New strategy for actually finishing side projects

Hey, just wanted to share my new strategy regarding side projects... And ask for your opinions on it.

Until now, I struggled a lot when it comes to coming up with product ideas, and when I did - it ended up complicated and large in terms of scope. On the other hand, I know I want to try my hand with more complex projects. So how do I fight this while staying productive and moving forward on my indie hacker path?

Simply put, from now on whenever I feel like using third party solution to the problem I currently tackle, I will try to implement the solution myself from scratch. Within reason, of course. I am definitely not going to tackle things like putting together another cloud platform - it is rather smaller, "atomic" things that would not take too long to implement in my limited spare time.

Whatever comes out of it will either be released as a standalone hosted service (if easy to do and self-contained) or as an open source.

There is definitely a bigger chance of completing something here, while learning new things and actually having a chance of making a dime or two in the process.

Sounds good?