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

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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 ekglimmer »

Ah I love this ask HN!

I'm building an iMessage app (www.pigeon.ooo - nothing here yet, I just get a hoot out of the name) that brings note taking into iMessage. I built it because I wanted to be able to save/pin messages so that I wouldn't have scroll up to find important pieces of info. You can also share the lists directly through iMessage so that the others in the conversation can update the notes, which has been particularly useful for grocery shopping lists and weekly planners with my S/O.

Currently working on a companion app so that I can view all notes not segregated by conversation, or ordered by due date etc.

It hasn't been publicly released yet but it will definitely be net negative. Doesn't matter though because it's useful to my friends and I plus has been fun to build.

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

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Post by xPaw »

MrGilbert wrote: post #423
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.

I always wondered how Valve thinks about this project. And congrats on the project itself, for sure!

I know some Valve employees use it.

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

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Post by nchudleigh »

xPaw wrote: post #274
modeless wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or somethin…

I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.

Would be dope to monetize the traffic and donate it or support indie game projects.

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

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Post by sandermvanvliet »

RoadCaptain: https://roadcaptain.nl/

It’s an add-on to Zwift that lets you create your own custom routes and not be limited to the fixed ones offered by Zwift.

I’ve been working on this for a little over a year and I’ve had some good reactions from folks using it.

Even so, apart from one person sponsoring me on GitHub with a one-off that’s it money wise. I’ve been toying with the idea of a paid version but no clue if that’s even worthwhile to do.

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

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Post by ArcaneMoose »

Really simple hobby project I built at one point: https://hotkeyplayer.com/

Map Spotify playlists to hotkeys so you can quickly launch them - intended use was for my D&D games - being able to quickly switch the mood from exploring a cave to being ambushed! :)

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

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Post by rojobuffalo »

https://ryanblakeley.net/dogs - I train dogs part-time. I specialize in fixing extreme behavior problems, but I also do advanced training for dogs that are already well-behaved.

I account it as less than breakeven because I do a lot of free sessions and give away equipment. I did not have a web page or a donation link setup for a long time. If I had someone video-taping sessions I think it would do a lot to showcase how I work, and how consistently I get results. But it seems hard to justify asking someone to spend time on that when there's so little revenue.

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

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Post by nchudleigh »

https://superstrong.app

Heavily inspired by other weightlifting trackers such as Strong and Hevy and can import your history from those apps.

Includes a heatmap (similar to the github commit one) that shows your weekly history. https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/2888157513/1674607291/...

Its a mobile first PWA so you can install and get a very native feel, but also use on your desktop.

Going to be adding sync with google sheets soon as well to allow for complex weekly programming (e.g. adjust weights based on last logged workout for a given template)

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

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Post by vinhboy »

bakugo wrote: post #412
princevegeta89 wrote: post #309

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait, why are you not monetizing it? that traffic looks bonkers

Thankfully, some people out there still do things because they enjoy it and not because they think there's money to be made.

those two things are not always mutually exclusive

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

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Post by jbirer »

tracker1 wrote: post #352
modeless wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or somethin…

I completely respect the owner of SteamDB for not doing this... I'm not a fan of ad networks as it stands. Although, affiliate links to games might be an idea (assuming Steam has such a thing). At least for the purchase if someone is interested in buying.

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