lucas03

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by lucas03 2y ago
I made dividend tracking website. I am a backend engineer, so the UI is simple bootstrap and I focus on having data I find valuable. I've been working on it since I finished University, so it's like 7 years, and current MRR at $74
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by lucas03 3y ago
decomissioning like this makes businesses focus more on traditional and big partners, as migration is expensive. More and more I realize, how many problems discontinued projects can cause. sustainability of the projects might be an advantag
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by lucas03 3y ago
My MMR was on 538 EUR at the end of 2023. I am building not that visually pleasing, but hopefully a useful dividend portfolio tracker - digrin.com. I wrote a small summary here - https://lucas03.com/digrin-com-in-2023/
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by lucas03 3y ago
As it is important to me to reach financial independence, I realized most investors are tracking their portfolios in spreadsheets. As I was focused on dividend growth investing, dividends are high maintenance to track in a spreadsheet, espe
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by lucas03 3y ago
vps (vpsfree.cz, hetzner), online tv, spotify, netflix. I will probably support more sites I use after I reach financial independence.
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I migrated from deprecated Rancher 1.6 server to server running k3s with traefik(lucas03.com)
4 points by lucas03 3y ago|0 comments
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by lucas03 4y ago
I also have similar site, with ~300 MMR. It seems like every second programmer is working on his own dividend tracker :D
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by lucas03 4y ago
If you are interested in investing in stocks, Joseph Carlson is a nice podcast. I would recommend starting from first few episodes, after some basics you might switch to recent videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC
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by lucas03 4y ago
I think you overestimate current state, how doctors are incentivized by pharma companies or just don't research/care enough.
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by lucas03 5y ago
For me it's easy. I've been working on it for past 8 years, as it started as a school project and I have been slowly extending it. Why I don't care if it makes money? I keep the costs low. Why I don't care if it won&#x27
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by lucas03 5y ago
I have a $200 in MRR side project. It coded that website 8 years ago as a master's degree thesis. I am an investor myself, trying to achieve financial independence before retirement, so I kept using the site myself and hopefully will n
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by lucas03 5y ago
MMR means monthly recurring revenue and I am the solo author
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Dividends from October 2021 would cover 7.44% of my living expenses that month(old.reddit.com)
3 points by lucas03 5y ago|0 comments
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by lucas03 5y ago
Even after reading bunch of suggestions from fellow hackers, I would still focus on your view of the world and what assets have value to you. My main core would be real estate and stocks. I find them safe, real estate more than stocks. Thou
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by lucas03 5y ago
I am trying to build a SaaS myself, currently, it's at $80 MRR with minimal costs (single server). Though if I counted my time spent there and compared to the average salary, that project would be a total failure. It's been probab
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by lucas03 5y ago
some businesses take care of that work for 15% on rent
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by lucas03 5y ago
What I have : 1. dividend growth portfolio 2. p2p lending 3. lifetime affiliate commissions for referrals 4. SaS website with paid membership What I plan to have in the future : 1. crypto lending 2. real estate
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by lucas03 6y ago
Zalando has amazing api guidelines - https://opensource.zalando.com/restful-api-guidelines
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I exploited existing YouTube videos with a fake Patreon profile(lucas03.com)
184 points by lucas03 6y ago|64 comments
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by lucas03 6y ago
https://www.digrin.com/ It's a stock portfolio manager focused on dividends. I have been thinking about financial independence and financial literacy for years. How so many of us were never taught about the impact of c
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11.49% of my living costs were covered by passive income in 2020(lucas03.com)
2 points by lucas03 6y ago|3 comments
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Why I am opening an account with a third stock broker?(lucas03.com)
1 points by lucas03 6y ago|0 comments
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Income percentage I need to invest to reach financial freedom in 10 years?(lucas03.com)
2 points by lucas03 6y ago|0 comments
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by lucas03 8y ago
yep, https://www.degiro.eu/ has ~0,5$ fee on NYSE and NASDAQ
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by lucas03 8y ago
These common excel spreadsheets used by investors are partly why I am writing my web application. It focuses on DGI investing and dividends in general and I have a lot o plans and room for improvements, but e.g. automatic dividend calendar