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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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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 are a lifesaver. Cheers to you!

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

#662

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 lea…

This is cool, really dig the text look. Reminds me of https://wttr.in/. I would love to see more of these text-based sites.

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

#663
MMKV Visualizer: https://www.mmkv-visualizer.com/

Allows you to view MMKV files in a table-based visualizer, all processed client-side via Pyodide and Svelte!

A bit embarrassing to put up on HN again, but something I'm really proud of as it's my first "major" web project and has been quite useful in my day-to-day work as a mobile researcher.

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

#664
post #274

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You're an absolute beast. Nice.

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

#665

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 lea…

I use this site every day. Thank you for making it!

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post #124

Wanting to experiment with Shopify, I decided to make a t-shirt shop for cyberpunk and sci-fi stuff. So I registered a short sci-Fi sounding domain: https://hex7.org and proceeded to toil (many many mouse clicks) away stocking my shop with with hand-designed shirts and coffee cups and then waited. 2 years in, not a single sale : Partly I wanted just to add products and see if the combination of Shopify, Google, and m…

You have a sale. Maybe the most expensive mug I've ever bought :) I look forward to it.

Wow thanks Kevin! ;) now I am longer in the $0 club!

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

#667
An online music locker: http://inter.tube/

You can store your music in The Cloud (mp3 and FLAC supported). Includes a barebones web player and is compatible with the Subsonic protocol so you can use native apps with it. It doesn't do any re-encoding or mess with your files at all so audiophiles might like it.

Inspired by Google Play Music shutting down. I haven't had time to keep adding features but it supports almost all of the Subsonic API. It uses DynamoDB, Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, and Backblaze B2 so it's pretty cheap but I only have two customers. I'm considering moving it to Cloudflare's new storage thing which should simplify it a bit.

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#668

CoolModFiles: https://coolmodfiles.com/ (just awaiting sponsorships) CoolModFiles is a web player that will introduce you to the most obscure and legendary tracks hosted on the internet's biggest module archive, modarchive.org! The web player works by simply fetching a random module from modarchive.org and playing it. No black magic involved! The idea for CoolModFiles originated among two programmer friends who used…

>The programmer friends' idea, unfortunately, was beaten by modarchive.org many years ago.

Sorry about that :-) Glad the API has come I handy though, your thing looks very nice, but “mobile bad desktop good”? Get with the times ;)

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