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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by windowshopping »

johnjungles wrote: post #340

I built https://check.supply with a friend - it’s an iOS app that is like a cash app experience for mailing a check. Old school landlords, paying gardeners, or other people still only accepting checks. We use plaid to connect your account, then press send, then track the printing, mailing and delivery of the check. Only iOS App here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/check-supply/id6475490646

How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by windowshopping »

Jabbs wrote: post #30

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search…

How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by booleandilemma »

munificent wrote: post #367
booleandilemma wrote: post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I could see why'd you say that, but I think it's a case of hate the game, not the player. We have crafted a society that has a dearth of compassion and companionship, that's the unfortunate reality. There are lots of sad, lonely guys out there and that's not GaryNumanVevo's fault, he's just catering to them.

Willing players are what create the game.

Whether or not GaryNumanVevo runs his service there are going to be lonely men out there. I don't know how we'd even begin to fix that.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by windowshopping »

JoeMattie wrote: post #109
connectsnk wrote: post #106

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Do you have a tutorial on how this tool can be used? Any backtest on how such alerts worked? Asking as a potential customer?

Check out the docs section or any of the YouTube videos. And yes, I'm pretty proud of our backtesting tool (it's called strategy playground) that lets you set some bot parameters and filters for what alerts you want to trade based on (it has access to all the alerts we've generated historically, as well as symbol and option prices for all tracked options) and then does a full tick by tick simulation run and generates…

The docs seem to be locked behind sign-up. The only option I see is "Get Started" which leads to sign up. :/

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by vunderba »

erics32 wrote: post #375

I was laid off at the start of 2024 and built https://interviewsolver.com which is an AI copilot for helping you with your leetcode interviews. Doing about 6k/month, though the space is becoming fairly crowded.

This is functionally identical to having someone off-screen feeding you the answers.

Things like this will only make the interview process worse for applicants with even a shred of integrity. We need a "black book" for unethical developers.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Book_(gambling)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by abetusk »

nicksergeant wrote: post #310

I started designing and building websites for locally-owned small businesses in my town, and have grown it to 45+ clients with a current MRR around $11k. I still work full-time and have built an awesome team over the years! https://flxwebsites.com

Do you mind going into what web stack you use? What about businesses that want online payments?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by bengold14 »

windowshopping wrote: post #400
bengold14 wrote: post #131

RankPic ( https://www.rankpic.info ) is an app to help users crowdsource their best photo. I've been building over the past 3 years & just recently monetized and crossed the $500/m mark through a Pro subscription. It's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc. I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people usin…

How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.

I used fiverr to make assets, and then either use fiverr to make a design that I can easily build with one of the website building tools (wix, etc.) or I try to build it myself.

The easiest way is to find a landing page you think looks good and use it as inspiration with your own colors, assets, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by aanet »

nspeller wrote: post #116

I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives. It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos. I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that i…

Fantastic site! Well done, beautifully executed, and very inviting.

I play the guitar (and keys) -- but I'm a bit light on the theory part of it -- and this looks very much like I could use a refresher.

Kudos!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by kmoser »

nspeller wrote: post #116

I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives. It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos. I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that i…

I'm impressed! Every couple of years I come across a different music theory website and I try to follow along, but inevitably after a few sentences I'm completely lost and the rest becomes incomprehensible.

I got really far along in yours, which was great, until I got to 6 (Keys): "When a song says that it is in the key of C Major or D Minor this is simply telling you which of the 12 notes are used in this song." You then give examples of Major and Minor keys, each of which contains seven notes. This threw me for a loop. Are you saying every song consists of exactly seven notes (some repeated, obviously) from only one key? Or are you saying every song uses at least some notes from a key? Also, don't some songs switch keys in the middle?

Not looking for answers here, just wanted to point out where I got stuck so maybe you can add some clarity to that section.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by kevin_thibedeau »

Suppafly wrote: post #271
ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #243

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I find it disturbing how many people allow apps to access their location 24/7.

>I find it disturbing how many people allow apps to access their location 24/7. Why? It doesn't effect you at all.

It's all being sold. It allows data brokers to build invasive behaviorial profiles.
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