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

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Everyone Draw: https://everyonedraw.com I created a little experiment a few years ago to see what would happen if anyone in the world could draw pixel by pixel on an infinite, shared canvas. It has attracted a small community of fans who use it to relax and practice their drawing skills. The community has spawned some breathtaking pieces of collaborative art, including a world map[1], a galaxy[2], and a magic forest[…

Are these examples just different locations on the same canvas?

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Bannerbox: https://bannerbox.io

Embed banners and modals onto your site with no code.

I spent the last 7 years as a growth engineer building banners and modals. Each time there was a custom requirement. I've always thought there should be a Wix kind of experience for tiny components that can be embedded anywhere on a site.

Currently I have 0 users. This year I plan on spending more time on marketing and improving the product. It cost me about $50/month to run. Most is for storage (postgres and redis). A large chunk is for a custom email address through Google. I spend about 1-2 hours working on it every day. I'm thinking long term. Slow and steady.

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https://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 lo…

Thanks for the reply. Your comment about having it all behind one interface really resonates with my goals with WROLPi.

I skimmed the link you provided. My goal is to do something similar, but use the Debian Blu-ray ISOs. Debian provides ISOs that contain their entire repo. They fit nicely on a 128GB thumb drive.

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

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Recently 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?

Thanks for the comment! We started with subscribing to some brands manually with our own number to see if the idea was viable for about a month before trying to do it at scale by looking for which brands offered SMS and using something like a Twilio virtual phone number to get the message they send to us via API to put in the database. We currently spend a few hours every month to do that and to add more features.

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

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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.

kudos, mate

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PoachMe.Dev: https://www.poachme.dev/#/devLand?reqCode=HNGOBRRR Premise: Recruiters spam left and right, so we decided to create a website just so they could get a familiar calendar-like interface but asked them to pay for your time. As soon as we exposed the external version with the URL, we decided to make an automated template ("Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this. You'll recei…

Followed the 1st link in post, used GitHub sign-up button, allowed pop-up, signed in to GH, authorized app, ended up on white page with message about missing session status or something (sorry, I didn't capture verbatim message).

Went back to 1st page and tried again. No GH login prompt, white page with coloured progress bar at top, ended up back on initial page with message "Unable to establish a connection with the popup. It may have been blocked by the browser".

Firefox on Android. (Btw, perhaps it's on purpose, but I can't select and copy text on that page.)

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To be honest the t-shirts don't look that great. Maybe there is room for improvement.

FINALLY some product feedback!! What would make them better?

Maybe GP is not the target market and I guess I'm not either? The only thing that appeals to me at all is the hacking the Gibson poster. Pretty cool. I have zero idea what all the other stuff is, if there are references I don't get them and the designs aren't interesting enough to intrigue me.
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