Hi HN - a clinical pharmacist for close to 10 years. As COVID hit, my wife stayed home and took care of the house. Found myself with a lot of evening and weekends with nothing to do. So, decided to use the time productively and learn how to code. 173 days later —> https://joyful.gifts This app have been in production for 2 years now. It gave me the courage to call myself a software dev and get a job where I can... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I built https://joyful.gifts a couple of years ago. Nice lunch money and was a good technical challenge. I did it to be able to call myself a full-stack software dev. Basically, get over my imposter syndrome. - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago
I am a preceptor and I give my residents gifts using this service. Source: almost 2 years ago
Shameless plug: I built https://joyful.gifts as I was learning how to code to programmatically buy gifts on my behalf (as well as other people). Almost 3 years in now - surprisingly solid market of people and working well considering it was the first thing ever I built for production. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago
I have my profitable side project in Django too. No SPA. Source: over 2 years ago
I have a comfy day job, but had the building itch, so I built something that my wife can run on a day to day. 1. What: https://joyful.gifts - an automated gifting platform 2. Users. ~ 10 subscribers, 100+ 1-time usage 3. Hosting: Heroku 4. $14/mon for Heroku. $14/yr for email/domain 5. 1 month for mvp, another month to polish it once it launched 6. I honestly don’t know lol. I put the usual Reddit/social media... Source: almost 3 years ago
The way I fixed that problem is basically by indie hacking a couple of projects yearly. One of them actually makes some okay money! Source: almost 3 years ago
I use this service for my residents, they picked something like this: https://www.target.com/p/hamilton-beach-one-speed-single-serve-blender-black/-/A-11893664? Source: almost 3 years ago
24 gifts is a lot. I do something similar, and I use this to help manage it the whole thing! Source: almost 3 years ago
I use something like this for my employees anniversary. Not sure if that’s the use case here, but I have been quite happy with it. Source: almost 3 years ago
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