Just wanted to chime in with this. Even at $2000/month, most of the time I'm like "why am I wasting my time on this?"
there is a market for 2k/month apps/businesses. feel free to email me if you want to sell.
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#282At this rate, assuming my work costs nothing and no hardware ever breaks and no prices ever go up, I'll break even with Marginalia Search in Q2 2031. So there's that.
But it's not really a get-rich scheme.
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#283Feedmas: https://feedmas.com
Collecting feedback and customer support tool. For one of our products, we got tired of using a customer support tool that did too many things, we wanted something simpler but without compromising the core of the intent - supporting customers and helping with their issues. So, we made one of our own and have been using successfully for over a year and decided to make it available for others. Got some signups but not paying customers yet.
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#284SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Thank you! SteamDB has been super helpful for me. I like to be able to pull posters and banner art for games, and it's also super helpful for untangling bundles of Rocksmith DLC.
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#285https://www.stoxmap.com
its just interesting to see how the globale economy is doing, although nobody seems interested :)
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#287www.timeblocker.dev
A webapp to manager your tasks and your time. No other todo app has a view that combines these things.
I'm overhauling it now and hope to launch it in a few weeks. Currently it's making $0.
If anyone is interested please let me know, I'm looking for a first 1-5 customers to use it for free and give me feedback.
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#288a few wordle variants
https://xordle.org (two puzzles on one board)
https://fibble.xyz (lies to you once per row)
https://warmle.org (clues based on alphabetical proximity)
i don't have any intention of making any money from them. just my contribution to a fun and ad-free internet
all 3 coded by me but the twist for fibble was from k & r garfield and the twist for warmle was from mike elliott
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#289ancv: https://github.com/alexpovel/ancv/
Idea: renders your resume as pretty terminal output. Others can view it in their own terminals:
curl -L ancv.io/heyho
I provide a GCP-hosted server that works off GitHub gists (where your resume can live in JSONResume form). However, self-hosting is a first-class citizen and easy to use as well.
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#290I'm not sure if many rowers are also programmers, but I'm building a rowing app making $0 per month.
iOS only for now: https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxun/id1624866789
Works with any Bluetooth rowing machine (WaterRower etc), currently building support for Concept2 PM5 machines. It's one of the few apps that allows you to row indoors and outdoors.
Cheers!