cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/3693152
Being good at science has led to having an expensive hobby... in my case anyway haha
this post was submitted on 05 Aug 2026
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Yeah, I've got many expensive hobbies now. It's a bit cheaper if you can do it all yourself/make your own equipment
No, the cost cost goes up sharply.
| Phase | Hobby | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crochet | $100 |
| 2 | 3d Printer | $250 |
| 3 | Soldering station | $400 |
| 4 | Homelab | $1000 |
| 5 | custom eBike, LLC, self-hosted website | 6 - 10k |
| 6 | Paramotor | $22k + $1.5k/yr |
The deeper you get into engineering, weather, networking, software dev, academia the more your hobbies cost. This is also ignoring the cost of acquiring all that knowledge first (at least $100k at a state school).
custom eBike, LLC, self-hosted website
At this point I have to ask if you're doing a hobby or starting a business, because these are not the same thing.
I didn't say it didn't? I said it's a bit cheaper if... I can tick off a bunch of those, some for more than you've listed, and plenty of others
Self-hosted website looks too expensive, unless you paid someone to make it. I host FoundryVTT for my group, and the only paid thing was Foundry itself and my internet-connected PC I already had.
Public IP? No need to pay extra. DuckDNS when you're not behind CG-NAT or Cloudflare ZeroTrust reverse proxy when you do or have no access to your router.
Domain? I've seen at least two sites that provide them for free - digitalplat and the other I can't remember.