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

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PoachMe.Dev: https://www.poachme.dev/#/devLand?reqCode=HNGOBRRR Premise: Recruiters spam left and right, so we decided to create a website just so they could get a familiar calendar-like interface but asked them to pay for your time. As soon as we exposed the external version with the URL, we decided to make an automated template ("Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this. You'll recei…

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

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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/…

Hey that's me. Thanks for the shout out

@panphora yeah you're project looks like (IMO) a smarter version of what beaker was doing. Smarter because the p2p element ended up being a bit of a tech-fascination that got in the way. Hyperspace seems to be doing the actually-cool-UX of self-editing sites and then getting out of the way otherwise.

The beaker team made a distributed twitter clone, but the cooler one (Rotonde) was made by 100 rabbits and you "made your profile" by forking somebody else's profile It's messy but fun (the software itself is viral!).

If you create js apis for reading other sites and enumerating the files in them, you can get a lot of power out of that.

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

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I was annoyed that I had to install FUSE on my Mac just to be able to browse my Borg backup repositories (it's a mildly arduous process of disabling some security settings if it's not installed already), so I made an Electron GUI with the help of ChatGPT and Copilot: https://github.com/Netruk44/borg-repository-explorer

I really don't expect this to ever make money, I just had a need and a desire to learn/explore how Electron works (Sorry! I know people hate it for how heavy it is, hah).

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

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Browser Routr is my way of getting some sites to auto open in another browser: https://paulrrogers.com/products/browser-routr

i gotta ask. Why didn't you just use Choosy or one of the many other apps that do this?

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

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Bootstrapping a project generator tool for Django and Node: https://apibakery.com I expect (well, hope for) it to be making some money at some point in the future but don't worry since it's a side project and something I'm passionate about building even if it's just for fun.

that's pretty cool. Have you considered CLI version ?

I did not, that's an interesting idea, thanks!

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

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I am building a permanent library whose subject is sustainability, I can't make money on it, because some of the book are copyrighted... So it is a blockchain storage based PWA offline first webapp that uses Arweave as a storage to permanently store knowledgeable books on the topics of sustainability. The goal of the library is to give PEOP;LE A CHANCE TO SURVIVE IN THIS WORLD BY USING OLD AND RECENT TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOWS us TO LEAVE IN A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE - GOOD FOR US, THE FAMILY, THE EARTH AND THE ECONOMY.

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

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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…

Is it possible to onboard service onto Apple Music?
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