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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 suchintan »

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…

This is really cool. Do you have any interest in helping people auto apply to them? We can help you set it up with a really simple API call via Skyvern (https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern)

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

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Post by fraXis »

Tsarp wrote: post #413

BrainDump: Apple Notes + VoiceMemos + ChatGpt in 1. What is it? - Apple Eco-system based voice note taking/journal. - Tried various note taking apps. Nothing stuck like Apple Notes. - Writing by hand was the best way to get clarity but seemed high friction. Talking about ideas with friends/colleagues was the second best to thought clarity. - Basically combined it. Voice -> Transcribe (whisper accuracy locally) -> Rew…

Great job on this!

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

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Post by va3ndf »

zulban wrote: post #430

More like $400 a month the past couple months. Maybe that counts. www.chesscraft.ca I started this chess variant AI sandbox 5 years ago for myself to help with a brutal commute. Still working on it now and then. I've learned so much building and releasing a commercial product with a community, on Google Play and Steam. It's great to see the flexibility of the "good enough" AI I made has still held up after 5 years.

I saw you present this many years ago at MariHacks! Stuck with me as a really cool idea and project. Awesome to see it still going strong!

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

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Post by fraXis »

duck wrote: post #114

Still running https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years and 60k+ subscribers. It has been hard to put a lot of focus on it the past couple years, but been finally getting some time to spend on some improvements there. Income here has always been simple sponsors which I'm very grateful for.

I remember when you launched this, and I signed up for it right away. I still read it every day. I can't believe it's been 15 years already! Thanks for this awesome service.

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

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Post by FredPret »

dabernathy89 wrote: post #280
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…

Can this be gifted? Or will the purchase be tied to my email only?

+1 for this feature

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

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Post by jfoster »

Among some related tools, I run Batch Compress (https://batchcompress.com/en), an online image compressor. It converts images to WebP or JPEG with a lot of compression applied in order to shrink file size by a lot.

There is a lot of competitors, but usually they have limits requiring accounts & payment if the images are too large to begin with or if you want to compress a lot of images. Batch Compress is free for unlimited use. The concept of Batch Compress is to be a batch version of Google's Squoosh tool.

Always very open to feedback or feature requests.

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

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Post by Tsarp »

bitcoinmoney wrote: post #419
Tsarp wrote: post #413

BrainDump: Apple Notes + VoiceMemos + ChatGpt in 1. What is it? - Apple Eco-system based voice note taking/journal. - Tried various note taking apps. Nothing stuck like Apple Notes. - Writing by hand was the best way to get clarity but seemed high friction. Talking about ideas with friends/colleagues was the second best to thought clarity. - Basically combined it. Voice -> Transcribe (whisper accuracy locally) -> Rew…

Can I make this listen to a zoom call and have it transcribed and summarized

A lot of folks use it for this. But its not very straightforward like the tools that join calls and listen in.

It only transcribes what it can listen to. So if you are on a zoom call on your computer it can listen to both the audio from the PC and you speaking and transcribe.

Ive been looking into tapping in directly to both the audio out and mic in on apple devices. Im making progress but its not stable yet. Hoping to get it done during the holidays.

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

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Post by ssiddharth »

fraXis wrote: post #440
ssiddharth wrote: post #262

I’m building Sink It for Reddit ( https://gosinkit.com ), a Safari/Chrome/Firefox/Edge extension to make Reddit usable on the web. It’s similar to RES (Reddit enhancement suite) but supports all of Reddit’s designs and is being actively developed with around 300k users, mainly on the Apple platforms. It was built during the Reddit API shenanigans last year and is making four figures a month. 99% of the app’s feature…

Why is there only one review for the Chrome extension? Is the Apple app store version the most used version?

Pretty much. The Chrome versions are only a few months old while the Apple platform ones are much older. Plus, honestly, I don’t nag users to leave ratings/reviews within the app.

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

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Post by rcfox »

jfoster wrote: post #446

Among some related tools, I run Batch Compress ( https://batchcompress.com/en ), an online image compressor. It converts images to WebP or JPEG with a lot of compression applied in order to shrink file size by a lot. There is a lot of competitors, but usually they have limits requiring accounts & payment if the images are too large to begin with or if you want to compress a lot of images. Batch Compress is free for u…

How do you make money with this? I tried disabling uBlock Origin and didn't even see any ads on the landing page.

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

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Post by hnaccount93 »

czhu12 wrote: post #299

Building https://canine.sh , which is a platform to make any Kubernetes cluster as easy to use as Heroku for deploying web apps, cron jobs, etc. The >$500 is basically by offering it for free to everyone and having support to 3 small corporate customers. I found this is a really great way to get feedback and bootstrap the roadmap of a project. Little usability / quality of life features, that I never would've worked…

Did you fix the reported security issues yet?
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