side project
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Along the way, as the cloud business progressed from a side project to a major part of Amazon’s business, companies stopped asking why they should turn their computing needs over to a bookseller.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026
Startup DeepSeek started life in 2023 as a side project of a data-driven hedge fund, but shook up the global AI scene with its "R1" model in January 2025.
From Barron's • Apr. 24, 2026
Claude Code began as his side project in the fall of 2024 after he joined Anthropic.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 21, 2026
When everything is bite-sized and cohesive, vegetables stop feeling like a side project and start feeling like the main event.
From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026
From the other side project stout bamboo poles, to the outer ends of which is fastened a boat-shaped log of wood.
From Harper's Young People, August 24, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly by Various