Steamdb represents what blogs in the 2000’s or what personal websites in the mid 90’s did: the love for internet and for publishing. It can be also for getting money or personal credit. But using pseudonyms and publishing things we love for free, for connecting with people with similar interests… that was the super power of internet that has faded a lot.
Yeah, respect.
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#702https://ec2.shop
A website to check price of ec2 instance. support a `curl` to check and compare on-demand, spot and reverse.
I made it because everytime I have to wait for AWS to load their pricing page which takes forever. and require awakard navigation around between region, previous instance
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#703I 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…
Where do you get the data?
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#704Playtune: https://playtune.app
I made it out of frustration on finding rhythm game with my favorite songs. So I decided to build one and use YouTube as the music provider.
It made $0 as there are no monetization nor ads. Me and my daughter still occasionally play it.
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#705https://thoriumsim.com A multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator game, where your crew each takes a different position on a futuristic spaceship, explore space, meet aliens, complete missions, and hopefully keep your ship in one piece! If you've ever played Artemis, Empty Epsilon, Starship Horizons, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, heck even SpaceTeam, this is in the same genre. It's pretty much Space DnD, with the option to h…
How do I play it? Clone the gh repo?
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#706SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Thanks so much. This site has helped me find new games, and it has saved me lots of money with the price history feature.
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#707Https://Batsign.me
Quick and easy personal email notifications.
I got tired of configuring email for simple things.
I have one very intensive user.
It's a side-side-project.
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#708iOS app Blind Compass
https://github.com/mltony/blind-compass
I am blind and I developed this auditory compass for blind people that communicates your heading as two tones - musical interval between them encodes your heading. It helps white cane users not to get confused in space or walk straight across large open space by locking heading. It also makes me look like a lunatic, because I put iPhone into phone holder that I sawn to my hat to provide most accurate heading information.
The app is free, but I have to pay for Apple Developer subscription to keep the app in the app store.
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#710I just launched https://www.formyschool.org
It is a platform for schools to manage Read-A-Thons and other fundraisers. My wife is managing the Read-A-Thon for my kid’s school this year and they considered using a service that wanted to take up to 30% of the proceeds. I’m sure the other platform would be great, but 30% is a lot, so it inspired me to build it. I also tried to incorporate gamification features like unlockable avatars and leaderboards to encourage the kids to participate.
If you are on the PTA of your school and want to try it out, send me a note and I can help get it set up for you. Free.