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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 mtrpcic »

l72 wrote: post #216

Go Transit: https://gotransitapp.com/ I've built and maintain website + iOS + Android apps for public transit for several small municipalities that don't have a good solution. I usually end up adding cities if I visit there and an unhappy with their app offering. Most of these municipalities use a smaller 3rd party vendor for tracking their buses, but often, the user facing application is sorely lacking. My applicati…

Just a friendly heads up, but Go Transit is also the name of the regional transit system in Southern Ontario, Canada (originally named GO Transit for Government of Ontario Transit, as it started as a part of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation). Calling it out because your app looks cool, but with the direct overlap in name and product focus, it could lead to a future trademark dispute if your app takes off.

https://www.gotransit.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GO_Transit

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

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Post by tracker1 »

modeless wrote: post #261
xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: 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.

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 completely respect the owner of SteamDB for not doing this... I'm not a fan of ad networks as it stands.

Although, affiliate links to games might be an idea (assuming Steam has such a thing). At least for the purchase if someone is interested in buying.

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

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Post by pjmq »

alecco wrote: post #350
pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: 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…

It would be nice if you could make the DJ a bit more like the ones in GTA radios, in particular Vice City. I would pay for that!

This is literally my dream for the service. A personal GTA radio station. I'm entirely all ears if you have any suggestions on how to pull that off!

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

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Post by noodle »

I'm not going to go into details for the purposes of anonymity, but I took over a website that is a resource for a community I'm very involved in in order to prevent that website from being shut down. It costs me money to keep afloat, but I keep it afloat to maintain it as an entry point for the community. It does come with some fringe benefits that probably makes it worth paying for as well, but "worth" is very subjective here.

It makes a little revenue with ads and Amazon referrals due to the traffic volume but it operates at a loss.

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

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Post by chrisandchris »

pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: 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…

Downloaded, will test it, looks very promising. Absolutelty willing to donate. Do you take donations?

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

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Post by nabakin »

xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: 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.

Impressive. What's your tech stack? How are you able to keep the cost so low?

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

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Post by masukomi »

panphora wrote: post #187

hyperspace https://hyperspace.so/ My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open & easy-to-use core. The idea is simple: what if HTML was the source of truth for web applications? • Every app would be a front-end site that's remixable • Anyone could copy a site and use the tools you built to help you change it to edit it themselves • You could edit a site at any level of abstraction -- in the browser's de…

it sounds a lot like you're reinventing what Beaker Browser had built on top of DAT, except that it could do more. For example, they made a distributed Twitter clone as a proof of concept, but folks actually started using it. Definitely included blogging stuff.

Really cool stuff around taking sites and things other folks had built and using them as a basis for your new thing.

https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/ If you're not familiar i'd recommend starting with some of the YouTube videos giving an overview. It was pretty cool.

Alas, the main dev was hired by BlueSky and is now working there... but wonders if maybe you couldn't take that idea or its tools, and mush it together with yours.

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Post by singlemalt »

ShareClinic: https://www.share.clinic

A pandemic project that was supposed to help people post better links on social media. Meaning if you post links to content that you are providing on e.g. Zoom, it doesn't populate your listing with the open graph images and text from https://zoom.us, but you can decide how you want to decorate your post with some relevant imagery and description.

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

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Post by pjmq »

chrisandchris wrote: post #355
pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: 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…

Downloaded, will test it, looks very promising. Absolutelty willing to donate. Do you take donations?

The bottom of the settings screen has a 'buy me a coffee' link but I'm equally happy if you're using it and enjoying it!

Or if you have feature requests please send them my way! Those are worth an awful lot :)

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

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Post by ghaberek »

I am the proprietor of the OpenEuphoria Group (https://openeuphoria.org/). We make maintain the Euphoria programming language: a general-purpose interpreted programming language with a simple syntax and flexible type system.

The original developer released Euphoria 3.0 as open source in 2006 and the new group was formed to continue development. And they were quite successful for a while. Euphoria 4.0 was released in 2008 with many new features. But after a few more patches, the original group effectively disappeared around 2015 and version 4.1 was never released officially.

I took over ownership of the domain and website in 2018, then migrated the code hosting to GitHub (https://github.com/OpenEuphoria) and started digging into continuing development. The hosting and domain registration cost me about $100/year, some of which is paid by donations from the community. But money isn't really the concern; what I need is time.

I've been using Euphoria for over 25 years but I only started working on its development in the past few years. If I could do this full time I would, but right now I can only put in a few hours a week and I'm not even sure how viable Euphoria could be as a means of income.

We need at least one or two more actively involved volunteers who can help get version 4.2 out the door. And after that we need to rebuild the website, finish migrating to GitHub, and focus on new features and development tools. If you're reading this and would like to contribute, please comment here, sign up on our forum, or email me directly: ghaberek@gmail.com

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