Payload Financial is a desktop application software to track investments on Robinhood built by a single creator (me).
How I started
My name is Ricky Tan, and I’m a freelance software engineer.
Thinking of freelancing? Here’s how I’ve survived as a first-time freelancer for the past 6 months, including a Google Sheet link to my personal finances.
Overview
In this story, I’ll detail how I’ve survived as a freelancer for the past 6 months.
I’ll also share a Google Sheets link to my personal finances to show how doable and realistic it is to put your skills to work on your own terms.
Specifically, I’ll discuss:
- Why take…
The tools & techniques I used to win against an entire sales department.
Overview
In this story, I’ll explain how I got started as a freelance software developer.
Throughout, I’ll go over my first experience with freelance platforms, how I found my first client, and some of the accounting tools I…
Understanding why staying in touch with friends can be difficult, and how to keep long-term relationships effortlessly.
Overview
The new year 2022 is coming up and many of us have new routines and new opportunities planned ahead. …
Ever wonder how your peers invest and manage finances? I’m interviewing 100 of my Facebook friends on the topic. Here are the first 25 interviews.
In this series, I’ll take you through data I’ve collected from interviewing my Facebook friends about investing and personal finance, starting with the first 25…
How to coordinate several side hustles like playing a game of chess.
Overview
In this story, I’ll explain how I’ve structured 6 of my side hustles to work together in harmony towards the big picture.
Specifically, I’ll go over:
- Why many is (generally) better than one
- Dealing with criticism
- Side hustle…
Decision Analysis simplified for normal people like us — the best life lesson I learned in grad school.
Overview
In this blogpost, I’m going to introduce the basics of Decision Analysis.
What I’m about to show you has related topics to the fields of data science, systems engineering and artificial intelligence.
But for today, I’ll show you a simple way of using it to make better decisions in your…
4 methods we tried to distribute startup shares among co-founders and why the jellybean method was the best.
Overview
Dilemma: How do we split equity fairly?
In this story, I’ll explain the different methods we tried to split up equity as fairly as we could in the early days of our…
Using to-do lists can harm productivity. Here’s a better “to do” list to maximize effectiveness during a really volatile year.
Overview
In this post, I’ll go over how the rollercoaster of 2020–2021 has forced me to develop a new personal to-do system, and how it’s allowed me to reach more of…
How I started DIY investing with Robinhood to train my risk tolerance muscles, overcome anxiety, and build my financial mindset.
Disclaimer: I am not a finance expert in any way. This is just a story about my experience as a first time investor — it’s not meant to be professional…
