Landlord, private equity investing, business and real estate project consulting. I take topics I’m curious about and translate the experience and skills learned into revenue.
Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
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#22I sleep a lot
The real answer. After a loooong day at work my brain shuts down completely when i'm at home. Gaming, sleeping and going out for dinner is enough.
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#23Index fund
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#24I sleep a lot
fun
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#25Landlord
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#26I used to run an Airbnb on the side. It was a mad success, but took so much work that I stopped being a good engineer and all my coding projects went to shit. So I closed the Airbnb, and projects I proved. Recently the guy sitting next to me on a flight suggested one day a week driving heavy trucks (semi trailers). In Aus, this pays $50-75/hour. Probably the same in the USA.
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#27Poker. I'm not able to make enough for it to be a full time job, but it's more pleasant than driving an Uber. Sometimes makes for good networking too.
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#28Nothing, my day job is already enough.
Rather spend time with family and friends.
However, if I was forced to change job for whatever reason, probably something related with cooking.
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#29I make and sell staff paper notebooks for musicians: https://www.themusiciansnotebook.com/ I'm an avid saxophone player and am taking evening classes in theory, so I made this to solve a problem that I myself had. Nothing else like it on the market! Every part of this notebook is automatically generated with a bunch of python scripts: the cover design, the interior, the line placement, the margins. The program basica…
Thanks for posting. I have always wanted this. Just ordered 6 (accidentally, meant to order 3) and I’m hoping it’s as awesome as I’m imagining.
Re: Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?
#30Investing. It takes a lot of time to have an understanding of filtering the good long term stuff from the bad short term strategies, but it's worth it.
Would like to hear more about this, specially from an European perspective and EUR-denominated investments.