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A comment on Ask HN: How to get started with paying side projects?.

Re:Ask HN: How to get started with paying side projects? by bchjam on Saturday January 10, 2015 @01:44PM (#8867498)
Well, do you want to challenge yourself technically or are you more interested in making money? I think that the approach would be different in both cases (and following the money you may still feel unfulfilled intellectually).

For me, I wasn't sure if I still wanted to program, so I went back to the things that got me excited when I started (math models of perception) and I fell in love with it all over again. Now my dilemma is turning that back around and actually working on what I'm most passionate about in a full-time setting. In the meantime, hobbying it is better than not doing it at all

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Re:Ask HN: How to get started with paying side projects? by atrilla on Saturday January 10, 2015 @05:46PM (#8868225)
As it is discussed elsewhere here, challenging yourself technically to build a portfolio may also lead you to making money, e.g., from consulting. I'm offering this service for free at http://ai-maker.com/ as long as problems are openly discussed in the blog. For private consulting, a budget.
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