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Next is writing code entirely. Whatever has the most robust documentation will be the next big thing, since AI agents will be writing the code for the programmers.

This is a great project at CMU. Worked on it from the beginning as an undergrad. It’s a very unique project: students have the ability to be involved in almost all of the roles of …

The approach was fairly simple: access to the college board’s website was geo-IP restricted for about 5 days time. It would start with a small collection of states, and each day ov…

You’re welcome - Glad it helped!

Reminds me of a passion project I started in high school that went completely viral and took on a life of its own. Wrote a small script for my friends to check their AP scores a fe…

That’s not exactly true - as an Amazon affiliate you do see the exact items purchased under each of your specific tracking IDs, as well as the price it was purchased for, category …

I got lucky, the subdevelopment I live in has been upgraded from classic Centurylink DSL to “Spectrum” fiber (1gbps fiber line to the house for $60/month, no contract and no equipm…

Not too difficult! Monetized with ads, the project was making a significant profit (>$15k per year; all of it came in on one day) - the difficult part was trying to do anything els…

In high school I made a site to help students view their AP scores early. It ballooned in popularity over the past 8 years. At it’s peak in 2020 and 2021 it was getting over 1.5 mi…

Tabler is a really awesome theme - sits right on top of bootstrap, and gives a very cohesive look for backends/admin interfaces. Also, the corresponding email template library is f…

One thing I haven’t seen mentioned is looking at Facebook Groups. The advertising can be weird because it is somewhat of a grey area, but most Facebook groups pages are run by comp…

Anecdotal evidence - but I feel like this could be completely valid. One of my biggest side projects for many years was a student tool centered around test scores. It was a niche u…

When an NFT project proposes a value share and airdrops amongst token owners, and also has a royalty fee paid on every transfer [1], I think the “up line” and MLM aspect come more …

Sending away all of your PII to be verified in games isn’t much better (in terms of intrusiveness) than running anti-cheat software in the first place. Additionally, will it be any…

Check my other reply to the sibling of my original post for a little more detailed story. I need to check out IndyHacker. B2C products have a longer growth cycle if you’re not full…

My most successful side project - by traffic volume and by usage - is a viral site idea which consistently generates over 1 million users in July of every year, those users generat…

I’ve had great success building B2C apps as side projects. It’s more about matching your passions to solving issues. Otherwise you’ll burn out and produce crap before you ever make…

Most open source software is neither decentralized nor publicly owned.

You’re saying that user preference shifted, but in reality, Google’s preference shifted. That, to me, is the problem highlighted by this story and others.

It’s easy to say “Ignore Amp” when you’re not a content site that depends on Google Search to stay alive. Sadly, for a large amount of sites on the web, what Google says is what go…

Nope, still done though code, at least in the base framework.

“Nobody ever needed rollback” is a very naive statement. Nobody needs rollback, until they do. And the one time you need it, having it will make up for ALL of the time spent on get…