Software side projects that got famous

Creators and their side projects that got famous or grew into commercial projects:

* Kovid Goyal - calibre

* Antony Lewis - WordWeb

* Ivan Ristic  - SSL Labs (2009)

* John Thornton and Jason Cahill - Wordament

* Krishna Bharat - Google News, free news aggregator

* Colin Needham - IMDb (1990)

* Eric Lawrence - Fiddler, HTTP debugging proxy server application

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