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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 yamazakiwi »

AussieWog93 wrote: post #612
JessBuildsTech wrote: post #188

Jobs 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?

If only that was the case, specific industries are far worse than others as you'd imagine. Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is also currently growing in the United States.

As far as the definition of "friendly" is concerned, that is a spectrum so I imagine we need the creator to respond.

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

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Post by celestialcheese »

dxhdr wrote: post #459
xPaw wrote: 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.

You're passing on $50k-100k per month of ad revenue from just basic banner ads... at least based on how RPMs were a few years ago. I respect that, definitely not the decision I'd make.

Even assuming a _very_ low $0.01/session, he'd be making $60k/mo.

More realistically, if he decided to do this right, and sell direct ads using something like Kevel, with "promoted" game slots or something on the homepage and search, he could do $10-$20CPM direct since it's a large and well known site with high purchase intent.

Let's say a conservative 4 impressions per page and 3 pages per session.

(12 imps per session * 6m sessions)/1000 * $10CPM is $720k / mo

This is a _very_ achievable number, quickly, for a site that is this close to purchase intent.

I don't understand. Even putting a single adsense ad at a $1 CPM would net him close to $20k/mo. This might be one of the least monetized sites I've seen at this scale.

Respect.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

ekglimmer wrote: post #461

Ah I love this ask HN! I'm building an iMessage app (www.pigeon.ooo - nothing here yet, I just get a hoot out of the name) that brings note taking into iMessage. I built it because I wanted to be able to save/pin messages so that I wouldn't have scroll up to find important pieces of info. You can also share the lists directly through iMessage so that the others in the conversation can update the notes, which has been…

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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 nomilk »

During covid I wanted to take a 'digital vacation', so I thought: why not an online chess lesson with grand master Ben Finegold? But arranging a time (across busy schedules and time zones) and price was too much effort for a once-off catch up, so I made a tool that would have let me google him and book (and pay for) a time in under 1 minute (with trivial effort from both parties). Of course, it works for anyone, not limited to chess GMs.

https://www.hangswith.com/

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

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Post by CodeIsTheEnd »

I run Plain Text Sports (https://plaintextsports.com/).

I got sick of waiting for ESPN to load so I made a site with the goal of providing immediate access to what people actually care about: sports scores.

It's pretty fully featured at this point, supporting the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Premier League and Champions League, college basketball and college football, WNBA, NWSL, and the World Cup. And for a lot of leagues it has full schedules and standings as well.

It actually was really popular in South Africa during the World Cup when a "super-app" that points users to sites that don't use a lot of data linked to it.

The site is served off of S3 (which is cheap), but there's a job running on an AWS server that's fetching the data for all the games and republishing pages to S3. It's using Ruby and is making a lot of network requests, so it's definitely not super efficient. I need a least a couple virtual CPUs, so it ends up costing ~$60 a month. I could definitely reduce that number, but the trouble just isn't worth it to me right now.

I don't want to make money on it. It's been difficult enough to get people to use it; getting people to pay for it would be even hard. At this point I feel like I've gotten everything I've wanted from the project. (An eye-opening experience into the marketing world; a website that I use every day.)

I try to limit how much I work on it now to mostly just maintenance work. I'd rather work on other stuff. If I started making money that'd just be a number to obsess over, and, honestly, it's never going to make enough money to replace my salary as a software engineer.

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

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Post by POiNTx »

Geoquest: https://geoquest.wout.space/

It's a geography game focussed on learning all countries in the world.

Had it online for about a year now. It's completely opensource [1]. Only accept donations through buymeacoffee, no ads, no paid version.

I don't spend any money on it as it's hosted on Cloudflare Pages and all data is stored offline in localstorage.

[1] https://github.com/woutdp/geoquest

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

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Post by AussieWog93 »

yamazakiwi wrote: post #641
AussieWog93 wrote: post #612

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

If only that was the case, specific industries are far worse than others as you'd imagine. Anti-LGBTQ+ rhetoric is also currently growing in the United States. As far as the definition of "friendly" is concerned, that is a spectrum so I imagine we need the creator to respond.

Oh, I can definitely imagine issues being a gay man on a construction site, or something like that.

What sort of professional industries are homophobic, though? Genuinely asking, not trying to disagree or minimise what you're saying.

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

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Post by NotACop182 »

xPaw wrote: 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.

Big fan use it all the time

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

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Post by NotACop182 »

xenotize wrote: post #229
xPaw wrote: 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.

You run SteamDB? Thanks for making this! I've used it for all those 10 years whenever I'm getting back into gaming and want to see what the popular games are! The player count charts are a really awesome feature. Thanks for keeping it running all these years.

Yes same here. Still use it to find upcoming trending games.
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