larrykubin

I've studied many of these indicators. Honestly, my favorite is to look at the new 52 week high list rather than trying to time reversals.

For the business/finance/tech types, my favorites have been Panic with Friends (Howard Lindzon), All-In Pod, My First Million, Animal Spirits, Compound and Friends, and Indie Hackers.

YouTube channel where I make Python for Finance tutorials ~$5K/month.

https://youtube.com/parttimelarry

Revenue sources: ads, affiliates, sponsorships

Thank you, I got my start in webdev using this editor. Used to update prod code with the SFTP plugin :)

Now here's a chart comparing GLD and GBTC. GLD is negative for the year. If the objective is growing money, gold has been one of the worst places to be.

https://www.google.com/finance/quote/GLD:NYSEARCA?comparison...

Many are on a multi-decade mission

I see a huge amount of capital going into the crypto space. I would say learning Solidity would pay off big right now.

YouTube Premium has tens of millions of subscribers, tons of people use it. I use it so much that I would cancel Netflix before I would cancel YouTube Premium.

If the interview process weren't so exhausting, then it'd probably be easier to get people to switch jobs. Getting a ton of emails lately, but have zero desire to grind leetcode, do take home tests, and interview with 6+ people when I already have a job.

Same, I have had a few client sites running on a Linode since 2009. Still going strong.

I used to work at a SaaS startup that used this extensively. Here's a demo of a remote command line tool we made - React on the frontend communicating with C++ agents on desktops. The desktop agents could also publish events that the web could subscribe to and show activity on a real-time feed / dashboard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNjzPS1zmkg

Yes, I got my most recent job without leetcode. Large tech company in SF. Interview was more about my past work experience and the tools required to do the job.

JomaTech has one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmVKaAV_7-A

IEX Cloud, Interactive Brokers, Alpaca, Polygon.io, Python yfinance package, Tradier, TwelveData, AlphaVantage

Republic.co has a list of companies you can invest in. Most recently, you could invest in Gumroad and Backstage Capital, among others. There is also AngelList syndicates.

For me:

Flask

Vanilla JavaScript

jinja2 templates

SQLite

A cheap VPS or PaaS - Linode, DigitalOcean, Heroku

I've used these for over a decade as well, still my favorite headphones.

Tons of people talk about this - check Blind, /r/financialindependence, and the millions of people on Twitter and WallStreetBets that post every winning options trade. People are constantly comparing sizes on the internet.

I was watching a podcast recently on this where they mention a 60% acceptance rate:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzMVEbs8Zz0

Also link to reddit discussion:

https://www.reddit.com/r/OMSCS/comments/ihf7w6/acceptance_ra...

Screaming in the Cloud

Deconstructor of Fun

I was self-employed in Austin, TX for a long time. Had only a few clients at a time, didn't have to work that many hours, and was even able to rent a small office at 501 Studios on E. 6th St. Rent was cheap, no state income tax, lots of cool hangouts. I don't live there anymore and prices have went up since then, but still a relative bargain compared to many other states.

Alpaca API lets you trade stocks with a commission free API. They have a REST API and you can also receive data over websockets via their polygon.io integration if you have a brokerage account.

Tradier lets you trade stocks and options. Tradier option trading is commission free if you have a subscription, otherwise there is a small commission per trade. They have an API for market data over REST API and websockets.

TD Ameritrade has an API and tda-api python package makes it easier to use, but not easy to paper trade with it for testing.

You can also use an unofficial Robinhood package like robin_stocks, but Robinhood doesn't officially support any of this.

Interactive Brokers supports the most instruments, including many currencies, futures, etc, but you will pay a small monthly fee for historical and real time data, plus commissions. I recommend the ib_insync package to make their API easier to use.

Self promo: I have a YouTube channel that is focused on this topic:

https://youtube.com/c/parttimelarry

I started a niche YouTube channel on Python for Stock and Crypto Trading, very beginner level:

https://youtube.com/parttimelarry

Over $2K/month as of November from a combination of YouTube ad revenue, Buy Me a Coffee donations, and affiliate links (TradingView Pro Subscriptions, Tradier, Amazon books etc).

Should hit 10,000 subscribers in the next couple of weeks. Plan is to grow this to 100,000 subscribers over the next 3-4 years.

Pixelmator ($39, one time) - for image editing

ScreenFlow, ($129, one time) - for recording/editing videos

Sublime Text ($59, one time in 2011) - have since moved on, but used for many years

The company I most recently interviewed at asked questions about the particular technologies and associated libraries that were required for the job I was applying for. For example, what is your experience with React? What have you built using it? Have you used Storybook, Jest, etc? Tell me about a scalability problem you solved. What is your experience with AWS Lambda? My resume listed out my jobs for the past 10+ years, and they didn't feel the need to give me a leetcode interview. There was nothing to "crack" or study for, I just told honest stories about what I have done over the course of my career, and we had a conversation. Working out well so far!

I thought I was here on the first day, but your HN join date is one day before mine. Time flies!

I think the best way is to pick a niche interest and start there. When I first joined Reddit, it was mostly just LISP programmers and there were no subreddits. They served that niche well, then grew from there. Facebook started out serving Harvard students, then all college students, then everyone.

I started a YouTube channel (https://youtube.com/parttimelarry) last year and was wondering if anyone would find me. I had zero subscribers for my general programming channel, then decided to focus on something I was interested in learning myself. I narrowed my focus to Python for Finance / Automated Trading and documented what I was learning in public, and turns out there are plenty of people looking for information in this niche and they are happy to find a place to discuss it.

Now I am on track to reach 10,000 subscribers this year and have an audience that is very engaged and gives a lot of feedback. So start small, get the first 100 users. Once you have 100 users, you know you can get 1000. And once you get 1000, you feel like you can get 10,000. And then more people start noticing.

I also used to run a message board to discuss the band Tool. It's just one band, but people like discussing their music and lyrics. At the beginning, I needed to be the lead content creator and give people a reason to stick around. They wanted some discussion of lyrics, photos, show reviews, links to news articles etc. Eventually, certain members started posting more than others, like thousands of posts. I made some of them moderators, and they became leaders of the community, and it grew from there. The hardest part is getting the initial 100 or so people who are engaged, are passionate about the topic, and are willing to contribute.

I started my career as a ColdFusion and Mainframe developer, and even those systems are still running today. Drupal was created 20 years ago, and I have worked on multiple Drupal codebases this year. I learned Django and Rails in 2005 or 2006 and both are still very relevant. So I would say there are too many to count.

I've worked on a couple of SaaS startups and it was important that MRR was growing every month and there was low churn / cancellations.

Automated Trading and commission free trading API's.

Shameless plug: I have started a YouTube channel on this topic:

https://youtube.com/parttimelarry

The interest has been huge, lots of Robinhood traders and beginning Python programmers want to make trading bots and learn how to apply technical analysis and indicators. With trades being commission free and documented API's like Alpaca, it is very easy to get up and running.