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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 iambateman »

Https://SimplifyRecipe.com

Currently earning negative money on this! It’s a recipe organizer and simplifier…an app to make it easier for people to cook using recipes without the life story.

This morning, I got my first angry emails from recipe publishers and it has me pretty bummed out. I knew they wouldn’t love it, but I didn’t expect this so early.

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

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Post by code_Whisperer »

jccalhoun wrote: post #41

I review bad, low budget, and obscure movies on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@calhounsreviews still less than 300 subs but I keep making them because I enjoy it!

Thanks for posting this, I like low-budget and obscure, so you just found yourself a new subscriber!

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

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Post by Linell »

Slaul wrote: post #37

I'm not ready to show it off yet, but I'm working on a workout and nutrition tracking service. No other tool or service out there matches the feature set I want so I decided I'd just build it. My goal for workout tracking is mostly to make it crazy simple and super fast. As close to 0 barrier between you and your tracking. I want PRs to be more than just "moved a bigger amount of weight". I think volume PRs from rep…

A few years back I built a tool that pulled your data from MyFitnessPal and calculated a running TDEE for you, so that it was easy to adjust week to week. It was very useful to me and I managed to get somewhere in the range of 100 active users before I ended up moving on to other projects.

I say that to say good luck, I think your app will be useful!

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

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Post by PStamatiou »

Not currently public aside from maybe a thousand testflight users, but I built a stock and crypto portfolio tracker app focused on design. I'm a designer and developer and this was my first time diving into Swift/SwiftUI. Started as a covid project to learn SwiftUI and became a 3 year side project, complete with full node backend to do some auth, caching, cleaning up data and various things.

It's called Stocketa. Here's the site: https://stocketa.com/

and I opened up a few hundred Testflight spots if you want to play with it:

https://testflight.apple.com/join/3dZwTVhS

Unfortunately despite the insane amount of time I've spend on it (many, many weeks with 20 hours on it) I've lost interest. It's just so hard to find quality stock/financial data that allows commercial use which I'd need to put this in the app store and charge for it. I pay a few hundred a month now for data that always has issues, APIs that don't work consistently, staff that's unresponsive/rude when I tell them their API doesn't work or is wrong. I've dealt with 3 stock data providers already and I still had to build a scraping engine to get certain bits of data. The real providers charge thousands per month for this data for good APIs, which I can't afford. All that and only for US data. International data was another headache I gave up on.

So yea, it's not a fun space to be in. If there was just a single API that was solid, worked and was not insanely expensive this would be a joy to work on. Polygon.io is the best API for this data but they don't understand indie developers and were telling me they had an amazing new plan for developers that was still close to $1k/mo.

Now I'm wondering if I should try to sell it to someone with more resources to build out.

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

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Post by jtap »

I've made a bunch of projects that hit about 80% completion that I never end up finishing. My current projects that I have most recently put in some time are:

https://cruisedirector.io/ I have it running on some of my sites. It continues to run but I have no customers, and I haven't tried to sell it as a service. Tracks user actions inside an application. Every click is tracked so you can make rules based on any user clicks and show prompts made with a graphical editor. For example: Someone is button smashing, you can ask them for feedback. Popup a message on first login in the past month... Really lots of fun stuff.

https://ezdataloader.com/ I recompiled some old c# code from about 10 years ago, and with a few tweeks the backend now can run in mac, windows, or linux. Pretty sweet, other than the interface. I used electron for an interface and got it working a bit. But, I haven't put too much time into this one either. I'm tempted to scrap the downloadable executable, and turn it into a saas app. Might be a bit easier for customers I'm targeting. I've been pretty busy at my day job though, and haven't had time for this in the past year or so.

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

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Post by kobu »

Comparing EV range from a specific location, e.g. from Chicago: https://www.range.guide/?location=USA,Illinois,Chicago&vehic...

Why? Before relocating I was looking for an electric vehicle that would allow me to commute to work on a single charge and charge the car back at home over night. Couldn’t find a way to do that easily so I created a page that lets you set coarse starting location and see the range to nearby cities. Learned about Svelte and maps in general.

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

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Post by KevinUK »

https://okzest.com

My brother and I have built a tool aimed at email marketers, allowing them to create images with merge tag information on top.

We are at $0 and now know why you should start marketing on day 1, this marketing stuff is hard!

We have a solid MVP and there are so many possibilities to improve / expand the target market.

Future versions could show a retailers best selling product and have the image dynamically change to 'low in stock', 'sold out' etc. If a retailer has multiple stores, we could show information specific to the closest store to you.

We want to get some customers and let them help guide the roadmap.

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

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Post by pesfandiar »

https://javascript.onl/

Wondered a while ago if I could make a static website where you could solve interview-style JavaScript problems in the browser. It uses web workers and local storage. There are Amazon affiliate links on the website for some books, but the account is suspended. It's hosted on GCP and I lose a few cents a month to keep it up.

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