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

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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…

I love that interface. <3

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

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Hacker Brews Coffee: https://hackerbrews.com I haven't put much at all into self-promotion or advertisement so it's mostly been a pet-project but 2023 will be a better year! Edit: 15% off for any HN-ers interested, use code HN15

I absolutely love this. Roasting and serving my own coffee beans has been a dream of mine for many years.

What does your setup look like? Are you roasting on a something super small?

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PoachMe.Dev: https://www.poachme.dev/#/devLand?reqCode=HNGOBRRR Premise: Recruiters spam left and right, so we decided to create a website just so they could get a familiar calendar-like interface but asked them to pay for your time. As soon as we exposed the external version with the URL, we decided to make an automated template ("Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this. You'll recei…

I really like this idea, where I'm from recruiters are the absolute worst.. Being that this is your app can you disclose that the model works? Like are people making some money with this? I'd hate to take this line and get no bites, or worse alienate myself from the opportunities.

Edit: I just remembered the title of the thread :), I guess not?

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The Animator: https://theanimator.co.uk/ Originally an experiment when the HTML Canvas element was new and exciting, to see if I could make a website to create flip-book style animations. I have no proof, but I'm pretty confident it was one of the first websites that could do so. ~12 years later, a refactor from PHP to NodeJS and React and LOTS of spare-time sunk into it - it's moderately successful by my standards.…

This is really nice!

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

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Hacker Brews Coffee: https://hackerbrews.com I haven't put much at all into self-promotion or advertisement so it's mostly been a pet-project but 2023 will be a better year! Edit: 15% off for any HN-ers interested, use code HN15

I absolutely love this. Roasting and serving my own coffee beans has been a dream of mine for many years. What does your setup look like? Are you roasting on a something super small?

Thank you! I'm not self-roasting (not by choice), but working with a roaster to help with roasting and logistics. I got the idea from actually wanting to self-roast when I heard of a friend using a shared roasting space in San Diego to source green beans and do his own roasting without the upfront cost of buying equipment. Unfortunately nothing like that exists in my area of Tennessee but having a private relationship with a family owned roaster is the next best thing.

I went through a few iterations of trying roasters and let me tell you, some were downright bad. I'm happy to have found a partner that I actually enjoy the product of, even if it means slimmer margins.

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

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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.

Had never seen your site before (stopped gaming before Steam became popular), but in visiting it now, very surprised to see that CS is still __by far__ the most popular online game.

Great resource. Thanks!

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I've fallen into the chess craze. I put together www.chessrapid.com for my own use. It's a version of Puzzle Rush / Puzzle Storm that has the added benefit of: 1) filtering by tactical themes and 2) seeing what themes you are frequently slow on / incorrect on. This way I can narrow in on the tactical themes that I need to improve pattern recognition on (e.g. I can take a break from Mate in 1 and Mate in 2; I really n…

Thanks for making this, just gave it a try. You might be able to work with the chess.com people in a way that might generate some $$. Or, better, work with the lichess folks (not for $$). I'd like to be working on something like this. Meanwhile, I think I'll run it some. Holes in my tactics especially in blitz showing up too often at the local chess Meetup.

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

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Jobs with Pride: https://www.JobsWithPride.com Premise: Handpicked jobs from LGBTQ+ friendly companies. It's a curated job board of the best jobs for our queer community, using publicly available information to source jobs at confirmed LGBTQ+ friendly companies - Verified by our 100% LGBTQ+ team. Availability: Web Price: $0 (Paid packages are available) Cost to me: ~$100 per month Why do it? - Finding jobs at LGBTQ+…

This is great, thank you.
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