Yeah I put in a good amount of hours and worked my heart out on my Day 3 project only to have nobody pick it up (despite it being a decent project with lots of potential).
However, because I put so much work into it and ended up with so many unfinished plans, I now have a perfectly good starter project to pick up as a hobby in the future and finish up.
Always gotta look on the bright side. The purpose of competition isn't always to win, but to see and share what you can accomplish