Finishing up my last semester of college and turning my focus to the real world of software engineering is quite a transition. As the stress of the college environment begins to diminish and my body recovers from years of caffeine and late night studying, I now am stuck with a large amount of free time. Using this free time wisely has been quite difficult, one can only watch so many episodes of Modern Marvels.

So I put my brain to work on coming up with a solution to my current free time situation. What I came up with was to take on a side project. The reasoning behind this is due to the many conceptual software designs and ideas. Over the past year I have collected about 4 different application ideas and have taken them as far as business proposals, UML diagrams and database schemas. The point of this side project is to start a development studio with these initial concepts. My goal by starting this as a side project now is to hopefully down the road turn this side project into my main business. I find this to be an excellent idea since it is never too soon to start exploring entrepreneurial interests. I think that the sooner you start the better so you have less outside responsibilities which can lead these startups to fail.

In order for me to do this side project, I realized that my best shot for success is to find a fellow developer. This developer will hopefully keep me in check with keeping to schedules developing these concepts (and vise-versa). Now I have headed off in search of this developer with posts over at Rails Work I hope I find someone who shares the same interests and meets the same criteria, but if I can’t I will still try and do this project myself so stay tuned!