I started my own app idea so that I can learn and get experience as a PM and get the title. It's been 2 weeks so far & I expect to work on it over several months.
I work full time at FB/Meta and have my colleagues added on LinkedIn. Should I add my side hustle title to my LinkedIn? What about my resume?
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This is like putting Stanford in the education area of your resume when you've only taken some online course offered by them.
Make sure what you build is actually usable and built in the way you would build it if you were actually PM for a company and assigned to this product — features and functionality built in priority order, use metrics/research to back up features and priorities, talk to potential users for research and to get feedback, etc. It will definitely help on LinkedIn if you do get actual users and list yourself as founder of X product and can list that as a job.
Try to get users to pay for it. This will tell you what features users are willing to pay for (for example it could happen where they are willing to pay if feature A is present, even though when using the product you learn they only actually use feature C) which will provide a lot of insight and things to talk about during interviews.
Better: ask your manager if there are other PM-adjacent opportunities you can participate in (or own, if they trust you) so you can get some real-world experience under your belt. As a PM, it's not just product challenges that you need to navigate -- working with people, driving decisions, defending what you build...you don't get that from working on your own idea.