Dev Superman

Meet Côté 

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'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

Let's talk about

Side Projects

Side Projects Benefits

Fun

Self development

Challenge your mind

Keeping up with current trends

Side Projects Benefits

Great for job interviews

Prepare you to the next step

But how??

The 3 Rules of Successful Side Projects

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

Rule #2

Commit to a schedule

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

Facebook / Slack chat bots

learned about NLP and NLP services

Github crawler - Find the next hire

Building my own version of React

Writing an app for the climbing community

This talk :)

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Who knows maybe your next side project will be like these former side projects