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Ask HN: One month of salary to build whatever you want

by 999900000999 on 9/27/25, 1:14 PM with 4 comments

If someone gifted you a month salary to build whatever you wanted, what would you build ?

A cat exercise tracking app ?

A board game?

A deck for your patio ?

The goal isn't profit, although that would be nice. God knows making a profitable software is nearly impossible.

  • by cameron_b on 9/27/25, 2:02 PM

    Expand my aquaponic system and expand the monitoring and automation for it.

    I have a lots of the parts I need, especially for the monitoring, but this iteration of the greenhouse required removing a lot of it, and it hasn’t been set back up.

  • by pabs3 on 9/28/25, 7:57 AM

    Probably work some more on ArchiveBot:

    https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveBot