https://boxtrades.com is my latest project. Got into box spreads for earning greater than Treasury yields more or less risk free and wanted a way to see what the current trading rates are. Costs me about 20/mo for data and hosting.
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#762I have a website that allows you to check the availability of domain names without worrying about registrars "stealing" the idea from you.
So far, it's making 0 from affiliate links. Never did much promotion because I mostly use it myself.
You can check it out here: https://safestdomainsearch.com/
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#763Not side projects, but I'm a solo founder with 2 projects not currently generating revenue. So I feel like I'm within range of the request. LogicTrader: https://logictrader.xyz - automated trading, currently crypto only and demo mode only. InventAI: https://inventai.xyz - will be a toolbox for generative AI services. Can't say much more before the launch.
For logic trader, remember to factor in slippage and market depth.
Regarding slippage, there is some unavoidable latency, especially since users must run their own clients which contact exchanges to place orders. That's for security reasons. To start with, only market orders will be available. However I can add limit orders as an option, which are likely the real answer.
With market depth, a strategy can include various signals to avoid problems, e.g. volume.
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#764https://wrolpi.org/ Been having a great time on my side-project WROLPi. Its preparedness-oriented software which allows you to create an offline library. Videos, web archives, maps, epub/pdf, etc. Really easy search, low power usage if you run on in a Raspberry Pi. Just put out the first Raspberry Pi image, which makes installation super simple. Hoping to get a Debian image soon. Currently "videos" is pretty well flu…
Oh this is super interesting! I've been playing with Internetinabox, Kiwix, yt-dlp, httrack'd websites, mirrors of github orgs... and I have all this data but no frontend for it. Searchability is huge, I will definitely be playing with this.
IIAB, notably, has an offline maps function in recent versions. I haven't looked at how it works.
Ultimately I'd like to put _all_ that content behind the same interface as my local Othernet receiver node, some sort of Piratebox file-upload site, a local-only BBS sort of message-board, and whatever else might be useful if I found myself offline for a long time.
Oh btw, this may be of interest since you're likely to have a pi sitting there, maybe you'd like to bring up some other pis:
https://blog.thelifeofkenneth.com/2018/01/off-grid-raspbian-...
(I've also recognized that, since I'm likely to have a bucket of Arduinos and stuff around but I'm hopeless without example code, I should have that somehow. So I have the kiwix dumps of raspberrypi.stackexchange and arduino.stackexchange, but I also mirrorred adafruit's and sparkfun's entire github orgs. I need to find a way to httrack waveshare's and seeedstudio's wikis, but they're very crawl-resistant....)
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#765SteamDB: 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.
Wait, why are you not monetizing it? that traffic looks bonkers
I think Valve will shut it down once it learns about the monetization. AFAIK that is what happened to https://steamspy.com/ when they introduced paid subscription tier.
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#766I'm working on a photo-sharing service for groups to replace shared Google Drive folders. Even if a Google Drive is publicly editable uploads count against the uploader's quota unless they select all, right click, change owner to the folder owner which is a bridge too far. By default anyone can upload to a gallery but they are identified by hard-to-guess UUIDs. This makes passing galleries around SMS or any chat plat…
Ooo, this is really interesting. It sounds like it might scratch an itch I have.
I've wanted a way to say "Hey if you took photos while visiting our makerspace, would you share them back with us somehow?"
Because a visitor's eye is sure to catch things differently than folks who're always around. And many visitors are here during interesting events when there's lots of fun stuff to photograph. If we could get even a fraction of those photos back under a creative commons license, it'd be a great resource for next time we need to make brochures or give talks or whatever.
But I don't know how to make this happen, either from a tech side or from a social side. It needs to be as low-friction as possible, and I'd like to support both folks who shoot on their mobile phones, and those who tote around DSLRs and process when they get home.
I imagine I could hang a poster on the wall that says something like "TAKE A PICTURE OF THIS POSTER and check it out when you get home. Hey, yeah, would you share the photos you took? Go to some.website.example/i3detroit and follow the prompts, eh?", possibly with a QR code that does the typing for them, but I haven't found good software to run behind it.
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#767SteamDB: 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.
This is amazing! Is there a way to limit the charts to certain platforms only, like Mac or Linux compatible games?
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#768Emulators! A lot of work and multiple skillsets and needed to make a working emulator, let alone an accurate one, yet most of these projects demand no payment.
I contribute to the BizHawk frontend, which doesn't currently take donations. But when it does, we'll definitely be paying it forward to the many "emulator core" developers whose FOSS projects allow us to claim 40+ systems emulated.
I'd like to shoutout alyosha, who recently left our team but has contributed many bespoke cores and remains active in hardware research circles; and also endrift, the solo dev of mGBA; LIJI, the solo dev of SameBoy; Arisotura, the solo dev of melonDS; and Eke-Eke, the solo dev of Genesis Plus GX.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#769SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ 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's doing us a favor by not plastering ads all over his site.
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#770Can we do projects that we know will stay at $0 but we still hope might gain traction? OSS: typed-graphql-builder https://typed-graphql-builder.spion.dev/ is a TypeScript based graphql query builder. No more writing untyped strings and running a watcher in the background - generate the builder from the server schema once then write any queries in TS with the help of the language server It was inspired by tql ( https:…
Having banged my head against the guilds graphql code gen tool for the past two days, I will pay you 10 in the am, if this thing works and you explain to me how the f to get their config file to read both schema and ops files.