Being a Senior Computer Science Student, I have always found it very difficult to start a new project, some would say that the thing that you are building does not have market value, some would say that the thing you are building will not have any effect on the life of anyone, someone would say that this thing is useless. So Your Article has provided something interesting to look at while starting a side project.
One more thing I would like you to explain more is how to find ideas for side projects, I mean I am currently working on a Business Management Software as my Final Year Project, but please write detail steps that person should take in order to find new ideas for side projects.
You need to learn how to filter people's opinion about your idea, some might be jealous that you have the courage to build the idea. With my experience in software development and ideas implementation, the question you need to ask your self when developing software for your idea is; "Will anyone use this software?", when you start developing ideas will come to make it better
Yeah it can definitely be discouraging. I feel like it's definitely valuable to have input from others, but there comes a time when if you believe in what you're building you've just got to back yourself and keep pushing on despite the naysayers!
I think I'll take you up on the suggestion and write up a seperate post going into a bit more depth on some ways to come up with ideas for a new project without getting stuck for too long :)
Hi, I would like to answer this as well hope you won't mind Harrison.
So as mentioned by the author, you can get inspirations from the existing products. This is a great idea!
To add to this I would say we usually have these crazy ideas in our mind that we ignore saying they are too dumb or have no use case or because similar product exist or simply thinking that they are useless. So if you have any of these crazy useless dumb ideas I would highly suggest to just build it without thinking of anything else. When you talk about side project, the only parameter that you have to care about is "fun". As long as it is fun to build it is ok to have a zero market value.
Being a Senior Computer Science Student, I have always found it very difficult to start a new project, some would say that the thing that you are building does not have market value, some would say that the thing you are building will not have any effect on the life of anyone, someone would say that this thing is useless. So Your Article has provided something interesting to look at while starting a side project.
One more thing I would like you to explain more is how to find ideas for side projects, I mean I am currently working on a Business Management Software as my Final Year Project, but please write detail steps that person should take in order to find new ideas for side projects.
Thank you and a very amazing article as well.
You need to learn how to filter people's opinion about your idea, some might be jealous that you have the courage to build the idea. With my experience in software development and ideas implementation, the question you need to ask your self when developing software for your idea is; "Will anyone use this software?", when you start developing ideas will come to make it better
Yeah it can definitely be discouraging. I feel like it's definitely valuable to have input from others, but there comes a time when if you believe in what you're building you've just got to back yourself and keep pushing on despite the naysayers!
I think I'll take you up on the suggestion and write up a seperate post going into a bit more depth on some ways to come up with ideas for a new project without getting stuck for too long :)
Hi, I would like to answer this as well hope you won't mind Harrison.
So as mentioned by the author, you can get inspirations from the existing products. This is a great idea!
To add to this I would say we usually have these crazy ideas in our mind that we ignore saying they are too dumb or have no use case or because similar product exist or simply thinking that they are useless. So if you have any of these crazy useless dumb ideas I would highly suggest to just build it without thinking of anything else. When you talk about side project, the only parameter that you have to care about is "fun". As long as it is fun to build it is ok to have a zero market value.
If you want some motivation, there's a really cool website by Sara Vieira called Make Frontend Shit Again
makefrontendshitagain.party/
No problem at all! This is great advice. And also Sara Vieira is awesome as is makefrontendshitagain 😂
It's Okay, have a nice working Quarantine as well and Stay Safe as well.