You wake up in the middle of the night with an awesome idea for a new app.
You spend weeks thinking about it, open a private repo, start to design the UI and logo, and in all your excitement explain your idea to the family and best friends, but no one really finds it cool.
Slowly you start to lose the excitement, day after day you consider it more and more stupid, until you start to hate both the idea and yourself because you really liked it.

6 months later, when you totally forgot about it, you find an app on the App Store very similar to it (but with less features)... as App of the Day, sold for €6.99, 4.8 rating, thousands of positive comments and loved by everyone.

The moral of this story?
If you really like your idea, just make it happen without looking at anyone.

Yeah that's why I never really tell my parents what I'm developing at the moment

May I ask what App we are talking about?

@JS96 people are uncomfortable when you tell them about ideas that would change your life because it means that you would change their life and their relationship with you as well. That's the real motivator behind their reactions.

Also realize that sexy new shiny idea and then weeks later feeling not so great about it is completely normal and should be expected. Whenever you get an idea you have to remember that there will come a time where you will be so sick of even looking at it like that you don't know how you will ever finish it. You have to keep going. that will happen about 5 or 6 more times. If you're not working that hard on a project it won't be that successful anyway.

So ideas that you take the first few steps in should be treated with that kind of respect because that's what it takes to actually finish something.

I get ideas every single day and I can count dozens of ideas have become a multimillion-dollar companies. Ideas are a dime a dozen, implementation is rare. And thank God because if everybody could do every idea that they ever had we'd be in a very competitive state indeed.

It finally I just want to tell you that I have started and quit three times were projects that I finished. That is just fine it's okay it's all part of the process of learning you'll get there eventually if you just keep trying. And keep writing down your ideas. There are plenty of forums online that are encouraging to aspiring entrepreneurs.

It's been proven that the more people you tell your long term goals to the less likely you are to achieve them.

Moral of the story is say nothing and just wait for the "oh wow"