Hi, I need help

[Henry Alejandro]

  I'll tell you my story, I'm a software engineering student and I had the idea of ​​creating a project and without investigating if they already existed I started to create it and after three months I found Jasper which is a project identical to mine created in the same language and everything I had thought of but this project has been going on for three months and yours has been going on for more than 10 years. I would like some recommendations on what steps I should follow as a programmer to move forward because I just realized that I have been at a disadvantage in this field for 10 years.Please helpme