I built gpsheatmap as a starter django project -
I think bad SEO and the website not being polished is the issue
Currently thinking of either selling it, or redeveloping it as a wordpress plugin for sports clubs
Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#112I wanted to practice a little more more with nodejs. To me it's pointless to learning a programming language without a project. Eventually, I will convert it from PHP (codeigniter) to angular 4 so that I can learn angular 4.
I also was banned from adsense, for machine generated content. Regardless, I really like amazon and my product you can't really use adblock, so I put together a website that monitors amazon daily prices.
I get most of my hits on facebook feed. Regardless I don't make as much money as I would like, but it gives me something to do when my regular job is annoying me. Plus I got some nodejs programming experience and database construction experience as well. So all is not lost.
Http://www.bestoftheinternets.com/Deals I might be looking for a growth hacker...
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#113http://lickth.is/new I built the first version of LICK in 2015 because I was frustrated with the (then) state of distributed note taking. And because I wanted Sublime Text-like editing capabilities. I... didn't really have a business plan, but I guess I had hoped to retrofit features into later versions. Being a (not) starving bootstrapping developer filled a fun space in my life, but then life got in the way. I made…
I can empathise with this, I've tried to build a better evernote too, and I suspect its quite common. Everyone has their own way to take notes. The catch is, in this context at least, trying to make money from it. That's something even evernote have struggled with
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#114I've build complex app for managing vineyards and wineries. It has tons of features: time tracking, input tracking, harvest and production features, mapping, tons of budget/cost analysis. It turned out, it is hard to convince farmers to ditch their trusty excel sheets and notepads and start typing all those info into computer program. I managed to find few customers, but they haven't stick for longer than one year. I…
Is this a web app or a desktop app?
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#115I built Thrail ( https://thrail.io ) 6 months ago wanting to solve my own difficulty to find and book quality outdoors activities in a certain area, especially when coming to a new place (tourism or recent relocation). I think there are multiple reasons why it wasn't successful as I believed it might be, most importantly because I built something without first researching the market enough, and failure to do so got m…
Marketing is hard. Is there some kind of service out there where marketers will help you sell your app for a share of revenue?
I'm not trolling here, just in case I've missed a really obvious one
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#116I've build complex app for managing vineyards and wineries. It has tons of features: time tracking, input tracking, harvest and production features, mapping, tons of budget/cost analysis. It turned out, it is hard to convince farmers to ditch their trusty excel sheets and notepads and start typing all those info into computer program. I managed to find few customers, but they haven't stick for longer than one year. I…
Is this a web app or a desktop app?
web app and unfinished mobile app (native iOS)
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#117I built http://start9.io three years ago - the idea was to somehow manage to show video game publishers that a 'professional' vintage gaming platform was something that could attract users. I wanted it to be the Netflix of the retrogaming. Unfortunately, I never managed to find cofounders that were as much motivated as I was - each one I worked with was working on it as a hobby more than anything else, and I usually…
FYI, PICO-8 [1] is a similar commercial project AFAICT. Maybe you're right that there is a market there.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#118I created https://CoWriteStory.com/ last year, it is a platform for people to cooperatively write stories. I was sending lots of private messages to r/WritingPrompts/ users, and got tons of positive feedback but reddit blocked my account and keep blocking my new accounts. it is a good product but like lots of developers I failed at marketing and attracting users!
Have you heard of http://nanowrimo.org Find out where these people hang out including hashtags etc. Huge community of starter writers.
thanks for the tip, will investigate.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#119I spent a couple years building https://infiniquest.org in my spare time. This is a site where you can both create and play interactive fiction games, using an engine I built entirely from scratch. I mainly built it to prove to myself I could complete a large project start to finish. I also had the motivation that my son and I could make games for each other, but by the time I finished, he was big into Minecraft and…
Whoah... That just gave me an idea... An Alexa app to run d&d games!
It sounds awesome though, as do most of the projects in this thread. I'll be bookmarking it.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#120http://sites.creou.com/ - A low cost site design & host service based on a custom template engine. Could never get traction with it. It does have one paying customer who is paying slightly more than what it costs me to keep hosting it, so it stays running. For now :-)
http://intouch.creou.com/ - A mini crm type tool for small businesses. Never really finished this, the home page is pretty much a placeholder. Most of the site works if you sign in though (test account username: test@test.com password: test.123) but it's ugly and not mobile friendly. Functionallity wise it does pretty much everything I had planned for it. (Also this is currently just running on a free azure account, so if more than about 3 of you visit it at the same time it will probably give up and die)
https://gumroad.com/products/sqlconfirm - a SQL unit testing plugin for visual studio. Only put this page up a few days ago, so it's made zero money yet, but maybe this is the one that will take off :-) Haven't made any effort to start marketing it yet because there are a few bugs I wanted to sort out first. Could do with picking up a few users who would give feedback though, so if it looks like something you're interested in, ping me.