Upgrade to Pro — share decks privately, control downloads, hide ads and more …

Sideprojects : why it fails

Avatar for Revath S Kumar Revath S Kumar
January 19, 2014
Programming
1
990

Sideprojects : why it fails

Curated list of my mistakes I did while working on sideprojects

Avatar for Revath S Kumar

Revath S Kumar

January 19, 2014
Tweet

More Decks by Revath S Kumar

See All by Revath S Kumar
Rack
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
0
1.2k
Meetups
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
0
720
Gulp.js
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
2
1k
1 Year of KeralaJS
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
0
65
Testing with mocha
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
3
1.1k
VCR
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
0
760
Rails Presenters
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
0
59
Going Mobile
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
0
790
Maria.js
Avatar for Revath S Kumar revathskumar
0
930

Other Decks in Programming

See All in Programming
CSC307 Lecture 09
Avatar for Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez javiergs
PRO
1
830
React 19でつくる「気持ちいいUI」- 楽観的UIのすすめ
Avatar for Hiroshi Morishige himorishige
11
5.9k
CSC307 Lecture 01
Avatar for Javier Gonzalez-Sanchez javiergs
PRO
0
690
プロダクトオーナーから見たSOC2 _SOC2ゆるミートアップ#2
Avatar for Kenta Suzuki kekekenta
0
200
それ、本当に安全？ ファイルアップロードで見落としがちなセキュリティリスクと対策
Avatar for ikechi penpeen
7
2.4k
今こそ知るべき耐量子計算機暗号(PQC)入門 / PQC: What You Need to Know Now
Avatar for mackey0225 mackey0225
3
370
Lambda のコードストレージ容量に気をつけましょう
Avatar for tatsuki-yamada tattwan718
0
100
Architectural Extensions
Avatar for Denys Poltorak denyspoltorak
0
270
MDN Web Docs に日本語翻訳でコントリビュート
Avatar for uutan1108 ohmori_yusuke
0
640
15年続くIoTサービスの SREエンジニアが挑む 分散トレーシング導入
Avatar for Melonps melonps
2
170
AIフル活用時代だからこそ学んでおきたい働き方の心得
Avatar for shinoyu shinoyu
0
130
Rust 製のコードエディタ “Zed” を使ってみた
Avatar for NearMeの技術発表資料です nearme_tech
PRO
0
140

Featured

See All Featured
The agentic SEO stack - context over prompts
Avatar for schlessera schlessera
0
630
Side Projects
Avatar for Sacha Greif sachag
455
43k
The untapped power of vector embeddings
Avatar for Frank van Dijk frankvandijk
1
1.6k
How Software Deployment tools have changed in the past 20 years
Avatar for Geshan Manandhar geshan
0
32k
We Have a Design System, Now What?
Avatar for Morgane Peng morganepeng
54
8k
Collaborative Software Design: How to facilitate domain modelling decisions
Avatar for Kenny Baas-Schwegler baasie
0
130
Save Time (by Creating Custom Rails Generators)
Avatar for Garrett Dimon garrettdimon
PRO
32
2k
What Being in a Rock Band Can Teach Us About Real World SEO
Avatar for Ade Holder 427marketing
0
170
Six Lessons from altMBA
Avatar for Skipper Chong Warson skipperchong
29
4.1k
Amusing Abliteration
Avatar for ianozsvald ianozsvald
0
96
Connecting the Dots Between Site Speed, User Experience & Your Business [WebExpo 2025]
Avatar for Tammy Everts tammyeverts
11
820
Responsive Adventures: Dirty Tricks From The Dark Corners of Front-End
Avatar for Vitaly Friedman smashingmag
254
22k

Transcript

  1. SIDE PROJECTS : WHY IT FAILES

  2. ABOUT Rubyist / JavaScripter Yeoman team member Works at @whatznear

    Blog at blog.revathskumar.com Twitter/Github - @revathskumar

  3. THIS SLIDES ARE NOT INSPIRATIONAL, RATHER FULL OF MISTAKES ;)

  4. I START, BUT FAIL TO LAUNCH.

  5. #1 : TREATED SIDEPROJECT AS EXPERIMENT Treat sideproject and experiments

    differently

  6. #2 : USING UNKNOWN FRAMEWORKS Use the known frameworks and

    libraries Known frameworks = less learning curve

  7. #3 : DIDN'T KEEP TRACK OF TIME Schedule the roadmap

    and stick with it.

  8. #4 : PLANNED A TON OF FEATURES Make it minimalistic

    Cut down features

  9. #5 : PERFECTIONISM Don't worry about design Ship it. we

    people will report the bugs.

  10. #6 : DIDN'T OPENSOURCE someone intrested may come forward and

    help you.

  11. #7 : MULTITASKING One app at a time Again, scheduling

    may help you.
  12. None
  13. None
  14. None