"scratch one's own itch" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From scratch an itch",
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      "form": "scratches one's own itch",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1999, Eric S. Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, section 2",
          "text": "Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch.",
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          "ref": "2013, The Escape Manifesto: Quit Your Corporate Job. Do Something Different!",
          "text": "The best advice for coming up with a business idea is \"scratch your own itch\". This is good advice for a variety of reasons. If you can think of a problem that you'd like a business to solve for you, the chances are other people share that problem.",
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        "To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands."
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        "(idiomatic) To do something out of motivation to solve a personal problem; to take matters into one's own hands."
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        "to masturbate"
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        "(idiomatic, euphemistic) to masturbate"
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        "to masturbate"
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