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Haven't won the IPO lotto like some here but I'm comfortable financially and don't have a family. Thus my pay check mostly just ensures a nicer lifestyle, which
by xhrpost 5y ago
Haven't won the IPO lotto like some here but I'm comfortable financially and don't have a family. Thus my pay check mostly just ensures a nicer lifestyle, which doesn't seem to be enough to keep me motivated in the tech world. Hoping to try to do some side projects in order to give more external value to my day job:
1.) Imgur is just full of ads and annoying to use these days. Wondering if a high scale image sharing site could be built and hosted for next to free? Cloudflare gives away unlimited bandwidth and other services can be utilized for pennies. By scaling back on some nice-to-haves like perfect latency, just how cheap could it be done?
2.) Interested in building a hedgefund but for the common person. Right now, IMHO, the middle and working classes pay for a lot of what society values in the US. They're not rich enough to skirt taxes and QE money printing reduces their wealth and spending power while increasing the wealth of the rich. How might we utilize the securities markets to restore wealth building power to the average citizen? I have some ideas.
- rjmunro 5y agoIf you are serious about starting a hedge fund, I've always wanted a fund that I can invest in that works like a passive tracking fund, with minimal costs, except that I should be able to tell it to skip certain shares. E.g. if I want to not include Oil companies or companies that make animal products, or companies that overpay their CEOs.
- xhrpost 5y agoYou could probably do that with something like M1, it's just on you to decide which companies. Start with all companies of the S&P500 and start removing the ones you don't like.