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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 $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#782SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Just wanted to say big big fan. Have extensively used it during sales to see the lowest record prices. I absolutely love everything about the site, the design, the layout. Thank you for making it.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#783Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or somethin…
I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.
Extremely baller
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#784Recently decided to launch MessageDuck: https://www.messageduck.com after working on a few side projects but never actually launching for many years. It is similar to Mailcharts and ReallyGoodEmail, but for SMS which Mailcharts has as well but the price is out of our range. Basically it is a library of thousands of SMS messages to help marketers get the latest SMS data and launch their campaign in minutes instead of…
This is actually incredible useful for what I work with, very cool to get a pulse on brand strategies. How did you get the data in?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#785SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
I actually wouldn't mind some ads on this. Not the generic Google banner ads, but some cutesy illustrated banner in the style of Darkest Dungeon and such. Open an ad slot for bidding and the most interesting banner wins.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#786SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
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#787hyperspace https://hyperspace.so/ My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open & easy-to-use core. The idea is simple: what if HTML was the source of truth for web applications? • Every app would be a front-end site that's remixable • Anyone could copy a site and use the tools you built to help you change it to edit it themselves • You could edit a site at any level of abstraction -- in the browser's de…
Any links to cool sites already made with this?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#788I 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…
Awesome. Could you please add the Bundesliga?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#789SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.
Thank you! I love the site. And also thank you for not having ads.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell
#790Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or somethin…
I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.
Would you share more with us about the reason why you're not monetizing it?