Noodles Explore is my latest project to help anyone find the best recipes on the web as quickly as possible. Just enter whatever you're looking to cook, and Explore will find some fantastic recipes for you. You can see the recipes right there, and clip them back to your Noodles library in just one click.

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👍 Thanks sodevious!

Interesting story. I think that while I may not find an internship this summer, I can just work on side projects and keep learning — that can always continue, even if I can’t work with other folks. I really appreciate your story, and interesting perspective!

Thanks, John! I really appreciate your response; you’ve got a lot of good advice there. I’ll quickly respond here from my phone.

I’m trying to learn some other languages/architectures, and side projects are basically everything I’ve worked on so far. With school in the way it’s hard to find enough time for everything. That’s why I’m trying to find something really interesting to work on this summer.

Also: I looked into those laws a bit and it seems like once I’m 14 (I will be once an internship for me could start), I can work 8 hours/day while school isn’t in session.

By the way, I will be 14 once an internship would start. This opens up the child labor laws a lot.

Thanks for that! I’ll be 14 by the time the internship could start, so it sounds like one could work out in regards to the law.

ksenzee: Nice! I spend a ton of time working on open-source projects over Assembly: http://assembly.com/. Thanks for the suggestion.

Working on projects with people you meet/know isn’t illegal. Getting a real job would be, but not this :)

If those people are in a company and that company benefits from your work, they could still be breaking laws related to internships and child labor.

Unpaid internships are illegal except under some very restrictive conditions.

That said, these things don't seem to make it to court, so you're probably not risking anything by doing them.

newobj: I’m working on learning other languages/frameworks, but I’m really not interested at all in building or playing video games :)

littletimmy: It’s not at all driven by my parents. I’m doing it only because I love it.

On self-started projects: Noodles was my first of them, and I’m working on some more. Side projects are great, but right now I’m looking for something bigger.