Some weeks a few hours, but usually none, honestly. I have lots of things I'd like to do and most of them I don't already spend 40 hours a week doing.
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#42I replaced programming with woodworking. I find it a lot more enjoyable after 8 hours of building software and 1 - 2 hours of administrative work to transition to building "hardware". My side projects are all furniture my wife or other family members ask for.
I'm interested in woodworking but also afraid I'm going to maim myself.
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#43Not enough for my own satisfaction.
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#4420+ hours a week.
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#4540+ haha.
Im a Freelance Javascript developer currently having a very easy/boring job.. No kids, no wife, just a dog :)
So including weekends I easy hit more then 40 hours!
TradeJS
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#46Side projects hours are directly proportional to how happy, satisfied, and content I am with my say job.
At my previous job it tended to be 15+ per week easily. But now it tends to be 0-2 hours per week. It's not a bad problem to have; to enjoy and feel satisfied with everything at the day job.
I still wouldn't mind being more side project engaged sometimes though. It's always a struggle.
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#4750% of my time is dedicated to my side project (20-40 hours).
Over the last 2 years I cut consulting hours down to 20, and increased my hourly rate so I could work 50% of the time for 75% of the money.
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#48I average about 14 hours per week on my animation platform. It took a few years to have a release:
http://www.superanimo.com
The difference for me was when I got a nights and weekends membership to a coworking space. Since I'm paying for it I force myself to go at least 3 times a week.
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#49About 5 hours a week on https://getelapse.com , chunked into 20 minute slots like lunch breaks or downtime at home between family stuff. The only way I'm able to make forward progress is by being super strict about CI+CD. It's actually doing a good job of forcing me to code really well, because if you've only got 20 minutes to get a thing done, you can't have much cognitive overhead or switching costs.
Sound like you are dog-fooding your product:
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#50I would say around 5/6hours a week. Most of it on the weekend.
I am building https://iheartreading.co/. I have been working on it for a little bit than a year, with a big break last year (5/6 months without doing anything).
I try to spend maybe 15 min every day checking where I am at, and several hours per weekend, when possible, working on features etc.
Trying to work on it in the evening after my work day is challenging, as I have not a lot of energy/motivation.