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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
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!
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.
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 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.
https://soundq.co