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Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by paulcole »

I built a web app for a bike valet service at a local hospital. Hundreds of people use it each day to make their bike commute to work easier!

The app lets them scan in/scan out with their employee badge and assigns them a parking space and sends an email to them. Then they can just leave and the valet attendant puts their bike in the right spot.

As they're leaving work they can tap a link in the email that texts the valet attendant that they're on their way so their bike can be pulled to the front and ready for them.

I originally got paid for it but now do maintenance/small updates for free or trade to have them do maintenance work on my bicycle.

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by dinkleberg »

langcss wrote: post #3

LangCSS https://langcss.com Only one paid customer RN but I am adding features to make it more worthwhile, before I start promoting it proper.

If you're looking to bump up sales, I'd definitely suggest working on the landing page design. Right now it doesn't instill a lot of confidence in the quality of the output of the tool.

Though I do like that the CTA is diving right into the demo without requiring a login.

Also I'd work on the page copy. It is overly casual for a $30/mo offering. Things like "decent code editor" while truthful don't sell the product very well.

But good job on launching something.

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by lmiller1990 »

I made a few courses on Udemy and wrote a book, over a few years net about 20k, super cool! Relative to how much time went into it I probably didn’t actually make that much money but I had a great time and it feels fantastic to make some money on my own initiative

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by creepy »

p0d wrote: post #10

My sideline makes about $12k a year, costs around $200 to run, and has been running for 15 years. It's a room booking system for schools. I reckon I need to put in 2-3 weeks of work a year. I haven't figured out yet if I am a rubbish businessman or an excellent sideliner :-)

Would really love to check that out if you could share a link :)

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by bapetel »

nicbou wrote: post #9

I live from All About Berlin since a few years. It was and still is a labour of love, but now it also pays the bills. A few subprojects like my citizens' office appointment finder and my form fillers also qualify. I really enjoyed working on those, and they got me a lot of goodwill from some city employees. https://allaboutberlin.com

I remember i have found this site by doing some research on Google, regarding enterprise creation in DE

Really nice website !

Can you tell us how you got the idea, when you started, are you enterprise or solo ? How do you manage taxes ? Are you german ?

These were the questions i was asking myself when i discovered your site

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by fracternal »

I built a side hustle called https://fracternal.com, It’s like the tinder for finding fractional executives online. Right now in beta I’ve got about 6 paying customers and a few hundred solid candida orofiles. I do the background work for clients but I’m going to add a feature that will make it much more self serve (swiping profiles) vs me sending them. All the profiles are selected using AI

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by meiraleal »

nicbou wrote: post #9

I live from All About Berlin since a few years. It was and still is a labour of love, but now it also pays the bills. A few subprojects like my citizens' office appointment finder and my form fillers also qualify. I really enjoyed working on those, and they got me a lot of goodwill from some city employees. https://allaboutberlin.com

How do you make money with it?

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by jameal »

langcss wrote: post #3

LangCSS https://langcss.com Only one paid customer RN but I am adding features to make it more worthwhile, before I start promoting it proper.

I didn't expect much but I was pleasantly surprised with the output and its ability to refine based on my simple and limited instructions. Nice job!

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by hiAndrewQuinn »

My online writing and projects mostly serve as introduction funnels to cool people, which later leads to consulting gigs, job offers, etc.

For that purpose I'm really fond of my little tutorial at https://andrew-quinn.me/fzf. It got really big here on HN about a year ago and kind of sold me on the idea that, hey, I'm actually not bad at this writing thing when I want to be.

Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?

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Post by bazil376 »

lmiller1990 wrote: post #13

I made a few courses on Udemy and wrote a book, over a few years net about 20k, super cool! Relative to how much time went into it I probably didn’t actually make that much money but I had a great time and it feels fantastic to make some money on my own initiative

I have a fantasy of writing a technical book but not sure I could really put in the required effort
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