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

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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.

I'd buy that for a dollar!

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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…

Is www.pigeon.ooo a typo? Doesn't seem to go anywhere

Nope! Nothing there yet, I just get a kick out of the domain and wanted to share it, even if a bit premature.

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post #278

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Unsolicited feedback: If this were also offered as a web-based application I'd probably use it (sitting at my desk all day I don't want to use my mobile device for music). Maybe sell rotating ads or sponsorships (on screen but not in the audio stream, please!) to make some $. Very cool.

That's exactly what is coming next for it! A fully-fledged web app. It's actually built using web tech so it's an easy port. Just need to rebuild some of the native bits for web (ohh I might get to use wasm!) but once that's done it should be good to go. Planning on pushing out in the next 2 weeks. And yeah while I don't need to run ads on it at the moment, if the right sponsor wanted to work with me I'd be exception…

Doesn't Spotify have terms around not making money on any apps that use their API? From https://developer.spotify.com/policy/#iv-streaming-and-comme...

> Except for the limited commercial uses for Non-Streaming SDAs (set out below) commercial uses are not permitted for SDAs.

Their guidelines are super strict about using any music or artwork in specific ways. For instance, I'm pretty certain you need to display a Spotify logo any time you play music from Spotify, which I don't see on the player. And the player has rounded corners on the artwork.

Some excerpts from https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/general/design-a...

> To comply with our licensing agreements, you must always attribute content from Spotify with the logo.

> Artwork must be kept in its original form. Don’t animate or distort it in any way. This includes applying overlays and blurring.

I'm not a lawyer so I'm sorry if I'm reading these incorrectly. I tried making an app using the Spotify API at one point and had it running but it got shot down a couple times for not displaying the Spotify icon. Good on you if your app is all set. I was always worried I was going to face the Spotify legal team with mine and gave up on it.

I only mention these because I do love the radio! Great mix of genres so far!

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

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post #462

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

I know some Valve employees use it.

That's cool, thanks for the info!

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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…

You should add a clickable link. Also, it seems to just lead to a placeholder page as though it was just registered. http://www.pigeon.ooo

Thank you! I would do if it wasn’t just the place holder page. I just like the domain name we chose, I have clarified in the original comment.

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Crocodile: https://www.crocodile.dev/ Better code reviews for GitHub. It integrates with GitHub to provide a better reviewing and commenting experience for pull requests. Free for open source!

I think about this space a lot - glad you're adventuring in it.

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GuardToro: https://guardtoro.com

Started as plug-and-play security for web apps 5 years ago. The space got saturated so I decided to take on a new challenge and secure firmware. Securing "crypto" came about out of my network and demand, but then crypto took a dive again :)

I feel super grateful to finally have others working on it with me, but we all work on it for free for now...

I'm super excited about this space, specifically about securing ARM firmware. There is a ton of room to grow!

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

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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 A…

First, happy birthday.

Second, this is pretty cool. I'll be checking it out more over the weekend, thanks for sharing it.

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

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post #416

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Impressive. What's your tech stack? How are you able to keep the cost so low?

Assuming it hasn't changed in the past 2 years: > nginx, latest php, mariadb. > and of less importance: memcached and influxdb. https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1315941483867000833

When's the Next.js migration?
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