> How many people on hacker news are running successful online businesses on their own? What is your business and how did you get started?
> Defining successful as a profitable business which provides the majority of the owners income.
Originally the algorithm was just for myself as I felt like I could've got involved in GME earlier if I was paying attention. I didn't want to actually pay attention though, I'd much rather just outsource that to a computer. It ended up doing well enough that I could quit my job and invest full time but then the selfishness of that hit me and I realised that I could let others use it for a small fee, as I wouldn't be able to use it anymore for ethical/legal reasons.
The best thing about the whole situation is that I get to use the tools that I want to use without having to justify it to a committee. Every single line of it is in Common Lisp. I was worried that I'd grow bored of Lisp when switching to it full time but that hasn't been the case at all. In fact, I love it more now than I did as a hobbiest. The coolest thing (to me) is that I maintain a slynk connection to it all day and query the current state then use that for Twitter content[0].