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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 javiermaestro »

l72 wrote: post #388
countvonbalzac wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do google maps / apple maps / transit / citimapper / moveit not work for these cities?

Typically they do not. The Agencies _might_ submit GTFS data, but rarely do any of these vendors provide real time data in GTFS-RT that Google/App and other would need. I find commercial apps like transit and moveit are only willing to work with bigger cities, and have very little interest in smaller agencies.

Interesting! Have you considered reaching out to one of those (e.g. Citymapper) and see if they would like to work with you? Either employ you, subcontract you, use you as an API, or whatever! :)

I think it's really cool that you maintain such a service and maybe they can find in you a good partnership!

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Post by davely »

jkingsman wrote: post #264

Nobody.live: https://nobody.live/ Filterable interface for finding streamers with zero (or one, for StreamLabs etc.) viewers. Surprisingly intimate, in my opinion. I run it at (little) cost but got some solid coverage: https://www.pcgamer.com/this-website-only-shows-you-twitch-s... .

This is just so wholesome. I love it. And that's gotta be a cool thing for someone to randomly get a viewer. I know when I randomly stream (only when I play MSFS...), it's really cool to get even one viewer! (It's usually zero)

It reminds me of a similar site for YouTube awhile back that would show you videos with zero views[1].

[1] http://www.petittube.com/

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

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

MattDemers wrote: post #538
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #214

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.

Weird, I have never seen that dropdown option but I was able to do it (but I also sometimes get a "Suggest Password" option).

We're mostly developer focused so that email/password signup is really for non-github users. I'll check it out.

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Post by ventisca »

Drive Declutter: https://drivedeclutter.com ,

A snappy disk visualization tool for Windows 10/11 similar to DaisyDisk on MacOS. Developed in C++ from scratch without any frameworks, whole download is about 3 megabytes. A few hundred downloads and much fewer sales, it's currently a free download everywhere except for USA, where it costs a few bucks after a 24 hour trial. Downloadable directly from the Microsoft Store: https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/drive-declutter/9P54...

It's only making beer money but I enjoy maintaining it and adding features over time.

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Post by nomel »

dxhdr wrote: post #459
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.

You're passing on $50k-100k per month of ad revenue from just basic banner ads... at least based on how RPMs were a few years ago. I respect that, definitely not the decision I'd make.

I know nothing of this, but does .info reduce the numbers, compared to something like .com, all other things aside?

edit: err, it's a genuine question, from someone that doesn't work in/with advertising, and had a .info domain within the first month they were offered, in 2001. Here's a rephrasing: Do ad networks, or customers of those networks, treat TLDs differently?

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

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Post by wisie »

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.

Thanks for making this available. Has been a huge help over the years. Would make a good platform for other side projects (e.g. SteamDB YouTube) if you were to look for new challenges one day.

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Post by trompetenaccoun »

orhunp_ wrote: post #495

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…

Great!

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Post by me_bx »

Gonna.surf: https://gonna.surf

It's a surf forecast website (now limited to Fuerteventura North, Canary islands).

I needed one location to get accurate information about the surf conditions around me - instead of having to check and compare 3 websites/apps. I also figured that other surfers where often confused by the popular surf forecast solutions.

Free, no ads, donations and sponsoring accepted (0€ and 0 deals so far).

The audience is growing slowly 1.5 years after launching, about 800 unique visitors / 5000 page views per month. The features in place and UX are not yet good enough to have people switch to it.

I'm moving very slowly on the business development side because this part of the work is less exciting for me. I would love to find a co-founder (non-technical) who would be a good match to reach product-market fit then expand the product internationally...

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Post by subpar »

https://gif.so

Every subdomain gets its own gif, so you can query by url (i.e. https://hackernews.gif.so). Anyone can change the image that loads on a given page... one day I'll make it a voting system. Useful for quickly putting a gif of an arbitrary thing in chat apps as most will unfurl the image directly. If you just want a static image, use https://jpg.so instead.

Someone else made this years ago and hosted it at jpg.to. That went down a while ago and I recreated it because it is fun and sometimes useful and not owned by Meta.

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