[throwaway425933]

>> Why not at least ask for equity?

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

[abstractspoon]

I tend to agree that unless the extra income is going to seriously help pay off my mortgage, it's hardly worth the hassle of negotiation. Not that my outgoings have ever been on the scale of yours!