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It seems every developer you talk to these days has a side project of one kind or another. You know those little ideas for web sites that might make a few thousand a month in revenue. Some are intended to become companies, but most just generate some passive income for the developer. The problem is that most people don't usually have the skills to pull off these side projects on their own. I know I don't, but I do have a large number of little revenue generating side projects that I want to see constructed. For the projects that are big enough you can go out and raise angel funding or maybe even venture capital, but for those that aren't big enough, getting the ideas off the ground is a little tougher.

So we're doing something about that and I can now announce the existence of my (and co-founder Sean Tierney's) new company Grid7, LLC. Grid7 is a consulting and product development company and we recently introduced a new concept, the side project incubator, Grid7 Labs.

Grid7 Labs provides a marketplace where developers, designers, administrators and anyone else with skills to lend, can work together to help each other build out their side projects. It's a developer cooperative where everyone who participates shares in the revenue from the creations that become part of the Grid.

Grid7 itself provides the project management tools, hosting and other infrastructure services to further simplify the development of these projects.

The Grid also operates with a "community source model". Which means that within the grid all source code for the projects is open and free for use, but the source code is not made available outside the grid. The Grid will almost certainly produce some true Open Source code, but most of the projects won't make sense to be released that way.

The labs private pilot program, running with a set of selected developers, is now in progress and over the next few months we'll be releasing more information and opening the doors to more people. However, right now we do have one more spot for a Ruby or Python developer.

If you have a side project that can generate reasonable revenue, but can't be pulled off on your own, Grid7 Labs may have the answer. Feel free to signup so that we can notify you when we're ready to bring more people on board.