I run https://getloaf.io/ an app which lets you customise SVG animations that are built into the app. Constantly plugging away for 4ish years now!
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#242I built https://explorehere.app to help you learn about the history of the world around you by sending a push notification whenever you pass a new historical marker on your travels! It’s a freemium app with a pro subscription for advanced features; our revenue is just under $1k/month. We’re working towards ExploreHere being a passive adventure guide. As you go about your travels ExploreHere will nudge you about inter…
Just a few weeks ago I was on a trip through back roads of NC and VA and saw a bunch of historical markers and wondered how to do something with them. And now I know. My thinking was to stop and get a gps coordinate and then what? How do I get them all across the states? And that is about how far my thinking got before a SQUIRREL ran through my brain. Glad to see some of my thoughts aren't to far out there. Now just…
Start small, get the GPS co-ords of those markers, and create your visualisations, etc.
Then share them with family/friends
Then they'll start collecting marker co-ords for you
THEN worry about how to get strangers involved (using/submitting/etc)
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#243I built https://explorehere.app to help you learn about the history of the world around you by sending a push notification whenever you pass a new historical marker on your travels! It’s a freemium app with a pro subscription for advanced features; our revenue is just under $1k/month. We’re working towards ExploreHere being a passive adventure guide. As you go about your travels ExploreHere will nudge you about inter…
I find it disturbing how many people allow apps to access their location 24/7.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#244I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives. It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos. I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that i…
It's awesome! It's so accessible, from now on I'm gonna send it to my non-musician friends whenever they show any interest in music.
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#245I just launched a website for buying organic Mississippi sweet potatoes online: https://sweetclay.net . I've made $910 in revenue in the first three weeks. Does that count?
I think it does.
How did you get your farmer network set up?
Reminds me of https://www.vidaliaonions.com/. The guy who started that bought the domain before he knew what he was going to do with it.
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#246We wrote a zine on System evals for LLM-driven apps. Lots of people building impressive demos with AIs, but to get it working well in production over time (maintainable), you need some kind of system eval. It's like some kind of open secret, since lots of people are still floating on vibes-based engineering and looks-good-to-me@K metrics. https://forestfriends.tech Sri and I wrote it as a way to collaborate after doi…
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#247Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#248It would be great if these questions also included a sub-question on distribution strategy, that's one of the hardest things to visualize as a developer from $0 to $500.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#249I made a website to alert people about inside trading and congress trading, https://tradeinsight.info (updated) Not $500/month yet, but towards it, the work flow is quite simple, the infrastructure is a bit complicated, need quite amount of time to maintain.
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#250I make between $3k to $6k from putting a log cabin on Airbnb. This started during period of boredom during the pandemic. I operate remotely with smart home devices and with a local cleaning team/handyman.
I had a project to completely automate this with an AI agent but Airbnb doesn't offer a publicly available API.
$3k seems high but the costs add up and the time as well (details here https://studiozenkai.com/post/airbnb-the-good-the-bad-the-pr... ). I always have a bit of profit at the end of year and the mortgage costs are entirely paid so no complaints here
If I ever get fed up from tech projects, I can see myself getting a bigger vacation property and making this my own version of Barista FIRE