The Secret Life of Side Projects
Ofir Dagan - Team Lead @ Wix.com
ofird@wix.com
Meet Côté
Côté is a Dev Superman
Côté Works at the best place EVER
Côté is working on some really interesting projects along side some really bright developers
But after a while Côté starts to
feel that something is missing
I feel that something is missing
He wants to try out the new framework everybody is talking about
He's interested in writing mobile apps / Machine learning / IOT
Product management / Marketing /
SEO / Blog writing
He wants to learn new skills such as
But... Côté ain't got
time for this sh*t
Sounds familiar?
Let's talk about
Side Projects
Some of the immediate benefits
Fun
Self development
Challenge your mind
Keeping up with current trends
Great for job interviews
Prepare you to the next step
But how??
The 3 Rules of Successful Side Projects
Rule #1 Decide on a project
Rule #2 Commit on a schedule
Rule #3 Commit on shipment
Rule #1
Decide on a project
Tip: Keep a document with all of your ideas
“Pizza night”
Once a month weekend hackathon
Late night coding
Introduce a change into your daily routine
Rule #2
Commit to a schedule
For me it was waking up an hour early every day and arrive 20 min later to work
Rule #2 - Commit to a schedule
Spend money
Setup deadlines that you can't change
Rule #3
Commit on shipment
Some of My Side Projects
Learned swift and iOS development
helped me when I switched to mobile team
FB chat bot
learned about NLP and NLP services
Github crawler - find the next hire
Building my own version of React
Playing with iBeacons
This talk :)
Sharing is Caring
Who knows maybe your next side project will be like these former side projects
Thank You
The Secret Life Of Side Projects
By ofird
The Secret Life Of Side Projects
Short presentation about the advantages of side projects and how to do them successfully
