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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 joouha »

I'm working on a TUI Jupyter Notebook editor, euporie, which allows you to run and edit Jupyter Notebooks in the terminal:

https://github.com/joouha/euporie

It's useful for editing and running notebooks on remote servers over SSH, or inside containers where setting up port forwarding is not possible or too difficult, or if you just like working in the terminal.

It's open-source, and I have no idea how I would go about monetizing it!

I've spent a lot of time recently working on euporie's HTML renderer, which I'm planning on using to make a new terminal web-browser.

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Post by magneticmonkey »

asdev wrote: post #51
magneticmonkey wrote: post #14

My friend and I have been working on a replacement for Facebook events in our social circle. We found that a lot of people are not using FB events anymore and were having a hard time planning social events. Not making any money (yet) but we hope to someday! We designed our app to make it easy to share invites on any social platform/chat group without being tied down. https://dateit.io

how did you launch this? to your existing social circle/friends or did you do any marketing?

We started with our friends and family. We have been running ads on the App and Play store. Nothing too crazy. We are starting to look into more local advertising to drum up interest!

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

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Post by orax »

Not exactly my project, but I have been helping a friend of mine work on his pet project for the last couple of months: https://limeline.app/.

He currently makes no money from it and has no intent on making any anytime soon, hosting cost are pretty low and it was pretty much just created out of a need we both had: being able to aggregate all our sources for our morning technology watch.

In the end, with feedback from a couple of friends, he built a simple "no inbox" RSS aggregator with some nice extra features (account-less page management, sharing & forking of feeds, ...).

It is still in a pretty early stage, but I really like where this is going and feels like it deserve more visibility.

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

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Post by jacobmarble »

https://zagi.net/ is a pay-for internet search engine, backed by Bing. I have been using myself for over a year. As it turns out, getting a payment system working is super frustrating.

Current revenue is less than $5 per month (just me), and costs are less than $100 per month.

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

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Post by Taikonerd »

the__alchemist wrote: post #48

I wrote a scheduling and training application for fighter squadrons. Used in a number of active duty and ANG sqs. Not sure how to monetize it. Also have a target imagery generator for training that's widespread on one aircraft type.

Ah yes, the famously cash-strapped military... ;-)

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

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Post by sickmartian »

https://sickmartian.com/trackendar/

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sickmartia...

Trackendar, an habit tracking calendar app. Not currently monetized, got some initial traction, put ads which I promptly removed as they made the app look like shit and had some 'add ons' with which I made between 400-500 USD, I didn't get to see that money as getting an USD payment in Argentina was a PITA so the US has them now :/

All local data, so no cost except a lot of time learning 'old' android and constantly maintaining whatever google wants to change or deprecate + updating the date/time library with the latest TZ changes. Has more features that it needs or users want to learn to use like categories, themes, reports...

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Post by bmelton »

So I just started on this a week and a half ago, but thanks to a recent layoff, I'm able to churn through it a little more quickly than I thought I might be able to, and I don't anticipate it ever making any real money, so I think it counts.

The gist is that it's a site for imagining who would be cast into the roles of comic books, anime, books, or old TV series (or film) if they were adapted into modern a modern movie.

It was originally born out of the idea when The Dark Knight aired, and I was pretty confident that Heath Ledger was going to be good, but when I was chatting with a different group of friends than those who had already heard me say that, nobody believed it. So the first pass of it was just a simple form of social proof, but the more I've thought about it over the years, the more it's evolved.

It's pretty useless right now, but at the pace I'm going, I should be able to have a workable MVP in the next few days before I have to start looking for another job.

https://fancasting.com

The frontend is Next/React, and the few 'backend' pieces are also Next API functions (which isn't something I've really delved into before, so kind of fun, ignoring the weird latency effect of functions) - the only thing that currently resembles what I'm used to as a backend is the Planetscale DB, which it speaks to via Prisma.

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

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Post by superasn »

https://www.bootstrapsite.com

I've been working on a Bootstrap 5 landing page builder for almost 1 year now (mostly just weekends though).

It's like my pet project than any money earning business but it gives me pleasure to work on it so I just keep at it.

My plan is to open source it soon so people can create their sites and landing pages for free and host it on their own servers. Initially I made it create my own sites and learn Vue 3 but I'm kinda hooked on how it's turning out to be.

Right now everything is free including ssl hosting. Maybe to support the hosting cost I will charge a one time fees later on, but except a small "Powered by blurb" there will never be any difference between paid and free plan.

It's work in progress so I don't think it's ready for a Show HN just yet but that's the next big thing on my list.

The main USP of this builder is it's targeted more for developers and people who know what Bootstrap 5 is than just another website builder (need to update the landing page to reflect that soon).

If anyone has 5 minutes to spare and want to play with it I would really appreciate your good honest feedback about the builder and everything. No signup or cc is needed for trying by the way.

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