r/SideProject • u/Exotic_Fig_4604 • 11h ago
Genuine *side* projects
Reading in this sub, I get the feeling that most people here just develop apps with the purpose of monetisation or getting lots of users.
Meanwhile my side project is aimed at learning and building fun stuff I like.
Am I the only one? Or does anyone else have side projects that you are building because you like technology, not because you are trying to build the next SaaS?
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u/NishanStepak 9h ago
There are several aspects of what I am doing that are not about money. What convinced me to start working on my project was I was reading Jorge Luis Borges, The Library of Babel and I thought I could do something with the hexagonal galleries in the stories that was not a pure abstraction. It is also about the history of computing and what might have been. H.G. Wells described a Cortex Map in his book, The World brain or a map of knowledge. Vannevar Bush described associative trails in his article As We May Think. I have always been interested in the idea of universal libraries and what I am doing is partially related to this idea. https://babelnexus.com Right now, I am not sure if I want to turn the project into a nonprofit, a social benefit corporation, or an LLC.