About

Hi, I'm Vega. I run small websites from my kitchen table — and these are my notes.

I live in Taiwan with my two kids. I'm not a US seller, I've never run an Etsy shop, and I don't sell a course. What I do have is a few years of actually earning from home in three ways: a family of parenting websites that make money from ads, client work running Facebook and Google ads for small businesses, and a daily AI workflow that lets one person do all of that around school pickups and bedtime.

I started an English-language site about "mom startups" a while ago and wrote it the way everyone writes those sites — lists of side hustles, statistics I'd copied from somewhere, methods I'd read about but never tried. Google's ad program turned it down for low-value content, and honestly, they were right. So I'm rewriting it here, under a rule I should have had from the start: only what I've actually done, with the real numbers.

What I actually do

• Content websites that earn from ads. A family of parenting sites — pregnancy, baby, learning, faith, and this one — on one AdSense account. The income is small and uneven at my traffic level, and the notes say exactly how small.
• Client work. I manage Facebook and Google ad accounts for small businesses. This is the most predictable money I make, and it's where most of my "freelance" notes come from.
• AI for almost everything. Writing drafts, building sites without a developer, making cover images, batching a month of posts, even the small tools on this site. I pay for a couple of AI tools and have cancelled several; the notes name them.

What you won't find here

• Income screenshots I can't back up, or "how I made $10K" headlines.
• Affiliate-stuffed product lists. There are currently no affiliate links on this site at all.
• Methods I haven't used, written as if I had. Where a note touches something I only researched — digital product sales, for example — it says so in the first paragraph.

How I keep the numbers honest

• My own figures are labeled as mine — site, month, and context — and they're shown as what happened, not what you should expect.
• Every other number links to a source you can open: a government page, a platform's own help center, a published report. If I can't find a source, the number doesn't go in.
• Each note shows a last-reviewed date, and I revise them when platforms change their rules.
• A tool in every article, so you can put your own numbers in instead of trusting mine.

How I got here

1. Before

   A WordPress blog and a day job

   Teaching children's English, then marketing work; the first site was a Chinese-language WordPress blog that grew slowly and cost real money to host.

2. Then

   Client work: running ads for small businesses

   Managing Facebook and Google ad accounts for local businesses in Taiwan — the work that still pays the most predictably.

3. 2024–2025

   AI changes how one person can work

   Building sites with AI instead of hiring developers; moving everything off WordPress to static sites on a free host. A simple site now takes about half a day.

4. 2025–2026

   A family of sites, and one AdSense approval

   chparenting.com was approved by AdSense on the first try; other sites were rejected for 'low value content'. That difference became a whole series of notes.

5. Now

   This notebook

   Rewriting an older site into these notes: only what I've actually done, with the numbers.

Background

• Mother of two — a daughter born in 2016 and a son born in 2019
• Former children's English teacher; Master's in Digital Innovation, Tunghai University
• Founder of Mommy Wisdom International LTD. and the chparenting.com family of sites, including the Pregnancy Guide, Baby Care Guide, and Faith Notes for Moms

Advertising and contact

The site runs Google AdSense display ads only; there are no sponsored posts and no affiliate links (see the disclosure). If a number or a link is wrong, I genuinely want to know: [email protected].