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It's not about money, it's about time, flow & motivation. Time is the biggest obstacle, side project implies that there's another full time job. With a full t
by segmondy 8y ago
It's not about money, it's about time, flow & motivation.
Time is the biggest obstacle, side project implies that there's another full time job. With a full time job and other obligations such as family or volunteer activities.
Without enough long stretch of time, it's difficult to get into a flow state.
Without enough flow while working on any project motivation wanes.
The secret becomes figuring out how to manage your small chunk of time, how to get into flow fast, suspend it and resume it across time and how to keep the motivation up if you miss out on flow.
- zzzcpan 8y agoNo, in the end it's pretty much all about the money. And not just funding, but about making money. I mean imagine that you did finish your side project and did ship it, now what? Does it become sustainable the moment you ship it, does it pay your bills, does it maintain itself, pay for its own infrastructure? Of course not. You still need to make money just to keep it and yourself alive, and quite a bit of money.
- segmondy 8y agoend goal for all side projects is not money, end goal sometimes is scratching your own itch and using it, conquering a challenge you encountered, learning whatever you set out to do, etc. I have built 100+ side projects, most of them have NOTHING to do with money. People write poems, stories, music, paint, build all sorts of things for the fun of it, and guess what? many of us code for the joy of it too. Keeping a side project going is pretty much $0-$5/month. if you already have a VPS, you can just run it on there, or you can run it at your own server or on a raspberry pi, you can even run it on many cloud servers for free. Using serverless for instance, you can run many side project on AWS for free.