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Ask HN: Are 'weekend projects' just a way to grab attention?

There are quite a few 'weekend project' titled submissions all the time and many of them make it to the HN homepage. With no disrespect, are these really weekend projects or just a way to grab everyone's attention and get to the homepage?

Do you think a weekend project would have a psychological edge making others upvote in awe?

Or am I getting it completely wrong and weekend projects really mean made over several weekends?

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Talking about weekend projects developed at events like http://garage48.org/, two of the teams from these Garage48 events have won Seedcamp investments and become real startups: http://qminder.com/ and http://campalyst.com/

So weekend projects can turn into real companies.

could not access qminder but campalyst looks good...!

Oops, wrote the wrong address, correct one is: http://qminderapp.com/

I am not sure Why Weekend Project is the wrong way to tag these submissions. I saw a similar post about people complaining about these being called "startups". Personally I couldn't care less if the thing was built in 10 months or 2 days, It's more whether I would use the idea/ site or not.

I read it somewhat metaphorically, equivalent to "side project" with a connotation of a smallish off-hand side project, as opposed to a big multi-month investment. May or may not have actually been done in one weekend, though some probably were.

yeah, a side project makes more sense. I guess, if we look at them that way they can also be called as weekend projects since it's not what someone developed as a full time activity.

I would suggest making the best product that you can. Whether it is accomplished over a single weekend or not is irrelevant according to me. If you release something unpolished, it won't make you look any better.

You should really try it for once its very exciting to get all the wonderful feedback from HN. You may even end up talking to the founders of some cool startups.

I sure will someday, but I just hope it turns out to be as well made as the other apps :)

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