personal project

An alternative to large joint projects are personal projects, which are discussed in this chapter.

Apart from the great ideas to justify a project on the Internet, which involve an effort by several people and require a more or less strong initial economic investment, we can also opt for the personal project.

A personal project is one that can be carried out by a single person at home, possibly in their spare time and with almost no financial investment. Just dedicating your constant effort for a certain time.

It is possible that, up to now, these developments are, at least in number, the most common and those that have achieved the greatest success and, ultimately, their permanence on the Internet. You have to realize that these businesses do not involve a large outlay of money, so they can be maintained even if the income is also very low.

Some characteristics of this type of business are:

– Low start-up and maintenance cost

– Involvement of one person and, if there are more people working, they are no more than unpaid collaborators or those who are paid based on the results obtained.

– They allow the person or persons involved to carry out other tasks that bring them more direct economic income while the idea is incubated.

– Does not require expensive infrastructure. It can develop from a person’s home, what is called the garage culture.

The good thing about the web is that anyone can, with very little money, have everything they need to start a business, which is basically a domain name and space to host the pages. In addition, there is total justice or equality in the importance of a development that has a strong capital investment behind it with one that does not have money initially. At least initially, all domains are equal in importance, that is, it is just as difficult for me to enter the page of a large company as it is to access the website of an individual: both are called algo.com.

If we have a personal project, we can develop it on the fly, without the need to carry out a financial feasibility study. It will possibly take us longer than it would if we did the job with the help of an economic investment but, if the business is possible, we would finally find the desired profitability, both one way and the other.