lucas03
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Comment · 1 year ago
I made dividend tracking website. I am a backend engineer, so the UI is simple bootstrap and I focus on having data I find valuable.
I've been working on it since I finished University, so it's like 7 years, and current MRR at $740 isn't great, but at least I don't have to pay for hosting (and financial data sources are expensive).
I believe that spare money should be invested in stocks, so I like that I work on something I use, and will be using in the following decades.
The website is DIGRIN.com (DIvidend GRowth INvesting), good value for free users as well IMHO.
Comment · 2 years ago
decomissioning like this makes businesses focus more on traditional and big partners, as migration is expensive. More and more I realize, how many problems discontinued projects can cause. sustainability of the projects might be an advantage.
Comment · 2 years ago
My MMR was on 538 EUR at the end of 2023. I am building not that visually pleasing, but hopefully a useful dividend portfolio tracker - digrin.com. I wrote a small summary here - https://lucas03.com/digrin-com-in-2023/
Comment · 2 years ago
As it is important to me to reach financial independence, I realized most investors are tracking their portfolios in spreadsheets. As I was focused on dividend growth investing, dividends are high maintenance to track in a spreadsheet, especially for bigger portfolios. So thanks to dogfooding, I've been developing a website to track dividend income for the past 8 years. If I wouldn't be using it, I'd probably have abandoned the project a long time ago.
https://www.digrin.com/
Comment · 2 years ago
vps (vpsfree.cz, hetzner), online tv, spotify, netflix. I will probably support more sites I use after I reach financial independence.
Comment · 3 years ago
I also have similar site, with ~300 MMR. It seems like every second programmer is working on his own dividend tracker :D
Comment · 3 years ago
If you are interested in investing in stocks, Joseph Carlson is a nice podcast. I would recommend starting from first few episodes, after some basics you might switch to recent videos.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbta0n8i6Rljh0obO7HzG9A
Comment · 4 years ago
I think you overestimate current state, how doctors are incentivized by pharma companies or just don't research/care enough.
Comment · 4 years ago
For me it's easy. I've been working on it for past 8 years, as it started as a school project and I have been slowly extending it. Why I don't care if it makes money? I keep the costs low. Why I don't care if it won't get attention? Hmm, I guess I do, positive feedback is always nice to hear. But I would be working on it even if nobody else would be using it, as I use it myself and I find it helpful for planning my future. Oh, it's digrin.com, portfolio manager for dividends.
Comment · 4 years ago
I have a $200 in MRR side project.
It coded that website 8 years ago as a master's degree thesis. I am an investor myself, trying to achieve financial independence before retirement, so I kept using the site myself and hopefully will never stop. Stripe is there for the past year, I try to keep costs as low as possible. Only pay for a domain, hosting, and an affiliate program. It's a dividend growth investing tracker - digrin.com
Comment · 4 years ago
MMR means monthly recurring revenue and I am the solo author
Comment · 5 years ago
Even after reading bunch of suggestions from fellow hackers, I would still focus on your view of the world and what assets have value to you.
My main core would be real estate and stocks. I find them safe, real estate more than stocks. Though stocks are connected to products that produce value. For retirement maybe DGI might be interesting.
then probably gold, diamonds, etc -> to store value, not to expect huge gains
p2p lending -> can do ~10% annually, but it's risky.
crypto - risky bet, as you are in software, small % might make sense. Choose the coin that makes most sense to you as a software developer