Launch a side project
High Impact, Low Effort
Benefits:
Skills, Wisdom, Personal Branding, Wealth
Overview:
Launching a website/app/tool as side project is the best way to learn new technology, test your knowledge, test your idea for business and a side income. Don't just leave it on your computer though, publish it, share it with your target users, learn from their feedback and improve it. If your side project gets popular, it might add a significant personal branding and a scope of earning from your project. Irrespective of popularity of side project, you will come out as better understanding of your skills, insights about user behavior, understanding of what it takes to build a product from scratch and launch it in production and this makes your resume impressive to prospective employers.
Inspiration:
Jack Dorsey started a side project that eventually became twitter
Get started:
If you already have a side project sitting inside your computer's project folders, which you are still excited about then start again or start over. Otherwise think of a problem that you want to solve for yourself or for your friend and the technology that you want to learn. Use this technology to solve the problem.
Each day or week, dedicate some time to move the project forward
Push the first shitty version to production
Share it with your friends and gather feedback
Improve
Repeat
Many times all it will take is a day or a week to launch your first version.
Moving to next level:
Create a demo video or landing page for the project
Document the project plan
Set deadlines for the next couple of milestones
Release new updates faster
Start sharing progress publicly(don't be afraid to share bad news as well)
Figure out a way to communicate with your users
Figure out a way to reach out to new users
Create a channel to gather quality feedback faster
Involve more people(possibly friends) to contribute to the project
FAQ & resources:
Current opportunities:
Showcase your side project at Git Commit Show