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

#221
TurboSearch: A MSVC extension frontend for the excellent command line utility, The Silver Searcher (Ag).

https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CaseyBan...

Price: $12

I use this tool myself daily as my main search tool inside MSVC. I built it because I was frustrated with how slow other tools were, and before I built this I would use ag in my console instead.

I've sold one copy, but I solved my own problem so I'm happy!

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

#222

I built an Hreflang testing tool. https://app.hreflang.org Hreflang is an arcane SEO concept. If you have sites in different languages then you can tell Google/Bing that site.com/page.html and site.fr/page.html are basically the same page only in diff languages. The way to specify this is using meta tags in your HTML, and it's quite complex and error-prone. My tool checks if you implemented this correctly. It's runni…

Holy schnikees, I learned something new today. Thanks!

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

#223

https://www.bootstrapsite.com I've been working on a Bootstrap 5 landing page builder for almost 1 year now (mostly just weekends though). It's like my pet project than any money earning business but it gives me pleasure to work on it so I just keep at it. My plan is to open source it soon so people can create their sites and landing pages for free and host it on their own servers. Initially I made it create my own s…

Looks pretty cool, one thing that would be nice is the ability to delete, copy, and paste from the canvas. Also on trying to signup with my email I got a server error followed by a message that my email already exist.

> would be nice is the ability to delete, copy, and paste from the canvas

Yes it's possible. Please see this image

https://imgur.com/a/zgnmF0E

> Also on trying to signup with my email I got a server error

Yes the server error was due to SES not being able to send emails (fixed now) but the account was created.

Thanks for the feedback

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

#224
Marqus: https://github.com/EddieAbbondanzio/marqus

It's yet another markdown based note taking app. I wanted something that gave as much screen real estate to the note's content vs navigation so it'd be easy to use on small screens, and I also wanted to save my notes in plain files vs a proprietary format.

I don't plan on charging any money for the app itself so it'll never make me any money but I do plan on offering an optional note syncing service for multi-device support that'll be a few bucks a month.

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#225
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…

Stumbled on someone's workflow for creating AI cards/tabletop materials using stable diffusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTQY3VMJ78 Might be interesting to you for playtesting when you want to show to others! Good luck on the game - I'm a big tabletop/board game nerd, so would love to play it once you get the game ready!

Holy GOD that's way better than anything I have. I'm definitely gonna follow that, thanks for the link.

Ultimately, I'd want to have the art _not_ AI generated, but for the sake of prototyping, I could care less :)

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

#226
I've been using RSS-to-Email services for almost a decade but wasn't really happy with any of them. So I launched https://feedmail.org/.

I never really expected to make money (and the service is priced to be very low-cost without a huge margin) but currently we are approximately breaking even (about $20 negative after 13 months). So it looks like in the long-term it will probably pay for itself.

But the main thing for me is that it behaves exactly like I want (although I have already added a few features that I didn't want for other users).

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

#227
https://emulator.wtf/

We're building the world's fastest / most scalable / reliable Android-emulators-as-a-service with the goal of reducing everyone's CI time spent on waiting for instrumentation tests to finish.

Two long-time Android devs as co-founders, been working on this on many nights over the last year. Starting to take shape & close to breaking even.

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

#228
https://sbmkvp.github.io/rta_booking_information/

A simple one page app that shows next available driving test in the state of New South Wale, Australia. The script runs as a container and commits updates to a GitHub repo periodically. GitHub pages then render the latest data.

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

#229
post #196

SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

You run SteamDB? Thanks for making this! I've used it for all those 10 years whenever I'm getting back into gaming and want to see what the popular games are! The player count charts are a really awesome feature. Thanks for keeping it running all these years.

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

#230
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…

* slowly chants in the background * ship-it-ship-it-ship-it-ship-it!

Maybe I'll make a writeup and post it to HN. That's the least I could do haha
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