4 years since I quit my Job to make a living on the internet

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sema4hacker · 11h ago

15 projects in 4 years. I'm guessing about 8,000 hours of effort, or an average of about 500 hours per project, equal to about 2 man-months per project. I'm surprised you've made, not lost, money. The actual overall dollars-per-hour salary you managed to bring in would make the story more compelling.

ayushchat · 11h ago

Not doing this for the money.. my corporate gig paid well but it was soul sucking.. as I mentioned.. doing this for exploring my curiosity and see where it takes me.. not to become the richest man in the world.. im happy im able to make enough to live a sustainable lifestyle and provide for my family.

And its not 8000 hours, I work 3-4 hours a day on most days..so around 1000 hours a year.. but even that doesn't feel like work..it feels like play..

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ayushchat · 12h ago

here's every project I've tried since

Do things that don't scale, and then don't scale (derwiki.medium.com)

Toothpaste made from hair provides natural root to repair teeth (kcl.ac.uk)

Tversky Neural Networks (gonzoml.substack.com)

ChatGPT Monday (chatgpt.com)

Pfeilstorch (en.wikipedia.org)

Good system design (seangoedecke.com)

Show HN: Lue – Terminal eBook Reader with Text-to-Speech (github.com)

PuTTY has a new website (putty.software)

Payment Processor Fun 2025 – Making Your Own Merchant Service Provider (voidfox.com)

Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way (pudding.cool)

Writing a competitive BZip2 encoder in Ada from scratch in a few days – part 2 (gautiersblog.blogspot.com)

Traps to Developers (qouteall.fun)

Princeton NuEnergy's battery recycling tech recovers 97% of lithium-ion material (energy-reporters.com)

Woz: 'I Am the Happiest Person' (daringfireball.net)

A single lock of hair could rewrite what we know about Inca record-keeping (science.org)

The future of large files in Git is Git (tylercipriani.com)

AI is different (antirez.com)

Ashby (YC W19) Is Hiring Design Engineers in AMER and EMEA (ashbyhq.com)

Ask HN: Do you still bookmark websites?

I accidentally became PureGym’s unofficial Apple Wallet developer (drobinin.com)

Show HN: Edka – Kubernetes clusters on your own Hetzner account (edka.io)

Occult books digitized and put online by Amsterdam’s Ritman Library (openculture.com)

How randomness improves algorithms (2023) (quantamagazine.org)

Rust in 2025: Targeting foundational software (smallcultfollowing.com)

Dokploy is the sweet spot between PaaS and EC2 (nikodunk.com)

Seagate spins up a raid on a counterfeit hard drive workshop (tomshardware.com)

ADHD drug treatment and risk of negative events and outcomes (bmj.com)

The electric fence stopped working years ago (soonly.com)

OpenBSD is so fast, I had to modify the program slightly to measure itself (flak.tedunangst.com)

Do Things That Don't Scale (2013) (paulgraham.com)

Solving the Nostr web clients attack vector (fiatjaf.com)

Deep-Sea Desalination Pulls Fresh Water from the Depths (scientificamerican.com)

European Capitals Are Heating Up (public.tableau.com)

Model intelligence is no longer the constraint for automation (latentintent.substack.com)

A Race to Save a Signature American Tree from a Deadly Disease (nytimes.com)

Low-latency, high-throughput garbage collection (danglingpointers.substack.com)

Launch HN: Embedder (YC S25) – Claude code for embedded software

Recto – A Truly 2D Language (masatohagiwara.net)

Compiler Bug Causes Compiler Bug: How a 12-Year-Old G++ Bug Took Down Solidity (osec.io)

Bullfrog in the Dungeon (filfre.net)

ARM adds neural accelerators to GPUs (newsroom.arm.com)

Show HN: Prime Number Grid Visualizer (enda.sh)

TextKit 2 – The Promised Land (blog.krzyzanowskim.com)

Vaultwarden commit introduces SSO using OpenID Connect (github.com)

Is air travel getting worse? (maximum-progress.com)

CBP Is Deporting Cruise Ship Crew over CSAM Allegations Without Evidence (reason.com)

Open hardware desktop 3D printing is dead? (josefprusa.com)

A privacy VPN you can verify (vp.net)

Security Researchers Find XZ Utils Backdoored Debian Images on Docker Hub (news.itsfoss.com)

FBI's undercover $250 Bitcoin payment helps take down alleged corporate hacker (theblock.co)

4 years since I quit my Job to make a living on the internet

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