Wednesday, February 1, 2017

Turn Your Side Project into a Full-Time Gig: Tips from Hacking UI

Based in Israel, David Tinter is one-half of the masterminds behind Hacking UI and Side Project Accelerator, two hugely successful projects aimed to inform, inspire and showcase the evolving world of technology. The other half of the creative duo is Sagi Schreiber, whom Tinter met when they both joined as co-founders of another startup called Moolta.

While Hacking UI serves as a digital magazine, along with its own podcast series and a newsletter released regularly, Side Project Accelerator is an eight-week course that teaches you how to turn your side project into a full time gig - a dream held by many emerging entrepreneurs.

Tinter said that the “lightbulb moment” to construct Hacking UI came when he and Schreiber decided to create a script that exported SVG files from Photoshop. At the time, there was no solution to this never-ending dilemma which frustrated both designers and developers, so of course, the two tech entrepreneurs took matters into their own hands.

“We wrote the script, as well as a couple of articles about it and our workflow, releasing it publicly for free download,” he said.

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