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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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post #73

we sell coffee from the terminal ssh terminal.shop will do 6 figures in revenue the first year - not bad for a side thing!

That's wild. I saw this when you(?) posted it a while back and assumed no one would want this. No offense, but it doesn't make the coffee taste any better...... unless it does............?

Anyway, glad you're seeing success.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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post #78

I built a web app that extracts data from documents, like PDFs, Word, etc. I've seen people say "GPT wrapper", but it consistently outperforms similar tools in the space. My main customer is a private equity fund that randomly reached out. I didn't know much at all about fintech, but it works and gets the job done. I don't have a proper marketing site yet since I've been focused on building the app, but it's coming s…

How do you reduce errors or hallucinations? I recently uploaded a very clear PDF to meta.ai and asked it a few, very simple questions. It completely made up quotes, including page numbers, section numbers etc.

I don't feed documents directly to an LLM. First, extract and process the data in a structured way that maintains the hierarchy and metadata of the content (this is important!). Then convert this into a scheme that you can control — it doesn’t really matter what it is (JSON, XML, markdown). From there, feed this to the LLM in chunks. This will get you most of the way there.

There's different ways to validate, but that's why maintaining hierarchy and metadata is so important. If you track this information properly, you can cross-check responses across different LLMs!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#105
post #51

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Selenium, although I'm using a wrapper library that uses it. I only query each company every few days or so which probably helps to not get banned IP-wise but also rotate them. But many of the company job links are through external sources too (lever, greenhouse, etc.) which don't seem to mind The company data was gathered online for a long time until I found https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/ (which now is the source…

I tried to use my own desktop machine to process some of these tasks. I can see my fans go jet mode when the scraping was being done lol. Do you have discord or any way to connect? Would love to chat around this topic. Feel free to drop any social media handles. I’ll ping you.

Ohhh yea I run into this memory issue very quickly when scraping (especially if you have a large URL dataset then it will inevitably find a website with a giant bit of markup). So I have to set timeouts and blacklist timely requests but also completely reset the (headless) browser on 2-3 requests (which is overkill but I am restricted on memory for those workers). Feel free to drop me an email sometime (should be on my HN profile)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#106

I built the frontend for https://rigged.ai We do statistical processing and breakdown of options sweep data, and generate realtime alerts that people can use to copy trade big Wall Street traders. We also have a strategy playground you can use to test different strategies that could be used for a trading bot.

Do you have a tutorial on how this tool can be used? Any backtest on how such alerts worked? Asking as a potential customer?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#107
post #73

we sell coffee from the terminal ssh terminal.shop will do 6 figures in revenue the first year - not bad for a side thing!

I love the concept and the implementation. Do you have a write-up on the implementation anywhere, blog posts, anything?

It's a pleasure to see an online store implementation that doesn't use the Web or rely on some mobile app.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#108
post #16

I made SmoothTrack, a no-equipment head tracking app for iOS and Android which lets you control the game camera in sim games (like MSFS 2024 for example) with your head - basically like TrackIR, just without any equipment and for $15 instead of $150. I originally made the app just for myself to save myself the money of buying a TrackIR system, but then /r/flightsim begged me to release it as a full app. Last month, I…

As a long time simmer, I'm buying this tonight after work, especially now that my Pixel 4a 5G is sitting on my desk, propping up the 9 Pro XL that replaced it last week.

Also, FS2024. Wow.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#109

I built the frontend for https://rigged.ai We do statistical processing and breakdown of options sweep data, and generate realtime alerts that people can use to copy trade big Wall Street traders. We also have a strategy playground you can use to test different strategies that could be used for a trading bot.

Do you have a tutorial on how this tool can be used? Any backtest on how such alerts worked? Asking as a potential customer?

Check out the docs section or any of the YouTube videos.

And yes, I'm pretty proud of our backtesting tool (it's called strategy playground) that lets you set some bot parameters and filters for what alerts you want to trade based on (it has access to all the alerts we've generated historically, as well as symbol and option prices for all tracked options) and then does a full tick by tick simulation run and generates charts

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#110
post #28

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Dude this looks awesome! When I was a kid I used to read a lot of these "puzzle magazines", the ones we had were like: - Start on page 1, read the story and decide if you want to take path A or B - A = go to page 2, B = page 3 - then there was another decision making, and the story goes on... Until you either escape the dungeon, or die (different ways of dying lol). It was so cool!

Thank you! That's the sort of game that springs to mind for many when we explain the concept, and they were definitely an inspiration for us. This however is a more linear adventure, focused around solving enigmas. No choices and no way to lose. Once you know the answer to the puzzle, like "whose fingerprints are on the gun", you turn the next page and the story continues.

Sounds a /bit/ like the Agent Arthur[0] books that I loved as a kid!

Def interested in these! Thanks for posting!

[0] https://usborne.com/gb/agent-arthur-s-arctic-adventure-97818...

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