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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 phoenixy1 »

kolanos wrote: post #168
thomaslord wrote: post #21

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…

A Plaid developer account is free and will let you connect to up to 5 bank accounts.

It's 5 by default, but you can actually connect up to 100 accounts for free if you submit a request for full development access.

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

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Post by freedomben »

pjmq wrote: post #278
code_Whisperer wrote: post #171

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unsolicited feedback: If this were also offered as a web-based application I'd probably use it (sitting at my desk all day I don't want to use my mobile device for music). Maybe sell rotating ads or sponsorships (on screen but not in the audio stream, please!) to make some $. Very cool.

That's exactly what is coming next for it! A fully-fledged web app. It's actually built using web tech so it's an easy port. Just need to rebuild some of the native bits for web (ohh I might get to use wasm!) but once that's done it should be good to go. Planning on pushing out in the next 2 weeks. And yeah while I don't need to run ads on it at the moment, if the right sponsor wanted to work with me I'd be exception…

Same, won't use a mobile app but would happily use a web app.

Any plans for Youtube Music support? I rarely use spotify anymore. Not your problem obviously, just wondering if you have plans to expand.

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

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Post by PStamatiou »

xmaayy wrote: post #155
PStamatiou wrote: post #65

Not currently public aside from maybe a thousand testflight users, but I built a stock and crypto portfolio tracker app focused on design. I'm a designer and developer and this was my first time diving into Swift/SwiftUI. Started as a covid project to learn SwiftUI and became a 3 year side project, complete with full node backend to do some auth, caching, cleaning up data and various things. It's called Stocketa. Her…

Unrelated to the app your building, I've been reading your blog for a few years. Thanks for the content stammy :)

thanks!!

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

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Post by superfamicom »

https://wiki.superfamicom.org/

A custom made wiki for documents and resources related to developing software (games) for the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom. Started in 2010 and still going strong, switched software a few years ago from Ruby to Node.

https://sfc.fm/

An online emulator for the SPC700, the sound chip from the Super Nintendo / Super Famicom with a large selection of the game library's OST to listen to. Designed to scratch a personal itch and play with Emscripten years ago.

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

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Post by rajasimon »

Blog Streak https://blogstreak.com | BlogWithNotion is taken as of now but will get it I think.

It's an another Notion to Blog integration service.

Who can benefit from it?

This project is for people who running a static blog because of their scary speed and publishing it by git push.

Who can't benefit from it?

People who don't love blogging and hate Notion. Sorry guys I did integrate with Notion because it's one of the tool I come across which can satisfy the hectic Hugo markdown properties.

Price? I set $5 per year and I think that's worth the month to spent for this little integration tool.

Any questions? please.

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Post by vqc »

I've fallen into the chess craze.

I put together www.chessrapid.com for my own use. It's a version of Puzzle Rush / Puzzle Storm that has the added benefit of: 1) filtering by tactical themes and 2) seeing what themes you are frequently slow on / incorrect on. This way I can narrow in on the tactical themes that I need to improve pattern recognition on (e.g. I can take a break from Mate in 1 and Mate in 2; I really need to work on middle game).

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

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Post by agreon »

https://game-watch.agreon.de (I know, my naming is great) is a service to get updates for games that you are interested in.

I'd often watch game release previews like the E3 and put the games that interested me in some kind of list. Now I would have to check manually for news about a release date or in which stores they would be published. GameWatch takes off this work from me and maybe also from you :).

I know it was most probably done before in some similar way, but I didn't even search for alternatives until now. It would have been a good idea if I wanted to create a real market competitor, but that was not my motivation. I wanted to craft something that was my own, and not a copy of some product. I didn't want to spoil my creativity.

I guess the most asked question will be: Why don't you crawl all the games beforehand and let the user search in your database. After all, it would improve the usability as users would not have to wait for the crawl to happen on demand. Also, you could show useful information like price history etc. per store.

Well, besides the limited resources I wanted to invest, the project was born with a different idea than price monitoring in mind. Rather, the main idea was for me - as a user of many game devices - to get updated as soon as a game is added to a specific store (Maybe some games would be nicer to play on the Switch?).

A preliminary crawl would not really have helped in this case. Besides, the on demand crawl results are cached. So if a popular game is searched for often, the overhead won't really be noticeable.

Costs:

- ~5€ DataDog Logging

- ~10€ VPC (but that is also used for other things)

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