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Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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Post by kyawzazaw »

adithyasrin wrote: post #2

I'm currently running a job board without ads or any ways to make revenue. I see this as a way to learn things - adding one layer of complexity at a time to see how far I can push it and learn things. I have noticed that I like to learn things by doing so that's the goal. Not exactly a monetary thing but rather investing in myself. Right now, I'm looking at splitting the server to host at multiple locations so I can…

It is pretty useful

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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Post by pyepye »

I've been contracting part-time and developing a few bits.

https://www.videocode.review/ - After working from home for a while we noticed that it was taking longer to pull requests merged. One reason for this is comments were getting misunderstood etc. So I created a way to record a video for a pull request (as either the author or reviewer) to try and avoid some of that misunderstanding. It's GitHub only for now but I would like to get it working with GitLab as well at some point. It's just in beta now, if anyone wants to try it out please get in touch on here or via the contact page.

https://www.stopthat.email - Forward emails to an email address to unsubscribe. This has been going a bit longer and I've tried to automate it as much as possible in terms of finding the unsubscribe links and filling out web forms. It currently doesn't handle JS on web pages so I'm working on that next.

Both have been good fun to develop and have use different technologies, infrastructure and services. Next, I need to let go of my fear of launching and learn some marketing.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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Post by kradeelav »

I make home-printed zines and art about fandom, taboo (nsfw) subjects, and stories. Once upon a time I used to be a published comic artist (in addition to the dayjob) but left that path as it didn't speak to me on the same level of honesty as the works I do now. You don't notice how censored queer nsfw works are until you start making them.

(the homepage) https://www.kradeelav.com/

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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Post by zeruch »

I have been a fine artist and illustrator for years, either doing commissioned work, or licensing existing work from my catalog, which at this point is fairly large. Commissioned work is infrequent, because I don't market it much and I charge real rates for my time, and Silicon Valley is actually a fairly milquetoast, cheapskate market for art unless someone is buying a very established name for an investment vehicle. licensing is more common.

With the advent of JIT print services (e.g. Society6, DeviantArt, Redbubble, etc), I also monetize any existing work where applicable.

It's not huge in terms of revenue (small margins), but it's very low friction to capitalize on.

Re: Ask HN: What's Your Side Hustle?

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Post by seky »

I have a coupon site for developers https://www.gluee.com/ and a set of small tools for developers:

https://www.punycoder.com/ (a tool for Punycode to Text/Unicode and vice-versa conversion),

https://www.htmlwasher.com/ (a tool if you have some dirty HTML and need to clean it up),

https://www.htmlcorrector.com/ (a tool if you have some not so well-formed HTML and need to fix it),

https://www.htmlenc.com/ (a simple tool to HTML encode (escape) a text),

https://www.urlenc.com/ (a simple tool to URL encode (escape) a text),

https://www.gguid.com/ (a customizable GUID generator),

https://www.64baser.com/ (a Base64 and vice-versa encoder),

https://www.hexator.com/ (a Hex and vice-versa encoder),

https://www.cescaper.com/ (a C and C++ string escaper and unescaper),

https://www.csharpescaper.com/ (a C# string escaper and unescaper),

https://www.jsonescaper.com/ (a JSON string escaper and unescaper),

https://www.rustescaper.com/ (a Rust string escaper and unescaper),

https://www.pythonescaper.com/ (a Python string escaper and unescaper),

https://www.javascriptescaper.com/ (a JavaScript string escaper and unescaper),

https://www.javaescaper.com/ (a Java string escaper and unescaper) and

https://www.htmlinstant.com/ (a simple HTML editor).

All are written in .Net/C# and running on Azure, HtmlInstant has frontend in React, otherwise they are old ASP.NET MVC and Ajax :-)

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