Comment by gymbeaux

This is probably brought up whenever an article mentions “wasted time”, but I wonder what percentage of side and “main” software projects “fail”- so we have to define side vs main and what it means to fail (I would imagine failure looks different for each), but anecdotally, none of my side projects have made money, but at least one I would call “done”, so… success?

A fear I have with larger side projects is the notion that it could all be for nought, though I suppose that’s easily-mitigated by simply keeping side projects small, iterative if necessary. Start with an appropriate-sized MVP, et al.