I made dividend tracking website. I am a backend engineer, so the UI is simple bootstrap and I focus on having data I find valuable. I've been working on it since I finished University, so it's like 7 years, and current MRR at $740 isn't great, but at least I don't have to pay for hosting (and financial data sources are expensive). I believe that spare money should be invested in stocks, so I like that I work on something I use, and will be using in the following decades. The website is DIGRIN.com (DIvidend GRowth INvesting), good value for free users as well IMHO.

What service do you use to get financial data?

decomissioning like this makes businesses focus more on traditional and big partners, as migration is expensive. More and more I realize, how many problems discontinued projects can cause. sustainability of the projects might be an advantage.

My MMR was on 538 EUR at the end of 2023. I am building not that visually pleasing, but hopefully a useful dividend portfolio tracker - digrin.com. I wrote a small summary here - https://lucas03.com/digrin-com-in-2023/

As it is important to me to reach financial independence, I realized most investors are tracking their portfolios in spreadsheets. As I was focused on dividend growth investing, dividends are high maintenance to track in a spreadsheet, especially for bigger portfolios. So thanks to dogfooding, I've been developing a website to track dividend income for the past 8 years. If I wouldn't be using it, I'd probably have abandoned the project a long time ago. https://www.digrin.com/

vps (vpsfree.cz, hetzner), online tv, spotify, netflix. I will probably support more sites I use after I reach financial independence.

I also have similar site, with ~300 MMR. It seems like every second programmer is working on his own dividend tracker :D

If you are interested in investing in stocks, Joseph Carlson is a nice podcast. I would recommend starting from first few episodes, after some basics you might switch to recent videos. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbta0n8i6Rljh0obO7HzG9A

I think you overestimate current state, how doctors are incentivized by pharma companies or just don't research/care enough.

For me it's easy. I've been working on it for past 8 years, as it started as a school project and I have been slowly extending it. Why I don't care if it makes money? I keep the costs low. Why I don't care if it won't get attention? Hmm, I guess I do, positive feedback is always nice to hear. But I would be working on it even if nobody else would be using it, as I use it myself and I find it helpful for planning my future. Oh, it's digrin.com, portfolio manager for dividends.

I have a $200 in MRR side project.

It coded that website 8 years ago as a master's degree thesis. I am an investor myself, trying to achieve financial independence before retirement, so I kept using the site myself and hopefully will never stop. Stripe is there for the past year, I try to keep costs as low as possible. Only pay for a domain, hosting, and an affiliate program. It's a dividend growth investing tracker - digrin.com