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

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Post by pyepye » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 2:04 PM UTC

qq4 wrote: post #45

pyepye wrote: post #13

I've been contracting part-time and developing a few bits. https://www.videocode.review/ - After working from home for a while we noticed that it was taking longer to pull requests merged. One reason for this is comments were getting misunderstood etc. So I created a way to record a video for a pull request (as either the author or reviewer) to try and avoid some of that misunderstanding. It's GitHub only for now but…

Your email forwarding project is more proof that temporary email addresses are the way to go. I could never use a service without them.

I totally agree.

For example, the number of emails that don't have any form of unsubscribe link at all is shocking. Obviously the service doesn't get a true representation of all types of email but spam emails are a massive pain and a total waste of resource all round.

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

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Post by mrfusion » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 3:02 PM UTC

dyingkneepad wrote: post #6

I have kids and live in a part of the world with zero family and friends, it rains a lot and there's a pandemic going on. I spent 99% of the last 6 months in exactly the same house. That's my Side Hustle.

Thanks for your obedience.

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

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Post by hksh » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 6:54 PM UTC

torqu3e wrote: post #50

Mine is being an enabler for the partner's main hustle as an artist which entails being the IT guy, office manager, purchasing, research intern, whatever a small business needs done today. She does the artwork commissions, freelance as well as sells direct to consumers https://sumitgill.me/

That is lovely. I could totally see some of the seamless repeats as wall or wrapping paper.

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

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Post by dvno42 » Thu, Apr 01, 2021, 10:52 PM UTC

I run a small network automation company. We write custom runbooks and provide a web platform for users to execute them from. I spent about 20 hours a week on this after my normal job.

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

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Post by jhugo » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 7:21 AM UTC

adithyasrin wrote: post #32

michelb wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

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

well, a job board should be very cacheable. so most of the time the request doesn't need to go to the server.

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

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Post by Leparamour » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 11:03 AM UTC

adithyasrin wrote: post #2

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…

Love the name, funny and clever.

Also, wish you good luck with the project.

At first glance, I wondered why you would make the text almost illegible very light grey on a white background... until I realized my (always-on) Dark Reader plugin fooled me.

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

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Post by j10c » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 1:45 PM UTC

tkiolp4 wrote: post #39

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.…

Hi, I am a developer with 5 years of experience and my skills are fairly junior level(I am not bright one) . Currently I am searching for similar remote position, how can I apply for one. I have tried applying online but most of applications are rejected due to skills.

Ps. I have bachelor degree in cs, can code in vanilla php, js and python. I can do regular frontend and wordpress like projects. I will accept lower pay due to reduced cost of living from relocation to hometown. Currently trying to build saas based invoicing app in side hustle, in planning stage.

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

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Post by asidiali » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 3:40 PM UTC

giantg2 wrote: post #11

Selling honey (I'm a beekeeper) and craft items. It doesn't bring in very much.

Have you tried transitioning the bees from FTE to contract workers? Bring your own pollinator, if you will...

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

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Post by wreath » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 4:49 PM UTC

jobigoud wrote: post #47

tkiolp4 wrote: post #39

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.…

This reminds me of the guy that outsourced his own tasks to devs in lower income countries and got all the free time. I imagine you needed to create a entire persona with linkedin presence and all to get the junior hired for remote work.

> I imagine you needed to create a entire persona with linkedin presence and all to get the junior hired for remote work.

Or you simply don't have any online presence whatsoever. At least not one that shows the real life you.

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

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Post by mod » Fri, Apr 02, 2021, 8:20 PM UTC

Poker. I go on trips for a few days at a time and play low stakes.

People are really bad and I win an hourly comparable to a junior developer.