I never get tired of seeing everybody's side-projects. It's always really fun to see and it's super inspiring to know that people just want to create things for fun or to learn.

I've got a couple of current side-projects and several ideas that I hope to jump into over the next couple of months:

Dewey

Chrome Bookmarking App, with a new version coming in a couple of weeks.

Filter & Format

Premium Stock Photos sold a limited number of times. We're thinking about changing up the pricing to $25 an image, each sold 25 times. Would love feedback on this!

Predawn

A Sublime Text theme and color scheme

Norwester

A font I made last year that I really want to add to. I've had tons of requests for diacritical characters and really hope to add those soon.

Edited: because typography.

Meeet

Meeet is a personal project to connect designers and developers to work on side projects. To me, building a side project to help create side projects is extremely rewarding.

Flatron

Flatron is a flat, simple, and beautiful theme for ST3.

Of course, as I'm 14 (I rarely make this public, except in a few HN/DN comments), I don't have the worries of supporting a family, paying for insurance, and I don't even have to worry about college, and I feel very blessed because of that.

To me, happiness is found in the little things. Building Meeet has been an extremely enriching hobby and I hope to continue building far into the future.

Drew Wilson is a big inspiration for me, as his passion for making outdrives his thirst for money. It's about making a project you love, one that your happy to say you built, one that you think can make an impact.

And by making an impact, I don't mean some world dominating social network or search engine, but something that can make a difference, nonetheless. Even if Meeet helps one project (it has!) come to fruition, all my work is worth it. Because I know I helped someone. That's the most rewarding experience that I've had.

Another huge inspiration for me is Dale Partridge, as he shows it's possible to be creative, caring, intelligent, passionate, content, and spiritual all at the same time.

Building a motorcycle company in Atlanta

http://brothermoto.com

Wow the response on this thread is awesome.

This makes me want to start a side project that lets people share their side projects and get feedback!

Seems like http://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/ has daily activity.

Dustin Kirk Office Hours

My most recent project is a service doing website design reviews. The site is now fully functional and will be officially launching it shortly.

Kidrad Apparel Co.

My clothing brand, side project / future full-time job (in theory). Site isn't perfect, but I'm proud of it nonetheless. Just two years old. I run the brand alone, but my good friend Matt helped develop the backend. Thoughts?!

Great to see so many side projects from people. After-hours I really try to get off the computer. I think having some margin in my life when I'm not thinking about design is definitely helpful. So my two "side-projects" are:

Read 20 books in 1 year.

In addition to other news and magazines that I read, I try to spend time reading regularly—hopefully on a wide range of topics: fiction, history, philosophy, as well as some industry books. It's an ambitious goal, but I've managed to read 15 books the last two years so I wanted to stretch myself.

Be a better father and husband.

Honestly I don't have a lot of time for side-projects because I spend as much time as I can with my wife and three kids. I spend the vast majority of my life working in a career that I love. While I would love to explore some side projects, that would cut into the few fleeting hours I have with my family. Yeah, that probably means I don't gain some notoriety, but I get to impact 4 people's lives deeply every day. Who gets to say that all the time?

DomFlags

A Chrome DevTools extension to create keyboard shortcuts to DOM elements.

Hatch

Hatch is an idea that came to me when I was really bored and have nothing to do. I wanted to do a side project but don't know who to work with.. I wanted to meet new people but the area I was living in had no tech scene or whatsoever. So I thought of Hatch. Think Tinder/OKCupid + Linkedin. Hatch will match you to great talents who are also fun to work with - based on your personality (working style). We aim to connect designers and developers who want to work on side projects.

I've been thinking about it for a year and finally got to do it few months ago. So far we've had more than 600 people signing up and I'm so excited that there'd be an easier way to people to connect. For DN only, if you who want a beta tester invite, let me know (or you can tweet me (https://twitter.com/KeiraBui "@keirabui") and I'll prioritize yours and move you up the list. Gotta give back to the community.

Holiaday

There's a stupid / silly / ridiculous holiday every day, so I try to doodle something for each of them

Kuroo

Pretty much a twitter clone, but your post must be in the form of a haiku.

Coleure, a color manager that doesn't suck. Still on the works but it's super fun to work on it.

SpendLight - I'm helping couples/families/individuals get their bad spending habits under control. Think of it as a spending journal with simple prompts for self-evaluation. Users give themselves actionable feedback to keep in mind for the next occasion.

Montre Moda

A community site for wristwatch enthusiasts. Post your daily wear, add your collection, and manage your wishlist. All together, the aim is to help organize what, right now, is a very disorganized and outdated online culture (mostly existing on circa-Y2K message boards!). This is a weekend hack project that will be live very soon!

Haps

A social network that respects your offline life. Updates from your network are delivered twice daily – as you wake up and as you get out of work. There are no likes, blips, boops, pings, snaps, pops, or whatever between the updates. I'm trying to design interaction to be more thoughtful – you'll have the entire day to work on posts and responses to others posts, and the types of content you can share will include some novel types which work well with a call-and-response pattern (like polls and questions). Still in the concept phase with this one.

Aaron thanks for asking these. I got enough courage to get a hold on myself was just planning to how and what to do. When I look to your projects, I can see that I don't have use my everyday tools (computer, ps, ai) for years I've become blunt and I thought I should stay put and work on desk. These two days are going way better than I was expecting (even thou horrible amount of work at the office)

Thank you Aaron. And thank you all again.

Nooklyn

This is actually my first Rails application (or application of any sort). I started working on it in late 2012. I'm the lone designer/developer on it. Nooklyn helps people find apartments or roommates in Brooklyn, NY.

Groupwork

I started working on this August 1st, 2014 on nights and weekends. Its very raw right now, and doesn't really have much functionality. Right now, you can create projects, add notes (which are links w/ descriptions), screenshots. Additionally you can (as of yesterday) add comments to those notes. I still need to let people add other users to projects (and tons of other important features lol).

Revision Path

A weekly interview show that focuses on showcasing Black graphic designers, web designers, and web developers. Each week, we explore the stories, processes, experiences, insights, and creative inspirations of these awesome creators from all over the world.

http://revisionpath.com

A really nice read with all these fun side projects. Keep them coming.

I'm currently working on a portable wireless speaker with a good friend of mine. The Audiocase. It has been a real fun but also challenging project. We have made everything ourselves including the product with barely any money so we've learned a lot on the way. There's still tons to do but we just launched first version which is really nice. Fun to create a psychical product for a change

Spare Tire Productions

http://sparetire.pro

My second passion, visual story telling through video. A few friends and I started up this production company together to tell stories and capture moments. I act as the Director of Photography committed mainly on the weekends.

Current working on a website/webapp like Designer News / Hacker News / Product Hunt to geek out on our favourite physical products. I know I know, another community to be a part of but hopefully it'll appeal to at least some people who (like me) obsess over design, simplicity, and usability of products. Plus I have some good ideas (I think?) on how it could be something more.

I'm hoping to finish it by end of this month by working nights and weekends so keep a lookout for it.

https://www.printavo.com has been my baby for a while. It's shop management software for screen-printers.

Xplorer

An app to make learning things faster.

Fueled by a somewhat ambitious/almost impossible long-term goal of never letting industries with a monopoly without competition for too long.

App Store link here

Mixely

Mixley is a site to find new people to do things with. New things or stuff you already love doing. Right now it's still in early beta, and we're continuously refining it.

Ownd

Ownd is a luggage sticker. One that is a little more entertaining than the average tag. Silly, fun little side project with real, tangible things.

Carl & Co.

Coming Soonish: Shirts that mix science and rock and roll. Simple shirts. Nothing gaudy.

Dog toys

My latest side project is a dog toy... inspired by my dog. What's fun about this project is I'll be collaborating with my fiancée.

I agree with @Noah Buscher in that happiness is in the little things. Coming off my last startup agency, now working full time with my various side projects always keeps me excited about something.

And when I'm not sitting in front of the computer I'm playing/writing music or acting like I know how to build furniture.

I'm currently working on a DJ application for my home. First time using the MEAN stack and I'm really excited about it!

Currently working on my second book, a follow up to Modern HTML Email.

Professional Email Design is a continuation of the first, but goes way deeper into the code. Less for marketers, more for the designers and developers that are in the weeds, dealing with HTML email every day.

I'm also working on a new blog series called Campaign Critique, which is almost like light-weight consulting in blog form for email designs. The first two entries are here and here.

Yeezify.com

I just finished www.yeezify.com - A fun way to learn about browser extensions.

iOS app for favqs.com and this is my first side project. Developing and designing by myself.

http://quotesapp.irizwan.com

At the moment I am working on my writing in relation to design. Just finished writing a weekend long piece based on my 22 day experiment as a designer on Fiverr.

22 Days On Fiverr. Cash Cow or Devaluing Design ?

https://medium.com/@createbuildwin/22-days-as-a-designer-on-fiverr-experiment-cash-cow-or-design-rape-dc985892a72b

Personal Portfolio

Just recently picked up my first and last name .com in attempt to get myself back into the flow of working on design projects outside of 9-5 web work. Coming along well with new freelance clients.

http://josephfeliciano.com

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(sorry, my salespitch...)

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Barrtr - Bartering for Small Business and Web Designers.

We would love to have some of you guys on the build. We need as much help as we can get!

Network

A simple podcast app

Finish.io

This is a project management tool with simplicity and ease of use in mind. The main concept is to keep you focused on your work instead of offering a distracting user interface.

My Morning Routine

I've been publishing morning routines weekly at http://mymorningroutine.com since December 2012. We've previously published routines of several people you may know, such as James Clear, Paul Jarvis, Sarah Kathleen Peck, Colin Wright, Nicole Antoinette, Sahil Parikh, and dozens more.

I’m really happy how it took off. We’ve been featured by sites like Smashing Magazine and I’m currently working on a redesign to take it to the next level. Best of all are however the connections I’ve made through it!

Launchbot

Launchbot enables you to easily open sets of all your favorite websites with just one click. It's like restoring tabs, but on any computer and browser. You can also search Google or just quick-launch one of your favorite websites.

Check it out, it’s open-source and part of my workflow.

Better Every Time, a progress tracking app for iPhone, especially for people who identify with metaphor and don't dig charts and quantification to see their progress: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/better-every-time/id701023336

We basically put almost every hour we can buy back from client work to put into Better. So far we've had about 21k downloads and a lot of nice reviews in the app store. We'll be taking a couple weeks to bump it up to v2 soon.

It's not a big thing, but working on this project really lifts our spirits and makes those days completely fun.

Thanks everyone for sharing... Pure Awesome!

I forgot to mention doing non-design related side projects... I'm building a set of cornhole boards (http://www.playcornhole.org/), spent the weekend building the boards and am planning on color staining some designs in the next week or so.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2333116/cornhole_boards.png