[wickedchap]

In my opinion being good comes down having good ideas. You can be genius at your code, but if you have no ideas on how to use that skill to make something awesome, you're still a mediocre programmer. Therefor, if you can learn to think what would be needed or what could be done better and you have the skill to do it, then do it.

Sometimes to get anywhere, or get any recognition is to just build cool stuff, even if they won't bring you any money. Just keep building stuff on great ideas and always have quality in your work.