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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
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#302https://charts.town/ - Fundamentals of public companies visualised.
After HyperCharts shut down I started building an alternative. I knew I wouldn’t be the only one building an alternative but I liked the technical challenge. Let me know what you think.
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#303Radiant: 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…
Very cool, I've daydreamed about building something similar but always convinced myself I'd have to wait until text-to-speech was better to really incorporate all the sources I'd like. Awesome work!
The major advancements in text-to-speech we've since in the last year have me planning on revamping Rad's voice (maybe basing it on Tom Sellek...who knows) but the fact we've come this far has really opened a world of opportunities for audio-first experiences.
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#304I run a ton of things! The one I work on most right now is International Persuasion Machines: https://ipm-corporation.com/
The product, as it is right now, is a battery of tests of different browser configurations used by bot-makers, targeted at a URL, and then a ton of measurement around the cost of different theoretical implementations, which implementations are able to get through to a site, common themes among current working attacks, and how far into your stack bad requests might get. As an example, here's a scan of Kelley Blue Book, which I imagine tons of scrapers hit regularly: https://vulnerability-assessor.ipm-corporation.com/dashboard...
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#305Movienight: https://getmovienight.app/
It’s a chrome extension plus mobile companion app that adds social commentary to Netflix (We’ll add support for other streaming services later). Reason for building this, was well we had an idea so why not build it :)
Have launched it with friends and family and got positive reception. Won’t see this making any money but the process of going from idea to reality has taught us a LOT.
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#306Earlier quoted context omitted.
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 somethin…
I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.
If you don't mind me asking, what's your day job?
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#307Radiant: 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…
I love the idea, and I instantly downloaded the app. After a peppy welcome message from the robot, it doesn't actually play any songs. Just crashes constantly :( I can send you any debug info if you like. But no pressure, it's free as far as I can see and I don't want you to worry just because it doesn't work for me. Great idea anyhow!
Yep. That's not good... thanks for the offer, if you could shoot over an email to rad@getradiant.app and I'll get whatever broken fixed this weekend and released by Monday.
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#308https://beatyourbookie.app/ Website for tracking betting lines and finding arbitrage between betting sites. I'm currently collecting all the data myself and am working to build a public API to allow others to access that data. It's currently costing me ~$150 a month between DB, servers, and telemetry. Even if it never makes a dime I'm really enjoying building it though. At work I switch to a role where I no longer wr…
Look up Better Collective, a Danish bootstrapped startup on the same premis which is now worth billions.
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#309SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Wait, why are you not monetizing it? that traffic looks bonkers
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#310Watchflix: https://watchflix.group I made this extension to watch stuff together with my girlfriend during the pandemic. All the other extensions had a lot of flaws, didn't work with Prime and Disney+ Hotstar, so I decided to build one for my own use. I moved to the same city as my partner, so I don't have any use for it anymore. Few people still use this daily, so I'll probably let it run on my VPS as long as I can.
You might be able to eliminate the VPS by making it P2P using something like PeerJS [1]. PeerJS provides a free shared connection broker server.
[1]: https://peerjs.com/