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A comment on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 ... by averagely on Sunday December 26, 2021 @12:13PM (#29694194)
Your Open Project Dashboard is really cool. Do you have a system for keeping track of everything? Is it somehow automated? I'd like to create something similar for my own work.
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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 ... by czue on Monday December 27, 2021 @08:43AM (#29702433)
Thanks! The tech behind it is pretty embarrassing.

Source data is Stripe (profit), Toggl (hours) and a tiny amount of manual accounting for expenses. I manually dump the raw data once a month into a CSV file, and then have some Python scripts that do intermediate calculations and transform the output to JSON. Then a tiny bit of JS to wire up the charts. So, in short, not automated at all, but takes ~10 minutes a month to keep up to date!

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