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Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

#31

I'm currently running a job board without ads or any ways to make revenue. I see this as a way to learn things - adding one layer of complexity at a time to see how far I can push it and learn things. I have noticed that I like to learn things by doing so that's the goal. Not exactly a monetary thing but rather investing in myself. Right now, I'm looking at splitting the server to host at multiple locations so I can…

Wouldn’t adding your domain to cloudflare help with reducing latency?

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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post #31

I'm currently running a job board without ads or any ways to make revenue. I see this as a way to learn things - adding one layer of complexity at a time to see how far I can push it and learn things. I have noticed that I like to learn things by doing so that's the goal. Not exactly a monetary thing but rather investing in myself. Right now, I'm looking at splitting the server to host at multiple locations so I can…

Wouldn’t adding your domain to cloudflare help with reducing latency?

yeah it does, for CDN. But not the latency for server response.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

#33
I quit my tech job in 2020 to learn new technologies (Vue, GraphQL, Rust, etc.) and build my own product. In order to support myself I'm currently making coding tutorials on YouTube.

I get 30-60$ a month RN with 5k subscribers.

It's not enough but I have some money saved up and can still mooch off my parents insurance so I have that going for me.

Here's a video I made recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWdySMo0EJc

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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I have a coupon site for developers https://www.gluee.com/ and a set of small tools for developers: https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode and vice-versa conversion), https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML and need to clean it up), https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so well-formed HTML and need to fix it), https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple to…

What is your strategy for having each tool hosted on an independent domain, as opposed to an umbrella "developertools" domain? SEO benefits?

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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I'm making a tool for exploring word etymologies.

I'm fascinated by the hidden connections in our language—like "galaxy" being connected to "galactose" because of the Milky Way.

I used NLP to convert written etymology paragraphs from wiktionary into a database of words and connections.

Also interesting are the Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from "animate" and "unanimous" to "anemone".

https://www.etymologyexplorer.com

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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Main job (40h/week in theory, 35h/week in practice): tech lead, senior software engineer.

My side hustle (40h/week in theory, 5h/week in practice): junior software engineer for another company.

I have around 8 years of professional experience... so while working as a junior in my side hustle I don’t need that much time to finish my tasks (hence the 5h/week). Sometimes it’s a bit difficult to write code like a junior. I usually quit after a year because companies expect progress and more associated responsibilities (i don’t need that in my side hustle, i have that already on my main job). Funny thing is: I make like 95K/year in my main job and 50K/year in my side hustle... but the proportions don’t hold when it comes to time spent in each role.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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post #37

I'm making a tool for exploring word etymologies. I'm fascinated by the hidden connections in our language—like "galaxy" being connected to "galactose" because of the Milky Way. I used NLP to convert written etymology paragraphs from wiktionary into a database of words and connections. Also interesting are the Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that…

https://www.etymonline.com
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