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When the time and energy you have available to work on side projects is limited, the opportunity cost of working on the wrong one is enormous. How do you choose which of dozens of ideas to pursue?

I'm an experienced software engineer (~15 years, mostly web apps) with an idea for an iOS app. I'm not especially intimidated by a new language, but the ecosystem and iOS frameworks are confounding. What resources do…

When there's a project you want to build that you expect would have a very limited (and likely non-paying) audience outside yourself, how much of your free time are you willing to invest in it? A week's worth of nights…

Specifically, for a B2C company, what are some ways to find a representative sample of a broad consumer market to answer a few exploratory questions intended to gauge market needs?

We've been having a lot of issues lately with Gmail, related to their connection and data transfer limits. We're too small to have the resources to maintain our own mail server even if we had the know-how in house. What…

It's been a few years since I've done significant work in stylesheets, and while I feel up to date on SASS and CSS itself, I have no idea what's going on in the framework world. I'm now beginning a very small side…

Has anyone here set up online payments using Bitcoin? Did you roll your own solution? Integrate a third-party API? If you used a third party, how did you select a provider? Edited to add: Do you permit anonymous…