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Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Oh man, that describes all of them. http://ipfessay.stavros.io/ - Publish uncensorable essays on IPFS https://www.eternum.io/ - Pin IPFS files with a nice interface https://www.pastery.net/ - The best pastebin https://spa.mnesty.com/ - Fuck with spammers https://www.timetaco.com/ - Easily make nice-looking countdowns And this is just the last two months or so? Also, lots of hardware stuff: https://www.stavros.io/proj…

Those are all pretty awesome!

Since they don't really make you any money - do people use them often then - if so how do people find them?

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#43
I built https://discoverdev.io - just to refresh some basic web skills and learn some machine learning!

Turned out pretty decent, and now I spend about 20 minutes everyday curating interesting engineering links. Don't think I'll make any money out of it, but is an interesting post dinner routine :D

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#48

http://apimockery.com/ - API Mocking as a Service I built it to learn React and brush up my Go skills. I occasionally add new features. It makes $0 now, but I plan to earn 10$ a month before my amazon free tier expires :)

This is a great idea! Design could use some love, though.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#49
I started a podcast with another Hacker News poster. We have no ads, make no money, but it's great fun just talking about big local events in Columbus Ohio, and also big tech news. It's obviously extremely niche and local, but there's always something new happening in urban development, politics, that sort of thing here.

http://columbusthisweek.podbean.com for the RSS feed, or itunes here: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/columbus-this-week/id126...

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

#50
http://getpoe.com - distraction free / focus writing app for Windows, and soon Linux and macOS. It makes me nothing, but I love working on it. I built it to have a focus writer on windows 8 (there were none that played move with metro at the time) but I spend more time coding it than actually writing these days
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