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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 by noecasas »

Celestina: https://celestina.app/

A dating app for events (e.g. a party, a music festival), where you can interact with people invited to the same event as you.

The app is for both the event organizer and the participants. Organizers create a virtual event and share a QR code for participants to join. After joining, participants can like each other and interact through the app.

"Celestina" means matchmaker in Spanish. The term is the name of a character from a Spanish literature classic (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Celestina)

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

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Post by OisinMoran »

I made https://profilepeacock.com/ on a whim after messing around with the Twitter API to make a tweet that quote-tweeted itself (quinetweet).

It gives you a lil progress bar on your twitter profile pic.

I don't plan on monetising it and it costs next to nothing as it's just on a cronjob on my laptop. It's a fun lil thing to keep around and spreads good vibes and support.

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

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Post by birdyrooster »

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.

Thank you very much! Your killer feature for me is being able to sort my library by fewest hours played and highest review rating so I get the best value out of my library.

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Post by jrobbins »

After reading on Hacker News about Universal Paperclips and seeing someone post that their whole team wasted a day playing it, I thought I would try to create an idle game that was devops themed, collaborative, and time-limited.

Like other idle games, you basically try to make the big number get really, really big. But, unlike other idle games that I have found, mine mixes in silly devrel trivia questions. Set aside exactly 20 minutes to get your team working together to accumulate an absurdly huge number of successful unit test runs in a truly test-centric world:

https://greens-io.appspot.com

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

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Post by robflynn »

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.

Oh, cool, I used to run something very similar called steamwatch.com, back before they allowed you to have watch lists. It would monitor prices, let you know about sales, and I would occasionally run game give away raffles for free with whatever ad revenue I collected. It only ever made maybe $100 over its entire run. This would've been over 10 years ago though so I doubt mine and yours ever coexisted.

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Post by Ingon »

https://klev.dev

I'm fascinated by the idea of Kafka and wanted to use it like a saas in my own apps, so I made my own take on it. It also doubles as a key/value store, so its useful for a bunch of things. The store itself is OSS and you can find it at https://github.com/klev-dev/klevdb.

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Post by wingworks »

TV Show tracking / countdown site https://tvdown.co

I built it 13 years ago and has had minimal updates since. The code is shocking. But I maintain it to a functional state because some users use it (as do I). I bet most here could do a way better job in a few hours, but it is what it is.

It runs on a $5/m server that run other stuff, so cost's are minimal. According to Google ~ 60 users use it per day.

I recently patched on top a modern / minimalist view only UI: https://tvdown.co/?style=min It works best when you've selected some shows in the "Personalize" page. I made it mostly just for me, there are a few other "hidden" styles.

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Post by artistminute »

dt3ft wrote: post #670

PDF2QRCoode: https://pdf2qrcode.com I never really made any effort to market this SaaS. If someone wants to help me grow it and partner up, feel free to reach out via support@qrcode.com

This looks pretty interesting! Could see it being used for concerts, restaurants, or magazine comps ies!
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