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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 Cardinal7167 »

zadjii wrote: post #103

This isn't public yet, and almost feels like the kind of thing I'll never ship. I've been working for a while now on the idea of a card / board game. The concept was bouncing around in my head for a while, and I started taking a lot more notes on the idea after my second kid was born (4mos ago). All of a sudden, I had a lot of time to sit quietly in a dark room with my laptop (and help the kiddo get to sleep). I even…

Funny, I did almost the exact same thing for a MTG app I’ve been working on, and similarly also started messing with the idea of using the same software to soft launch my own rtcg. I would be very interested to see how you did yours.

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

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Post by princevegeta89 »

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.

Well, my 2c is that making money is an enjoyable activity as well.

As someone who loved all the RTS/Tycoon games back in 2000's, I look at making money through own ventures as just another game at the same time

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

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Post by JoeOfTexas »

schemescape wrote: post #455
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 :(

Thanks =)

Web gaming seems to be a niche area these days.

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

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Post by yayo88 »

Chargabull - EV advertising

https://www.chargabull.com

We want to bridge the gap between local communities and EV chargers in the UK.

We will install the charger for free and subsidise the electricity from local companies advertising on the screens.

Anyone can buy an advertising slot on demand and then update content instantly via WebSockets and out android platform.

We have built a programmatic DOOH platform by accident - had no idea about that space.

Currently have 2 on trial and hope to get 25-50 installed this year

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

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Post by orhunp_ »

CoolModFiles: https://coolmodfiles.com/ (just awaiting sponsorships)

CoolModFiles is a web player that will introduce you to the most obscure and legendary tracks hosted on the internet's biggest module archive, modarchive.org!

The web player works by simply fetching a random module from modarchive.org and playing it. No black magic involved!

The idea for CoolModFiles originated among two programmer friends who used to send mod files to each other, which lead to the creation of a personal mod archive - one which had hundreds of cool modules at the time! Being in possession of those rare works of art (all the way from 80s!) was a privilege... When the awesome tracks started piling up, however, it naturally brought about a storage problem. The solution was simple: using a web archive!

The programmer friends' idea, unfortunately, was beaten by modarchive.org many years ago. Realizing how unnecessary creating another internet archive was, the project evolved into a cool web player instead. A group of 3 came together to create what is known today as CoolModFiles.com. With it's modern look, it continues to surface thousands of long-forgotten mod files to introduce newer generations to the world of old-school digital music.

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

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Post by mikkelpaulson »

initiative.sh[0], a web-based text interface for creative D&D play. After a promising response on HN[1], I had hoped that I might be able to monetize the project, but traffic has since crashed to almost nothing. I would say that after six months of full-time development it is about halfway to being complete as a freemium product, so instead I've opted to open-source it.[2]

It turns out that the challenge with launching a freemium product is that you need something that's both useful as a free tool while also having a compelling value-add for paid users. That's a lot for one person to build. I don't think I'll be aiming for that monetization strategy with future projects.

I have to confess that I'm (barely) missing the qualifying income bracket - some kind soul is supporting me for $5/mo on buymeacoffee.[3]

[0] https://initiative.sh/

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106581

[2] https://github.com/initiative-sh/initiative.sh/

[3] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/initiative

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

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Post by NetToolKit »

jgarzon wrote: post #132

I've made yet another magnetometer, but this one its free and no ads. It helped me locate a strong magnet in a hole I had put 5 ft underground. I was then able to excavate to it and install my main water line without digging a huge hole. check it out at: https://www.smartbrosltd.com

Sounds like an interesting story that I'm curious about... how did putting a strong magnet in the ground help you install your main water line?

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

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Post by aantix »

masukomi wrote: post #374
aantix wrote: post #235

I've created Call Stacking, a modern debugger and code visualization tool for Ruby on Rails. https://callstacking.com

this looks really useful. Especially when you're looking at new to you code. thanks. :D

It's perfect for onboarding new engineers.

You go from dumping 100,000's of lines of code in their lap, to

"Here's our endpoints, here are the important method calls, and the context for which they're called."

If you'll be a tester, I'll give you a free team account.

jim.jones1@gmail.com

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

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Post by zknill »

I made https://packagemap.co to help me visualise the class, method, and type usages in the codebases I work on.

It comes with a parser you run on your machine which generates a graph of your code. On the site you can use the filter syntax to dig into the code.

I find it hard to understand how code fits together in the traditional file-tree viewer that you get in GitHub or IDE, so the tool helps a lot in code review or exploring code.

I've made $0 from it. But I suspect that's because no one really knows how it works or how to use it.

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