My friends and I are working on Norma. It helps you curate a dataset that captures as much signal as possible for model training.

See norma.grouplabs.ca

Can we establish a convention?

If you sold $500p/m and had costs of zero, then you made $500.

If you sold $500p/m and had costs of $450 p/m then you made $50p/m

I know the saas people have high margins, but some of the commenters clearly have a much lower margin

Made PrivacyPolicyURL.com => get a live URL for all the forms asking for it in under a minute.

My parter and I made a fun erotic story generator called Smitten (https://smittenstories.com ) during the valentine's day weekend as a way for couples to spice things up.

Initially it was running on donations, but with model costs rising we had to add a paywall. I have a full time job but it's still fun to run this on the side by spending few hours on it over the weekends!

Courses and books about Python, Pandas, XGBoost, Visualization, and soon AI

I've been helping with a small portfolio of Slack apps under the brand https://happybara.io, including Nightowl (multi-DM broadcast for Slack, like BCC for email), and Channitor (channel management & auto-archiving).

It's been a really interesting journey making mistakes & learning from them. One mistake that made me feel foolish: I assumed no one would ever pay for one of the apps. A paywall was added "just in case" -> boom, customers almost immediately started signing up. I felt incredibly silly after that, especially for the number of times I've read on HN and similar sites "your work is valuable" and "charge more".

I sell the canvas space within https://www.minigenitals.com to private parties looking to settle scores. Between the coffee's I'm bought and averaging out the monthly "ad buys", it's just over $500/month, usually 3 or 4 $50 2-day campaigns a month and then a bunch of satisfied fans, apparently ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ We recently had to reset the coffee account due to phishing, but otherwise it's been a riot. I think there are a few backed up in the IA

I sell photographic prints. A breakdown of income and costs for this year can be found here: https://leejo.github.io/2025/11/01/print_costs/

TL;DR? It's a grind, an absolute grind.

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