Swizec's side projects articles

Swizec's articles in the "side projects" category

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Swizec's articles in the "side projects" category

5 apps with the modern web stack

Most professional engineers can't build an app from scratch

5 crazy ideas that make $1,000/month

Building software is a distraction

Indie startup more profitable than Uber 😛

How I sidehustled $180k and why it almost killed my business

React for Dataviz Turkey 🦃 sale report for the curious

Oh the things you can learn with a fun weekend hack project 🏗

How virtual memory saves lives, workshops, and your sanity

Answering some common questions about React + D3 2018

Announcing: Big update to my best selling book and course, React + D3v4

The surprising benefit of hiring interns to write your code

Hire these interns

Upgrading to Gatsby v2 with the help of the hivemind 👌

Some tricks I learned recording & publishing an educational video every day for 30 days

What I learned at MicroConf Growth 2018

Does blogging really drive sales?

Working IN your career vs. ON your career

The story of my family is the story of survivorship bias's other side

2018 is off to a rocky start

Don't say yes when you're happy

Am I thinking too small?

How I sidehustled $72,167 last year, and what I wanna do next

My new 5K monitor – LG UltraFine 5K 😱

$2535 November sidehustle report

$16,863 October sidehustle report

What I learned from teaching StubHub about React and Redux

$9013 September sidehustle report – or why the React + D3v4 launch was not 6 figures or even 5

$2629 August sidehustle report

The story behind React + D3v4

$3426 July sidehustle report

How to start a sidehustle

$4093 June sidehustle report

Initial Results of my Patreon Experiment

First day with a new 2017 MacBook Pro

$2890 May sidehustle report

What happened to React + D3v4?

How I Got Boned by Taxes Two Years in a Row

$2529 April sidehustle report

$5874 March sidehustle report

Why I don't write more Nightowls type stuff

Why People Read my Weekly Emails

This is how I connected my Canon DSLR as a webcam

$3875 February sidehustle report

Nights and Weekends

What I learned while 6x-ing my income in 4 years

React Indie Bundle flopped. Here's why.

These 19 Words are the Only Self-Help & Business Advice You Need

Some facts about US household income

I Got Schooled

After a year, my first business diary retires

The ES6 Cheatsheet story and results

The surprising difficulty of paying the US government

Why I switched to making products

Does it even make sense to move to San Francisco?

React Indie Bundle report, or how we made $31k in a week

How a book I wrote in two weeks made $4,000 in its first month

It took me ten months to write a video course

After five months, my effective hourly rate with a publisher is 3eur/hour

I published a book with a publisher. Here's what the journey was like.

Facebook ads: good for likes, bad for sales

Why every entrepreneur should take up boxing

Why programmers work at night