Make the most out of

side projects

by Leonora Der (@LeonoraDer)

 

2018. 09. 16.

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question time

  • how many of you have ongoing active(!) side projects at the moment?
  • how many of you are planning to start a new one soon?
  • what comes to your mind when I say side projects?

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To me

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Famous Examples

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My projects

programming competition

and camp

vocable

  • very first published app
  • cross-platform
  • Play Store

Karancs-Medves Kalauz

  • local guide - in progress
  • Spring Boot + Vue.js
  • mobile app
  • Instagram

Cretan maze

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Cons

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No Time

  • tired after work
  • you have a family
  • weekend activities

YOU HAVE TIME FOR WHAT YOU MAKE TIME FOR

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story of a dad

Failure

  • no one cares about it
  • abandonware
  • graveyard

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Useless

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PROS

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New technologies, Skills

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a lot of practice

  • same technologies
  • typical bugs, pitfalls beforehand
  • best practices
  • help others, give advice
  • save time and money

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Joy

  • show others
  • be proud
  • satisfying

LAUGH

  • comic - abandoned git repos
  • lot of old code
  • file to store funny codes
  • growing as a developer

refactor

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CV and career

  • helps during the interview
  • building online presence
  • no harm to your professional evolution :)
  • one of the beast way to advance your career
  • more important in the first years
  • unfinished ones - not a long list of successful projects

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Business

  • quit your workplace
  • start a business
  • become an entrepreneur
  • marketing, sales, support
  • money while you sleep
  • primary goal is to learn

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Connections

  • open source
  • other developers
  • friends

Refreshing

  • leave confort zone
  • do somehting different

FUN

  • freedom
  • no useless meetings
  • no convincing others
  • consistent code - conventions
  • no boss or client

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HOW

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1. IDEA

  • build something real
  • "aha" moments
  • another TO DO app
  • note - taking app
  • project ideas

2. PLAN

  • core feautures, milestones
  • seperate - MVP level
  • limit scope
  • set a deadline

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3. community

4. Minimalist

  • overestimate capacity
  • short feauture list
  • lose motivation

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5. Complete

  • publish it! / deploy it!
  • spread the world through social media
  • blog, Twitter, reddit, HackerNews, ProductHunt, dev.to
  • feedback - a lot ! :) 

6. Go Live!

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+1. HAckathons

+2. workplace

  • Experiment Day
  • Demo days
  • 20% policy

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SO WHY NOT START ONE?

Thanks for your attention!

@LeonoraDer

leah@floppylab.com

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