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

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Post by pjmq »

pacifika wrote: post #417
pjmq wrote: post #84

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…

Very cool. An alarm function would be nice. Waking up with Rad! My family is blown away by the idea.

Interesting! I've never actually thought about that! Very clever!

If it was launched from the alarm it could start the show with "Gooood morning, looks like it's going to be and , now let's get to the reason we're both here; great tunes." or something.

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Post by tehlike »

pvsukale3 wrote: post #407

https://ossdatbase.com A catalogue of open source software. Recently it is picking up a little steam. ( https://www.similarweb.com/website/ossdatabase.com ) Costs me $10 a month in hosting, Rails app. I have a job now, but plan to keep updating it. The site is open source https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase

site seems down.

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Post by gigaflop »

skytrue wrote: post #209

https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever - AI-generated (aside from the artwork) parody of '90s sitcoms, running forever (24/7/365). We worked on this w/ a very small team for the past four years, in-between our day jobs. When started, OpenAI didn't have an API, and Stable Diffusion definitely wasn't a thing, so we had to come up with novel methods to thread cohesive content together. Most of the "creative" details e.g.,…

I couldn't figure out how to link the comment, but it was at least 9 months ago I said this, and someone was already working on it?? SUPER cool!

I feel like AI/ML and some pre-rigged models could be used to build a web-hosted sitcom. It would take a lot of technical work, and a lot of writing chops to make it watchable, but it could be done.

Look at Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a show that was made by reusing old animations. If someone writes a script (use humans for now), then the AI/ML can stitch together the animation.

Once there's a corpus of material, start letting the AI determine plot points, and have humans vet and write it. Over time, let the AI take more and more control over the direction of the show, making sure to introduce new characters or events as needed.

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Post by seangransee »

davely wrote: post #435
seangransee wrote: post #430

Everyone Draw: https://everyonedraw.com I created a little experiment a few years ago to see what would happen if anyone in the world could draw pixel by pixel on an infinite, shared canvas. It has attracted a small community of fans who use it to relax and practice their drawing skills. The community has spawned some breathtaking pieces of collaborative art, including a world map[1], a galaxy[2], and a magic forest[…

This is awesome! I love these sorts of creative community projects. Have you had to deal with trolls at all and how have you managed that?

Oh, absolutely. The initial launch was a disaster because I had no way of dealing with trolls. I've learned a lot since then, and built a bunch of tools that moderators can use to clean up the damage caused by trolls.

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Post by elektor »

Const-me wrote: post #403

Doing that for decades. An app for Windows phone, downloaded 140k times: https://github.com/Const-me/SkyFM Cross-platform graphics library for .NET: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac Recently, offline speech-to-text for Windows: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper At this point, I consider side projects like that as a hobby.

I just tried out your Whisper Windows port and it worked perfectly for what I was looking to do, thank you so much!

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Post by vinc »

https://pi.ctu.re

Nice domain hack for a photography hosting app. Only one user over the last decade. It made absolutely no money but it doesn't cost me much to host it so it's not an issue at all.

It's open source in case anyone would want to run it and I'm in the process of updating the app.

My only regret is giving up on implementing Activity Pub years ago. It could have been interesting for the app to take part of the fediverse.

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Post by scoofy »

https://golfcourse.wiki

It's a wiki for golf courses. I am a bit embarrassed to love golf, but want to create a platform for smaller courses to be seen along side their private fancy counterparts. I currently lose a dozen or so dollars per month to run it, but that will increase as the site grows. I'm not entirely sure how I'll run it if it ever really takes off. I've considered trying for c3 status, because I don't really need the money, but I'm not sure whether or not that would be the limitations imposed by that would be.

The one thing I want do want to say is that I want courses that are open to the public to be able to use the materials created on the wiki at their location. An entry can be as simple as a blurb with a link to the course website, or as complex as a detailed mapping of the entire course and greens (the different color flags on the homepage indicate different levels of detail).

So, if someone maps a public course, that course can use that person's work on their scorecards instead of hiring and outside graphic designer. It effectively allows public courses to get detailed course guides for free and sell them onsite to raise revenues, but also provides a free alternative for folks online. I want it to be a way that people can casually spend their time to reduce the costs of golf, especially for cash-strapped municipal courses. Golf is too expensive, and this site should be a way to reduce the costs and make the game more accessible in general.

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