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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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All of this is „open label“ and „on label“.

Viagra/Cialis or something else?

The pde5 menagerie has a few more now but I feel like there is little difference between them.

Permanent tadalafil if you can stand the side effects, any of the others if you are suffering and want them to be over faster.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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post #580

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This is really cool. Do you have any interest in helping people auto apply to them? We can help you set it up with a really simple API call via Skyvern ( https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern )

Thank you, appreciate this. I'm not certain about expanding this in that direction but that is certainly an interesting thought.

Yep. Makes a lot of sense. Your side project is super noble -- thank you for that

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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VoiceType: Mac Dictation tool. Running locally with WhisperLarge Turbo. So its fast accurate and can get a lot of Rust Library names correctly when I use with Cursor. Why I Built It? I ended up getting RSI over the last year and half. Despite lifting 3x a week and physio-therapy, circumstances had me working >12-15hours 6-7days a week for a few months straight. I’d read about folks using diction but never worked well…

I had similar RSI issues a couple years ago and explored text to speech as an option, but the solutions at the time were clunky and inaccurate. I gave up and went with more practical solutions (yoga, working less, using a split keyboard). I’m sure with the recent developments in LLMs and speech models the situation is much different now. I’ll have to check this out

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Do you mind going into what web stack you use? What about businesses that want online payments?

Sure! When I started 5 years ago, I had a single Django + Wagtail app that hosted all websites on a single monorepo/deployable. For the few sites that needed interactivity I just used vanilla JS. We actually do have a few sites that we've done some custom Stripe integrations for so they can accept payments online, but it's very minimal/simple. About a year and a half ago I began moving everything to Next.js, and have…

interesting. i love wagtail + django. sounds like you like your choice to switch to next?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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I'm making a fiction podcast (that actually launched on HN) that is now earning ~$1100 USD monthly. I just wrote the latest report documenting how I got there, which you can find and discuss at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42380474

wait you just talk about fiction? do you interview writers? i'm trying to understand how you built that audience, i've seen a lot of podcasts about fiction struggle to break past like 1k streams

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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I built https://check.supply with a friend - it’s an iOS app that is like a cash app experience for mailing a check. Old school landlords, paying gardeners, or other people still only accepting checks. We use plaid to connect your account, then press send, then track the printing, mailing and delivery of the check. Only iOS App here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/check-supply/id6475490646

Brilliant idea! I recently had a difficult time trying to get a cashiers check at a few nearby banks/credit unions I wasn’t a member of. It’s incomprehensible to me they weren’t willing to accept a fee in order to charge my debit card for the amount of the check + fee ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Probably regulations, KYC requirements, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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I built https://check.supply with a friend - it’s an iOS app that is like a cash app experience for mailing a check. Old school landlords, paying gardeners, or other people still only accepting checks. We use plaid to connect your account, then press send, then track the printing, mailing and delivery of the check. Only iOS App here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/check-supply/id6475490646

How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.

As someone who has struggled with this before, your fastest way is to look for pre-built templates on github or buy one's you like.

Looks like GP is using the pocket template from tailwindui - https://pocket.tailwindui.com/

There are hundreds of people selling pre-built components, landing pages, templates etc. This at least gets you up and running and not stressing over design. As a dev who lacks design sense, this was immensely helpful.

Other option as sibling points out is to use bolt or lovable and give it explicit instructions on what kind of design to use. For example, with lovable, try this prompt "use neo brutalist design."

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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post #191

I am running a web scraping API ScrapeNinja https://scrapeninja.net . 10K+ subscribers. It is a (rather messy) node.js codebase. Two rendering engines, including a hacked puppeteer package with stealth mode for better success rate. A big set of proxy providers under the hood. Bootstrapped.

Small piece of feedback, the main text "Smart Web Scraping API" looks pretty off-center to me. Using latest Chrome on Mac on a 4k screen.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#590

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mind going into what web stack you use? What about businesses that want online payments?

Sure! When I started 5 years ago, I had a single Django + Wagtail app that hosted all websites on a single monorepo/deployable. For the few sites that needed interactivity I just used vanilla JS. We actually do have a few sites that we've done some custom Stripe integrations for so they can accept payments online, but it's very minimal/simple. About a year and a half ago I began moving everything to Next.js, and have…

Not sure how everything works on your project, but CSS vars should allow to make almost any HTML "themable".

I've used that method with twig (php), vue and static html templates.

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