On: Ask HN: What is the problem you try to solve?

[markrickert]

Problem I'm currently working on: How to make a long tail of passive income.

[jbrooksuk → markrickert]

Me too. I've got ideas, but nothing with a real market.

[abraininavat → markrickert]

Forgive the ignorance, but what does this mean?

[girvo → abraininavat]

Think affiliate marketing, or niche product creation (targeted ebooks and the like), that require a bit of upfront effort, but little ongoing maintenance, and can scale out to many of these products/revenue streams. Lots of ongoing small hits, rather than one big payoff for one big product :)

[markrickert → girvo]

That's exactly it. Lots of small products with microtransactions targeted towards niche markets that i barely have to touch.

Passive income generation is one of the pinnacles of what we as software engineers can do.