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10 hours seems far too short for most side projects. Maybe I'm too inexperienced as a developer, but I consider a lot of my projects to be "side" projects, and they take at least 30 hours.

I just don't see how you can create a full, well designed, functional website based off an original idea in under 10 hours.

For those that have side projects that you made in under 10 hours, could you share them?



I created The Toolbox in about 10 hours (http://thetoolbox.cc). If you feel like a project will take more than 10 hours, I would suggest scaling your idea back.

Of course, if you have more than 10 hours available then go for it, but a lot of people never start precisely because it seems like too big a task. So I thought the 10-hour rule could be a good way to get past that.


That's a nice side project. I can see this being useful. Can I ask if the site looked this good on the very first release or have you gradually improved it since its first post 10hr release?


It pretty much looked like this, the only thing I added later was the filters and rankings.


That's cool. What are you using on the back end and how did you accomplish it being a designer?


I'm using WordPress. And just because I'm a designer doesn't mean I can't code :)




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