Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by eckza » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:26 PM UTC

Idea: Make software for the Olympic sport of bicycle motocross.

Execution: Flawless. Built the app in Elm + Ionic Capacitor. It looks great and works perfectly. There's even a Web version at https://gearbag.bike

Marketing: lol

Result: I have spent five digits of money (paid my friends market wages for their help, particularly with UX and design) and made $6 from Google AdMob and have ~100 installs.

Worth it. Doubling down on the next project this year.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by spion » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:27 PM UTC

Can we do projects that we know will stay at $0 but we still hope might gain traction?

OSS: typed-graphql-builder https://typed-graphql-builder.spion.dev/ is a TypeScript based graphql query builder. No more writing untyped strings and running a watcher in the background - generate the builder from the server schema once then write any queries in TS with the help of the language server

It was inspired by tql (https://tql.dev/) but generates a much smaller client and has full, automatic type inference for query variables used in input objects.

(Side note: I feel bad about how similar it is to tql, but the code generation approach was so different (mainly inspired by graphql-zeus) that it felt like poor form to just send a PR changing everything.)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by nummerfuenf » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:27 PM UTC

kilroy123 wrote: post #9

I don't make a dime off my art newsletter but I still keep it going: https://randomdailyart.com/

I tried to subscribe, but it said there was a problem :(

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by magneticmonkey » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:28 PM UTC

My friend and I have been working on a replacement for Facebook events in our social circle. We found that a lot of people are not using FB events anymore and were having a hard time planning social events. Not making any money (yet) but we hope to someday! We designed our app to make it easy to share invites on any social platform/chat group without being tied down.

https://dateit.io

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by thealchemistdev » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:28 PM UTC

https://GymTools.io

To be fair. This project isn't meant to generate revenue. Back when I started webdev, I needed to learn how to publish a SPA so I threw something together in preparation for a larger and more complex app.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by petodo » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:29 PM UTC

I'm not even trying, but my income dropped to like 1/10 from my record levels, I wonder when it will stop dropping. Luckily for me I am very frugal and not splurging, so I didn't need to adjust my expenses at all, since whether I earned 12000 USD per month or 1200 USD I still spend same, I guess will start doing something about it if I will earn less than I spend so I don't need to touch my ~13 years of expenses worth savings.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by code_Whisperer » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:29 PM UTC

findhumane wrote: post #4

I just launched Find Humane, a free website and app for finding humanely raised animal products: https://findhumane.com/ Currently $0 revenue but we have some affiliate links to humanely certified delivery services, so hopefully the ball will start rolling!

I think this has potential for a certain target audience. Not a criticism, but feedback: if I stumbled on this site I'd have no idea what it was about based on the current landing page. Will you be adding an intro/description about what the site is for? :-)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by rain_checker » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:29 PM UTC

I created https://dropory.com/ - an app that predict the day with the best weather for any location. Good for finding a good event or wedding date.

Definitely been costing me more than any earnings! :)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by JSLegendDev » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:30 PM UTC

I'm making a desktop game to be sold on itch.io for 3$ (currently making 0$ because not out yet and it's difficult to make money with games anyway). I'm using JavaScript with the Kaboom.js library and Tauri as the desktop wrapper.

My game is called HARVEST MOVE and it's a grid based movement game where you have to harvest as many plants as possible without getting killed by various animals.

It's a puzzle game disguised as an arcade game.

The game is still in development but I've started posting gifs, screenshots and some art of the game already on Twitter.

Here is my twitter link if you want to check that out : https://twitter.com/JSLegendDev

Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by courgette » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 4:30 PM UTC

senko wrote: post #7

Bootstrapping a project generator tool for Django and Node: https://apibakery.com I expect (well, hope for) it to be making some money at some point in the future but don't worry since it's a side project and something I'm passionate about building even if it's just for fun.

I have an existing Django side project. Very simple app, but cool data. The usage is mostly querying the data in the Django admin and generating some reports.

Very little custom code. Do you think I could realistically migrate and get something out of apibakery?