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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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Daily Cals: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/daily-cals/id1614789690

An iOS App that provides a visualization of how often you hit your daily exercise goals and compete with friends (using data transferred through gamekit) I initially launched the app at $2 and hit the brick wall that is paid app user acquisition. I lowered the price to free for a bit to see if it catches on at all.

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#632
Chaintip: tip Bitcoin Cash on Reddit and Twitter

https://chaintip.org/

Bitcoin Cash is what Bitcoin should have been if they had let the block size increase as Satoshi intended. Bitcoin should have gained dominance with this increase and people would have been freer for it.

I take no profits. Unclaimed tips go back to sender after 7 days.

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Keep Close Friends: https://keepclosefriends.com One day I noticed I was slowly losing touch with old friends - I moved, we all have busy lives and don't hang out just by chance any more. Those people used to be loved ones and now I wasn't sure. It felt like grief. So I built a simple website where I can list relationships and ideal meeting frequency (say, 2-3 times a year), then get a few relationship stats and a re…

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

#635

This should be a regular feature on HN, somewhat akin to "Who's hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?". Maybe not on a monthly basis, but it would be cool to see periodically on some cadence. There's a lot I could say on this topic, but TBH, I don't want to go into most of it in detail Right Now for various reasons. The main reason being simply that the side project stuff I might want to call attention to is largely n…

What is your audience for this? I'll be blunt: I have no idea why I should pitch this enterprise thing to my boss.

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post #454

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Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again! What a bunch of clowns.

Rad literally says this

Ha! How does he keep up with the news like that?

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#637

Sheetmailer: https://sheetmailer.io/ It allows users to create personalized emails from the data in an Excel sheet. They write a template like Hello {Name} Your grade of todays exam was {Grade}. Best regards Prof. X The mailer automatically fills out the gaps with the corresponding column of the Excel sheet. Since it's been running, I got a single one-time payment (about four years ago). I'm using it a lot myself tho…

If you could include a generated PDF using the same simple template concept which gets attached to an (also templated) e-mail and ensure the e-mail isn't flagged as spam, and doesn't cost 60 dollars per user or some other such nonsense, I promise you there is a market for this. Big market.

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Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or somethin…

I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.

I hate ads too. The thing I tried that felt ethical and useful was an affiliate code for related (to the content) products that would split the discount 50/50 between me and readers. I stated this clearly in the ad.

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#639

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!

Thanks!

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#640

Music Tonight: https://musictonightapp.com/ Makes a Spotify playlist of artists playing near you, tonight. No revenue. I really just made it for me; make the playlist in the am, listen during the day, and maybe see something that night.

This is really cool. I don't use Spotify so I'm curious if there are any plans for branching it out to other services like Apple Music?

At any rate, I've shared it with some friends that do use Spotify and they all love it.

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