A celebration of the side project.
Not a hackathon. Not a pitch night.
Leave the networking at the door.
Side Quest is an evening of chill demos. Built a cozy puzzle game for fun? Come share it. Whipped up a Chrome extension nobody asked for over a weekend? Yes, that too.
“Is it gonna make money?”
There's an inner Gollum in all of us. We wants it to scale, precious. We needs the product-market fit. Filthy little hobbyistses.
Gmail started as a 20% project. DeepSeek started as a hedge fund's research playground. The Homebrew Computer Club was a demo night when some guy called Woz showed up with what became the Apple I.
When you make stuff because you just want to, you break out of productivity min-maxing and stumble into things no roadmap would approve.
And sure, recruiters have caught on too: these days they skip the resume and open your “play” section first.
Yes, we know. It's scary to make something “just because”. We've been trained to be useful. To be hireable. To justify the hours.
Side Quest is one evening where nobody asks about the precious. Ask anything else. Show us the thing.
Food is free. Drinks are free.
Sméagol is welcome.
Leave Gollum at home.
Credits
- ManifestoWritten by Kar Jin Ong ↗
- Cat sprite sheetStardew Valley cat sprites ↗
- BGMSprite Cafe — ocean railway ↗