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Your side project is useful, even if no one uses it

Joe Attardi on August 26, 2019

This is what most of my GitHub repositories look like: A few of my projects have a dozen or so stars, but my work is largely unknown. My most po...
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J. Djimitry Rivière

My repositories look like that too: empty and forgotten. But the knowledge gained is most important.

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John Kazer

Practice and regular output are key to learning and creativity. The best engineers and artists (I would argue) were almost always the most prolific. Only a portion of the output was used/admired, but the rest formed the bedrock!

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Francisco Quintero 🇨🇴 • Edited

For me, the primary goal of a side project is to learn something, or to practice something I already know.

Same here. We as developers need to constantly practice our craft/art/essence or we risk getting rusty or bored.

As in the Medium articles, Often Be Coding or Always Be Coding.

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Anwar

100% agree, I think the regular fail then learn step is not only productive, but necessary to earn experience faster and to compare tools to know which one does the job better for a given project.

I like how personal projects can also be seen as a showroom for "what I can build" projects.

I think you can definitively appreciate the evolution of thought of someone if he is enough active on his open source projects, and this is the most amazing thing.

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Victor Darkes

Very true that even if you didn't complete what you're working on during your spare time, it's valuable if you learned something new.