Can I just say I love the branding. It seems familiar (not in a bad way) but unique enough to stand up.
Thanks very much :-)
Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
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Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#222Congrats, this is very cool and inspirational.
Thanks a lot.
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#223With 500/month I would just move to Southeast Asia and live like comfortably while doing my own hobby projects / passions or whatever. Great job. You are now an independent entrepeneur.
haha well I have a family and a house etc to maintain so £500 isn't cutting it.
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#224Congrats!
Thank you.
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#225THANK YOU
I cannot believe how much traction this thread has got today, I am blown away.
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It's going to take me days to process all of this.
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Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#226Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love these stories also but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job. I assume you don't work a full time job, otherwise it seems unhealthy. I put a lot of time into my side projects but that is mostly the whole saturday and sunday, but even then I obviously don't feel so well rested on monday.
The reality is that some people can just do more per day than others. It's very common in academia that many professors spend their entire lifetime in 60-80hr work weeks their entire life. I remember going to conferences,especially the really small ones, the professors and students would spend all day listening to extremely draining lectures; this one particular conference started at 8.30 am, went till 1 pm, you get…
> It's very common in academia that many professors spend their entire lifetime in 60-80hr work weeks their entire life.
I would take this with a pinch of salt. Socializing by the pool after the talks isn't hard work. Also, most people only listen to some of the talks. It's not uncommon to see the room half empty the last days of the conference. There are also various social events and so on...
While it's true that some professors/researchers are hard-working and driven, it's not the case for all of them, and it varies throughout their career. Their job is also typically not very stressful.
Same thing for software engineers. Some people do meaningful work for a few hours a day, and slack the rest of the time and still have good performance reviews.
Among the professionals who work a lot, I can think of doctors. My family doctor works very long hours, and he's certainly not slacking.
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#227Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love these stories also but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job. I assume you don't work a full time job, otherwise it seems unhealthy. I put a lot of time into my side projects but that is mostly the whole saturday and sunday, but even then I obviously don't feel so well rested on monday.
> but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job Hacker News repeatedly rediscovers that there is no point in putting in more than the bare minimum at typical jobs over and over again. Some people pour the gained time into leetcode and succeed. Some pour it into stuff they're excited about. Some into their families. Some pour it into being at the right place at…
> Hardly anyone has ever succeeded by pouring it into their jobs
This might be the most relevant part of the discussion
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#228Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going. I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job. People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a d…
I love these stories also but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job. I assume you don't work a full time job, otherwise it seems unhealthy. I put a lot of time into my side projects but that is mostly the whole saturday and sunday, but even then I obviously don't feel so well rested on monday.
> I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job.
Fulltime jobs usually aren't fulltime in that they take all of your available thinking capacity, nor do they quench a person's curiosity or interest. More often, fulltime jobs (especially in tech) are ~40% work, 60% absolute garbage timewasting. Sitting through meetings that don't need to happen, to satisfy an insecurity or requirement that someone above has, without actually solving any real problems or creating any change.
Some people do exactly as much is required at their actual job (so a generous 40% of their available capacity) and then spend their nights, weekends and freetime pouring themselves into other things. Startups, personal projects, hobbies, families, etc.
Fulltime jobs are almost never rewarding or exciting. A startup may start exciting/fulfilling, but eventually corporate garbage sets in and you're on the same treadmill of meetings to talk about prospective work/how much work there is, fitting actual fulfillment of tasks in between.
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#229Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love these stories also but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job. I assume you don't work a full time job, otherwise it seems unhealthy. I put a lot of time into my side projects but that is mostly the whole saturday and sunday, but even then I obviously don't feel so well rested on monday.
A friend of mine (who's nearly 50) put in over 2000 hours into playing Destiny one year. That's about the same as a full time job. He has a wife and two kids, and a very full time job. Doing that much work on a side gig is totally possible if you want to do it and have the right disposition.
That’s over 5 hours a day. If you have wife and kids and a job then either you, your job or your family is missing out.
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#230Earlier quoted context omitted.
Quite naive of you to believe Musk or Bezos worked 23 hour workdays. Even if that was remotely true, everything bears consequence. It might have "worked", but the downsides of this toxic work ethic are bound to present themselves, in the present or future. Never mind working such hours does not guarantee success. Hell, it only about guarantees poor relations and health with any chance of success a very distant second…
Well it's presented them with billionaire fortunes. That's a fact. I think it's fine for entrepreneurs like them to work however much they want, but it's not cool to put that on employees, especially if they don't have any ownership in the company. I don't buy the theory about poor relationships and long hours. I could see it going either way, especially if one was single and would otherwise spend their time at home…
How do you keep non poor relationships if you are just transitioning between work/sleep states?
You can't keep relationships if the time spent on a relationship tends to 0.