Back in 2009 I launched a simple poll site for Twitter: https://www.twtpoll.com It was somewhat popular at the time. If you remember Twitter's first years, they struggled to keep their servers up (remember the fail whale?), so they wouldn't develop anything themselves.
Actually, fun fact. I built Twtpoll as a little side project as I was tired on working on my main project one night in 2 hours (very simple 1 form / 2 pages site) I emailed TechCrunch and the published it on the next day... I wasn't expecting it at all, but it was a nice surprise: https://techcrunch.com/2009/01/02/what-do-your-twitter-followers-think-conduct-a-twtpoll-and-find-out/
In one week, I had more visitors to Twtpoll than I had for the previous year on my main project (a social network for travellers.)
Anyway, I keep working on it and I was able to live/travel for the next 4 years with the revenue from subscribers and ads. Then I stopped working on it, Twitter launched their own poll little service. And the rest is history.
Since it was still out there, I just re-did it as a white label version of another survey site that I've been working on recently. Check it out: Polls as Chatbots!
So, sometimes do take a little break from whatever you're working on to explore quick side projects... You never know.
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