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Shortly after stable diffusion was released, I realized that an enormous number of non-ML people were suddenly interested in using an ML model. However, APIs are insanely expensive and not very developer friendly, and running it yourself required pretty fancy hardware. The goal was to make the technology absolutely as accessible as possible. So I launched https://computerender.com with the simplest API possible - jus…
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Great job! How did you convince users to trust an unknown site to store their personal data? This is one the things holding me back from implementing my side project ideas. I personally know that I won’t misuse users data but how do I really convince users.
People just don't care about their data...
Currently doing on and off in the vicinity of a grand a month.
I run [link redacted] as a web based saas. It is a relatively lightweight web app that tracks food in your pantry. It gives you an estimate on how long you could survive on it. It is intended as a tool for preppers but also works for anyone with OCD about their pantry contents. Business has picked some this last year. I'm working on expanding the product data, general usability, and some actual marketing.
I hope you don't mind a few unsolicited thoughts. Expiration dates wasn't an obvious feature from the website. I was about to ask about it here until I watched the video. Maybe put some screenshots from the app onto the page with a more verbose feature list so it's more easily scannable?
If the app could break down calories by food group or macronutrient it would help keep inventory balanced.
Would you mind emailing me? I may have encountered a bug. giegs.hn@proton.me
I have 2 projects right now, combined doing over $500+/mo :) They are pretty different target market wise/price point and that has been pretty cool to see the differences in marketing/churn/adoption/etc... 1. Mogul - Privacy focused Personal CRM ( https://mogulnetworking.com/ ) (~$650/mo, ~6 years old) 2. Ellie - A better day planner ( https://ellieplanner.com/ ) (~$160/mo, ~1 year old) Honestly no game plan, I just…
Do (or did) you struggle with two products in very different areas? I think like most folks here I have ideas for products in very different niches and part of the analysis paralysis for me is deciding which one is "best" to start with.
I got over both the starting paralysis (and then the subsequent doubt paralysis that I picked the wrong one to work on) by doing 2 major things:
1. Making the definition of "project success" being that I learned a ton.
Once I did this (like consciously did it, for example my decision to work on E2EE was a terrible biz decision because nobody asked for it, but I wanted to learn more about cryptography) the decision became easier. I picked the one that had something I wanted to learn in the immediate term. Mogul had more interesting things at the time that I wanted to learn (E2EE, push notifications, CSV uploading, etc...)
2. Choosing to work on these projects over a very long period of time. Once I had the mindset that these were 10+ year projects for me, the approach really stopped mattering to me. As long as I pushed forward, I felt like I was going in the right direction.
Working on 1 feature per app each week vs focusing 1 year on each app stopped mattering because the end result over a 10+ year period would be the same. Both apps would be there, probably have similar features and I would have learned the same things. Just in a different order.
Second one is definitely more specific to me, but I think some of it can be applied when you think about a project/product as a small part of someone's life journey.
Hope that helps!
(edit: I also wanted to say that I have 2 more apps on my roadmap. No idea when I'll start them but I know the I'll do it when the time is right)
https://gif.ski — a modern GIF encoder that beats everything else on quality. I'm dual-licensing it. It may be surprising that people would buy a codec for a 34-year-old format, but GIF is a popular medium, and I've created a solid implementation (in Rust, of course). I really like the licensing model. Unlike a SaaS, it doesn't require me to stay up all night worrying about uptime. The types of companies that buy the…
I like your website a lot, though the use of serif text is a bit jarring on the web in this context.
I'm making https://simplescraper.io - a no-code web scraping tool. Saved up, quit my job and went all in...on a todo app. Needless to say that idea didn't go far, but it taught me how to code. When I was close to broke I pivoted to this product and finally gained traction and now it's doing well enough to be my main source of income. I'm kind of following the "1000 true fans" ethos that pops up here occasionally. The…
Cool. Will try it out. Can I ask you a question?
I’m averaging about $600.00 MRR which is down from the $1200.00 MRR I was making for a better part of last year.
The beauty of it though is it only requires about 1-2 hours tops of my time each month though.
Combining both some additional contract work with this MRR outside of my FT job I’m doing about $1500.00 to $2,000.00 month.
Working on a few ways to increase this.
https://hoppy.network/ Basically WireGuard as a service but we give a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 with Reverse DNS.
Do you have your own IPv4 allocation? How does that work financially for a side project, if I may ask?
https://tomotcha.com/ — a Japanese tea subscription service. Although we had to suspend our activities for the better part of 2022, we've been able to resume in January 2023. Logistic is brutal in what is starting to look like a post globalization world: shipping fees are through the roof, delays are long, regulation (especially in the EU) is ever more stringent. COVID-19 pretty much killed bemmu's Candy Japan ( http…