https://legiblenews.com/
I have paying subscribers, but it’s not a ton and it mostly covers sever and maintenance costs.
I wrote about why I made this at https://legiblenews.com/about
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#612Jobs with Pride: https://www.JobsWithPride.com Premise: Handpicked jobs from LGBTQ+ friendly companies. It's a curated job board of the best jobs for our queer community, using publicly available information to source jobs at confirmed LGBTQ+ friendly companies - Verified by our 100% LGBTQ+ team. Availability: Web Price: $0 (Paid packages are available) Cost to me: ~$100 per month Why do it? - Finding jobs at LGBTQ+…
This might sound dumb, but aren't most corproate employers completely accepting of LGBT people these days (well, LGB people at least)?
What makes one company LGBT friendly and another not?
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#613PoachMe.Dev: https://www.poachme.dev/#/devLand?reqCode=HNGOBRRR Premise: Recruiters spam left and right, so we decided to create a website just so they could get a familiar calendar-like interface but asked them to pay for your time. As soon as we exposed the external version with the URL, we decided to make an automated template ("Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this. You'll recei…
How many users do you have right now?
Last year I created a prototype of something very similar, the key difference was that the idea was to auto pre screen recruiters instead of ask for pay.
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#614An open source Deno starter template that includes session handling and e2e Puppeteer testing that runs on Github Actions:
https://fresh-strapi.deno.dev/ https://github.com/Hyprtxt/fresh-strapi.deno.dev/actions
And this site uses the sessions and e2e testing, but not Strapi: https://videopoker.academy/ https://github.com/Hyprtxt/videopoker.academy
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#615I've made yet another magnetometer, but this one its free and no ads. It helped me locate a strong magnet in a hole I had put 5 ft underground. I was then able to excavate to it and install my main water line without digging a huge hole. check it out at: https://www.smartbrosltd.com
I didn’t even know this was a thing that was possible, let alone yet another, and Free!? Thanks. I’ve been looking for something like this or some sort of sensor setup to do the same.
Thank you!
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#616Do I need an Umbrella Today? https://umbrellatoday.app The idea has emerged from my personal frustration with having to carry an umbrella (large or small). Large umbrellas are heavy and cumbersome to carry, and are often lost at events, while small umbrellas provide insufficient protection and are prone to breaking. The conclusion is that there is a need to minimize interactions with umbrellas as much as possible, an…
It looks pretty good, I’ve been looking for something like it. Though in my case I want to know of full days. I.e. I want an alert for “will it rain at all tomorrow”? When checking the current day, it’d be useful to see all hours of the day and if it’s going to rain in any.
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#617SteamDB: 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.
The fact the you choose to keep this project ad free is fire.
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#618JukeLab 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.
I had the same idea for a startup. Never moved on it though. On a hackathon investor told me that it would be a mess to break in to music licensing for different companies
It turns out this is a great passion project to work on because I'm 100% sure you can't build a business around this idea for music licensing reasons.
Personal use only!
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#619Go Transit: https://gotransitapp.com/ I've built and maintain website + iOS + Android apps for public transit for several small municipalities that don't have a good solution. I usually end up adding cities if I visit there and an unhappy with their app offering. Most of these municipalities use a smaller 3rd party vendor for tracking their buses, but often, the user facing application is sorely lacking. My applicati…
Awesome work!
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#620Earlier quoted context omitted.
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!
It was 100.3 KJKK Jack FM which I’m realizing was only in the DFW area. I figured it was syndicated
Here’s a link to what I’m guessing is their site: https://jack.fm/listen-to-jack-fm/
Here’s a YouTube video which is either a recording or a fan-made version. Either way the quip by Jack after the first song (~3:37) nails the tone for the robo dj’s persona: https://youtu.be/ewDE2rrRbH8