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

#191
my project is PYX - an educational programming language with REPL / shell. It can be used to write programs in functional / procedural and object based styles.

here: https://github.com/MoserMichael/jscriptparse

and here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pyxlang

By the way: i see a lot of downloads via npm, don't know if that is due to bot activity or if there is real interest.

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

#192
I made an App to help find out food intolerances. Basically make it super easy to enter what you have eaten. Not even based on individual items, just basic foods like soy, tomatoes, onions... help me figure out that it was garlic which was causing all the trouble.

https://app.foodolyst.creatness.studio [Web]

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=studio.creatne... [Android]

Currently trying to release it on IOS, but Apple is very strict with these types of apps.

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

#193
As a hobby project, I run Code::Stats[0]. It's a website that tracks what languages you are programming in (via editor plugins) and gives you a profile page with various statistics[1]. It's ad-supported (with EthicalAds) to deal with server costs, or you can buy a support account to remove ads. The site and all the editor plugins are open source, the site is written in Elixir (but I'm looking at integrating Gleam in the future).

Currently it's completely a free time thing; I make negative money on it. My dream would be to have enough paying users to work on it part time (even a little), but that's far away and may never happen. But I like using it myself so I'll keep running it for the foreseeable future.

[0] https://codestats.net/

[1] https://codestats.net/users/Nicd

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

#194
I have an open hardware project (libre, technically) to develop a solar powered phone. It's more of a concept, or a framework, rather than a list of components that I'm assembling outside of research. I would be more than happy if someone forked the idea and made something of it. https://hackaday.io/project/177716-the-libre-autarkic-laptop Anyone could manufacture it since the PCB, open cores (royalty free), blueprints and STL and PCB design would all be open sourced to anyone who wanted to make it, thus it encourages collaboration.

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

#195
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…

I love the idea, and I instantly downloaded the app. After a peppy welcome message from the robot, it doesn't actually play any songs. Just crashes constantly :(

I can send you any debug info if you like. But no pressure, it's free as far as I can see and I don't want you to worry just because it doesn't work for me.

Great idea anyhow!

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

#196
SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/

I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more.

In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

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

#197
I've been building www.steelroad.org to make entrepreneurship more accessible to all. There are so many great businesses that can be built with a little bit of sweat equity and process building. So far it's cost me $12 for the domain, and $50 to integrate it with substack. Haven't made a penny yet but subscriber list is growing.

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

#198
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.

Me three!

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

#199
Zillion: https://github.com/totalhack/zillion

A python data warehousing / modeling / analytics library that can unify multiple datasources and writes SQL for you. It's alpha level at the moment and I just slowly chip away when time allows, though I'm using it in production in another project (which does make money).

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

#200

https://thoriumsim.com A multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator game, where your crew each takes a different position on a futuristic spaceship, explore space, meet aliens, complete missions, and hopefully keep your ship in one piece! If you've ever played Artemis, Empty Epsilon, Starship Horizons, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, heck even SpaceTeam, this is in the same genre. It's pretty much Space DnD, with the option to h…

Glad you're still working on this, Alex! Keep it going
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