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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Hey! Late to the party, but a friend and I have been plugging away at CineQuote https://cinequote.net a daily movie quote guessing game that uses audio quotes.

We've been running the web site for a few years now (just past 1000 daily games!) and we just launched iOS and Android apps in the last couple months! Its been quite a learning experience for sure!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Because I was frustrated of the pricing and feature list of TrainingPeaks, I've built my own training planning and analytics platform for endurance athletes (and coaches too!). It is called Tredict ( https://www.tredict.com .) and it covers almost everything for runners, cyclists and swimmers over training effort forecasting and prediction, a comprehensive training log, training plans, workout planning, Vo2Max calcul…

Nice! The site looks very clean, good job! I recently bought a Garmin and I was looking into analytics-heavy training platform since I'm doing a lot of different sports so I can't just go for a 10k training plan or something. I ended up going with intervals.icu, how is tredict different from it? It appears a little tighter on the visual maybe? Anyway good job!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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I sell laser cut decorative maps TheMapsGuy.com

These look nice. If I request a custom city, how long would it take?

I can usually get a map shipped out within a day of the order (depending on what time you order at). I'll have you give me the custom map information here:

preview.themapsguy.com

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#445

I've been helping with a small portfolio of Slack apps under the brand https://happybara.io , including Nightowl (multi-DM broadcast for Slack, like BCC for email), and Channitor (channel management & auto-archiving). It's been a really interesting journey making mistakes & learning from them. One mistake that made me feel foolish: I assumed no one would ever pay for one of the apps. A paywall was added "just in case…

This is cool! I looked into building a slack app myself, I'm curious: how are you liking the slack store and its policies? Was starting out difficult? I vaguely remember having to have your app installed in multiple workspaces already before being listed in the store

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#446

I made a public transportation departure board (for Switzerland) for your home or business. https://stationdisplay.com/

Neat. Consider building a version that is usable outdoors and clearly visible from further away in daylight, and at night, and you might be able to offer it to some public transport companies in various countries, that are still using devices running Windows to display transport schedules. Market them using digital sovereignty and sustainability angles.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#447
I run Packetriot: https://packetriot.com, which is an alternative to ngrok. It's been in operation for 6-ish years and reached $500/month in year two. It doesn't replace my salary (yet) but that's what I'm working toward. Thankful to have thousands of users and some big companies using our services or self-hosting our server.

This is a fun space to work in but there's lot of small competitors and opensource alternatives. In the first few years it was sometimes demotivating, but at some point I began seeing competitors bow out and Packetriot kept getting better and better each year.

This year I published a lot of updates across the platform. Our UX is better with a new web-based UI for our client and all of the features of the platform can be managed in the client UI. No more going back forth between the client and user portal.

I'm planning on releasing a community edition of our server in 2026 so that anyone can use our network server for free, for personal use or to evaluate for commercial use.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#448

Because I was frustrated of the pricing and feature list of TrainingPeaks, I've built my own training planning and analytics platform for endurance athletes (and coaches too!). It is called Tredict ( https://www.tredict.com .) and it covers almost everything for runners, cyclists and swimmers over training effort forecasting and prediction, a comprehensive training log, training plans, workout planning, Vo2Max calcul…

Nice! The site looks very clean, good job! I recently bought a Garmin and I was looking into analytics-heavy training platform since I'm doing a lot of different sports so I can't just go for a 10k training plan or something. I ended up going with intervals.icu, how is tredict different from it? It appears a little tighter on the visual maybe? Anyway good job!

Thank you. Tbh I cannot tell too many difference to intervals.icu, last time I had a look was 2 years ago or so. I remember it lacked some things, but this could have changed. I think Tredict is a little bit more on the straight forward site, just looks cleaner, visually and also from the workflow, also more performant. But this is of course opinionated as I am the inventor of Tredict. I have deep respect for Intervals too. You just could use both for a certain amount of time to see which one fits better for you. :-)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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I built a SaaS for photographers specifically designed for latam’s market: https://pickyour.photos/ Been running 1.8 years, current mrr is ~$790 usd.

Current costs are around ~$190 usd monthly

- vps: $69 - cloudflare: $25 - r2: ~$50 - crisp: $45 - customer.io $1

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#450

I made https://meetinghouse.cc as a way for twitter people to put themselves on a map and write a bio, and what they're looking for. It's a way to find and be found, if you want to see who's interesting nearby for friends, dating, new parents meeting new parents, etc. Pins cost $12, there are 474 pins placed so far. This keeps the quality high (there are no spam pins, only real people) but will fundamentally limit th…

> but will fundamentally limit the growth, I think.

Thank goodness. We need more small social media with inherently limited scope to protect from the manipulative garbage coming out of big social media companies.

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