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

#182

LowEndInsight: https://www.lowendinsight.dev Basic analysis of open source software's source - for things like "bus factor". Started as a research project, probably going to die as a research project.

Why not have a UI where you can enter a specific GitHub repo and get the result back?

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

#183
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…

Unsolicited feedback: If this were also offered as a web-based application I'd probably use it (sitting at my desk all day I don't want to use my mobile device for music). Maybe sell rotating ads or sponsorships (on screen but not in the audio stream, please!) to make some $. Very cool.

> If this were also offered as a web-based application I'd probably use it

#metoo

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

#185
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…

Cool! Just signed up. I was a little turned off by how much access you need to Spotify. Is that just because they don't have granular enough permissions?

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

#186
https://thechillypony.com

Allows you to configure a zip code and alert temp, and you'll get an email if the forecast temp falls below that alert temp, so you can know when you need to blanket your horses. Built it to scratch my own need. Makes $0 :)

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

#187
hyperspace

https://hyperspace.so/

My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open & easy-to-use core.

The idea is simple: what if HTML was the source of truth for web applications?

• Every app would be a front-end site that's remixable

• Anyone could copy a site and use the tools you built to help you change it to edit it themselves

• You could edit a site at any level of abstraction -- in the browser's devtools or with a site builder -- anyone could participate in the platform at the level they're comfortable

Still early days, but I have:

• CodeMirror/devtools editing

• Read-only backups on every save

• Quill.js plugin for content/blog editing

• Copying other people's sites

It's meant to be a no-consequences, lightweight way to make and share apps, ideas, and interactive sites (where every possibility fits into your head)

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

#188
Jobs with Pride: https://www.JobsWithPride.com

Premise: Handpicked jobs from LGBTQ+ friendly companies.

It's a curated job board of the best jobs for our queer community, using publicly available information to source jobs at confirmed LGBTQ+ friendly companies - Verified by our 100% LGBTQ+ team.

Availability: Web

Price: $0 (Paid packages are available)

Cost to me: ~$100 per month

Why do it? - Finding jobs at LGBTQ+ friendly companies is hard, clunky, and time consuming - More than a 3rd of LGBTQ+ people feel they need to hide who they are at work - 1 in 3 employers won’t hire a Trans person - The LGBTQ+ community has kept me alive before, this is a small way I can payback the love

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

#190
I built an Hreflang testing tool. https://app.hreflang.org

Hreflang is an arcane SEO concept. If you have sites in different languages then you can tell Google/Bing that site.com/page.html and site.fr/page.html are basically the same page only in diff languages.

The way to specify this is using meta tags in your HTML, and it's quite complex and error-prone. My tool checks if you implemented this correctly. It's running on a VPS so my cost is quite low.

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