Other programmers using your code is often a high compliment.
Making something from scratch is fun, but learning someone else's API is work.
Rather than the common "I built one, you should use it", I try to ask "what would persuade you to use this?".
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I see people advocating for writing a FAQ, but I really struggle to write one from scratch.
The best FAQs are written as a response to, well, frequent questions.
How do you populate the initial FAQ?
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https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2025-02-27-why-we-designed-tigerbeetles-docs-from-scratch/ has an interesting distinction between "physical" and "logical" hash of a tarball.
By storing the hash of the decompressed tarball contents (i.e. the logical hash), they can verify the validity of files without needing to keep the tarball around.
I've written CLI programs, GUIs, websites, but never a smartphone app. I suspect it would be tricky: playing with your WIP app on a laptop doesn't feel the same as loading it on a handset.
Have you ever written a smartphone app to scratch an itch? How was it?