Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?
Aside from your full time job, like a flexible second job that brings in money, but it is also typically something that you are passionate about, that you don't get to pursue in your main job.
My side hustle (40h/week in theory, 5h/week in practice): junior software engineer for another company.
I have around 8 years of professional experience... so while working as a junior in my side hustle I don’t need that much time to finish my tasks (hence the 5h/week). Sometimes it’s a bit difficult to write code like a junior. I usually quit after a year because companies expect progress and more associated responsibilities (i don’t need that in my side hustle, i have that already on my main job). Funny thing is: I make like 95K/year in my main job and 50K/year in my side hustle... but the proportions don’t hold when it comes to time spent in each role.
Ps. I have bachelor degree in cs, can code in vanilla php, js and python. I can do regular frontend and wordpress like projects. I will accept lower pay due to reduced cost of living from relocation to hometown. Currently trying to build saas based invoicing app in side hustle, in planning stage.
I imagine you needed to create a entire persona with linkedin presence and all to get the junior hired for remote work.
Or you simply don't have any online presence whatsoever. At least not one that shows the real life you.
I work in an office/workshop for my 9-5 and then I build dinghy, canoes, catamaran and so on. have sold some, been commissioned for some. depending on what it is and the materials needed can take a month or six fitting it in around work and family.
working on a 12ft runabout at present for a friend, keeps me amused for a month or so.
not HN related but I guess it's my side hustle
because this one is more about appearance, it takes longer. two different shades of wood and wanting to use clear coating on all of it. it will spend more of it's time viewable than in use.
if this wasn't for a friend, and needing a lot more finishing than most wood boats I have built, I guess my time would add $2-6k which isn't close to my hourly rate but allows me to build other peoples projects and cover tools/consumables/molds/beer
the heartbreaking part of this build for me is its requirement for outboard mounting. it really alters the lines of the boat.
I have noticed that I like to learn things by doing so that's the goal. Not exactly a monetary thing but rather investing in myself.
Right now, I'm looking at splitting the server to host at multiple locations so I can improve latency via Geo DNS.
Also, wish you good luck with the project.
At first glance, I wondered why you would make the text almost illegible very light grey on a white background... until I realized my (always-on) Dark Reader plugin fooled me.
https://www.videocode.review/ - After working from home for a while we noticed that it was taking longer to pull requests merged. One reason for this is comments were getting misunderstood etc. So I created a way to record a video for a pull request (as either the author or reviewer) to try and avoid some of that misunderstanding. It's GitHub only for now but I would like to get it working with GitLab as well at some point. It's just in beta now, if anyone wants to try it out please get in touch on here or via the contact page.
https://www.stopthat.email - Forward emails to an email address to unsubscribe. This has been going a bit longer and I've tried to automate it as much as possible in terms of finding the unsubscribe links and filling out web forms. It currently doesn't handle JS on web pages so I'm working on that next.
Both have been good fun to develop and have use different technologies, infrastructure and services. Next, I need to let go of my fear of launching and learn some marketing.
For example, the number of emails that don't have any form of unsubscribe link at all is shocking. Obviously the service doesn't get a true representation of all types of email but spam emails are a massive pain and a total waste of resource all round.
I get 30-60$ a month RN with 5k subscribers.
It's not enough but I have some money saved up and can still mooch off my parents insurance so I have that going for me.
Here's a video I made recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWdySMo0EJc
https://themusiciansnotebook.com I make the best music paper notebooks you can find!
https://audioremarks.com Site for sharing audio clips and leaving timestamped commentary, eg, a music teacher leaving feedback for a student
With the advent of JIT print services (e.g. Society6, DeviantArt, Redbubble, etc), I also monetize any existing work where applicable.
It's not huge in terms of revenue (small margins), but it's very low friction to capitalize on.
I'm fascinated by the hidden connections in our language—like "galaxy" being connected to "galactose" because of the Milky Way.
I used NLP to convert written etymology paragraphs from wiktionary into a database of words and connections.
Also interesting are the Proto-Indo-European roots, like "h₂enh₁", which is a 10k-year-old reconstructed word meaning "breath", that has about 1k modern day descendants ranging from "animate" and "unanimous" to "anemone".
(the homepage) https://www.kradeelav.com/
She does the artwork commissions, freelance as well as sells direct to consumers https://sumitgill.me/
Hmm, maybe this one. Nah. Hmm, maybe that one. I'll add it to the list.
It’s been a very lucrative endeavor for the past 5 years or so.
https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode and vice-versa conversion),
https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML and need to clean it up),
https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so well-formed HTML and need to fix it),
https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple tool to HTML encode (escape) a text),
https://www.urlenc.com/ (a simple tool to URL encode (escape) a text),
https://www.gguid.com/ (a customizable GUID generator),
https://www.64baser.com/ (a Base64 and vice-versa encoder),
https://www.hexator.com/ (a Hex and vice-versa encoder),
https://www.cescaper.com/ (a C and C++ string escaper and unescaper),
https://www.csharpescaper.com/ (a C# string escaper and unescaper),
https://www.jsonescaper.com/ (a JSON string escaper and unescaper),
https://www.rustescaper.com/ (a Rust string escaper and unescaper),
https://www.pythonescaper.com/ (a Python string escaper and unescaper),
https://www.javascriptescaper.com/ (a JavaScript string escaper and unescaper),
https://www.javaescaper.com/ (a Java string escaper and unescaper) and
https://www.htmlinstant.com/ (a simple HTML editor).
All are written in .Net/C# and running on Azure, HtmlInstant has frontend in React, otherwise they are old ASP.NET MVC and Ajax :-)
People are really bad and I win an hourly comparable to a junior developer.