[fsk]

1. Find some time every week or every day to work on it.

2. Open an editor and start doing it.

3. Break it up into small chunks so you can feel like you're making progress.

Also, pick something better than a job board. (Unless you're really sure that's what you want to do.) There already are too many people trying to make a better job website.

One thing that helped me, surprisingly, was having a couple of side projects. That made it easier for me to switch around when I got bored with one.

[wkcamp]

I think the real focus of a side project should not be the idea, but rather the learning experience that comes with that idea. That being said, a dynamic job board that pulls from many websites could be a fantastic way of improving one's familiarity with web crawlers and such.