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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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I don't make a dime off my art newsletter but I still keep it going: https://randomdailyart.com/

I tried to subscribe, but it said there was a problem :(

Interesting.

Would you mind emailing me your address? I've heard others say the same thing and I could never figure out what went wrong. (Email in profile)

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

#32

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…

Share your email somewhere, or send me one (cf profile). I'm working on an app which you could be interested in :)

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

#36

I just launched Find Humane, a free website and app for finding humanely raised animal products: https://findhumane.com/ Currently $0 revenue but we have some affiliate links to humanely certified delivery services, so hopefully the ball will start rolling!

I think this has potential for a certain target audience. Not a criticism, but feedback: if I stumbled on this site I'd have no idea what it was about based on the current landing page. Will you be adding an intro/description about what the site is for? :-)

Thanks, great feedback. I'm using the same code for web and mobile apps (Expo/React Native), but mobile users have gone through the app store landing page, so I agree it makes sense to add a landing page for web users. I'm thinking of a small little pop-up on first visit, but let me know if you'd prefer something else.

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

#37
I'm not ready to show it off yet, but I'm working on a workout and nutrition tracking service.

No other tool or service out there matches the feature set I want so I decided I'd just build it.

My goal for workout tracking is mostly to make it crazy simple and super fast. As close to 0 barrier between you and your tracking. I want PRs to be more than just "moved a bigger amount of weight". I think volume PRs from rep records, etc are also important.

For nutrition tracking, I want the ability to save some commonly used foods to my local storage to make it faster.

I want discoverable meal planning. The plan is to basically let the user pick a protein, then a cooking style, which expands into different recipes and then side dishes to fit the remaining macros of a given individuals macro goals.

For calorie tracking, I think its important to display that weight change isnt a day by day thing. You need to look at the caloric deficit or surplus for the week or the month vs weight change to see how you are doing. Most other trackers just give you feedback day by day which doesn't really represent reality. They also don't automatically adjust your TDEE over time with weight change.

Not sure if anybody will pay for it, but I want it so I'm going to build it :)

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

#39
I haven't touched it in years, but during grad school I created a fully operational browser-based app for integrated note-taking and reference management for academic projects, based on locally stored markdown files, and designed to minimize attentional breaks: https://github.com/rkp8000/hypothesize .

I ended up using it for the remainder of my PhD; however, it was unfortunately a bit too easy to accidentally delete an entire note document, and I never got around to fixing it (although at least one other person ended up using it as the primary tool for their grad studies also :) ).

It definitely earned me no more than $0/month.

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

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I'm not even trying, but my income dropped to like 1/10 from my record levels, I wonder when it will stop dropping. Luckily for me I am very frugal and not splurging, so I didn't need to adjust my expenses at all, since whether I earned 12000 USD per month or 1200 USD I still spend same, I guess will start doing something about it if I will earn less than I spend so I don't need to touch my ~13 years of expenses wort…

Throughout my life I have found that hard times like what you describe are often the best motivator to start something new. This is an OPPORTUNITY my friend, so don't guess, just get out there and DO. :-)
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