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Golden Cross vs. Death Cross: Crypto Trading Guide

https://chartscout.io/golden-cross-vs-death-cross-crypto-trading-guide
1•chartscout•49s ago•0 comments

Hoot: Scheme on WebAssembly

https://www.spritely.institute/hoot/
2•AlexeyBrin•3m ago•0 comments

What the longevity experts don't tell you

https://machielreyneke.com/blog/longevity-lessons/
1•machielrey•5m ago•0 comments

Monzo wrongly denied refunds to fraud and scam victims

https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/feb/07/monzo-natwest-hsbc-refunds-fraud-scam-fos-ombudsman
2•tablets•9m ago•0 comments

They were drawn to Korea with dreams of K-pop stardom – but then let down

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgnq9rwyqno
2•breve•11m ago•0 comments

Show HN: AI-Powered Merchant Intelligence

https://nodee.co
1•jjkirsch•14m ago•0 comments

Bash parallel tasks and error handling

https://github.com/themattrix/bash-concurrent
2•pastage•14m ago•0 comments

Let's compile Quake like it's 1997

https://fabiensanglard.net/compile_like_1997/index.html
1•billiob•15m ago•0 comments

Reverse Engineering Medium.com's Editor: How Copy, Paste, and Images Work

https://app.writtte.com/read/gP0H6W5
2•birdculture•20m ago•0 comments

Go 1.22, SQLite, and Next.js: The "Boring" Back End

https://mohammedeabdelaziz.github.io/articles/go-next-pt-2
1•mohammede•26m ago•0 comments

Laibach the Whistleblowers [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Mx2mxpaCY
1•KnuthIsGod•27m ago•1 comments

Slop News - HN front page right now as AI slop

https://slop-news.pages.dev/slop-news
1•keepamovin•32m ago•1 comments

Economists vs. Technologists on AI

https://ideasindevelopment.substack.com/p/economists-vs-technologists-on-ai
1•econlmics•34m ago•0 comments

Life at the Edge

https://asadk.com/p/edge
3•tosh•40m ago•0 comments

RISC-V Vector Primer

https://github.com/simplex-micro/riscv-vector-primer/blob/main/index.md
4•oxxoxoxooo•43m ago•1 comments

Show HN: Invoxo – Invoicing with automatic EU VAT for cross-border services

2•InvoxoEU•44m ago•0 comments

A Tale of Two Standards, POSIX and Win32 (2005)

https://www.samba.org/samba/news/articles/low_point/tale_two_stds_os2.html
3•goranmoomin•48m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: Is the Downfall of SaaS Started?

3•throwaw12•49m ago•0 comments

Flirt: The Native Backend

https://blog.buenzli.dev/flirt-native-backend/
2•senekor•50m ago•0 comments

OpenAI's Latest Platform Targets Enterprise Customers

https://aibusiness.com/agentic-ai/openai-s-latest-platform-targets-enterprise-customers
1•myk-e•53m ago•0 comments

Goldman Sachs taps Anthropic's Claude to automate accounting, compliance roles

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/anthropic-goldman-sachs-ai-model-accounting.html
3•myk-e•55m ago•5 comments

Ai.com bought by Crypto.com founder for $70M in biggest-ever website name deal

https://www.ft.com/content/83488628-8dfd-4060-a7b0-71b1bb012785
1•1vuio0pswjnm7•56m ago•1 comments

Big Tech's AI Push Is Costing More Than the Moon Landing

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-spending-tech-companies-compared-02b90046
5•1vuio0pswjnm7•58m ago•0 comments

The AI boom is causing shortages everywhere else

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2026/02/07/ai-spending-economy-shortages/
3•1vuio0pswjnm7•1h ago•0 comments

Suno, AI Music, and the Bad Future [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8dcFhF0Dlk
1•askl•1h ago•2 comments

Ask HN: How are researchers using AlphaFold in 2026?

1•jocho12•1h ago•0 comments

Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler

https://spawn-queue.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786614
1•devooops•1h ago•0 comments

Watermark API – $0.01/image, 10x cheaper than Cloudinary

https://api-production-caa8.up.railway.app/docs
2•lembergs•1h ago•1 comments

Now send your marketing campaigns directly from ChatGPT

https://www.mail-o-mail.com/
1•avallark•1h ago•1 comments

Queueing Theory v2: DORA metrics, queue-of-queues, chi-alpha-beta-sigma notation

https://github.com/joelparkerhenderson/queueing-theory
1•jph•1h ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Making $1M from my personal projects

https://www.alexwest.co/book-one
55•chameleon_zeon•8mo ago

Comments

philjackson•8mo ago
I feel like I'm being mocked for having a widescreen monitor.
ahofmann•8mo ago
I'm on phone and it is also pretty unpleasant to read.
morkalork•8mo ago
Scroll scroll scroll yeah fuck this
slug•8mo ago
nah, just rotate your monitor 90 degrees (or 270).
albedoa•8mo ago
It's just really bad CSS. On smaller screens, the container has a max-width of 540px and a left- and right-margin of 15% each lol. So we get to enjoy our 22px monospace Inconsolata within 378px of horizontal space.
jt_b•8mo ago
document.querySelector(".my-auto").setAttribute("style", "text-align: left;");

I'm actually having fun reading it after applying that.

hinkley•8mo ago
Daring fireball is almost as bad.
porphyra•8mo ago
It's a CSS bug since the column gets narrower the wider your screen gets lol. The culprit is the 15% padding in the inline style applied to this div:

   <div class="container my-auto" style="color: white; padding-left: 15%; padding-right: 15%; text-align: left;">
layer8•8mo ago
Obviously you’re supposed to pivot it to portrait orientation.
em3rgent0rdr•8mo ago
"alexwest.com" more like "alexsouth.com"
mreome•8mo ago
This comment lead to what I believe is my first laugh-out-loud reaction to maximizing a window.
paxys•8mo ago
The only way to make money from personal projects is to sell a book/course teaching people how to make money from personal projects.
jsnell•8mo ago
This doesn't appear to be about a book for sale? It's just this old blog post formatted in various ebook formats for download. (And, I guess, with future plans to do the same for other blog posts in their archive.)
paxys•8mo ago
Point still stands. They have made ~$0 from personal projects and are now trying to monetize their "journey" with a clickbait title and an ebook.
jsnell•8mo ago
Oh, the "$1M" title is obviously totally detached from the contents of the post (I mean, I assume it is totally detached from the contents, it's not like this was even worth skimming through). Given it covers 2018-2020, I wouldn't want to say for certain they didn't make $1M in aggregate over the next 5 years though.

But no, I don't think the point stands, because they are not selling an ebook or anything else. The pattern you identified exists, but I don't think this matches the pattern.

echelon•8mo ago
That's not true at all.

I put an early GenAI side project up, someone convinced me to monetize, and boom - $700k ARR in almost no time.

I'm not sure it's possible now with so little effort given how full the space is, but if you're in the right time and place with the right solution, there are tons of people that will pay you.

Same story as always: create value, solve a problem, make something people want.

philjackson•8mo ago
Willing to name the service?
xnx•8mo ago
> $700k ARR

Projected, or has it been operating for a year?

phyzix5761•8mo ago
You have 2000+ recurring paying customers using your fakeyou website?
echelon•8mo ago
Yeah! It held at that revenue for over a year, but that was several years ago. Then the market filled out. I stopped working on it (and listening to customers) to pursue other things.

I'm about to open source our desktop AI VFX compositing and animation tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U

https://getartcraft.com/ (github and download links are not live yet)

I'm an engineer and a filmmaker. I'm really into video generation, but controllability and consistency are critical. I've been working on staging, blocking, and animation tools to control how various commercial and open source models behave.

I just didn't have a passion for TTS and voice conversion.

The Uberduck folks were my closest competitors for a while and they were YC funded. I think Suno and Udio sunk their product roadmap for music tools and they pivoted to something else. Maybe voice agents? They're cool folks.

Now Weights.gg is leading the "TTS for teens / consumers" space. There are dozens of startups in the voice conversion for music production space. This used to be an easy ramp to revenue, but the market is saturated.

phyzix5761•8mo ago
Very cool. Thanks for sharing
DamnInteresting•8mo ago
One ought not underestimate the cumulative effects of time. Multiple long-running projects with modest income can be surprisingly lucrative.
outcoldman•8mo ago
Not true. There are stories. Sublime Text is one of them. I am sure author of that project made good chunk of money. It used to be the most popular text editor for a while (based on StackOverlow).

I personally have another example. Own MM B2B.

paxys•8mo ago
There are also stories of people starting trillion dollar businesses from their garage. Yes you can technically do that. The chances of you actually doing it are ~0.
outcoldman•8mo ago
I believe the OP was talking about the personal projects. Not startups or people who want to make a trillion dollar businesses. I believe there is different mentality behind those.
eGQjxkKF6fif•8mo ago
I couldn't even skim it and get a tldr, my brain just 'nopes'

Cool on making $1M though, I'm guessing through selling books

lilcrise•8mo ago
Considering most people with work and kids don't have extensive free time, wouldn't it be more practical if lengthy information was frequently condensed into accessible 1-2 page summaries?
artursapek•8mo ago
what the fuck is this formatting lol
lilcrise•8mo ago
Summary of Alex West - Book One: Year 1

In his first year after finishing A-levels (at age 18), Alex West felt lost and unenthusiastic about the traditional university path. A pivotal moment came when he read "Rich Dad Poor Dad," which ignited his desire for financial independence and entrepreneurship.

He began his entrepreneurial journey with eBay arbitrage.

Initially, he sold personal belongings. He then discovered the concept of buying items cheaply and reselling them for a profit. His first successful arbitrage venture involved PS3 controllers, buying them in bulk or from less optimized listings and reselling them individually. This process taught him the fundamentals of e-commerce: sourcing products, creating listings, photography, packaging, shipping, customer service, and dealing with issues like returns and scams. He reinvested his profits, expanding his product range to include items like GoPro accessories. By the end of this first year, he had managed to make approximately £10,000 in profit. Key takeaways from Year 1 for Alex were the importance of taking action, learning by doing, gaining practical business skills (even on a small scale), and the empowering realization that he could forge his own path outside of conventional routes. This foundational year built his confidence and provided him with tangible business experience.

TrackerFF•8mo ago
TL;DR he made A LOT of products, most which failed, then succeeded with https://cyberleads.com/

At least that's what I'm getting from the blog.

throwawayffffas•8mo ago
My guy, tell your model to not spew emojis everywhere it's unbearable.
tapete•8mo ago
Indeed. The whole "post" is so cringe-inducing it is unbearable.