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Ask HN: How do you fund side projects?

I have a number of side projects that I am working on and some cost hosting fees. I try to leverage "free" hosting on AWS, GCP, Heroku as much as possible to keep things cheap. I also used to do side work building sites for people to help finance projects.I was curious if there were any tips to finance projects you are working on?

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That's what I'm trying to figure out I guess. I have some skill sets which may be fall under "Cloud Developer" skills like: building microservices in Java, building containers, know how to write serverless apps.

But is that it? I mean with a "Front-End Developer" you can at least ask the framework they build in.

What I'm trying to find (and may not be able to) is what it would mean to be a "Cloud Developer". Something as simple as throwing an API on an AWS instance doesn't seem like it would qualify but hosting a number of containers in AWS does?

Ask HN: What skills do you need to be a “Cloud Developer”?

I've been reading John Sonmez's book Soft Skills and in the early chapters he states that it's important for a developer to understand what you want your "focus" to be in (full stack, embedded systems, etc.)What skills you would expect if you were to fill a "Cloud Developer" position?I feel like the term is so vague that it can range from developing "cloud-native" applications to DevOps. I've...

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