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

#691
https://www.atomiclife.app

It's an AI planner that is open source and solves scheduling problems for recurring 1:1's, ad hoc team meetings

It uses AI models to automate the calendar like a vector search engine to create event templates that tells the AI planner how to behave when things don't fit properly on your calendar

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#692
https://www.tabletopunglued.com/

This is a collection of original papercraft designs for helping people have fun playing D&D. It's a way for me to get some hobby time away from the screen and keyboard. All the designs are available as pay-what-you-want, most people pay zero, and anything that people do pay goes to me supporting other creators on DMsGuild.com.

Unlike most papercraft, these designs are meant to be pretty sturdy and useful rather than just decorative. Most are about as strong as an empty soda can, so you can handle them and toss them around or even stack a couple books on top without crushing them. And, the source diagrams are included, so you can customize the art.

If you check out the "About" page you will see that the purpose is to explore inclusive accessories for D&D that people can enjoy regardless of their disposable income, and with less environmental impact than typical plastic, wood, or leather accessories.

Also, each product page ends with a haiku.

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#693

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…

You interested in selling this?

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

#694
post #389

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just a friendly heads up, but Go Transit is also the name of the regional transit system in Southern Ontario, Canada (originally named GO Transit for Government of Ontario Transit, as it started as a part of the Ontario Ministry of Transportation). Calling it out because your app looks cool, but with the direct overlap in name and product focus, it could lead to a future trademark dispute if your app takes off. https…

Yeah, I know. However, I white label all the applications, so the app ends up being called "Go Birmingham", "Go Steamboat", "Go Grand Rapids", etc... My users rarely actually find https://gotransitapp.com , and typically just search for City + transit on the app store.

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#696
https://spotify.smithy.dev/

Built it in a few hours in 2021, my girlfriend and I have a collaborative Spotify playlist, and as everyone knows Spotifys shuffle feature sucks. When on a road trip we'd constantly have the same songs play while on shuffle mode, so I built this, it basically just does a Fisher–Yates shuffle on a selected playlist and allows you to save this new order back to the playlist on Spotify (non destructive on Spotify, which unfortunately means an API call per song order change). Now no need to use Spotifys shuffle! Its worked well for us, we actually get a properly random playlist order.

Price: €0 Cost to me: Like €7 a month for a VPS than runs other stuff as well.

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#698
PeaceFounder: https://peacefounder.org

For the past few years, I have been exploring the idea of building an e-voting system around the anonymisation of voters rather than votes. In contrast to existing systems, the design enables the publication of all election evidence, verifying the legitimacy of the votes without sacrificing either privacy or transparency. Election administrators only need to take care of server identification secrets. It does all complex ElGamal re-encryption mixing before elections without the voters' active participation by simply shifting a relative generator on which voters would cast votes. This would make the Price/Security for running elections small compared to what is already out there.

Currently, the project is in a heavy development stage. I have settled on making a microservice which would be easily integrable into existing systems allowing members to enrol for voting by simply scanning a QR code. At the same time, the admins would be free to choose how they want to present data. REST API for the user and server, which onboards users, is now finalised. Now I am working on UX for the client application and, hopefully, will start to code a prototype in GTK in the coming weeks.

http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/PeaceFounde...

The feeling is much like playing a game of chess with oneself. Trying to finish it while I am young and can still keep the scope of the problem in my mind. If anyone is interested, I do enjoy a friendly argument ;)

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#699
Plane Hunters: https://www.plane-hunters.com/

I've been running this for the past few months. It's a search engine / aggregator for used aircraft. It's really hard to search for used aircraft and sort them across all the different websites, even harder to figure out what's a good deal and watch the whole market. I started this service to try and solve those problems for others.

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#700
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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.

Avid user for years, so cool to see you on the social web! Thanks for your work! I'm annoyed for you at all these people trying to tell you what to do with your project, after you've been doing it successfully for 10 years and they have not. Y'all really think this person hasn't thought about monetizing? Take it easy startup-stans!

I haven't read every comment, but I see a lot of surprise, a lot of respect and no annoyed/pissed off "startup-stans". Where are you getting this from?
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