Going on Hacker News, I see how everyone's startup is doing better than my failed attempt.
Going on Hackaday, I see how everyone's working on cooler projects than mine.
The only place I feel good about myself is at work.
But on a more serious note, not only beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but sucess also is. There's certainly some artists bias there, and you should become aware of it. You know all of your projects to the bone, with all their belmishes, and even though every one else is amazed at what you do, you think you're bad at it, just because you know every detail of it.
* or bad. Or meh. Especially meh.
What I've found is that if there's a stretch where there's a lot of bad news, people will just tune you out, where comments dwindle and activity lessens even when that trend has reversed itself. In my incredibly small and unscientific sample size, it seemed that with negative news, there was a greater chance for people to "tune out", while people I knew that did the "everything is awesome" timelines would have higher then average interaction.
Thought it was interesting at least. I wonder if would be reproducible, or if it's just a weird quirk for the people that I know on there.