Don't Make These Side Project Mistakes

[@mehulsharmamat]

The best thing about side projects is that you can finally like what you're making, apart from following some random person's github to making $XXX being an engineer. If you don't like your side project, you're not doing side projects right.

[@jordixboy]

No. It depends, you can have a side project to learn have fun. But if you're doing a side project for leaving job and earning money can be that it's not fun.

[@yaghiyahbrenner8902]

side projects are actually really important for personal neural growth and problem solving skills development. I agree I would never get involved with people/friends/family who isn't skilled 100% in the area.

[@jasonhoi85]

i personally work side case for my client, only do personal side project for fun, test concept or helping good friends.

[@Pekz00r]

Great video and great advice! I would encourage anyone to to some side projects, especially during the education and in the beginning of their career. It really fast tracks your professional growth and gives you a lot of insights in project management and the technical side of running your own business. When you become a more senior developer the value declines a bit, but it is still a great way to learn and try out new technologies if you can't do it on your day job. In my opinion, there is a huge difference between the developers who did side projects and tried to learn on the side. There are of course exceptions, but on average the difference is huge. Another alternative to side projects is contributing to open source. If you don't want the commitment of maintaining your own project, you can always contribute to other peoples projects. That is a great way to learn frameworks and libraries in depth, but it is not so good for learning new things.

[@yimnaineruszaumu3082]

This came just at the right time for me as someone who is quite well into the learning phase, I've gotten quite addicted to doing site projects. Thanks @Adam

[@goktugerol1127]

I love tailwind and using it in all of my projects.

[@younes_khx]

loved this video , i was thinking of starting a side project that can turn to a startup and i thought about shiping an mvp as fast asp and not invest lot of money

[@readywhen]

I feel you!! I went through exactly this with a non-dev project! A whole year and lots of money, in the end no product shipped, decided to pull the plug when i got burnt out. Made me feel so DUMB. But super valuable lesson looking back (TAKE NOTES PEOPLE): (1) Ship - validate - fail - improve/pull the plug FAST!!!; (1.1 ) Evaluate, before and throughout, the likelihood that you're able to stick to the step #1 principle; (1.1.1) ...where likelihood depends on the degree to which you possess the required skills + experience + time/money (so choose wisely); (2) You CANNOT learn lesson #1 without absolutely messing up the first time...; (2.1) ... so instead of avoiding the lesson, accept that attempt #1 will suck, #2 will suck less, #3 will be ok, and #4-5 will build you a fortune; (2.1.1) People give up at fail #1-3 and the people that succeeded stuck through attempts #4-5; (3) BONUS: you can't compete with someone who puts 60+ hours a week into their project if you put in 10 hrs/week. So if your ambition is big enough, aim for your side-hustle to turn main-hustle ASAP...;

[@EddyVinck]

I am working on a side project, but then I had to work on my conference talk and I was kind of disappointed that I no longer was making progress fast. I’ll get back into it soon though 😄

[@adamdotdev]

we're professional jugglers

[@peterszarvas94]

no side porject is failed, everything was a learning opportunity

[@EDC.EveryDayCode]

I relate to putting money into coding ideas. If u hire people it really adds up just for a little bit of work. I was trying to develop an entrepreneurial idea, but that is a much more diverse /less coding endeavor. Usually side projects should be used to help u learn fun or relevant tech (for me at least) this should make you a better programmer. which is useful for both employment and business. Man I developed a casual persistent universe online game, but it is janky as hell and I just want to ship it so i can stop working on it. lol.

[@joeekadi]

Great video. Refreshing advice that resonates with me a lot more than the hustle or indie hacker culture Reminds me that old Plan B distracts from Plan A cliche thingy. Cheers Adam!

[@juliocesarbenavente9590]

Thank you for the awesome content! Peru is present! 🇵🇪

[@victorphilip875]

As for your public.dev project, the capital that you committed got you to your answer faster than you would have had you just toiled away at it without hiring people. You used money to buy your time to work on other things. While that capital can no longer compound for you, time is not renewable. It took me years to come to that conclusion. You can still feel the sting, but there's a cost to doing it the other way that's overlooked.

[@jasonhoi85]

very good advise and very true

[@coldfire39]

Can we get a headphones and mic spec breakdown?

[@adamdotdev]

sennheiser hd650s and a sennheiser mkh 50 p48!

[@HoboManAwesome2001]

Golden advice ⭐

[@monkeeyo101]

Curious, did you meet this business partner in person?

[@sidesketch]

It's crazy how Victor Creed turned out to be mutant by day and developer by night 😉 Jokes aside, I get you mate. I'm not a dev (yet), but I've been in the graphic design and tech industry for way too long and these experiences are shared nonetheless. Don't worry, guilt will fade over the years, as long as you focus on the "good" bit of it, which is experience. Experience is the best teacher and the best lessons are learned throught the worst experiences. You just learn to make better decisions. Yeah, money lost hurts your mind, but imagine if you didn't stop in the end and went all the way through, with all the additional stress... that's worse than losing money, as printed paper comes and goes, but depression sucks the life out of you. Will keep an eye on your channel, I'm always on the watch for people passioned about their work 👍

[@_zetrax]

The video quality is 😍

[@mattz_zeref]

What headphones do you use?

[@adamdotdev]

sennheiser hd650s!

[@theLowestPointInMyLife]

18 months is nothing, there's a great article by Joel Spolsky "Good software takes 10 years". Obviously these things that people are calling projects these days that can be delivered in a couple of months are not serious software applications. Most of these people don't have a concrete idea that is guaranteed to work either, they're guessing and hoping, failing fast... I'm building something for the next 30 years, something that's guaranteed, took me longer than 18 months just to get the data sorted. I guess not everyone has a vision and a path, I'm glad I'm going well against the grain. The guy in the video is one of the 0.1% who got lucky with a little toy, what's he does since except give advice like he's an expert? He's a lottery winner.

[@plusquare]

How can you be so sure of your product, an "app" for a phone 10 yr old phone is completely different than an app for a phone now one now

[@theLowestPointInMyLife]

@@plusquare Its not for a phone, it was a desktop app originally, then I realised the frontend has evolved dramatically in recent years and found Solid. I'm so sure because there are already multiple products in existence, and they're all 20th century tech. I'm building something that is a step forward in a niche area where I have 10 years knowledge. Its a sure thing, but to build something to compete with software that is 20 years old, cant be done in a few months.

[@plusquare]

@@theLowestPointInMyLife I feel like this is a language barrier. I wish you godspeed anon