[duranduran]

What helps me is setting goals and clear intentions about what I want out of my side project. I tend to optimize for personal fulfillment+learning, and not money making potential. If you go for the latter, the thinking model changes.

When the pandemy started, I got really serious about learning guitar. I started guitar lessons and eventually hit a wall with trying to grok music theory. I was involuntarily given the opportunity to work on a side project (thanks google), so I picked something that I felt would keep me interested for a while. That kicked off this: https://app.bars.ai

It's very very far from being done, let alone useful. It originally started with little scripts that I had been writing, and it slowly evolved into a website, fancier css, APIs, etc. I've been using it as my little test bed for experimenting with new stuff.