A tiny API for embedding weather forecasts as an image: https://weatherembed.com/
Makes around $500/month from various subscriptions through RapidAPI. Built on a whim during the pandemic. Uses Google Cloud Run + NodeJS.
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#82I run a B2B lead generation SaaS for the UK market.
It provides up-to-date data from Companies House, but also allows you to sort and filter businesses by:
- where they are located
- when they registered
- what SIC (standard industrial classification) code they use
- their operational status
- their accounts category
Businesses typically use this to find new businesses to try and market/sell their services to.
It’s written in Haskell and Elm, and it’s been running for about five years now. Several businesses have been happily paying to use the service every month.
https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/
If you’d like to sell your services to UK businesses then do write to me; I’d love to hear from you :)
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#83I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December. It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips. Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com
Cool. I predict (hope) specialized jobs boards will become more the norm.
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#84Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I am a developer, Do I need this API? No, if you can build your own rendering system with all these features and able to make it run this fast. You don't need this API. Your FAQ is great hahaha!
Yes, every developer thinks the same about almost every API/service, that they could build it over weekend.
And in some cases, they probably can. But reliability, scalability and most importantly quality is harder.
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#85https://cronhub.io (a project I just took over). Makes about 1k/month for now.
This is cool. What's the story behind taking the project over?
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#86Stock market and crypto currency bot for Slack and Discord https://beeper.fyi/
How does this make money? I don't see any pricing info on the site.
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#87I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since my background is in AI, I made my own.
It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from.
It's not yet at $500/mo, but it's getting close. Server costs are significant though, since running an AI model is a bit expensive.
Ideas and feedback are welcome.
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#90We're doing an newsletter dedicated for Android developers:
- it was four years without making any money
- with ~100k subs it's generating money
- everything grew organically