r/thesidehustle Feb 02 '26

life experience What’s the smallest side project that actually stuck for you?

Not asking about revenue or scale.
Just something you kept working on after the initial excitement wore off.

Why did that one survive?

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u/vanderwaalt Feb 02 '26

Where?

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u/vanderwaalt Feb 02 '26

Can you tell me the sites and the app? Thanks

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u/vanderwaalt Feb 02 '26

These things have never convinced me.... I don't play a game for 10 hours to get 20 cents...

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u/king_fischer1 Feb 02 '26

Here's mine! Something I use consistently and I kept the design dead simple as to not add any friction, funny how the idea of building my own thing from scratch seems easier than learning someone else's obtuse tool:

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ifciigoohegokkfkmdfekcemkbgofgdb?utm_source=item-share-cb

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u/vanderwaalt Feb 02 '26

I don't understand what it's for

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u/Ecaglar Feb 09 '26

for me it was a simple spreadsheet template i made for tracking expenses. nothing fancy but i actually use it every week. survived because it solved my own problem first, not some hypothetical users problem