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Planning a 'Show HN' on this as we get closer to the season, but I built a model for Fantasy Football that works pretty well and has done over $500 this month. Takes into account correlations across same-opposing team players to give a slight edge. https://fantasymath.com Modeler by trade, had to learn all the back and frontend stuff myself, been really fun so far.
Planning a 'Show HN' on this as we get closer to the season, but I built a model for Fantasy Football that works pretty well and has done over $500 this month. Takes into account correlations across same-opposing team players to give a slight edge. https://fantasymath.com Modeler by trade, had to learn all the back and frontend stuff myself, been really fun so far.
Might want to remove the Edelman example given his recent injury... no one is going to be starting him ;)
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I can see this being a nice little side project. I work with a bunch of people that camp and in my province (Alberta) we have a rolling reserve window. People will book a campsite for a week prior to their intended trip just so they can get a spot. Provincial parks have since put an end to it by forcing someone to occupy the site within the first 24hrs or they cancel your entire reservation. It's cut throat here.
I'm really surprised how popular it has become. Reserving 11 months in advance leads to a lot of plans being canceled and sites popping up at random times.
Lots of traffic comes from Google, since we are apparently the first result for "read WSJ free" (we have a partnership with the WSJ that gives free access through our tools).
I've cut my expenses and invested the extra in index funds. Currently at a nest egg of around $300k which spews off dividends of around $500/month and is currently appreciating a bit faster than that.
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StatusGator aggregates the public service status pages for all the cloud services you use. You can get automatic notifications when services go down and up, and you can query the service status from things like Slack.
It makes about $1,000 month right now.
we are still struggling on marketing, no revenue yet.
It's currently making $650 / month and growing.
Something I "knew" but never really understood about growing a business is how long it can take. Granted this is completely on the side, but it still takes a long time to find your market, grow, get customers, etc. Learning that this is actually a marathon was valuable.
The other thing I have to actively manage is building things that are valuable -vs- things that I find interesting. As a developer I LOVE tinkering with new technology, but when I'm wearing my business hat upgrading to the new hot frontend framework doesn't make that much sense.