blakbelt78's comments

blakbelt78 | 3 years ago | 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 | 3 years ago | 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 | 4 years ago | 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 | 4 years ago | 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 | 4 years ago | 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 | 4 years ago | 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 | 4 years ago | on: Micro APIs for Everyday Use

Would you consider this product a competitor to RapidAPI?

blakbelt78 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | on: Building a Micro SaaS with MailerLite, Netlify, Stripe and Zapier

Thank you.

blakbelt78 | 5 years ago | on: Building a Micro SaaS with MailerLite, Netlify, Stripe and Zapier

Thank you.

blakbelt78 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | on: Ask HN: What's your quarantine side project?

I've been building a stock market newsletter called Bullish▲ https://bullish.email

blakbelt78 | 5 years ago | 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 | 5 years ago | on: Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project

thank you!