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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

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Post by shon »

code_Whisperer wrote: post #151
shon wrote: post #124

Wanting 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…

Thanks for sharing. I like! One of my own current side hustles involves creating and selling t-shirts, hoodies, caps, etc. just like you. And also like you, I had ZERO luck trying to sell them in my own store (Shopify, WooCommerce). However, when I listed them on popular DTG-type sites, they started selling, and now sell several hundred $ per month. I'm talking Teepublic, Redbubble, Spreadshirt, etc. I didn't initial…

Wow that’s amazing. Thanks

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Post by lucasfcosta »

Ergomake: www.ergomake.dev

Every time you open a pull-request, we give you a link to a preview environment.

Think Vercel previews, but for everything.

The setup takes a few seconds because we simply pick up a docker-compose file from your GitHub repo — if it runs on your machine, it will run on Ergomake.

We've got a working product, and we're now implementing billing and setting up free trials.

If anyone is interested in chatting, I'd be happy to talk through what we do at lucas.costa at getergomake dot com (or fill out the form on the website — no sales person will email you, it'll be me, an engineer, I promise).

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

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Post by zadjii »

thrtythreeforty wrote: post #149
zadjii wrote: post #103

This isn't public yet, and almost feels like the kind of thing I'll never ship. I've been working for a while now on the idea of a card / board game. The concept was bouncing around in my head for a while, and I started taking a lot more notes on the idea after my second kid was born (4mos ago). All of a sudden, I had a lot of time to sit quietly in a dark room with my laptop (and help the kiddo get to sleep). I even…

You should post a screenshot of this! I'm also impressed you're able to edit while dealing with a fussy baby; I find it impossible to be productive on a smartphone, and my son wouldn't go to sleep if I was standing at my workstation (keyboard noises and the screen are too interesting).

It's a very careful balance haha. I mostly just do spreadsheet updates on my phone at this point. I've got a very delicately balanced laptop next to the rocking chair, so I basically use a pillow to support the baby in one arm, and work with the other.

It's been an _incredibly_ slow process, as you might imagine :p

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

PoachMe.Dev: https://www.poachme.dev/#/devLand?reqCode=HNGOBRRR

Premise: Recruiters spam left and right, so we decided to create a website just so they could get a familiar calendar-like interface but asked them to pay for your time. As soon as we exposed the external version with the URL, we decided to make an automated template ("Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this. You'll receive my resume upon confirmation of the booking. https://bk.poachme.dev/Lazaro"). After that we ended up creating a virtual business card service so that could easily create a web presence without going through a different service (https://bk.poachme.dev/kBMf).

Availability: Web

Price: $0

Cost: Nearly nothing, it just sits with my other hosted services.

Why do it? Honestly, asking someone to pay for your time is the easiest way to see who values your time. The cost to send a single spam message to thousands of developers is nearly zero and it takes time to sort through the messages to see if there's anything good. I have had experiences going from blackmail all the way to people disclosing the actual salary for the position without any money exchanging hands which proves that when your time has value it's suddenly possible for the pay bracket for a position to appear.

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

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Post by l72 »

Go Transit: https://gotransitapp.com/

I've built and maintain website + iOS + Android apps for public transit for several small municipalities that don't have a good solution. I usually end up adding cities if I visit there and an unhappy with their app offering.

Most of these municipalities use a smaller 3rd party vendor for tracking their buses, but often, the user facing application is sorely lacking. My applications utilize the same data, but try to:

1. Have a simple interface for quickly tracking buses 2. Have a simple interface to see times at your stops 3. Be specific to the city/transit agency. Most of the 3rd party vendors don't white label their apps, so somehow you have to know to download the My Stop app for Birmingham, AL, even though searching the App Store for Birmingham won't bring that app up. Once you have the app, you then have to find your transit agency.

Currently, I support Availtec, RouteShout, and TransLoc.

This was originally built for me in Birmingham, and I slowly expanded it as I visited other cities.

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

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Post by shon »

Namari wrote: post #143
shon wrote: post #124

Wanting 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…

To be honest the t-shirts don't look that great. Maybe there is room for improvement.

FINALLY some product feedback!! What would make them better?

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

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Post by ambersahdev »

Discord and Slack Notifications for Terminal Commands

Nudge Notifier: https://NudgeNotifier.com

Availability: MacOS, Slack, Discord.

Why:

- Builds at my current monolithic architecture employer take forever and I often notice failed builds too late.

- I don't like pausing Seinfeld to go check on my terminal.

- Developer Productivity is on a lot of companies' minds and Nudge pings developers when they can resume their work.

- Reminded me of https://xkcd.com/303/

Features:

- Effortless mobile notifications for long-running terminal commands.

- It'll even notify you when your builds running over ssh finish execution without installing it on the ssh target.

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

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Post by drbscl »

shon wrote: post #124

Wanting 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…

Is there a particular reason you didn't buy adspace?

I imagine it's the main way that most shopify stores make their sales, and is probably a good way to realise some gains from your time investment.

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