side project

Wordle began in 2021 as a side project to keep the girlfriend of its British inventor, Josh Wardle, entertained.

That was a fairly tense time because this little side project had completely outsold “The Photo Album” like three to four times over.

"It was started as a side project that I just put on the internet and within a week 100,000 people had played it," he says.

And F1 was just Watkins’ side project.

There are plenty of quotable lines on this jangly, stomping highlight from the sole album released by Conor Oberst and Phoebe Bridgers’s side project, Better Oblivion Community Center, but I am partial to this one: “I’m getting used to these dizzy spells/I’m takin’ a shower at the Bates Motel.”