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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by aacook »

_caw wrote: post #383
andygcook wrote: post #69

I started a side project with my older brother called NanaGram.co that makes it easy to text message photos to a unique phone number, then once a month they get printed and shipped to your loved ones. If you have kids, it makes a good holiday gift for the grandparents if you're stumped on what to get them. I've since moved on from it, but my brother makes enough to work on NanaGram full-time now. It's also just been…

NanaGram is awesome, used it for a while back in the olden days of 2021. When I visit my grandma she still has pictures on her refrigerator delivered by this service. Cheers to you and your brother!

Seeing this comment a bit late... thank you so much for the kind words about the service!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by aacook »

kirso wrote: post #753
andygcook wrote: post #69

I started a side project with my older brother called NanaGram.co that makes it easy to text message photos to a unique phone number, then once a month they get printed and shipped to your loved ones. If you have kids, it makes a good holiday gift for the grandparents if you're stumped on what to get them. I've since moved on from it, but my brother makes enough to work on NanaGram full-time now. It's also just been…

Very cool! Always wondered how solo engineers deal with physical and shipping? I suppose there is some sort of API that allows prints and shipping on behalf?

I started with an API called Pwinty which turned out to be pretty expensive so I ended up basically recruiting a print shop partner based in the US.

I've actually been looking at releasing a 4"x6" photo printing API of my own since we've developed some pretty neat shipping tricks as well as the ability to print on both sides of the photos.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by Jabbs »

mfiro wrote: post #803
Jabbs wrote: post #30

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search…

Great project! What steps did you take to address the legal implications of scraping from different websites?

The data is destroyed and no content from the web pages are reused or repurposed (each listing is merely a link + various tags that are created/associated upon viewing. My understanding is that public websites scraping is legal but repurposing their content might not be

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by dkuklin »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #208
munificent wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't mean this in a critical way to you but, man, this makes me so sad to think about. Models making money from lonely people so desperate for a connection that they pay to chat with someone and then they don't even end up chatting with a human at all.

It's not really that sad. Young guys with a bit of disposable income could do a lot worse than subscribing to someone's onlyfans and chatting with a bot. I don't charge subscribers directly and don't do any pay-per-message scheme, it's free for the user (provided they're subscribed to my client's page). The conversations aren't even overtly sexual in nature, mostly just guys sending "hey hope you're having a good day…

How many parameters LLama do you use? What framework do you use to launch it?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by vtr1130 »

mystickphoenix wrote: post #749
goenning wrote: post #10

I did not like any Kubernetes UI so I built my own https://aptakube.com It went from side project to my primary job in less than 6 months. Everyone was saying that $99 was too much for “an API wrapper”, but here we are, 2 years later and with hundreds of small to enterprise companies using it :)

Just wanted to say you've built an amazing product. So much so that I got my team hooked on it and am working on getting it out to the rest of the company that needs it. Well done!!

I noticed it’s open-sourced, right? How do you avoid people coping the code and running by themselves?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

flashu wrote: post #169

SpaceShout ( https://spaceshout.com ) is Social Mapping Platform focused on our user's content and interaction. Project is in active development since 2 years, 10+ ppl engaged, iOS and Android apps published in the stores. We're not yet into making money but we're on the way to start with profits. iOS - https://apps.apple.com/app/spaceshout/id6475599807 Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spac…

Any reason for not making it available in all countries?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

motyar wrote: post #490

Launched ZenMic: AI Podcast Generator few months ago. Crossed 400 free users so far. Zero MRR but it makes money indirectly. We still have to add pricing and paid plans but it attracted enough freelancing client who need related custom solution. https://zenmic.com

Is this similar to Google’s offering?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by kirso »

aacook wrote: post #812
kirso wrote: post #753

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very cool! Always wondered how solo engineers deal with physical and shipping? I suppose there is some sort of API that allows prints and shipping on behalf?

I started with an API called Pwinty which turned out to be pretty expensive so I ended up basically recruiting a print shop partner based in the US. I've actually been looking at releasing a 4"x6" photo printing API of my own since we've developed some pretty neat shipping tricks as well as the ability to print on both sides of the photos.

I was actually looking at it from a different business model perspective. There are some APIs that do both print and ship in various formats but there is definitely a markup on top. Aggregating printers that are digital enough is quite a challenge of its own though :)
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