Ask HN: What can I use my excess development capacity for?

I love to make things. However, every time I try to start something from nothing I abandon it once I get the basic framework together. Nothing is ever ready for real users, and as such I never get any real traction on my projects.

I need an outlet to build things that provides some sort of value. Open source projects seem like a good candidate but the learning curve seems so high and different for every project.

I wish their was a place to go where you could pop in, do some work for someone, and pop back out. Does anything like that exist? I'd love to have my own lifestyle business that I could tend to, but short of buying an existing one I'm not sure where to put my resources.