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

cssanchez · a day ago

Is this self hosted or giving the cloud the keys to the kingdom?

vlucas · a day ago

Not really sure how to answer this, because there are varying degrees of "self hosted" vs. "cloud hosted".

This is a Next.js app hosted on Render.com, which is a managed VPS offering similar to Heroku. BudgetSheet is also of course completely reliant on Google Cloud though with Google Apps Script and the Workspace Marketplace where it is listed.

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

vlucas · a day ago

BudgetSheet ( https://www.budgetsheet.com ) -> $6k MRR avg. for the year. Will likely have my first $10k month in January.

Live Bank Transactions + Google Sheets. Links accounts with Plaid to track transactions and balances over time with some helpful templates. All the data is yours in your own spreadsheet to do with what you want.

Revenue is somewhat seasonal. Most revenue comes in Q1+Q2 and trails off in Q3+Q4. Used by individuals and small businesses that love spreadsheets and want to manage their own finances.

vlucas commented on 30 years of <br> tags artmann.co/articles/30-ye... · Posted by u/FragrantRiver

vlucas · 2 days ago

This article is incredible. As someone who built their first website in Geocities with HTML framesets and tables, the history represented in this article is very accurate. Well done, OP!

vlucas commented on Dollar-stores overcharge customers while promising low prices theguardian.com/us-news/2... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

vlucas · 11 days ago

Stores like Dollar General and Family Dollar are not cheap dollar stores. They are convenience stores. And convenience stores always charge more... for the... convenience of not having to make a longer trip to a larger store. Price mis-labeling aside, the premise of the article is wrong.

vlucas commented on YouTube Removes Windows 11 Bypass Tutorials, Claims 'Risk of Physical Harm' news.itsfoss.com/youtube-... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha

g42gregory · a month ago

Unfortunately, this brings an obvious question:

If they sensor something like this, how could we trust platforms with the actually important subjects?

vlucas · a month ago

You can't, and this was readily apparent in 2020 with Covid. Even doctors presenting factual information got censored and de-platformed by YouTube.

The only real competing video platform that promises no censorship is Rumble ( https://rumble.com ), but it has a very right-wing slant due to conservatives flocking to it during all the Covid-era social media censorship.

vlucas commented on Taking money off the table zachholman.com/posts/mone... · Posted by u/holman

mason55 · 2 months ago

A 10% tender offer isn't really an interesting discussion. You should take definitely take 10% off the table unless you're already pretty wealthy.

The interesting discussion is how much you should take off the table if the offer is uncapped.

vlucas · 2 months ago

100% correct. Taking 10% away to remove downside risk of the remaining 90% is an absolute no-brainer, especially if it is a meaningful sum of money to you.

vlucas commented on New York Times, AP, Newsmax and others say they won't sign new Pentagon rules apnews.com/article/pentag... · Posted by u/baobun

vlucas · 2 months ago

Does anyone have a link to the actual rules/document they are asked to sign? I clicked on the "new rules" link in the article linked here, and it doesn't actually show all the rules.

While it's nice to see the reaction from one side, I'd like to be able to balance that against the actual text of the document myself.

vlucas commented on AI Actress Tilly Norwood Condemned by Sag-Aftra: Tilly 'Is Not an Actor ' variety.com/2025/film/new... · Posted by u/ourmandave

vlucas · 3 months ago

This headline reminds me of a great movie made on this exact subject:

S1m0ne ("Simone", or "Simulation One") https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153

> A producer's film is endangered when his star walks off, so he decides to digitally create an actress to substitute for the star, becoming an overnight sensation that everyone thinks is a real person.

vlucas commented on Hollywood is fuming over a new 'AI actress' cnn.com/2025/09/30/tech/h... · Posted by u/Bender

vlucas · 3 months ago

This headline reminds me of a great movie made on this exact subject:

S1m0ne ("Simone", or "Simulation One") https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0258153

vlucas commented on I only use Google Sheets mayberay.bearblog.dev/why... · Posted by u/mugamuga

brap · 3 months ago

Absolutely agree with OP.

One thing I would add is, sometimes when you need some extra complexity that's too difficult to express or build in Google Sheets, one step above it is Google Colab (or any other Jupyter notebook).

Before building a full blown app, I always ask myself: 1. can this just be a spreadsheet? If not, 2. can this just be a Jupyter notebook?

And yes, the integration between Sheets and Colab is great.

vlucas · 3 months ago

Or Google Apps Script! You can get a long way with some simple scripts to import data, etc.

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