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These are my monthly expenses. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42049000
Side projects wont make a dent in them. Or won't materially imrpove anything for me.
>>Or make your own project? I have gone down that route. But w.r.t my own projects, I am stuck in a local minima.
>>There are so many possible projects that are more about marketing than substance, where you could build the technical side quite quickly (e.g an LLM wrapper with a RAG for [insert niche here]).
Agreed. But this of this offer as a hobby rather than a money making avenue. Something to do for fun
Well, it cuts both ways. New administration should not be talking till they are in office.
Another example. Go to all common crawl, identify all webpages related to NCSU, download images in them, run YOLO to remove human faces, run Falcon model to remove logos and see what comes up. Intern will code it up for me.
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Rent/Mortage 5500 (cupertino!! 1350 SFT)
Gas and Electricity : 450 (Includes electric dryer, electric stove etc, PGE is costly. Currently gas Furnace but moving to Heat pump soon)
Property tax : 2000 (Per month)
groceries : 500
Eating out/take out : 250
Lunch in office : 200
Travel/Vacations : 1000 (per month. Amortized. Yearly
Overseas to meet family plus one in summer break, one in thanksgiving plus one in fall break).
Retirement : 1800 (IRS max, per month, amortized)
Health insurance : 1000 (per month amortized)
Plumbing/House issues: 300 (per month amortized)
Gas for cars : 200
Childrens classes : 1000 (classes like soccer, chess, karate yada yada).
One cloud server : 12$ (per month)
Overseas Intern : 100 (per month)
Total (so far) : 15000 per month.
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You post the question, role description and your solution. Somebody will give you feedback. Still in beta, but do give it a try.
Ultimately, I gave up and hired frontend engineers from low cost countries to build the frontend for me. I just write backend APIs. Life has been much better with this strategy. One thing that may help though is to pick tailwind css. It may ease the pain to some extent.
To anyone who says use codepen, MDN docs, smashingmagazine CSS tutorials, inspect console and a bunch of other resources, I tell them this. None of these tutorials help you when you have to reason why things are not coming out the way you expect them to. There is no "compiler" for CSS which spits out error messages. You cant describe a behavior and ask the browser to tell why given CSS will not give said behavior. Most tutorials are about simple boxes and simple websites. When you have to modify something in a complex webapp, it pays to do it under an able mentor.
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No, it would be a mistake to wait to apply. On average, *40% of the companies we fund in each batch are just an idea*. Most don’t have any revenue.
Even in a country like India with weaker rule of law, the courts and judges never take sides with political parties.
How do I add it for other cities. Specifically, for San Francisco Bay area or for Hyderabad, India.