Why side projects are so damn important

Jake Prins
7 min readDec 19, 2017

Trello, Craigslist, Unsplash, AppSumo, Twitter, Gmail… what do all these successful companies have in common?

Yes, they can all trace their humble beginnings back to being something we might call a ‘side project’.

Side projects come in many forms and have lots of different purposes. Some people start them to create a nice product and eventually build a successful…

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