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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 pjmq »

pjmq wrote: 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…

Thank you so much to everyone for the points and really nice words of encouragement. Real shot in the arm and means a great deal.

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Post by lumenwrites »

I have a bunch of those.

https://writingstreak.io - a tool for developing a daily writing habit.

https://screenplays.io - a library of free screenplays.

https://startupideas.io - a newsletter where I research and analyze startup ideas, opportunities, and trends.

https://rpgadventures.io - a discord community where we a group of Game Masters brainstorm, create, and publish adventures for roleplaying games together.

https://improvgames.io - a discord community where I run free weekly improv workshops.

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Post by withinrafael »

EarTrumpet https://github.com/File-New-Project/EarTrumpet MIT

Price/revenue: $0.00* (a few random one-time donations did occur, which is very kind)

An alternate audio mixer for Windows. Originally built in ~2012 to manage the audio of those new newfangled Immersive apps in Windows 8. (Microsoft shipped Windows 8 without the ability to manage the audio levels of Immersive apps. They were invisible to sndvol.exe! Wild times.) Supports per-app leveling, re-routing audio streams, and some other bits. We even have an add-on framework that we haven't shipped and is in perpetual dev-branch-only status right now due to time/support concerns.

It is now used by millions of folks, made an appearance on a Linus tips show, etc. Am slowly modernizing the app (app development on Windows is a dumpster fire right now) but probably not as quickly as folks want.

Microsoft started work on providing a similar mixer, hidden in development builds of Windows 11. It will be interesting to see what happens there.

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Post by bombcar »

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.

He could sell ads for the Epic and GOG game stores!

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Post by modeless »

topicseed wrote: post #577
dxhdr wrote: post #459

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I see your maths here but Cloudflare hits include any assets, images, and so on so one page views fans out potentially dozens of hits. Cloudflare also includes all bots and non-human hits.

Page views are ~140 million per month: https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1604768632331870209/photo...

Assuming $0.50 net CPM on one AdSense unit per page view, that would be $70k monthly/$840k yearly revenue. And since operating cost is $100, that's all profit. I'm no AdSense expert but I believe this would be super conservative, maybe an expert could chime in with higher realistic numbers. Even if you don't like advertising there are other ways you could earn money with a site like SteamDB.

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Post by e12e »

mikkelpaulson wrote: post #496

initiative.sh[0], a web-based text interface for creative D&D play. After a promising response on HN[1], I had hoped that I might be able to monetize the project, but traffic has since crashed to almost nothing. I would say that after six months of full-time development it is about halfway to being complete as a freemium product, so instead I've opted to open-source it.[2] It turns out that the challenge with launchi…

Interesting idea. Might be able to pivot into a world-/knowledge-builder of sorts. Plug in gpt3 or Ai on the generating side; add links between nodes and graph visualization... And it could be useful not just as a GM tool, but for research for creative writing - or even for a wiki-like system (assuming another wiki-like mode for view edit).

I'll try and play with it to see if it fits me for writing a small campaign I'm starting.

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Post by greazy »

nasmorn wrote: post #505
seangransee wrote: post #430

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[…

You can sell loot boxes that contain different colors. Also sell finishing coats by the pixel. Once applied and dried (moderation) the underlying pixels can no longer removed.

Please don't do this.

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Post by ricardobeat »

Thorentis wrote: post #606
seangransee wrote: post #430

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?

r/pixel was like the 7th iteration of this idea on the web.
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