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This is how Smart Bear started. It was a project to learn .NET (this was 2002) and to play with visualizations of version control history (just because I liked it). Turns out Code Review was the business (required a pivot), but started with a project.

Yannick@yannickveys.bsky.social

Don’t overcomplicate your first side project. It’s literally just a project. Not a business. Don’t worry about everything that comes with running a business. Just start and finish a first project and share it with people before it’s finished. If people love it, you can always start a business.

2/12/24, 2:16 pm2 reposts23 likes

Lukas Hermann

@lukashermann.dev

2 Dec 2024

Same here. Started as a learning exercise, became a business.

Yannick

@yannickveys.bsky.social

2 Dec 2024

Same for me with my first SEO project. I just wanted to learn and see if I could rank my websites in Google. 15 years later, I made multiple 6 figures with a bit of text and some images.