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blakbelt78··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (August 2022)
I’ve been working on a music visualizer that runs in the browser by listening to the microphone on your device. Right now it looks just like the bars on Apple Music but I’ll be adding more visualizations like the ones from cool old stereos from the 90’s.

https://soundq.co

blakbelt78··on Ask HN: Where do you get your financial data?
I’ve tried many APIs and there’s always gaps in the data. I was working on a stock market API to scratch an itch (hotstoks.com) but now it’s in stealth mode just because all the data issues I was having. I’m using IEX and Yahoo finance.
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)
This is interesting. I’m building something that is similar. What do you think it didn’t succeed? Not enough marketing? Difficult implementation?
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: How to start learning about investments?
You can start by subscribing to newsletters that can give you some exposure to all these topics and you can learn at your own pace. WSJ newsletters are pretty good. I run a stock market newsletter targeted for casual and beginner investors https://bullish.email
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: Looking for clipboard app that saves all clips forever and has search
Alfred for Mac has a clipboard that works really well. I’ve been using it for years.
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: How do I sell my API?
I’ve been using rapidapi for hotstoks.com and I’m not happy with it. The product is slow and full of glitches and discovery is non-existent. There are no alerts if users signup to your api and lots of other annoying product issues.
blakbelt78··on Micro APIs for Everyday Use
Would you consider this product a competitor to RapidAPI?
blakbelt78··on I Built My Own Shitty Static Site Generator
Nice. That gave me inspiration to finish my shitty SSG. It already powers my personal blog and my wife’s as well but it need some polish for a full launch
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: What’s Your Fitness Regimen?
I’ll surf pretty much every day if there are waves. During summer or dry spells I’ll run between 5k and 10k four to five times a week.
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: Best Curated Newsletters?
Shameless plug but I’ve built a stock market newsletter that shows overall performance of Nasdaq, Dow Jones S&P plus futures and a bunch more stats because I couldn’t find anything exactly the way I wanted. https://bullish.email
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: Have you picked up any new skill from scratch in your 40s or later?
Picked up on woodworking when I was 40, built a ton of little furniture and things for the house. Last year finished my most ambitious project and built a home office shed that I’ve been using since. I’m 43 now and spent a couple hours browsing Pinterest this morning getting some inspiration on what to build next. Life long learning!
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 – Show and tell
I’ve built a fully automated and passive stock market newsletter. https://bullish.email
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?
I built and run a stock market email that is fully passive earning around $60mo https://bullish.email. Probably can earn a lot more if I put the effort in doing marketing but I have more fun writing code.
blakbelt78··on Building a Micro SaaS with MailerLite, Netlify, Stripe and Zapier
Thank you.
blakbelt78··on Building a Micro SaaS with MailerLite, Netlify, Stripe and Zapier
Thank you.
blakbelt78··on We quit our jobs to build a cabin
It's definitely challenging if you don't have any prior experience.

My dream was always to have an office shed in my backyward until I decided to build one earlier this year before the pandemic. It turned out pretty good and it took me around three months to build it. Its hard work for sure but I couldn't be happier.

I wrote a blog post about it. https://eduardosasso.co/blog/how-i-built-a-wfh-shed/

blakbelt78··on Finishing a side project
I would say, like in the article small steps, having a clear goal for each session and consistency are crucial to shipping anything. I've been moonlighting on https://bullish.email for a couple of months following pretty much the rules outlined in the article, 1.5h Monday to Thurs sometimes Friday, and I just shipped a big update on my service. Time will tell if I'll lose motivation, but this is the first time I can manage a day job and a fully functional side project.
blakbelt78··on Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?
I've been building a stock market newsletter called Bullish▲ https://bullish.email
blakbelt78··on How to Edit Your Own Writing
I just love this tip! Thank you. I just set up right now and gave it a go on your comment. Game changer.
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
thank you!
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
It's probably something with Sendgrid, the signup form is provided by them, I'll probably need to write a custom one myself at some point.
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
send me a dm at blakbelt78 at Gmail and I can help you out.
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
Great. Yahoo Finance is pretty good and there's https://www.iexcloud.io if you need something more robust.
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
Some people get it. Thank you.
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
Thank you. Right, that's something to think about.
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
I partially agree, there are good/informative emails out there. I for one subscribe to many and unsubscribe to tons all the time and my inbox is tidy, probably because I'm a little OCD
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
Yep, it takes commitment even with the simplest idea.
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
Thank you. It's a simple idea that scratches an itch, I like your idea about sector-specific info that might be something to look into to. The tagline is correct it's just for fun!
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
That's just for fun. I guess I've been hanging out too much at r/wallstreetbets
blakbelt78··on Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project
Awesome. Keep at it!
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