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Re:Ask HN: How long did it take you to go from side project ... by justboxing on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @01:49PM (#15083557)
> People who are succesful did 99 mediocre side projects before they hit the jackpot

This. Nobody tells you this part. I've read the blogs of several successful side-projectors and independently came to this conclusion a couple of years ago. Even Tom Preston-Werner had a bunch of side-projects that went nowhere (he wrote about it a while back) before GitHub. So also Dennis Crowley (FourSquare) wrote about his side-projects, incl. Dodgeball (college project?), which was a pre-cursor to FourSquare.

EDIT: Found an AMA that Tom did here on HN in 2010. Some interesting questions about doing side-projects while being employed full-time.

=> Ask Tom Preston-Werner, cofounder of GitHub, anything Today, Mon 18 Oct 2010. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1804443

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Re:Ask HN: How long did it take you to go from side project ... by dirtyaura on Wednesday August 23, 2017 @03:05PM (#15084201)
Good highlights there. Just one correction: Dodgeball was bought by Google and was pretty actively used in SF tech scene before the acquisition. So doesn't really fall into a category of a sideproject that went nowhere.
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