I've spent about a year building out AmaranTime (http://store.steampowered.com/app/566800/AmaranTime/), mostly working on movement mechanics. I actually just made a breakthrough, so soon players will be able to run in place to move without having to press and hold a button. While it is for sale, I haven't made much money. Besides, I do this for fun!
Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#152I built https://suitocracy.com very slowly over the last few years. It is for collating information on the ethical conduct of large corporations, as well as rating and ranking them on various criteria.
It'll never make money, but it has been a good project for me to modernise my web development skills which had gone rusty over the preceding decade. I also took the opportunity to learn NGINX and a few other things that I hadn't really been exposed to beforehand.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#153https://cadodo.nl/en - Create wish lists for your next birthday/wedding/etc https://bookmarkify.it - Create javascript bookmarklets https://github.com/abuisman/freudjs - Component library in JS for when view libraries like React are overkill
I typed simple Javascript codevas following in your bookmarkify.it
alert(1);
javascript:(function(){window.s0=document.createElement('script');window.s0.setAttribute('type','text/javascript');window.s0.setAttribute('src','https://bookmarkify.it/bookmarklets/6804/raw');document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0].appendChild(window.s0);})();
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#154I built a tool to schedule Gmail messages to be sent later but without any 3rd party, messy spreadsheets, or self hosting.
I just did it for fun and because I wanted a tool like it.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#155I write math texts that are Free. It is my creative outlet. My Linear Algebra (http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra) has gotten some traction (and I get a small amount of money from Amazon). I also have an Introduction to Proofs: an Inquiry-Based Approach (http://joshua.smcvt.edu/proofs) that I find helps my students, but is in quite a niche area. And I'm working on a Theory of Computation.
If I didn't have some creative work I would be much less happy.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#156I created, run and maintain http://wikioverland.org, the community encyclopedia of overland travel
It's a wiki of all the info you need to drive your own vehicle around a country, continent or the world.
Border crossings, paperwork, insurance, gas prices, camping, drinking water, safety... it's all in there for a massive number of countries in the world.
I'm driving around myself, and it occured to me there is so much info out there but it all slides off the front pages of blogs and forums or is buried in facebook posts. Every three months people re-write and re-post the same stuff because they couldn't find it in the first place. The idea is not for WikiOverland to contain all the info, but at least link directly to it.
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#157I run/develop/manage a private MMOARPG game server for a dead game called Hellgate: London that we call London 2038. You can see more about it here http://london2038.com
Not only do I not make money on the project, it actually costs me money! :)
I have seemingly undying motivation to work on it, knock out bugs, release patches, catch cheaters, etc. The community being so active and excited helps keep me going. I probably spend 30-40 hours of week on the project.
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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#158I built + maintain todolist[1] which is a GTD-style task management app for the command line. It's getting a bit of traction now which is pretty fun. It got a ton of upvotes on Product Hunt which was really cool to see[2]. I have very loose plans to monetize via a paid subscription for syncing with other devices / phones, but there will always bee a free / open source version as well. [1]: http://todolist.site [2]: h…
I have been looking for something like todolist for a while now to help me keep track of stuff. Very cool & Thank you for building this!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#159Makes no money but it does helps me discover new music and I really enjoy the community :)
Also the development challenges are super fun (real time chat, multi platform, AI).
Come join the fun!
Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?
#160100 Million Books -- mission is to promote intellectual diversity.
It's a Chrome extension/homepage that shows you a new book every time you open a new tab, plus a special hand-picked idea that teaches you a new perspective/fact/concept.
I'm evaluating a couple different paths to make it profitable, but it's not currently making anything since Amazon cut me off its affiliate program.