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#382Radiant: 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…
This is super cool, but the first thing I wanted to do was cast it to the Chromecast plugged into my hi-fi. It seems casting isn't available yet - do you have plans to add it? It would make this a total winner for just playing music in the background.
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#383NoraSector: https://app.norasector.com/ -- real-time police/fire/EMS scanner for the Seattle area. Uses custom SDR software that can capture entire radio systems and streams with sub-second latency to clients, along with recordings.
For all sorts of reasons I decided not to monetize it. I've had some inquiries to use it for newsrooms and in certain states that have laws that require radio traffic be published online. I explored some of that but could never come to agreement on a price that would be worth my time to support. I also considered monetizing with ads and having a premium membership, but it's a little too niche and expanding to more regions requires more investment than I'm willing to make.
King County is migrating to a new digital system in the near future, and if they encrypt everything then it's dead in the water anyway.
Costs me about $200/mo in hosting fees to run, plus about $1400 for the machine/SDR that captures the radio traffic. I use it myself and don't mind sharing it with the handful of people who listen to it. If/when the access is cut off, I'll shut it down.
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#384Employbl: https://www.employbl.com/ kinda embarrassing we're not making any money from it. Hopefully that'll change this year
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#385turtleSpaces: https://turtlespaces.org
A 2D / 3D Logo interpreter written in Golang and compiled to WebAssembly. You can make art, animations and games with it.
Been working on it for a few years now, eventually want to have some kind of paid membership option, or the ability to package user-created projects as apps. But until then shipping is its own reward :)
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#386Bootstrapping 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.
This is actually pretty awesome. Unless you attach a cloud deployment setup (with all the complexity it entails in terms of monitoring etc), I don't see a serious monetization pattern for it (even the most hardcore cookiecutter agency probably wouldn't use this more than once or twice a week), but please publish the source if you ever take it offline.
Thanks!
I have some ideas for cloud deployment / testing, without making apibakery into a cloud hosting service (which is a different level of commitment I don't want to do on a side project).
I do know even one-time template projects that charge one-time fee of $200-$500 per template, so the market is there, just need to figure out the best pricing strategy.
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#387Not exactly my project, but I have been helping a friend of mine work on his pet project for the last couple of months: https://limeline.app/ . He currently makes no money from it and has no intent on making any anytime soon, hosting cost are pretty low and it was pretty much just created out of a need we both had: being able to aggregate all our sources for our morning technology watch. In the end, with feedback fro…
I just checked it out, very cool. Always wanted something like that.
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#388Go 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…
Do google maps / apple maps / transit / citimapper / moveit not work for these cities?
Typically they do not. The Agencies _might_ submit GTFS data, but rarely do any of these vendors provide real time data in GTFS-RT that Google/App and other would need.
I find commercial apps like transit and moveit are only willing to work with bigger cities, and have very little interest in smaller agencies.
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#389Go 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…
Yeah, I know. However, I white label all the applications, so the app ends up being called "Go Birmingham", "Go Steamboat", "Go Grand Rapids", etc... My users rarely actually find https://gotransitapp.com, and typically just search for City + transit on the app store.
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#390I've just released VegLog, a iOS app that helps me track my vegetable growing. I wanted an app that would let me compare my harvest over time, and look for patterns in growing conditions to help me maximise growth. The app has had some downloads, but no sales yet.