I have a lot of little side projects. My greatest monetary success helps solve a real problem so I'd suggest that. It's not about making a living — I love when

I have a lot of little side projects. My greatest monetary success helps solve a real problem so I'd suggest that. It's not about making a living — I love when people use my stuff. Here's my experience: > I made a stamp calculator for any postage for my own use then shared it online. It's all organic traffic via google searches and lots of repeat users. One google ad that pays for my server and a few meals a month. A Pennsylvania post office uses it to help the Amish! I love that. http://fancyham.com/stamp_calculator http://fancyham.com/stamp_calculator > Just released a music notation iMessage sticker set For a music teacher friend. My goal for this one: long tail. We'll see! https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/music-notation-sticker-pack/id1216360339?mt=8&ct=hackernews&at=1001l574&ls=1 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/music-notation-sticker-pack/... http://fancyham.com/#notation http://fancyham.com/#notation > Helvetica shirts for font nerds like myself: Lots of sales at first through Twitter, but nothing now that the fed has passed. Other folks copied the idea, too. http://fancyham.com/shirts http://fancyham.com/shirts > Geiger counter app, secretly controlled by pressure on the screen, that always drops jaws but just a few sales a month. http://fancyham.com/#detecto http://fancyham.com/#detecto I do UX design for a living and while these are fun creative outlets and an opportunity to try some programming, I think of these as play, not work. Though I'd like to say these projects bring in money via boosting my day job, I don't know if that's true. These are such quick and dirty projects that I haven't mentioned them on my resume. Though, I have been inspired recently by Nadja Buttendorf's 'brutalist' HTML site: http://nadjabuttendorf.com/ http://nadjabuttendorf.com/ I'm going to embrace the ugly.