I bought a coffee farm in Colombia. Annualized it makes around $800 / month and growing. Should double to $1600 / month next year as we’ve doubled our production. It’s barely profitable, but is profitable nonetheless. The more we plant the more profitable it will get, and we’ll be planting 10,000 more trees soon!
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#64My 'side project' is pretty conventional, but it surprises people to learn how much I've earned from it with very little effort. At least once or twice a week, I use my lunch break to walk to the local thrift store. I look up items on eBay as I browse and buy anything that would net me $20+ (basically to cover my lunch). I stick to the 'hard goods' section (things like electronics, games, DVDs, home appliances, books…
I recently found pirateship and it is indeed significantly cheaper than retail shipping prices. I told my mom about it and she refused to believe it isn't a scam!
How does pirateship work? Where do the savings come from if they're still using USPS under the hood?
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#65I bought a coffee farm in Colombia. Annualized it makes around $800 / month and growing. Should double to $1600 / month next year as we’ve doubled our production. It’s barely profitable, but is profitable nonetheless. The more we plant the more profitable it will get, and we’ll be planting 10,000 more trees soon!
To whom do you sell your coffee? What’s that part of your business like? Do you roast too?
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#66Forward Email is doing several thousand per month now just one year in. Site: https://forwardemail.net Open Startup: https://forwardemail.net/open-startup
Super cool. How do you prevent your sending from ending up in spam folders?
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#67My Patreon makes >$100/mo. Currently sitting at $100. https://patreon.com/shawwn I figure since people are posting things making many times the $500/mo threshold, I should post something making many times less. :) It's actually pretty cool to just wait a few months and come back to a stash of money. Bought a Quest 2 the other day and didn't give it much thought, partly because of little eggs like this. The effort to…
In that spirit, search.marginalia.nu makes me about $70/month. Hardware investment is about $4-5k, plus a few hundred hours of development time. It was never intended as a means of getting rich though, so I am very grateful for the support.
https://search.marginalia.nu/ looks cool! Thank you for maintaining it!
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#68My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates. I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon em…
Something about this story is just so amazing to me. This is the kind of thing I always dreamed the internet would enable for people. So cool.
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#69Mine is a humble little personal finance app called GreenBooks (https://greenbooks.app). For the last few months, my proceeds from the App Store is ~$500. That is after Apple's 15% cut. Not bad for a side project.
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is the reasoning behind why Fibonacci retracements should work? Did you backtest it?
I am working on a program to backtest it. Honestly, I still have much to learn. I do things visually. So I take the little fib retracement chart tool in trading view and make the anchor at the beginning of a price movement and align the lines to the closing prices of significant support/resistance (defined mathematically as any 5 bars such that the the middle bar has the lowest low or highest high in like pyramid for…
I'm sorry to say you're seeing the future in tea leaves, but I guess you're learning some stuff along the way.