Weekend Project

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. A small project started or built over a weekend, often for experimentation, learning, or personal satisfaction rather than formal product goals. In startup storytelling, calling something a weekend project can imply both scrappiness and understatement.

    In plain English: A small project built over a weekend for fun, learning, or experimentation.

    Example: "The internal CLI started as a weekend project and quietly became core infrastructure."

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