• Katana314@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    2 minutes ago

    I used to make a lot of Garry’s Mod animations. One such one…

    https://youtu.be/72f-vNEfLpY

    Never did sign my channel up for monetization - I didn’t like the patterns YouTube pushed you into and each animation usually took me many months. You can kind of see on my channel I tended to get distracted by whatever was a current trend. I’m trying one more that took me the better part of this year.

    A lot of people remark that “I must really enjoy animating” - I do enjoy the result, but it’s a lot of work and takes willpower to push myself into another 3-hour session of laborious posing to get a scene in my mind on the screen just right. I also really hope for the animations to garner attention, even if just to make someone’s day better.

  • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
    8·
    8 hours ago

    That’s a convoluted answer for me. I hand sharpen knives and straight razors as a hobby. Been doing it for like 30 years and have several hundreds of dollars in diamond and wetstones. I doubt there’s 500 people in the country (US) that are better than I am at hand sharpening.

    The convoluted part is that I could charge people to sharpen knives. I just don’t want to.

  • Taldan@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 hours ago

    Cave diving. I enjoy it as it is, but it’s a huge time and money sink that has involved learning a ton of very technical skills that would be cool to be able to use for compensation

    • Hadriscus@jlai.lu
      2·
      4 hours ago

      Damn, those are my two top fears rolled into one. Add in a handful of centipedes in that underwater cave of yours and you’ve got my holy trinity of heart failure

  • Aneb@lemmy.world
    4·
    9 hours ago

    I consider it a ton of effort because I learned a bunch about self hosting but I would love to get paid for my Jellyfin server

  • Nefara@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 hours ago

    Chores, organizing, cleaning. I spent so much time working on home projects this summer and when I look around it feels like I lost time. Somehow I’ve been working consistently without getting a foothold or making progress. Still laundry in the dryer and a mess everywhere.

  • magnolia_mayhem@lemmy.world
    6·
    10 hours ago

    I’ve been building a title suggestion collector bot to replace the old one Jupiter Broadcasting used to have but lost somehow. I can’t shake the feeling that it’s just a “picture on the fridge” kind of thing where everyone sees that it’s crap and nobody wants to be the one to tell me; especially considering that it constantly crashes. I just enjoy building it and it feels good to see something I made put into production.

  • harc@szmer.info
    51·
    16 hours ago

    I’ve spent some 5 hours just today documenting and writing instructions on some IT tools for my collective. One person said its cool though, so not bad.

    • mesa@piefed.socialEnglish
      16·
      15 hours ago

      I have a librry that has been downloaded 1.9 million times for a VERY specific functionality. Never gotten a red cent.

      I mean its ok, its bettering the world as is, but it does suck when you get AI generated issues and GitHub has no way to deal with the spam. Ive thought about moving over to codeberg or something but theres no protection there either.

  • hperrin@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    13 hours ago

    I’m pretty far in the negative on my company. I’ve invested about $50,000 and 4 years of work into it, and it has not become profitable. But, its operating expenses are pretty low, so I have enough to maintain it for about 4 more years. If it’s still not profitable then, I’d have to look for outside investors. The majority of the expense was lawyer fees for the patent.