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zsalloum

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The main objective of this thread is to let people share their experience with side projects.
How many of you have successfully worked on a side project while keeping your day time job for a living??
How many of you successfully created a side project that later allowed you to quit your job and focus on it??


Please share your experience.
 
What qualifies as a side project? Does running an artistic and portraiture photography site and business project count? (It's still a project, not a business... Yet.)
 
Actually a side project is when you have a day time job in which you are paid a salary and in your free time you work on a project of your own. Whether a website or mobile app, it does not matter. What is important here is when someone doing this reaches a state where the side project starts to generate enough revenues to allow him to quit his job and focus on this project (at this time it will become a business)

I am interested to know if some body here made such a journey and wishes to share it with us
 
zsalloum said:
Actually a side project is when you have a day time job in which you are paid a salary and in your free time you work on a project of your own. Whether a website or mobile app, it does not matter. What is important here is when someone doing this reaches a state where the side project starts to generate enough revenues to allow him to quit his job and focus on this project (at this time it will become a business)

I am interested to know if some body here made such a journey and wishes to share it with us
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I would consider my photography a side project but it's not revenue generating yet.
 
zsalloum said:
Great.
Since I am new here, I am not familiar with the different forums.
Thank you
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No worries! It's a big forum with a lot of hidden nooks and crannies. Those of us in Green or Red are all here to help folks find their way. :)


On topic, though, I recently read an interview with Chris Lacy (developer of TweetLanes, Action Launcher, Link Bubble, and (most recently) Tap Path, which discussed a little bit of his transition from building Android apps as a hobby to doing it as a full-time self-employed job. You may be interested to read it as well: [Interview] Link Bubble and Action Launcher Developer Chris Lacy Shares His Thoughts On Android, App Development, And More
 
codesplice said:
No worries! It's a big forum with a lot of hidden nooks and crannies. Those of us in Green or Red are all here to help folks find their way. :)


On topic, though, I recently read an interview with Chris Lacy (developer of TweetLanes, Action Launcher, Link Bubble, and (most recently) Tap Path, which discussed a little bit of his transition from building Android apps as a hobby to doing it as a full-time self-employed job. You may be interested to read it as well: [Interview] Link Bubble and Action Launcher Developer Chris Lacy Shares His Thoughts On Android, App Development, And More
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Very interesting article. Thank you.
His apps seem popular. All of them have 100k+ download
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Every project that I have started never really kicked off. I always end up quitting early on.
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You are not alone in that. I had the same bad experience too. My biggest handicap is not having a talented marketer with whom to team with.
I guess this is the biggest problem of every developer.
 
zsalloum said:
You are not alone in that. I had the same bad experience too. My biggest handicap is not having a talented marketer with whom to team with.
I guess this is the biggest problem of every developer.
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I still want to take a side project and learn java development so maybe I could do something, maybe create a so so app for android.

But I dont know where to start.
 
sfbloodbrother said:
I still want to take a side project and learn java development so maybe I could do something, maybe create a so so app for android.

But I dont know where to start.
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What type of Dev languages do you know so far?
If you know c++ or c# the learning curve for java is small. However that does not mean you will become an android developer overnight.
Android, although using java, has his own Dev paradigm that you might not (as it was my case) be familiar with. So here you have some efforts to do because programming for desktops is different from mobiles
 
codesplice said:
http://www.learnjavaonline.org is a pretty nice online java tutorial that should get you pointed in the right direction for Java basics. It's a good place to start before getting in too deep. :)
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Thanks. I'll check that out.
zsalloum said:
What type of Dev languages do you know so far?
If you know c++ or c# the learning curve for java is small. However that does not mean you will become an android developer overnight.
Android, although using java, has his own Dev paradigm that you might not (as it was my case) be familiar with. So here you have some efforts to do because programming for desktops is different from mobiles
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Currently I know nothing about programming. I have 0 experience with it, and want to begin.
 
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