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

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

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Post by code_Whisperer »

shon wrote: post #124

Wanting to experiment with Shopify, I decided to make a t-shirt shop for cyberpunk and sci-fi stuff. So I registered a short sci-Fi sounding domain: https://hex7.org and proceeded to toil (many many mouse clicks) away stocking my shop with with hand-designed shirts and coffee cups and then waited. 2 years in, not a single sale : Partly I wanted just to add products and see if the combination of Shopify, Google, and m…

Thanks for sharing. I like! One of my own current side hustles involves creating and selling t-shirts, hoodies, caps, etc. just like you. And also like you, I had ZERO luck trying to sell them in my own store (Shopify, WooCommerce). However, when I listed them on popular DTG-type sites, they started selling, and now sell several hundred $ per month. I'm talking Teepublic, Redbubble, Spreadshirt, etc. I didn't initially want to go that route because I thought making $2 or $3 per shirt sounded pretty crappy when I could have my own store and maybe make $15-$25 per garment. And also have control over my client base. But hey, a few hundred $ per month at $2-3 per shirt profit is almost infinitely better than $ZERO per month at $20 profit. I dunno, maybe give it a try? :-)

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

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Post by sophrocyne »

zadjii wrote: post #103

This isn't public yet, and almost feels like the kind of thing I'll never ship. I've been working for a while now on the idea of a card / board game. The concept was bouncing around in my head for a while, and I started taking a lot more notes on the idea after my second kid was born (4mos ago). All of a sudden, I had a lot of time to sit quietly in a dark room with my laptop (and help the kiddo get to sleep). I even…

Stumbled on someone's workflow for creating AI cards/tabletop materials using stable diffusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTQY3VMJ78

Might be interesting to you for playtesting when you want to show to others! Good luck on the game - I'm a big tabletop/board game nerd, so would love to play it once you get the game ready!

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

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Post by lrobinovitch »

https://thermalmodel.com/

A web tool for simple thermal analysis/modeling. Connect nodes together, classify as conductive/convective/radiative, set their thermal properties and plot their temperatures and heat transfer over time.

Free and open source.

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

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Post by mattbee »

https://guestrevenue.com/ - an tool to integrate Airbnb bookings into Xero for short let owners who want really precise accounts. Built for myself, turned into a multi-tenant app because in 2019 it would definitely make me rich.

I have one user called Todd. He seems lovely but I don't have the heart to charge him because then he'd expect it to work. Everyone else has bounced off because they are weak. Actually I might have more users who just never got in touch; I haven't checked, but I'm pretty sure it can't be abused for Bitcoin mining. Maybe Todd is just the strongest of them - he doesn't mind downloading CSVs and trimming off the rows that cause mysterious 500 errors. It's a test of character. Maybe it is being used for Bitcoin mining and works anyway?

I maintain it because it's a lot less painful than typing 300 bookings a year manually, but a lot more painful than if someone else would just do it for me. It's probably not a business, but if you disagree you can have it for £100,000 - a high multiple you say - but you can't put a price on potential.

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

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Post by xmaayy »

PStamatiou wrote: post #65

Not currently public aside from maybe a thousand testflight users, but I built a stock and crypto portfolio tracker app focused on design. I'm a designer and developer and this was my first time diving into Swift/SwiftUI. Started as a covid project to learn SwiftUI and became a 3 year side project, complete with full node backend to do some auth, caching, cleaning up data and various things. It's called Stocketa. Her…

Unrelated to the app your building, I've been reading your blog for a few years. Thanks for the content stammy :)

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

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Post by thom »

pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…

Very cool, I've daydreamed about building something similar but always convinced myself I'd have to wait until text-to-speech was better to really incorporate all the sources I'd like. Awesome work!

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

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Post by airstrike »

pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…

This is fantastic
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