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

#601
Privacy-First Jobs - a job board solely for privacy-focused companies and orgs: https://privacyfirstjobs.com/

Direct feedback from users is consistently positive but I’m starting to think a job board based around values is not the great idea I thought it was. Nevertheless it’s still something I think should exist (and I might need it myself one day), so as long as the cost to keep it running is low, I’ll keep it running.

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

#602
post #84

Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…

Just downloaded. I loved JackFM back when I listened to terrestrial radio in the car - it was a station with a snarky robot dj and it was great. Thanks for making this!

Is there like a link to a JackFM broadcast on Youtube or something? I'm super curious to learn what their formatting was like and maybe use it as a case study!

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

#604
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.

That's awesome! I've been using SteamDB for years.

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

#605
This ask HN is great.

I'm discovering quite interesting projects.

Here's mine:

I write a newsletter about mental models for entrepreneurs.

Most content on the topic has too much jargon and is boring. So I'm trying to explain these useful ideas with business stories. And in an actionable way.

After some iteration, started getting positive feedback and just crossed 4000 subscribers.

It's free. But I'm planning to start monetizing it with sponsors soon.

https://fronterablog.com/newsletter

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

#606

Everyone Draw: https://everyonedraw.com I created a little experiment a few years ago to see what would happen if anyone in the world could draw pixel by pixel on an infinite, shared canvas. It has attracted a small community of fans who use it to relax and practice their drawing skills. The community has spawned some breathtaking pieces of collaborative art, including a world map[1], a galaxy[2], and a magic forest[…

Isn't this a copy of Reddit's April fools /r/pixel game?

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

#607
Home Intent: https://homeintent.io/

It's a standalone application that integrates with Home Assistant and provides an OOTB voice assistant for your entities.

I'm not actually sure how I would monetize it. I mostly saw all the pieces for it were open and had good APIs and built it mostly for myself. Eventually I realized others could use it and put it out there. I've never put in much effort to advertise it, but got a bit of a following.

Luckily now with the Home Assistant "year of voice" a lot of the ideas are going to be integrated into Home Assistant directly and I'd like to think I helped influence it a bit. (https://community.rhasspy.org/t/2023-year-of-voice/4130)

It's nice to have my ideas out there and let others (far more capable) continue on. Feels like the true nature of open source

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

#608

hyperspace https://hyperspace.so/ My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open & easy-to-use core. The idea is simple: what if HTML was the source of truth for web applications? • Every app would be a front-end site that's remixable • Anyone could copy a site and use the tools you built to help you change it to edit it themselves • You could edit a site at any level of abstraction -- in the browser's de…

ngl it's pretty cool but I can't find a use case for it

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

#610
LunaTrace: https://lunatrace.lunasec.io/

Premise: Open Source[0] alternative to GitHub Dependabot and `npm audit` that focuses on helping you prioritize where to patch first (since only 0.1% of CVEs are used in cyber attacks).

Short YouTube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugdSyR2L6sY

A newer video showing off the Static Analysis engine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPd4MSUJ98M

Price: $0 for Open Source repos. We're hoping to charge for private repos in the future, but we need to build out the billing features first lol. (We're at $0 in revenue currently.)

If you are filled with rage because of CVEs spamming you, come vent your frustrations on Discord: https://discord.gg/2EbHdAR5w7

We're looking for early customers that are interested in working with us. My email is on my profile. Cheers!

[0]: Source Code, https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/

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