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I don't think side projects should necessarily be profitable or money-making. What about the process of just creating something to solve a problem you, or other
by scorpioxy 14y ago
I don't think side projects should necessarily be profitable or money-making. What about the process of just creating something to solve a problem you, or others, have? What about it just being fun?
I have been working on and off for a couple of years on a personal finance manager simply to track my finances in the way I wanted. I am pretty sure no one is going to pay for that, but I do it because I need it and because i enjoy coding and building stuff. In the process, you might get other ideas.
Also, I'd like to echo another comment here that says to take up a non-tech hobby. Lots of problems to solve in everything but the challenge is to find one that people would pay for.
- eric-hu 14y agoI was thinking of doing the same since I used to track all my finances manually. I switched to Mint for 2012 but their UI isn't to my liking, specifically the part around tagging and categorization. Do you mind sharing how your finance manager works, and how you built it over time
- scorpioxy 14y agoSure. It's still pretty simple, but that's sorta the point. The current website is the 4th iteration, i think, of the whole process. Started out with a simple spreadsheet and then used wxbanker, then migrated the same data model from wxbanker into a web app. And now modified that to add my own stuff. And I am still working on it and have ambitious ideas for it. But only work on it when I have free time or need inspiration. There are still a few bugs from the last rewrite that I have yet to address but it's over at http://mywallet.codedemigod.com http://mywallet.codedemigod.com The tech stack of the current iteration is Django + bootstrap + Postgres running on a linode VPS.