fullstackchris (u/fullstackchris)

fullstackchris commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell · Posted by u/cvbox

fullstackchris · 2 days ago

I have a variety of education (books, courses) and run fintech SaaS, which combined are finally providing around $2K/month in profits since around July this year (for a long time, was hovering around that $500 mark)

My first successful SaaS, The Wheel Screener, a screener optimized for selling options: https://wheelscreener.com

A sister spin-off LEAPS Screener, for buying LEAPS options: https://leapsscreener.com

And, just launched in November, but already profitable, VannaCharm, a dashboard to view and watch in real time dealer hedging metrics: https://vannacharm.com

Looking to launch 1-2 more SaaS in 2026, trying to get to the point where I can do this full-time, let's get it folks!

fullstackchris commented on “You should never build a CMS” sanity.io/blog/you-should... · Posted by u/handfuloflight

fullstackchris · 6 days ago

reading these comments - wow, absolutely nobody has an idea what a CMS is. if your going to "replace it with cursor" or "AI" you've completely lost the plot as a software engineer

you guys do realize that WordPress (as much as I hate its ubiquitous existence) is the CMS model?

and still something like 40% of all pages on the internet

fullstackchris commented on Horses: AI progress is steady. Human equivalence is sudden andyljones.com/posts/hors... · Posted by u/pbui

maciejzj · 11 days ago

I may have developed some kind of paranoia reading HN recently, but the AI atmosphere is absolutely nuts to me. Have you ever thought that you would see a chart showing how population of horses was decimated by the mass introduction of efficient engines accompanied by an implication that there is a parallel to human population? And the article is not written in any kind of cautionary humanitarian approach, but rather from perspective of some kind of economic determinism? Have you ever thought that you would be compared to a gasoline engine and everyone would discuss this juxtaposition from purely economic perspective? And barely anyone shares a thought like "technology should be warranted by the populace, not the other way around?". And the guy writing this works at Anthropic? The very guy who makes this thing happen, but is only able to conclude this with "I very much hope we'll get the two decades that horses did". What the hell.

fullstackchris · 11 days ago

it's a con job and strawman take. if we collectively think token generators can replace humans completely, well then we've already lost the plot as a global society

fullstackchris commented on Programming peaked functional.computer/blog/... · Posted by u/Antibabelic

skrebbel · 16 days ago

This article in different forms keeps making the rounds and it's just so tiring. Yeah, let's remember everything that was great about 25 years ago and forget everything that sucked. Juxtapose it with everything that sucks about today but omit everything that's great. Come on man.

If you think things suck now, just make it better! The world is your playground. Nobody makes you use YAML and Docker and VS Code or whatever your beef is. Eclipse is still around! There's still a data center around your corner! Walk over and hang a server in the rack, put your hardly-typechecked Java 1.4 code on there and off you go!

fullstackchris · 16 days ago

Agreed. If folks want to write java in elipse they are more than welcome to do so... dont understand these yelling at clouds posts really

fullstackchris commented on Anthropic taps IPO lawyers as it races OpenAI to go public ft.com/content/3254fa30-5... · Posted by u/GeorgeWoff25

WJW · 16 days ago

You understand that doing an IPO is quite literally selling big chunks of yourself to the highest bidder, right?

fullstackchris · 16 days ago

uh... thats exactly why anthropic wouldnt want to be acquired? weird response to that comment IMO

fullstackchris commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm

fullstackchris · a month ago

Supabase is down bad too... need to work on my project!

fullstackchris · a month ago

Haha they updated their status page: "Identified - A global upstream provider is currently experiencing an outage which is impacting platform-level and project-level services"

A global upstream provider :)

fullstackchris commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm

mrsuprawsm · a month ago

Seems like ChatGPT and Claude are also affected. (CLI Codex still seems to work).

RIP to the engineers fixing this without any AI help.

fullstackchris · a month ago

They better not be using AI to fix this... especially if AI is what caused it! (looking at you, AWS)

fullstackchris commented on Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues cloudflarestatus.com/inci... · Posted by u/imdsm

fullstackchris · a month ago

Supabase is down bad too... need to work on my project!

fullstackchris commented on Just use a button gomakethings.com/just-use... · Posted by u/moebrowne

fullstackchris · 2 months ago

div onclick is an abomination that should be eliminated

fullstackchris commented on Make any TypeScript function durable useworkflow.dev/... · Posted by u/tilt

nawgz · 2 months ago

Please, bundling React with Next is completely foolish. React is open, battle-hardened, type safe, and well-documented, while Next is... a vendor lock-in trojan horse targeting low-knowledge developers with concepts that seem beginner-friendly.

I can understand making legit criticisms of React, no doubt the hooks transition had some issues and the library has a high level of complexity without a clear winner in the state management domain, but pretending React is peddling shit like "use workflow" is frankly low effort.

fullstackchris · 2 months ago

Just shows you how absolutely little people know about the web ecosystem - most people heard something once or twice from someone else and just assume its true - to make matters worse, you have the typical HN "vanilla html and js only!!!" bandwagon which, if you try to use for any serious web application will only lead you down a path of much pain and suffering. I've commented many times in many other threads that I just don't get it; I probably never will.