program to accumulate these into a single HTML page overview.…
I also try to always put up a paragraph or two and maybe a screenshot on nfriedly.com/portfolio.
My projects are rarely "done", but "good enough to include in my portfolio" is a major milestone that often coincides with when I stop working on it so much.
> and then purging the content such as code, mockups, assets, etc. Why? I would never destroy anything I'd created like that. Unless you're doing it for some sort of closure, the way people throw things into the ocean in books and movies, I don't see the benefit. On the con side, you never know when you might start it back up, or just have some use for it. More than once I've gone back to a project I hadn't touched i…
Although bear in mind that open sourcing it might require you to spend some time on the project answering to bug reports and stuff. You might not even intend to add any new features, but if someone else comes in with a new PR, you'll probably (atleast I will) be inclined to review it out of courtesy. Do this for enough projects and you'll be spending a considerable chunk of your time on the weekends on this. However…