Just launched Story Treasure a way to create illustrated children's books, motivated by the fact that I'm a portuguese dad raising two bilingual girls in Germany... very hard to find portuguese books around here!
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#62I'm making a physical product with my wife: an illustrated narrative puzzle magazine. It's similar to escape games, but it's more story driven and easy to do in short sessions and at your own pace. It started with my wife making the first magazine pretty much by herself. Since then we've made more magazines together and the business is slowly growing. We're selling them mainly on our custom lightweight online store.…
Dude this looks awesome! When I was a kid I used to read a lot of these "puzzle magazines", the ones we had were like: - Start on page 1, read the story and decide if you want to take path A or B - A = go to page 2, B = page 3 - then there was another decision making, and the story goes on... Until you either escape the dungeon, or die (different ways of dying lol). It was so cool!
Those were called "choose your own adventure" books.
On an early version of my personal website, I created one of these, but as the reader, you could reach an unwritten section. Your reward was that you got to write that page of the book, and the choices (or ending) that the character received.
I seeded a few pages to set a story, and then let the readers go wild. It was pretty fun.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#63I made an AI chatbot for OnlyFans models. Their fans can speak to "them" via a third party messaging app. It's currently pulling ~15k USD MRR. I built my own GPU infra for inference and I run Llama 3 with a fewshot prompting to get the model to respond like a given OF model, typically using their actual DMs with fans. I don't have a website for obvious reasons, but if you're in the biz you've no doubt heard about my…
I don't mean this in a critical way to you but, man, this makes me so sad to think about. Models making money from lonely people so desperate for a connection that they pay to chat with someone and then they don't even end up chatting with a human at all.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#64I made SmoothTrack, a no-equipment head tracking app for iOS and Android which lets you control the game camera in sim games (like MSFS 2024 for example) with your head - basically like TrackIR, just without any equipment and for $15 instead of $150. I originally made the app just for myself to save myself the money of buying a TrackIR system, but then /r/flightsim begged me to release it as a full app. Last month, I…
I'm definitely going to check this out for MSFS. Thanks for sharing!
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#65I made an AI chatbot for OnlyFans models. Their fans can speak to "them" via a third party messaging app. It's currently pulling ~15k USD MRR. I built my own GPU infra for inference and I run Llama 3 with a fewshot prompting to get the model to respond like a given OF model, typically using their actual DMs with fans. I don't have a website for obvious reasons, but if you're in the biz you've no doubt heard about my…
How much are you saving running your own GPU infra? What are the total monthly costs for the service?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#66https://roguestargun.com Solo Developed VR starfighter combat sim for Quest, PCVR, and soon the PICO4 Meta, send me a free Quest 3, please. Would not recommend doing a game, let alone a VR game as a sideproject for anyone My day job is Machine Learning engineer, so I really should've picked an AI sideproject facepalm
Looks very cool. Will definitely give it a try.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#67Unsexy tech business making roughly $6-7k/mo. I partnered with a local janitorial company that targets industrial clients with recurring nightly cleaning needs and I make roughly 7% of gross revenue as a recurring weekly payment as long as the client stays on w/o much work. I help do some client support, SEO, and pay for things like Apollo.AI to reach out to customers but other than that it is pretty hands off. I fee…
But what does the business actually do?
Sounds like brings leads to the janitorial company
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#68We made a couple apps to work better with Davinci Resolve after finding things it did or did inefficiently. One (SparkFX) is still a work in progress
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#69I started a side project with my older brother called NanaGram.co that makes it easy to text message photos to a unique phone number, then once a month they get printed and shipped to your loved ones.
If you have kids, it makes a good holiday gift for the grandparents if you're stumped on what to get them.
I've since moved on from it, but my brother makes enough to work on NanaGram full-time now. It's also just been really cool to see the project grow over the years and bring happiness to thousands of grandparents all over the world.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#70I made an AI chatbot for OnlyFans models. Their fans can speak to "them" via a third party messaging app. It's currently pulling ~15k USD MRR. I built my own GPU infra for inference and I run Llama 3 with a fewshot prompting to get the model to respond like a given OF model, typically using their actual DMs with fans. I don't have a website for obvious reasons, but if you're in the biz you've no doubt heard about my…
I don't mean this in a critical way to you but, man, this makes me so sad to think about. Models making money from lonely people so desperate for a connection that they pay to chat with someone and then they don't even end up chatting with a human at all.
25% of US college students on antidepressants. Up 64% from 2020. People staring at screens 3/4 of their life. Probably nothing. Technology making the world a better place.