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I started my professional life ~25y ago with a side project that by 2022 led to roughly 50 more side projects — The vast majority failed, some turned into 200 employee businesses, some others got acquired. In essence, I make a living out of side projects. Side projects are life.
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(assuming you're in the US) if you've never had a business before, a couple hundred dollars of extra income is not material to your taxes and I wouldn't worry about it at all. Once you get to the scale of a few thousand dollars a year, you can file what's called a Form 1040 Schedule C which allows you to declare your business income, claim expenses and other deductions, and include it in your taxable income. For that…
The part about "just don't worry about it" is not really great advice, IMO. I think the rest is good, particularly the part about using tax software and/or doing a Schedule C. Just do what it says - it's pretty simple for small businesses - the amount in taxes paid will be fairly minimal. If you use tax software, use the business version and answer the questions and it'll figure it all out for you basically (might ev…
I started my professional life ~25y ago with a side project that by 2022 led to roughly 50 more side projects — The vast majority failed, some turned into 200 employee businesses, some others got acquired. In essence, I make a living out of side projects. Side projects are life.
What are some of your favorite stories from that life, if you don't mind me asking?
* https://bgr.com/general/tweetup-acquires-twidroid-renaming-a...
But, it's a CC TLD, in fact it's .kz who I still carry a scar or two from when they issued some domains starting with "-": you know what happens when you "dig -yo.tld"? OWASP applies to domain names.
However, the RFCs for the actual _protocol_ declare a label can contain "any octet", so you can use and abuse this in FQDNs under your control and the internet police won't come to get you. "poop".example.com would be fine if you control example.com (either as a quoted string or as an emoji), so would "rm -rf *.example.com".
While I want to execute the idea I am always put off by the essential administrative stuff such as user management, payment gateway linking, subscription management. Are there any open source plug and play options available out there which can take away this tedious but important work?
Properly want to vet ideas a bit before executing.
While I want to execute the idea I am always put off by the essential administrative stuff such as user management, payment gateway linking, subscription management. Are there any open source plug and play options available out there which can take away this tedious but important work?
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What are some of your favorite stories from that life, if you don't mind me asking?
I built the first Android Twitter client, sold that to Idealab* and given our huge market share (~40% IIRC ) pitched them the idea to build our own Twitter clone in order to move those users over. Twitter took notice and locked all our apps which eventually kicked off the anti-third-party tendency that we see today. Good times. * https://bgr.com/general/tweetup-acquires-twidroid-renaming-a...