revenue/expenses report for 2022

Signed-off-by: Xe Iaso <me@christine.website>

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+---
+title: "Xe's blog made $2564.42 in profit last year"
+date: 2023-01-31
+tags:
+ - finance
+ - prettyGraphs
+---
+
+My tax situation is complicated. Thanks to all of your efforts, it is now even
+more complicated. I was running all of the number from last year, and in the
+process I have discovered that this blog makes a profit. This is astounding.
+
+Really, thanks for all of the support that you all have given me. It is a very
+unique feeling, and it's comforting to know that should I hit rough times I
+won't have to worry about keeping the lights on.
+
+This article is going to contain some breakdowns of how much I've made and
+spent keeping the lights on.
+
+<xeblog-hero ai="Waifu Diffusion" file="shrine-maiden" prompt="masterpiece, best quality, outdoors, watercolor, anime, afternoon, mountains, breath of the wild, shrine, glowing sigils, holy grail, 1girl, kimono, facing shrine, black hair"></xeblog-hero>
+
+## Income vs profit
+
+Here is the breakdown of income by each income stream for 2022:
+
+(All amounts are US dollars)
+
+| Source       | Amount   |
+|--------------|----------|
+| Ads          | $256.73  |
+| Patreon      | $2451.19 |
+| Itch         | $208.44  |
+| Ethereum     | $996.24  |
+| Twitch       | $207.27  |
+| Other Income | $474.68  |
+| Total        | $4564.55 |
+
+<xeblog-picture path="blog/2022-income/income_breakdown"></xeblog-picture>
+
+This is more money than I could have ever imagined a single person's blog could
+get. This is _an entire paycheck's_ worth of income and it's more than enough
+to have the blog not only pay for itself, but I make _a profit_. Here's a
+breakdown of the expenses that I incur for not only this blog, but all of my
+personal infrastructure:
+
+(All amounts are US dollars)
+
+| Vendor        | Amount   |
+|---------------|----------|
+| Google        | $117.67  |
+| Hetzner       | $587.67  |
+| Digital Ocean | $386.28  |
+| Vultr         | $231.44  |
+| fly.io        | $16.85   |
+| Cloudflare    | $174.54  |
+| Porkbun       | $31.99   |
+| Anbernic      | $407.99  |
+| Backblaze     | $1.80    |
+| AWS           | $43.90   |
+| Total         | $2000.13 |
+
+<xeblog-picture path="blog/2022-income/spend_per_vendor"></xeblog-picture>
+
+This means that my total profit is just over 2.5 grand. This is _astounding_.
+My blog is officially my most profitable side project ever.
+
+I have cut out Cloudflare and I don't expect to spend more on Anbernic this
+year. I'm also considering downsizing the server that my main blog runs on and
+moving all the other stuff it does to fly.io and
+[Funnel](https://tailscale.com/blog/introducing-tailscale-funnel/) to cut out a
+huge amount of monthly spend. There is a lot of room for cutting things out in
+other places, I'm pretty sure I could cut out almost all of my Digital Ocean
+spend, and most of my Vultr spend could easily also head to fly.io and Funnel.
+
+<xeblog-conv standalone name="Cadey" mood="coffee">I really wish I wasn't locked
+out of my Digital Ocean account though. Support has been unhelpful and I don't
+know what legacy infrastructure I have in that account so I can either upgrade
+it, cut it off, or move it elsewhere. Please help.</xeblog-conv>
+
+<xeblog-picture path="blog/2022-income/revenue_vs_profit"></xeblog-picture>
+
+## Video game spend
+
+When I ran these numbers, I also wanted to figure out if a joke I was telling on
+stream was true: all of the excess Patreon money goes towards my crippling video
+game addiction. I imported all of my invoices from the Nintendo eShop and Steam
+into my spreadsheet (minus my Steam Deck) and I ended up with this figure:
+
+(All amounts are US dollars, the Steam values were converted by machine at the
+time of calculation, facts and circumstances can and will differ)
+
+| Vendor   | Amount   |
+|----------|----------|
+| Nintendo | $288.79  |
+| Steam    | $1236.13 |
+| Total    | $1524.92 |
+
+This means that I spend about 76% of my blog's profit on video games. It's
+pretty great to have my blog pay for my entire gaming habit!
+
+<xeblog-conv name="Mara" mood="hmm">Do those numbers make sense? Is something not
+being converted to USD from CAD? The Steam number seems a bit
+high...</xeblog-conv>
+<xeblog-conv name="Cadey" mood="coffee">I'm pretty sure the numbers were
+correctly converted from CAD to USD, if this is wrong, then I only spent about
+$927.40 on Steam last year (a lot of the increased price is because games are
+more expensive in Canada due to HST and GST being higher than sales tax
+typically is in the US, combined with currency conversion fees baked into the
+price). This would make the total just over half of the net
+profit.</xeblog-conv>
+
+---
+
+Thanks for all of the reading and sharing you do, it really helps a lot. I've
+been working on new and interesting things (such as a longer article that
+explains why I think [WASI](https://wasi.dev/) is cool with interactive
+examples) and I hope you'll enjoy them. Let's see what 2023 will bring!
+
+<xeblog-conv standalone name="Cadey" mood="coffee">If I ever incorporate for
+simplifying the tax situation of all of my side income, I am going to have to
+invoice myself to pay for video games that I reference on the blog or on stream.
+This is a very surreal thing to think about.</xeblog-conv>
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