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Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by sjs382 »

dhca78 wrote: post #20
sjs382 wrote: post #13

In my day job, I'm a full-stack developer at an ad agency. Side Projects: Early next week, I'm going to be releasing an Android word game. Revenue-producing side-projects: https://SendToMyCloud.com & https://PrivateForms.com Other side projects: http://artpacks.org , http://aboutbrowser.com & http://norefer.link

Your revenue-producing side-projects are strangely inspiring. If you don't mind me asking, how do you market them?

Mostly, I don't.

In the beginning (for each) I found a few people asking on forums for software that solves the exact problem that these products solved, and then posted the software as a solution.

Since the first few weeks, I haven't done any marketing at all—everything comes in via search, or referral traffic.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by 0x54MUR41 »

Currently, I am a computer science student.

I have two side projects that now currently on development stage:

- MIM, Mobile inventory manager I build it using Ionic Framework: https://github.com/meisyal/MIM

- AMI Converter, A desktop-based multimedia converter that supports image, audio, and video conversion: https://github.com/meisyal/ami-converter

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by dhca78 »

sjs382 wrote: post #21
dhca78 wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your revenue-producing side-projects are strangely inspiring. If you don't mind me asking, how do you market them?

Mostly, I don't. In the beginning (for each) I found a few people asking on forums for software that solves the exact problem that these products solved, and then posted the software as a solution. Since the first few weeks, I haven't done any marketing at all—everything comes in via search, or referral traffic.

That's cool! Thank you for sharing.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by lsiunsuex »

day job - full stack developer for a local company that develops worksheets for k-8 teachers

side job - full stack developer for a website that provides continued education for dental students and dentists

I'll generally take the random freelance job that comes around, both remote or local - building a Wordpress website for a local plumbing company this week.

If those 3 aren't consuming all of my time, I've been planning an idea for a programmers network, but i haven't had much free time lately :(

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by at-fates-hands »

My day job: front-end developer, which means different things to different people. Mainly do JS work right now with Angular JS on a large enterprise transactional application.

My side project: Working to create an agency that helps a specific niche business. We already have close to a dozen clients on a monthly subscription that are generating a good chunk of revenue. A few more clients and I can forgo my current contracting gigs and do it full time.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by japhyr »

I teach high school math and science.

I've been writing in the mornings and late at night, and I just finished an intro Python book: http://nostarchpress.com/pythoncrashcourse It will be out next month, and I'm very happy to focus on supporting the book now that the writing is finished. I love writing at the introductory level, where the focus is half on technical issues and half on helping people learn to think as a developer.

Writing a book has significantly increased the degree of professionalism I bring to my side projects. My school district just adopted a new learning management system, but there's no functionality included for generating report cards, so I'm working on a project that automates the process of generating report cards. The software is relatively easy and enjoyable to write, but the politics involved in making sure this work is implemented correctly into the overall district processes is challenging. Having worked through all the details involved in publishing a book helps me identify and work through the many non-technical issues involved in fully implementing a side project.

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by itl12 »

sjs382 wrote: post #13

In my day job, I'm a full-stack developer at an ad agency. Side Projects: Early next week, I'm going to be releasing an Android word game. Revenue-producing side-projects: https://SendToMyCloud.com & https://PrivateForms.com Other side projects: http://artpacks.org , http://aboutbrowser.com & http://norefer.link

What stack do you use for your projects?

Re: Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?

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Post by ksmithbaylor »

I'm a Software Engineer at my company. I used to work on a large Rails project, but now I am on a team where we are building out a smaller product with a React/Flux frontend. I work mainly on frontend stuff right now.

I have a small side project for a family member. He's a commercial beekeeper and needed a way to track information about his hives, so I am making him a mobile app (built with Ionic) that lets him put QR codes on the hives and track everything he needs about them.

My wife and I just had our first baby, and I'm starting Georgia Tech's OMSCS program in the Spring, so I don't have much spare time right now. But off and on I have been learning Clojure/ClojureScript, Haskell, and more about React and its ecosystem. I also am teaching an introductory JavaScript class for a local tech "bootcamp" company, and enjoying it a lot.

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