[scubakid]

I've been making a little progress on the "building things I love that generate revenue" piece (in part thanks to the HN crowd!), but oh boy, do the goalposts always keep shifting.

I remember the first dollar I ever made on the internet felt so amazing and validating... but several adjustments later, the mentality is more like "okay, but I still can't do this full-time."

Goalposts aside though, I'd agree that if there's a scenario where you have the autonomy and freedom to work on just the things you love, that's a game-winning scenario.

[xwowsersx]

Care to share what kinds of things you've built or are currently building?

[scubakid]

For the past year and a half, I've been focused on just one side project: a privacy-friendly personal finance simulator that doesn't ask to link your accounts (projectionlab.com), can run Monte Carlo simulations in your browser, and keeps your data client-side unless you choose otherwise.

[tlapinsk]

Randomly came across your comment on this thread and took a few minutes to check out your sandbox env. Could totally see something like this taking off or getting bought out by a bank/Intuit/etc.

I may be a bit biased since I'm huge into personal finance, but hopefully you can target that segment and carve out a solid set of paying customers

[scubakid]

Thanks. Lifestyle business would be the dream I think, but for now there's still some daylight between here and there.

[xwowsersx]

Oh awesome, thanks for sharing. This looks great. I love the "choose an example persona" flow in the beginning.

[nunez]

This is really cool, dude. Keep at it!