Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?

Post by hammock » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 3:07 PM UTC

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> Sell plant starts - a little late for this year, but it's one of those things you can save seeds from your regular groceries / food prep at home and early Spring...ba-da-bing ba-da-bang...kind of almost free plants! Might work with vegetables, but aren't most grocery fruits derived from cuttings?

Actually it doesn't even work with most vegetables. To get the kind of yields people are used to, many vegetables are hybrids. The kicker is, the second generation plant (the one that you'd grow from the seeds) is no longer a hybrid, so you won't get the same plant. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_seed And as you point out, most fruits can't be grown from seeds either. _Something_ will grow, but you aren't going…

Post by kpgraham » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 4:07 PM UTC

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I raise bees and sell the honey. Good for a few thousand a year and the money makes up for the stings. I have a couple of dozen chickens and sell the eggs, but this makes very little money since eggs are so cheap in the super market. It pays for the feed and that's it. I wrote an Amazon book on how to play harmonica in the style of Sonny Boy Williamson II that sells steady and makes me beer money. I sell a couple of…

That's amazing and I can't believe how much this sounds like what I'm trying to go for! I got my first two hives setup on Saturday and we finally moved our first group of 12 chickens out of the house and into the coop yesterday. If you don't mind, how many hives do you have and how do you sell the honey? I was always thinking I would need more hives than I could ever manage to actually get enough to sell. My goal was…

Post by nicktibbott » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 6:56 PM UTC

Post by busterarm » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 7:48 PM UTC

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Regarding point 4, do you even consider small patch work? Perhaps where you would need to apply a body patch, filler, sand & paint? I imagine with the cars you're working with rust isn't an issue, but could be needed for minor damage. Are you passing on those cars completely or leaving those as is?

I can repaint entire panels, and blend it well enough to be indistinguishable — though ultimately I’ll end up leveling the clearcoat on the entire vehicle, which is a ton of work to do right. The problem is to hit my standard of quality it’s far too much time for the effort required. The time is better spent finding something that doesn’t need major paint repair.

Post by hammock » Tue, Apr 23, 2019, 9:00 PM UTC

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The product you are looking for exists in the form of hedging out what you don't want in the ETF. Buy your ETF, and short the stocks you don't want in it. ETF's are low to no rates because they don't have active management, and you are talking about active management. With active management, you are describing the job of a hedge fund manager, and essentially wanting to create your own fund.

If I do that though then I pay a premium to open the put/short position in the form of theta and interest respectively. And since my portfolio isn't that big I would end up allocating a sizable percent of it to open short positions on all the stocks I want to exclude. So as far as I can tell, it's considerably more expensive than just not holding those stocks to begin with What I really want is a way for a company li…