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

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Everyone Draw: https://everyonedraw.com I created a little experiment a few years ago to see what would happen if anyone in the world could draw pixel by pixel on an infinite, shared canvas. It has attracted a small community of fans who use it to relax and practice their drawing skills. The community has spawned some breathtaking pieces of collaborative art, including a world map[1], a galaxy[2], and a magic forest[…

Love it!

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…

AWESOME

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

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MyWallAI: https://mywallai.com

Premise: Interior design tool that helps decorate your walls, like how a space in the living room wall would look if it had a floating shelf, wallpaper, mirrors, etc

Working on improving the renders and experimenting with custom models for better results

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

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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.

> affiliate links to games might be an idea (assuming Steam has such a thing).

Steam does not have such a thing.

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

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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…

I think this is a really cool idea and you should keep working on this. You're onto something. Incorporate more day to day? Include podcasts that I subscribe to as programs? So much potential.

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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…

Some feedback (not sure if this is on purpose):

I'm using Brave, and I couldn't right-click to "Suggest a Strong Password" in your signup field. I've never had that happen with any other site before. No adblock or Shields up.

Also I can't seem to confirm my membership.

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

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Not quite ready for prime time, but I've spent the last couple of weeks building a fast, free, parametric part library for makers to use for widget-type parts rather than complex models. I found the current set of part libraries to be to slow and/or cumbersome for my tastes.

It's 100% static and hosted on GitHub pages. It uses WASM versions of OpenSCAD and SQLite for dynamic content with all processing being done in the browser. Parts are added as GitHub issues, and can be added by anyone with a GitHub login

https://parapart.com

Next step: Content!

Note: Currently not mobile-friendly.

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

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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 want to say thank you for building this, but also there's no shame in putting a simple banner ad somewhere on the page. Most people who care have ad blockers, anyways.
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