The last year's page link is throwing a 404 error. <a href="http://www.ianww.com/blog/blog/2013/12/31/my-year-in-side-projects/" rel="nofollow">http://www.ianww.com/blog/blog/2013/12/31/my-year-in-side-pr...</a><p>Great side projects btw, if you don't mind me asking, how to do choose to allocate time amongst side projects and keep yourself focused? It seems that with side projects, one challenge is to avoid the trap of too many interesting ones to start working on.
Awesome work, I'm going to message you later about how to get into the space industry!<p>Was inspired by your blog post to do my own for 2014 -> <a href="http://thomasdav.is/2014-side-projects/" rel="nofollow">http://thomasdav.is/2014-side-projects/</a>
Are these all really side projects? It seems like he'd be working full time on his "side projects" - or not doing much else besides working, i guess
There's a good roundup of Side-Projects in Review for 2014. Nathan Barry, Brennan Dunn et al. are featured:<p><a href="http://www.startupclarity.com/blog/bootstrappers-2014-year-review/" rel="nofollow">http://www.startupclarity.com/blog/bootstrappers-2014-year-r...</a>
Wow. You've inspired me to work on more side projects in 2015. I'm fascinated by AdDetector. And your Inflation app has seriously made me consider investing my money so it doesn't lose its value. You should consider placing ad links to investment opportunities on the inflation app. Seriously put an affiliate ad to eTrade or Scott Trade or some Bank CD Rates or something.
Sorry to be this guy, but how much are you earning from your side projects? And also how do you know which side projects to work on?<p>I've done a few side projects before and it hardly earns me any money (< $500 revenue per year). It really destroys my motivation when the cost of hosting/etc are even higher than my revenue.
I wrote a small bash wrapper for textbelt and use it to notify me when big jobs are done, via<p><pre><code> (execute huge computing job) && textmessage job is done.
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It's been extremely useful in terms of reducing the number of brain cycles checking in on jobs take up.
How does TextBelt send messages to carrier's emails? Don't carriers usually charge for that? If not, what's the point of using a service like Twillio?
awesome stuff!
you say that you are no longer working on adDetector "due to potential conflicts with my full-time job". I see you work for Google. Can you elaborate on why the conflict?