Draft interactive research page

The Indie Runway Timeline

A receipt-backed visual story of quitting a $140k remote software job for an indie-hacker / digital-nomad year.

Apr 1 2024 → Jan 31 2025 Receipt-backed, still draft-safe 1,158 source rows

Accounted runway $48,873.33

Spend plus known Jan 31 cash left.

Captured spend $38,860.68

Apr 1 2024 → Jan 31 2025.

Known cash left $10,012.65

FHB checking + Apple Savings.

GitHub commits 1,641

Fetched commits in the story window.

Timeline phases

Seven phases from quit day to the Jan 31 checkpoint.

Hawaii / pre-Bali prep

2024-04-01 → 2024-05-26

$4,757.92 Quit day, runway accounting begins, early CoStream push, flights and Bali logistics get booked.

Bali first stay

2024-05-27 → 2024-07-09

$10,034.67 Arrive in Bali, biggest code burst of the year: CoStream, i18n experiments, Feedblast / X Feed Muter.

Hawaii green-card trip

2024-07-10 → 2024-07-23

$1,703.20 Bali gets interrupted by a Hawaii green-card trip; expenses temporarily shift back to US/Hawaii.

Bali second stay

2024-07-24 → 2024-09-19

$7,251.28 Return to Bali, more experiments, lower code volume, continued lodging/visa/travel burn.

Hawaii → California transition

2024-09-20 → 2024-10-08

$3,700.47 Final Bali departure, Hawaii stop, then California. Cash withdrawals and transition costs spike.

California / US reset

2024-10-09 → 2024-12-08

$6,993.11 Reset period: the project energy moves into blog/digital garden work while the runway keeps shrinking.

Mexico City / late runway

2024-12-09 → 2025-01-31

$4,420.03 Late-runway period: Mexico City clues, then January shifts toward paid-work/agency-style projects.

Route

Step through the route.

Approximate coordinates turn the research timeline into a navigable story map.

Stop 1 of 8 Hawaii · Kona / Honolulu

Full route Active path Repeat stop

Charts

Charts that let each data type breathe.

Spend, runway, categories, phases, and code activity now use Chart.js instead of hand-rolled SVG.

Runway burn

Monthly spend against the reconstructed accounted-for runway. The remaining line is illustrative, not a literal month-end cash balance.

Expense categories

Largest positive spend categories across the canonical window.

Code activity

GitHub commits by month, separated from money so the scale is legible.

Spend by phase

The same ledger grouped by narrative phase instead of calendar month.

Story signal

What the data says at a glance.

Highest burn month Jun 2024 · $5,703

Lodging + Flights / long-distance travel

Highest code month Jun 2024 · 587 commits

i18n-ai, i18n, costream

Most expensive phase Bali first stay · $10,034.67

Lodging, Flights / long-distance travel, Other / needs review

Review caveat $8,942.28

Cash, Venmo, and unclear merchants still need memo-level cleanup.

Monthly cards

The experiment month by month.

Each card keeps spend, place, GitHub focus, and source events together.

Apr ’24

Transit / airfare

$2,822

Commits: 137
Runway left: $46,051.27
Top repo: costream

Quit day / runway startsAsia travel booked

May ’24

Indonesia / Bali

$4,678

Commits: 179
Runway left: $41,373.28
Top repo: costream

Bali arrival window

Jun ’24

Indonesia / Bali

$5,703

Commits: 587
Runway left: $35,670.52
Top repo: i18n-ai

i18n sprint startsFeedblast / X Feed Muter

Jul ’24

Indonesia / Bali

$4,280

Commits: 48
Runway left: $31,390.18
Top repo: llm-server

Course spend spikeGreen-card trip interruptionBack to Bali

Aug ’24

Indonesia / Bali

$4,424

Commits: 38
Runway left: $26,966.04
Top repo: llm-branching

Second-stay lodging spike

Sep ’24

Indonesia / Bali

$4,939

Commits: 4
Runway left: $22,027.34
Top repo: eye-extraction

Final Bali departureCalifornia begins

Oct ’24

California / US

$2,329

Commits: 93
Runway left: $19,698.19
Top repo: blog-nuxt-content

Blog/digital garden phase

Nov ’24

California / US

$3,640

Commits: 277
Runway left: $16,058.36
Top repo: blog-nuxt-content

No flagged event

Dec ’24

Mexico City / Mexico

$4,131

Commits: 124
Runway left: $11,927.78
Top repo: blog-nuxt-content

Mexico City clue

Jan ’25

Hawaii

$1,915

Commits: 154
Runway left: $10,012.65
Top repo: sagemaker-huggingface

SageMaker / paid-work transitionCanonical endpoint

Receipts

Top expenses to review before publication.

Venmo, ATM/cash, and ambiguous rows remain visible instead of silently over-classified.

Date	Merchant	Category	Location	Amount
2024-05-29	Airbnb	Lodging	Indonesia / Bali	$1,717.24
2024-06-14	Airbnb	Lodging	Indonesia / Bali	$1,501.54
2024-06-17	Kiwi.com	Flights / long-distance travel	Transit / airfare	$1,248.61
2024-08-24	Airbnb	Lodging	Indonesia / Bali	$1,078.68
2024-04-18	Jetstar	Flights / long-distance travel	Transit / airfare	$978.74
2024-07-02	Memorisely	Education / courses	Online / recurring / admin	$875.00
2024-12-25	American Airlines	Flights / long-distance travel	Transit / airfare	$795.91
2024-05-21	Muni-Yarmouth-Tax-Pmnt932 Hwy 1 902-742-71	Taxes / government	Other international / online	$743.51
2024-06-17	Jetstar	Flights / long-distance travel	Transit / airfare	$739.52
2024-09-24	Tiga Khayangan Timbadungid	Other / needs review	Indonesia / Bali	$601.94
2024-08-17	Kiwi.com	Flights / long-distance travel	Transit / airfare	$592.97
2024-04-08	Venmo	P2P / unknown	Unknown / P2P	$590.00
2024-09-23	ATM / cash withdrawal	Cash withdrawals	Hawaii	$500.00
2024-09-23	ATM / cash withdrawal	Cash withdrawals	Hawaii	$500.00