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While the U.S. is celebrating Memorial Day, it seems like a good time to share this genealogy tool I made. It can show the entire family tree for a person in a GEDCOM file (all of …

I started creating an application with the help of an AI Agent a few weeks ago. I told it what I wanted the app to do and it created code. I coded novel pieces of the application m…

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I've been using Agent DVR for recording, alerts and local storage though the alerts rely on a non-local MQTT broker (HiveMQ) due to the double-NAT setup my ISP imposes, otherwise I…

I was hoping this article would be about "The Hail Mary" which is an amazing book by the author of The Martian that involves a starship. I listened to the audio book and basically …

My site made over $20k last year from Amazon. I've always known I could lose this income at any moment due to a change in Amazon's policies or a change in Google's algorithms. Luck…

My site makes a couple grand per month from Amazon commissions. You have to sign up for each different Amazon program separately (.com, .co.uk, .ca, .de, .fr, etc). There is a prog…

$50k from investment earnings (index funds, mostly 401k - I'm in my 40s). $20k from a website I built a couple years ago (searchable product catalog with Amazon affiliate links).

Sorted by revenue only seven make more than my Amazon affiliate site. I'm not sure if that type of site would fit in there but I did develop quite a bit of code for it. It's not a …

I have an Amazon Associates website and I've considered trying to use ads to generate traffic. This adds another step in the process vs what the article describes. Users have to cl…

Currently my average commission is about $5.

My site does not have any reviews. Each product overview is just a description of the product and its specifications. Rather than telling people which one to buy I give them the ab…

I'd prefer not to but I'll check back a few more times to see if there are any questions about my post to answer.

I never noticed before that this site doesn't seem to have any way to send private messages. I guess if one wants to be reached they have to share a way publicly.

Yes it did. I have spent a lot more time researching and documenting specs than I have writing code. The good news is that I don't mind that type of work. I often build spreadsheet…

I have had some success in affiliate marketing using an approach that I think many on Hacker News could duplicate. I launched my Amazon affiliate site about a year-and-a-half ago a…

Thanks for this link. Perhaps the most disturbingly accurate description of procrastination I have ever read.

This may be my favorite from this thread simply because there are individual volume sliders for each sound.

Thanks for the link (41 yr old site creator). I only recently got interested in mechanical watches. It's fun to have a mechanical marvel on my wrist for those times when I don't wa…

I recently started an affiliate business. I'm not sure if it will make $500 per month but it just made $60 in its second month so I'm cautiously optimistic. For some types of purch…

Your comment really made me stop and think. It does seem like a contradiction at first: when your child does something good praise their character not their action, when your child…

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So the wind pushes the cart forward, which turns the wheels, which spin the propeller, which pushes the cart forward even more - a feedback loop. Eventually various frictions and i…

In my experience pigs are easier to train than dogs (they learn more quickly) and are less easily distracted. I trained pigs for 4-H and showed them at the county fair. I could wal…