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Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by Rodeoclash »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Getting everything you want can be a curse! My belief is that humans need to struggle towards getting better and things. Maybe take up chess?

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by harmmonica »

lamroger wrote: post #171
harmmonica wrote: post #142

Don’t think this is novel, but I’ve mentioned on an HN thread before that my friend and I were building (and have now built) a tiny house. We’d been complaining for years that housing was too expensive and so after doing a house flip and stops and starts on trying to build a spec house we decided to try a tiny house to see if we could build something move-in ready that looks (somewhat) nice and also is inexpensive. J…

wow its beautiful! doesnt need to be novel imo. hope you really do go the long term lease route to help shelter folks. do yall have any newsletter? would love to follow

Oh man that's super nice of you to say! Quite a few folks have called/written us saying that they really dig the look of it, but you saying "beautiful" seriously warms my heart--thank you!

We're feeling the same way about the rental because based on the response we've gotten it's not like the people inquiring about purchase are all folks who need cheap shelter (some folks want to live in it, others for Airbnb, still others because they want to provide a cheap full-time rental for someone else). Cool thing is how much feedback we're getting, but the rental direction is definitely the most direct "get people who need shelter a shelter" option.

As for a newsletter, I wish we did. If your email's in your profile I'll make a note of it and make you the inaugural subscriber if we end up creating one.

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Post by nielsole »

rootsudo wrote: post #170

I'm having fun, resigned my last client and am surfing, cycling (road bike & Dirt) 20-40 miles daily minimum, want to see if I can do daily century rides. Alongside Language school, in the morning Japanese, in the evening Indonesian. The Japanese is more of a fun goal now, as I'm JLPT N3 and want to see if I can get N1. I should be focusing on Mandarin, but, eh maybe next year. It's really fun to read news in local l…

How does learning two languages work for you? Whenever I try it I get really weird mashups in my head.

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Post by spike021 »

I got a puppy and I'm its single caregiver. I love having him around but I didn't realize it'd mean being on-call 24/7 plus the rotations on my team at work when I'm really on-call. That's made for some..interesting times.

Having a furry little companion is fun, though, and I'm getting out and socializing way more than before.

Overall a net positive, IMO. Just a lot of work and responsibility.

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Post by kache_ »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Same age, also won the IPO lotto, but not enough to not have to work. Just enough to be financially comfortable with any downturn.

I think it might have been the best outcome. Actually on second thought, no, I'd love to not work. Congrats.

Re: Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

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Post by protoduction »

Half a year back or so I built a mini SaaS product that failed, now I'm in the process of open sourcing it so that everybody can freely host it for themselves. Here's the project homepage https://magiclogin.net, it was/is transactional e-mails and e-mail authentication as a service.

Getting it ready for open sourcing is a lot more work than I anticipated, I don't want to just dump it in a Github repo and have nobody be able to actually use it, so I'm making deployment easier and writing docs on how to run it yourself.

I didn't build the project to make money necessarily, it was mostly a learning project. That doesn't mean that I didn't hope it would be at least moderately succesful financially. But it was a case of "build and they won't come" and my other projects took off much more so I couldn't justify trying to market/pivot it. The final nail in the coffin came when I received a cease and desist letter because apparently a vc-funded auth provider trademarked the term "Magic Login".. So yeah..

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Post by bitexploder »

philangist wrote: post #180

I won the IPO lottery and I’m in the middle ground between rich enough to never work again but not quite rich enough for the yachts/mansions/private jets lifestyle. I haven’t worked in 6 months and I’m struggling to find a larger meaning to my life beyond getting yet another tech job. I’ve considered going to college for a math degree, moving to my parents home country, and joining the military (among many other opti…

Not that you asked, but just find things you enjoy and do the shit out of them. It seems that keeping the mind busy and fulfilled is a part of a long and happy life. Seen a number of folks fall into a sort of purpose hole when they got everything they ever asked for. It’s a strange thing. It’s sort of like… okay? Now what. We did it. What else is there. But really it’s the same things there always was, just that the external forces are removed :)

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Post by stickyricky »

mikelevins wrote: post #154

Well, let's see. I'm working on my fourth science fiction novel. Ive been working on it for about four years. The first one took about three months. The second one took about six months. The third one took a bit over a year. It seems I've been challenging myself more as I go. I've been recording a song I wrote in about 1982. I was in an obscure experimental electronic rock band that no one ever heard of in the 1980s.…

Whats the name of the series?
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