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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 zeta0134 »

I work on NES homebrew projects, mostly involving chiptune libraries that can be used to make games on the original hardware. I'm especially happy with the visualizers for turning musical creations into videos. I'd love to spend more time on it but I have to pay the bills, but still... figured I'd make good on the desire and try to turn it into a Patreon.

https://www.patreon.com/zeta0134

Here's like... pretty much all of those projects running in the browser at the same time: the music engine, the emulator, piano roll, and some of my own covers as demo tracks.

https://rusticnes.reploid.cafe/wasm/?cartridge=bhop-2a03.nes...

It's an extremely niche thing to even be into, and I'm very new to this whole self-marketing thing, so I'm still learning the ropes. Right now I don't make enough from my own patrons to offset the amount I happily pay each month to other creators. I enjoy the work on its own merits, so that's fine, but it would be great to one day connect with enough of an audience that I could justify spending more time on it than I already do.

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

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Post by nodablock »

https://nodablock.com - I create you an Internal Dashboard for your Web3 project with 1 click - I give you Analytics + automatic smartcontract vulnerability scanning + a visualization of transfers between address. A good usecase now is for the Porshe NFT that has some suspicion of wash trading - With my token visualiser [1] you can clearly see the top tokens exchanged between the same wallets.

Not quite ready for a release, but I made it public last week - without talking much about it - hoping people navigating the visualizers and dashboards will reach me out. But it's still not making money.

[1] https://nodablock.com/nft/porche-911

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

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Post by devrob »

WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #214

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 recei…

Reminds me of 21 Co's Earn Product RE pay for answering message

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

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Post by michaelmior »

xPaw wrote: 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.

I'm not a heavy Steam user, but SteamDB is great. Thank you!

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

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Post by conqrr »

Selaro https://getselaro.com

Personal/Workplace links and url Organizer and Search. Its a chrome extension. I haven't actively marketed this, but happy with how I can use this everyday personally and have got decent feedback from few friends and family

Price: $0

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

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Post by Ndymium »

modoc wrote: post #186

https://thechillypony.com Allows you to configure a zip code and alert temp, and you'll get an email if the forecast temp falls below that alert temp, so you can know when you need to blanket your horses. Built it to scratch my own need. Makes $0 :)

I don't live in the US and don't have a horse, but I love this site. Such a simple site and a focused idea, it's refreshing.

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

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Post by interleave »

Great idea because the framing takes away a lot of the pressure I feel when talking about my side projects.

Here are two open-source products I'm very proud of:

* https://getstreamline.app A stream-of-consciousness writer for Obsidian

* https://getpudding.app Have more fun with OSINT analysis for crypto token ecosystems

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

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Post by downrightmike »

toyg wrote: post #50
thomaslord wrote: post #21

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 bu…

You'd be competing with the likes of YNAB, that provide a lot of features already today (including auto-import in most countries). Tough job.

YNAB is too much hassle

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

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Post by johnmorrison »

xPaw wrote: 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.

Thank you! Love the site.
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