Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

Post by hipjiveguy » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 1:06 AM UTC

ganesha727 wrote: post #303

Glench wrote: post #41

https://extensionpay.com — A really simple way for browser extension developers to take payments in their extensions. I made it to use in my own extensions since it's a pain in the butt to take payments in browser extensions. It has an open source library that works across all browsers and allows for one-time or subscription payments. Since 2021 developers have made over $125k with ExtensionPay which makes me happy :…

I love this app. Although I couldn’t not use because of Stripe but its really nice.

Post by spiffytech » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 1:36 AM UTC

ardalann wrote: post #421

I started making Browse AI ( https://browse.ai ) about 3 years ago. Quit my job soon after and focused on it full-time when I had savings enough for 2 years of my living expenses. The next 1.5 years were intense. I learned to have better and more conversations with users (we'd crash and burn if I hadn't come across a book called The Mom Test) and we went through several positioning pivots. As I was running out of mon…

Post by gcanyon » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 3:15 AM UTC

alin23 wrote: post #306

gcanyon wrote: post #144

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I have an idea for rcmd -- if possible, it would be great to be able to assign a right-cmd-key to -- or open one if none is. Likewise for calendar.google.com and probably others. I'd pay an extra few dollars for that feature, as I'm forever opening because my tab hygiene is lacking. I read your piece on window switching -- would AppleScript work? This works: tell application "Safari" tell item 4 of windows set the cu…

Hey that’s a useful feature indeed, and it can already be added by the user with rcmd’s Window Actions which support AppleScript. I actually have done that myself already for Firefox. I could maybe try to implement the main part of the “find and switch to the tab if it exists” so that users can simply assign the URL. Thanks for reminding about this use case!

   tell application "Safari"
      repeat with w in windows
         set mt to (tabs of w whose URL contains "https://mail.google.com/")
         if mt ≠ {} then exit repeat
      end repeat
      if mt = {} then
         if not (exists window 1) then
            make new document with properties {URL:"https://mail.google.com"}
         else
            set mt to make new tab in window 1 with properties {URL:"https://mail.google.com"}
            set the current tab of window 1 to mt
         end if
      else
         set mt to item 1 of mt
         set the current tab of w to mt
         set the index of w to 1
      end if
      activate -- needed if not activated otherwise
   end tell
   

   1. I export the script as an app. In the dialog I set it to stay open. 
   2. I run the app. 
   3. I use the standard rcmd method to assign M to that application. 
   4. I quit the app.
   5. I export the script as an app again. In the dialog I *do not* set it to stay open.

Post by cyounkins » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 3:53 AM UTC

tomschlick wrote: post #255

https://zonewatcher.com is an audit trail and changelog for your DNS records. It began in 2016 out of some frustration I was having with consulting clients who would modify their DNS records incorrectly, breaking their email and/or website until I was able to get them back online. It was frustrating digging through emails or old technical documents to find the original values before they had made their changes. I wan…

Post by anakaine » Tue, Jan 24, 2023, 5:34 AM UTC

pxue wrote: post #193

robswc wrote: post #143

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Is there much of a market, given that they already use the tools mentioned? Genuinely curious. I've always hated sales but would love to work on making existing solutions better.

Facebook marketplace is as trustless as you can get. It's 2010 version of Kijiji/Craigslist with built-in picture upload. Right now depending on how much effort you want to spend, you can get a place for $2000 usd a month or $600 a month, for relatively similar unit maybe 20min of walk distance apart. Simply because information does not flow freely. Airbnb fixed the trust issue and dominated rental market in the last…