Highlights

• Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest.
• Two of my blog posts reached the front page of Hacker News.
• Is It Keto earned its all-time-highest monthly revenue, doubling its previous record.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

Earn my first dollar of revenue from WanderJest

• Result: I didn’t make money, though I formed affiliate partnerships that have potential.
• Grade: C-

The quickest path to earn revenue for WanderJest is affiliate deals with local shows. I formed some agreements but haven’t earned any money from them yet.

Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second year, so it’s time for another update.

How I made and spent money

Highlights

• Zestful had its biggest month ever, with $3,936 in revenue.
• Is It Keto also had its best month ever, at $393 in revenue.
• After lots of research and customer interviews, I gave up on my idea for creating sheet metal software.
• I published my first version of an app for finding live comedy.

Goal grades

At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did against those goals:

In this post, I’ll show you how to pre-render pages using Vue and Nuxt. This method combines the convenient development experience of Vue without forfeiting critical features like social sharing or search engine optimization.

This tutorial assumes no experience with Vue or Nuxt. I’ll explain everything along the way.

The problem with Vue

Like Angular and React, Vue is a framework for building single-page apps (SPAs). While traditional websites force the browser to download a whole new page every time the user clicks a link within your site, SPAs keep everything on a single page. When the user navigates around your site, JavaScript simply draws a new page without pulling everything down from the server again. This cuts out slow network calls between the user’s browser and your web server, resulting in a user experience that feels speedy and smooth.

Like all Gladwell books, Outliers does an excellent job of building an engaging narrative out of topics that the average person might otherwise find inaccessible. His exploration into the causes of airline crashes was especially fascinating.

While it provides a nice collection of interesting stories, I didn’t feel like Outliers delivered on any meaningful overarching point.