JukeLab https://www.getjukelab.com/ Free iOS, Android, web app that lets you build a DIY jukebox for a party. Curate a playlist of up to 100 records, and let your friends browse and queue their favorite songs. Total passion project. Mostly used for parties and events I host. But available for other music and retro experience nerds.
Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
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#573Personal tasks with estimates and focused on “local first”/desktop usage.
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Wait, why are you not monetizing it? that traffic looks bonkers
Thankfully, some people out there still do things because they enjoy it and not because they think there's money to be made.
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#575Find your dream RV. http://rvenvy.com
With more people than ever working remotely, many are interested in ending their lease and exploring America – even moreso now that Starlink is widely available.
At this point, it's a directory site, but I aim for this to be the Wikipedia of RVs.
But if you don't know RVs, it can be daunting to figure out what you need. That's why I also created a Bubble app (as a prototype) that offers a wizard to help you find exactly what you want. It asks a series of questions in a TurboTax-style wizard:
Right now results are shared manually, but eventually this will be automated.
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#576SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
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#577SteamDB: 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.
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This is awesome! I love these sorts of creative community projects. Have you had to deal with trolls at all and how have you managed that?
Oh, absolutely. The initial launch was a disaster because I had no way of dealing with trolls. I've learned a lot since then, and built a bunch of tools that moderators can use to clean up the damage caused by trolls.
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#580TL;DR - I'm bootstrapping a web-based music game that's a mix of Wordle and Dixit. It's an entertaining music competition where the community ranks 5 songs on daily bases.
Background - My partner used to manage a similar game at work as a team-bonding activity. They would set a music topic for the week, and then everyone would add some songs to a Spotify list. Then, once everyone had suggested a song, they would vote for the top 3 songs and compete amongst one another. It was a bit time-consuming to manage and count the votes, though. I thought - yeah, that's cool, and it could be applied to many types of companies. One day I should build something similar and start selling it to tech companies. A year later, more or less, I found the time to come up with an MVP and present it to some of my friends. Most people that like music love it and have been taking part for a few weeks or a month at least. After several iterations and feedback-based adjustments, I've now "upgraded" the project from MVP to "Beta" and would be happy to have more people onboard.
What I built - Urban DJ is the main stage where everyone can take part. You rate today's 5 songs (from 1-5) and then nominate one song on the next round's topic & suggest the topic after that. Your goal is to guess the community's vote. The more your vote matches the public, the more points you make. For example, if you position Song A as number 2, and 42% of the community has voted the same way - you earn - 42 points. It's an entertaining way to come up with "the best" songs on a given topic. I promise you that you will have fun if you love or know music. At the end of the day, as long as there are 5 persons playing the game - it is refreshed every day. The tech stack is Ruby on Rails + Turbo (hot-wired) & some Alpine JS.
What's next - Given that the game has reached a good level of stability, my next goal is to attract more people playing it. After that, I will focus on the business element - allowing people to set up private music stages to play with their group of friends, classmates, and colleagues. There could be a one-off fee or a monthly subscription for companies... I haven't decided yet.
My appeal - Please give it a go for a few days share your feedback on the process. I believe it should be able to be further simplified.