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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 modeless »

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.

Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or something.

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

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Post by vacooom »

pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…

Trying it now and it seems really nice! I wish you had a desktop/web version, and it would be my daily background radio while I work all day. Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists are nice enough, but they barely carry me through the first 1-2 days, and then it gets pretty repetitive.

It would also work really well as an Alexa skill, especially with Rad's commentary.

What did you write the apps in?

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

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Post by yekm »

Not really expecting a revenue, just hacking around.

Almost all grateful dead and Jerry Garcia concerts in telegram https://t.me/gdvault it would be nice if someone can remake all of it because it ended up quite ugly with song listings and overall structure. It's all in bash and code quality is quite bad, but I can throw it on GitHub of somebody interested.

Xscreensaver with imgui https://github.com/yekm/imscreensaver only one for now, made it in a weekend just to proof of the concept. Help wanted

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

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Post by jkingsman »

Nobody.live: https://nobody.live/

Filterable interface for finding streamers with zero (or one, for StreamLabs etc.) viewers. Surprisingly intimate, in my opinion.

I run it at (little) cost but got some solid coverage: https://www.pcgamer.com/this-website-only-shows-you-twitch-s....

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Post by ChrisKingWebDev »

My pandemic project is VanWalks. It's a walking tour app of Vancouver. There are currently 5 routes around the downtown area. Working on a freemium model, Chinatown and Coal Harbour are free, the rest are in app purchases.

Available in both app stores and the site is vanwalks.ca

I'm currently working on making a web version of the app because my sales model is in a very grey area as to what Apple allows in their store. I want to be prepared in case Apple takes my app down.

I'm working with the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame to provide a free walking tour of the Star Walk on Granville Street. I'm also working with the Vancouver Police Museum to digitize the walking tours that they offer and have them in the app as part of your admission to the museum. Those will both be launched this spring.

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

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Post by wiradikusuma »

Momenial https://momenial.com — a mobile app for creating certificates for webinar attendees.

Currently making $0/mo. I'm actually building this app as a "case study" for my upcoming book, an opinionated guide to building mobile apps, from ideation, dev, ops, and marketing. I've been blessed with working at various company sizes and wearing multiple hats: founder of two failed startups, VP Eng at a telco and a large retail conglomerate, and now CTO of a medium-sized fintech.

The book won't promote microservice, Kubernetes or anything Google-level. It's a modern-but-practical guide "for the rest of us". If this sounds interesting, please create an account in Momenial—I will send updates about the book there (because it doesn't have a landing page).

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

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Post by code_Whisperer »

shon wrote: post #211
code_Whisperer wrote: post #151

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

If you are interested, I'd also recommend that you check out Michael Essek's YouTube channel (no affiliation, just like his stuff). He is a very successful t-shirt designer who sells books and materials to help people design stuff like this, but he also dispenses a LOT of free advice on his YouTube channel, if you are lucky he'll even critique your design on his show and give you advice on how to improve! Check https://www.michaelessek.com/ or on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelEssek

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

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Post by breadchris »

Cook Wherever: https://cookwherever.com/

Cooking is hard. I want to cook more but I am usually too hungry to focus. I am building a site to help you with all stages of cooking, not just showing you ingredients and directions.

I have also realized the knowledge I have amassed for the “why” of cooking helps me cook without needing recipes mostly. I use ML/NLP to extract entities from ingredients and directions so contextual information can be provided to someone who is curious (ex. “you preheat your oven because …”)

I really like content creators, but following videos while cooking is a no-go for my attention span. I’m working on it, but directions will work as time stamps into a video for a recipe.

[1] https://github.com/cookwherever/cookwherever

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

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Post by Siecje »

jedberg wrote: post #185
pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…

Cool! Just signed up. I was a little turned off by how much access you need to Spotify. Is that just because they don't have granular enough permissions?

What does it request? That part was in french for me.

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

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Post by RajT88 »

pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…

> Why do it?

Doing stuff like this is how you get experience in areas where your day job may not provide you the opportunity.

After all - employers don't care how you got the skills, that you have the skills.

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