#14: Side Project Challenges
After we recorded this week’s podcast, we did decide on our next side project and it’s not what you might expect. It has to do with pickles. Stay tuned for info about that next time! This week, we delve into the side project “failure” bin to talk about overcoming the many challenges to completing side projects and how even when we move on from one, it was still worth doing.
Topics Discussed:
- Pre-Show:
- Stocks and studio displays
- The Death of Kotaro’s Side Project Dividend Calc
- KanjiLove: A Passion Project that Took Multiple Attempts
- Fav10: Learn SwiftUI, CoreData, & CloudKit
- A Customer of One
- The Daily Chron Podcast: Learn a New Non-Dev Skillset
- Video Killed the Podcast Star?
- Side Projects are building blocks
- Kotaro and Aaron’s Big O Apple TV app
- How to finish a side project
- Keep scope small enough to not be overwhelmed, but big enough to still be useful
- Hold yourself accountable by building in public like with KanjiLove
- Work with other people
- When to move beyond v1.0 on a successful side project?
- Revisit to learn new things
- Stuff you had on the back burner
- A platform for your learnings
Intro music: “When I Hit the Floor”, © 2021 Lorne Behrman. Used with permission of the artist.
