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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by reed1234 »

laurentiurad wrote: post #195
Sammi wrote: post #187

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You probably need to add some visual indicator that the generation is ongoing. A progress bar is ideal, but those can be hard to feed with real data.

Thanks! I wanted to implement something like that, but it's difficult to predict the progress since it's depending on how many requests are being handled in that exact moment, but it never got past 25 minutes, not even during peak hours. I am thinking of adding a modal saying that you can close the page and you will get notified over email when the photo generation is ready (the email part is already there).

Maybe a queue then?

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Post by laurentiurad »

dustypotato wrote: post #299
rahulmax wrote: post #151

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Headsnap is such a scammy and/or crappy website. I paid to purchase credits for $5, tried to train a model to generate a headshot. Nothing. It just refreshes and comes back with nothing. Will not recommend.

you can just do it with nano banana for 1/100 the price

You won't get consistency between pics with nano banana. I tried using it in Headsnap and the results weren't as good. Faces change drastically between pics. Also the cost per pic with nano banana is 0.24 per pic, x 30 pictures that I generate for a pack, you would pay $7 (with big quality issues).

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Post by apprentice7 »

muragekibicho wrote: post #179

I run a Substack where I show programmers how to turn advanced math papers into C and Python code. I'm a math guy who codes and I do it for fun. I'm shocked people are interested in this stuff. LeetArxiv Substack: https://leetarxiv.substack.com/

This is fantastic and it really looks like a passion-fueled side project.

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Post by rsanek »

popupeyecare wrote: post #165

I’ve created Pixie, a platform to employ and track your kids work. For families with a business, it helps reduce tax burden and fund a child’s Roth. I’m a physician with some 1099 income, built the platform myself because my kids help with my side projects, and have since onboarded CPAs who now offer it to their clients. I saved 5k this year on my own taxes by employing my kids and it has funded their Roth. Soon afte…

Very cool idea, I feel like awareness of this even being possible has to be quite low.

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Post by cunac »

crobertsbmw wrote: post #19

I’m still selling Computer Engineering for Babies. And I just launched a new book called Simple Machines Made Simple on Kickstarter a month or two ago. Both books are basically just simple interactive demos for kids and adults. https://hackylabs.com

This is insanely good. Can't wait for grandchild :)

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Post by sschueller »

PUSH_AX wrote: post #172
sschueller wrote: post #134

I made a public transportation departure board (for Switzerland) for your home or business. https://stationdisplay.com/

This is pretty cool, can I ask why you decided to ship hardware and not a subscription to a dashboard that people could put on any mounted monitor?

It came out of a project that I did [1] from which I wanted to see what it takes to turn that into an actual product[2]. Hardware is a while other game than software especially in low quantity as you still need to deal with things like CE.

[1] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/vbz-fahrgastinformation/

[2] https://sschueller.github.io/posts/turning-a-project-into-a-...

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Post by Aldipower »

Because I was frustrated of the pricing and feature list of TrainingPeaks, I've built my own training planning and analytics platform for endurance athletes (and coaches too!). It is called Tredict (https://www.tredict.com.) and it covers almost everything for runners, cyclists and swimmers over training effort forecasting and prediction, a comprehensive training log, training plans, workout planning, Vo2Max calculation, FTP assessments and collaboration with other athletes and coaches, equipment tracking and so on and so on. Quite a lot of things TrainingPeaks offers too. It has integrations for sending and execution of planned workouts to your watch with Garmin, Wahoo, Suunto, Coros, icTrainer and it receives executed trainings or health data from Polar, Dropbox, Oura, Withings and others! I think I did more then 15 oAuth integrations in total over Tredict's existens? And the platform offers an oAuth2 API for 3-party integrations on its own.

The payment model is a pre-paid model for 12 months of write access to your calendar. It brings ~500-600 Euros (before taxes) a month since 6 years.

https://www.tredict.com

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Post by KellyCriterion »

pdyc wrote: post #284
KellyCriterion wrote: post #233

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sure, its just about turnover :-D

wow i did not think of that! here is my project EasyAnalytica.com - Build dashboards from google sheets, CSV files.

What you have looks like an "up & running product" - great! How many paying customers do you have, if I may ask?

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Post by randallsquared »

mickael-kerjean wrote: post #91

I launched Filestash [1] as my response to the infamous “Dropbox should just be FTP” comment. Once I had a decent FTP experience, I kept going: adding support for pretty much every storage protocol, plugins to expose Dropbox (or anything else) over FTP, SFTP, MCP, or S3, and all the features I wished Dropbox had, with plugins to customize everything. The base product is open-source and I make money from custom builds…

The faux screenshot of HN tickled me.

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Post by megabless123 »

jspizziri wrote: post #277

https://soundreads.io/ An audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain. I do everything from building the app to the audio engineering. One thing I'm especially proud of is the restoration I did on the "War of the Worlds" 1938 Radio broadcast. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I've made it temporarily free to listen to [1] in case anyone is curious. You should compare…

You should surface the library of content to public visitors. I would be more likely to convert if I knew that you had the content I wanted.
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