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marketvultureon Ask HN: I would pay X for Y

You can come check out https://marketvulture.com -- we do something similar: track the drama around the world that might present interesting market opportunities.

marketvultureon Ask HN: What is your yearly passive income?

+500/mo and growing after 5 months. Workable passive income is not a rare unicorn, but calling it "passive" is a misnomer. You have to work to get traffic, incrementally improve the product and handle bugs, etc. Perhaps we should call it what it usually is: "side" income.

marketvultureon Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

https://marketvulture.com - Monitors dramatic events around the world and spots the opportunities that lie beneath. Using machine learning, we track global happenings, business downturns, logistic delays, breaking news, disasters, market conditions, macroeconomics and more to find interesting and profitable ways to leverage current events.

We've been open to the public for about 5 months; php7/python/redis/mariadb/workers/queues, NLP, tons of machine learning, etc. Cleaning and normalizing hundreds of feeds from different sources and formats is definitely a pain for us, as well as all the machine learning fun (training, feature selection and normalization, etc.)