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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#202CodeApprove: https://codeapprove.com
Basically CodeApprove is a code review UI for power users to layer on top of GitHub. I find that it really resonates with people who have worked at Google/Facebook/etc before and find Github's code review tools really lacking. You get conversation resolution tracking, auto-assignment of reviewers between 'turns', a personalized inbox, and a dense/fast UI with keyboard shortcuts for almost everything.
(Note: I do have some users, but I just got out of alpha mode haven't yet charged any of them. I will get my first $ at the end of this month)
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#203Bootstrapping a project generator tool for Django and Node: https://apibakery.com I expect (well, hope for) it to be making some money at some point in the future but don't worry since it's a side project and something I'm passionate about building even if it's just for fun.
that's pretty cool.
Have you considered CLI version ?
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#204Wanting to experiment with Shopify, I decided to make a t-shirt shop for cyberpunk and sci-fi stuff. So I registered a short sci-Fi sounding domain: https://hex7.org and proceeded to toil (many many mouse clicks) away stocking my shop with with hand-designed shirts and coffee cups and then waited. 2 years in, not a single sale : Partly I wanted just to add products and see if the combination of Shopify, Google, and m…
Do you supply a feed of your products to Google Shopping? It's free now.
Hmm how does that work?
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#205https://guestrevenue.com/ - an tool to integrate Airbnb bookings into Xero for short let owners who want really precise accounts. Built for myself, turned into a multi-tenant app because in 2019 it would definitely make me rich. I have one user called Todd. He seems lovely but I don't have the heart to charge him because then he'd expect it to work. Everyone else has bounced off because they are weak. Actually I migh…
:D this is great
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#206I’ve made roughly -$400 so far from my jazz sticker business, https://www.jazzstickers.com. Not trying to make money, only to roughly break even and make more of my ideas happen.
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#208Simplest File Renamer - batch rename files with your favorite text editor (and see the diff of the changes) https://yboris.dev/renamer/ -- FREE MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-Renamer
I need this thanks
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#209https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever - AI-generated (aside from the artwork) parody of '90s sitcoms, running forever (24/7/365).
We worked on this w/ a very small team for the past four years, in-between our day jobs. When started, OpenAI didn't have an API, and Stable Diffusion definitely wasn't a thing, so we had to come up with novel methods to thread cohesive content together. Most of the "creative" details e.g., laugh track, dialogue, frequency of dialogue, camera shots, and so on, are all tunable on a per scene basis.
We're in sort of a holding pattern right now -- no clear path to monetization for the project, and it hasn't garnered enough attention for us to probably get funding based on the technology backbone. Hope you enjoy it! Labor of love. :)
(posted this in the similar thread yesterday but I’ll take any exposure I can get…!)
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#210This should be a regular feature on HN, somewhat akin to "Who's hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?". Maybe not on a monthly basis, but it would be cool to see periodically on some cadence.
There's a lot I could say on this topic, but TBH, I don't want to go into most of it in detail Right Now for various reasons. The main reason being simply that the side project stuff I might want to call attention to is largely not in the state where I'd want people looking at it right this minute. And the reasons for that, in turn, are manifold...
The good news is, progress is being made, and I should have some projects ready to put "out there" kinda soon'ish. Yay for being vague, I know. But I've learned to be leery of making hard promises on stuff like this. So much shit happens that you can't control. See above about "manifold reasons".
Anyway, we're not making any money yet... in fact, we've been losing money since day one, but thankfully the amount lost is relatively small since our expenses are small. Nothing that I can't just pay out of my $DAYJOB salary.
All of that notwithstanding, if you want a somewhat outdated view of what I've been working on for a while, see:
If things go well, this year will see lots of improvements to the underlying projects, videos, blog entries, and tutorials explaining how to use everything, and entirely new stuff not shown at the above links - as well as finally having everything available in SaaS form.
Sadly my backlog of "ideas to implement" remains far larger than my bandwidth for implementing stuff, so FSM only knows if/when some of the stuff I want to do will ever see the light of day.
NOTE: the "demo" links you may find if you click through the above links are offline at the moment. I'm in the middle of a big infrastructure migration / automation effort; moving a lot of stuff from Linode and "other" to OVH, consolidating DNS at Route 53, automating deployments with Ansible, etc. And one thing that hasn't been done yet is to bring up the new demo server(s).