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

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Post by davely »

Since these things are all the rage, I've made something using Stable Diffusion (but with a twist):

ArtBot: https://tinybots.net/artbot

You can create images with numerous Stable Diffusion models using a distributed cluster of GPUs donated by volunteers -- it's called Stable Horde [1] -- an awesome open source API created by @dbzer0. The service was written up in PC World back in December (with generous mentions of ArtBot)[2]: "Meet Stable Horde, the crowd-powered Folding@Home of AI art".

ArtBot is a front-end interface for interacting with the Horde. Unlike a lot of other services springing up around Stable Diffusion lately, mine doesn't require login information, all images are stored within your browser via IndexedDb and it's free!

It's a NextJS app that currently costs me $5/mo via Digital Ocean. I recently received a single donation through the BuyMeACoffee website... coincidentally, on my birthday! Hah.

Edit: I should note, in terms of tracking, I have some telemetry I built to log errors, tell me what pages people use, and a few events related to specific actions (basically, checking on if people even using a new feature I made). I do use Google Analytics to get some real time feedback on where people are on the site, but I've considered rolling my own solution to get away from that.

Edit2: I should also mention that my spaghetti code is available on Github, if you're into that sort of thing.[3] I also keep a changelog, which I don't think you usually see with web apps, but I've been having a lot of fun with it.[4]

Edit3!: I should also, also mention that LAION (Large-scale Artificial Intelligence Open Network) also wrote a blog post earlier this year on a partnership with Stable Horde for aesthetics training... and ArtBot was featured as well.[5]

Bottom line: This is just a random side project I made, a ton of people seem to be using it (just crossed 3 MILLION images generated as of this week) and I am having so much fun with it.

[1] - https://stablehorde.net/

[2] - https://www.pcworld.com/article/1431633/meet-stable-horde-th...

[3] - https://github.com/daveschumaker/artbot-for-stable-diffusion

[4] - https://tinybots.net/artbot/changelog

[5] - https://laion.ai/blog/laion-stable-horde/

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

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Post by paulryanrogers »

masukomi wrote: post #377
paulryanrogers wrote: post #27

Browser Routr is my way of getting some sites to auto open in another browser: https://paulrrogers.com/products/browser-routr

i gotta ask. Why didn't you just use Choosy or one of the many other apps that do this?

I tried many before building my own. None auto opened with a regular, left click on a link within a browser. They required right-click and picking from a prompt or clicks from outside the browser.

Also wanted same app and config on Windows and MacOS.

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

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Post by pjmq »

ravivooda wrote: post #380
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…

Is it possible to onboard service onto Apple Music?

Not today but we're planning some radical changes to the music data we rely upon which should open it up to Apple Music, Deezer and beyond!

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

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Post by pjmq »

tomjakubowski wrote: post #397
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…

Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again! What a bunch of clowns.

Rad literally says this

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

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Post by schemescape »

JoeOfTexas wrote: post #432

https://acos.games I created a platform and simulator for developers to create multiplayer turn-based browser games using JavaScript. It's been in development for about 2 years and online for 1 year. The plan is to allow all games to have ranking and competition features automatically built-in. It has tons of carefully crafted features, but I have failed to gain any interest in the project, so its just sitting there…

I played one of the games after seeing it on HN a while back, and it’s very polished! But… I don’t have a lot of free time to play games like that :(

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

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Post by pcan77 »

I made and operate a small app called [FishHarmony](https://www.fishharmony.com/). It's a simple app for iPhone that tells you what fish species (fresh or salt, I offer both) are compatible with fish of different species! So if you want to see if Tetras get along with Rasboras, for example, you can check my app/website! I've done no marketing and get something ~200 active users per month and 1K+ downloads lifetime. Not much, but still cool that people are using it!

I pay about 7/month for a Heroku instance and the stupid $99 a year for the App Store. Working on some freemium apps that will hopefully offset those costs.

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

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Post by dxhdr »

xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

You're passing on $50k-100k per month of ad revenue from just basic banner ads... at least based on how RPMs were a few years ago. I respect that, definitely not the decision I'd make.

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

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Post by skytrue »

gigaflop wrote: post #445
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 an…

I think you rightfully pointed out the "watchable" criteria. This is where we got to with 4 years of working on-and-off on it. The hard part is continuing to iterate over the structure to make it passable as a sitcom. The easy part is actually the language model stuff... we have an OpenAI integration, I just don't keep it on because it's a lot of $$$. We have lots of ideas about how to expand the show's structure, but it's mostly backend work that we simply don't have the resources to finish right now.

Luckily, our "goal" with this project was for it be nonsensical (hence the parody part), but I'd love to spin off a new show that focused on making it watchable for hours at a time. Our system is extensible enough that it wouldn't be hard to pop in new art assets and have a brand-new show in a month or two.

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