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

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Disclaimer: This project isn't currently publicly available.

I was using Simple as my primary bank, and their Goals feature made it possible to do envelope-style budgeting really conveniently. Unfortunately the bank that backed them, BBVA, sold to PNC. This lead to my Simple being shut down, and my account was converted first to a BBVA account and then to a PNC account.

When I lost access to the Simple app I first built myself a spreadsheet, and then started work on a webapp called Complex to replicate their functionality. Currently you have to enter all transactions manually, but I eventually plan to integrate with Plaid so I can automatically pull in transaction data. Without automatic transaction imports, I'd say Complex currently falls about halfway between the original Simple app and a spreadsheet in terms of convenience/ease-of-use.

I don't have any kind of business model for this, but if I eventually make it public I'll probably charge a monthly fee to allow automatic transaction imports so I can cover Plaid's fees. There's not much server load required to run something like this, so I expect I'll be able to keep server costs below $20/month even if I pick up a couple hundred active users.

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

#22

I don't make a dime off my art newsletter but I still keep it going: https://randomdailyart.com/

I tried to subscribe, but it said there was a problem :(

Strange, might be an edge case, I tried and it worked for me.

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

#23
https://mingleview.com Free meeting software (10$ per month for servers. No paid users.

https://myspeed.ai Gives speed & signal quality of wifi/mobile. 30$ monthly on servers. No revenue so far

https://zerofilterselfies.com Patented AI based Android app to take quick selfies. No paid users. No ad revenue.

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

#24
I launched one of my games http://anagramica.com in 2013, and has negative revenue and zero maintenance requirements. It’s on an ancient cloud instance. It has an active API that powers several other games (probably more than I’m aware of!). It’s so old that it predates free SSL certs like letsencrypt, and I don’t care enough to spend the time on wiring it up.

I’m also hesitant to post it here because I don’t want it to go down if it gets too much traffic!

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

#25

My friend and I have been working on a replacement for Facebook events in our social circle. We found that a lot of people are not using FB events anymore and were having a hard time planning social events. Not making any money (yet) but we hope to someday! We designed our app to make it easy to share invites on any social platform/chat group without being tied down. https://dateit.io

Look nice. Can someone with a dumb phone and internet on a computer use it ?

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

#26
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 have a Game Master role.

Still under development, but by the time its done it'll have a 3D universe simulation, crew and ship systems simulation, interactive controls for a whole bridge of friends, and an interactive mission designer.

I've got a handful of donations coming in through OpenCollective, but I just about break even with my hosting and Apple Developer program costs.

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

#30
Just kicked off the beta launch of Flourish, a performance review/management platform that uses a radial based approach to growth frameworks instead of the traditional ladder based. It aims to reduce the impact of bias in performance reviews and reward your individual skillset.

https://joinflourish.io/

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