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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 lnsp »

Valar: https://valar.dev

It's kinda like a private SaaS platform. I just run it for me and a couple of friends right now and just hosting a ton of little fun side projects on it.

e.g. https://tim-efa.valar.app which brings Munich's public transport schedule to your terminal (try it with curl, looks way better)

It supports all kinds of things like bring-your-own-domain, e.g. I run my portfolio page https://espe.tech on top of it. It is partly open-source (actually only the CLI for now) but I plan to fully open-source it in the future after cleaning up the code a bit and improving testing and stuff :)

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

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Post by devrob »

skytrue wrote: post #209

https://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.,…

This is hilarious! cool idea!

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

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

devrob wrote: post #233
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

Goes to show nothing is truly unique in this world.

We mostly just got fed up with spending hours on interviews where recruiters showed up late or just ghosted only to realize nothing materialized.

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

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Post by telman17 »

Second Star

https://secondstargame.com/

Sci-fi game without combat, inspired by games like Myst and Firewatch. Been working on it with friends the last 4 years. I direct the project and compose the music. It costs me around 1000 a year. Before I got into web development I worked in games. Definitely a passion project but eventually we hope to flip the switch on the Steam page. There’s a free demo available but we’ve overhauled much of the gameplay since releasing it.

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Post by aantix »

Smart Kid -

Automatically remove "Liked" Youtube videos and subscriptions based on a set of keywords.

This is helpful for younger kids that have Youtube video feeds full of Minecraft and MrBeast videos.

It helps to balance out the recommendations and give a more diverse video feed of recommendations.

https://smartk.id/

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

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Post by ravishi »

DustinBrett wrote: post #93

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS My passion project is building an OS in the browser. I've been at it for 2 years now. I've had interest from people who want to turn a profit with it, but I am happy to just keep adding features and polishing it forever.

It actually feels really polished!

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Post by dennis_jeeves1 »

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…

Great idea, you must pursue it. I too get a lot of recruiter spam. The idea should be extended to companies who take up several hours of your time to interview only to reject you. Life is short.

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

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Post by countvonbalzac »

l72 wrote: post #216

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 applicati…

Do google maps / apple maps / transit / citimapper / moveit not work for these cities?

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

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Post by lancesells »

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…

I won't use Plaid to connect bank accounts so entering transactions manually would be my use-case. There are some of us out there. :)
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