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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

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Post by izwasm »

Underphil wrote: post #816
izwasm wrote: post #815

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I wonder what's the cost of running this ?

It's written right there in the comment.

But isn't it low compared the site visitors. I believe you run some servers to scrape the data from steam and save it somewhere right ?

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

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Post by winternett »

I've been making music since 2010 for my own label and curating music by many other artists for the past 2 years on my site at: RuffandTuffRecordings.Com

Getting people to listen is the absolute hardest part of the job, as music streaming sites and social media display everyone's embarrassingly low stats prominently on everything, but the music I've made over time is the enduring payoff, I have even gotten to do some unpaid DJ and film scoring work, would love to do that full time.

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

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Post by kimjune01 »

Simple Video Trimmer:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/simple-video-trimmer/id1593706...

I got tired of editing on desktop, and mobile apps gouging me for money to use their editing app. I thought of the simplest way I can think of to precisely cut parts of videos together, and this is it. iOS only

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

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Post by klabb3 »

https://payload.app/ is a cross platform desktop LAN file transfer app with drag and drop UI, directory support, resumability, e2ee, and auto discovery. It’s designed to be easy to use, fast and ephemeral. My philosophy is to take transfer seriously, as opposed to hosting and sharing (which in my purist mind should be treated separately, and has less overlap than people think).

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

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Post by djaychela »

dthedavid wrote: post #792

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…

If I can offer some advice, I'd put some info about what you're actually committing to when you sign up. Your site looks lovely, but there's no info as to whether there are paid or free options or what signing up will actually do (in terms of emails or commitment). I almost never sign up to any service unless they do this, and often if they are open about costs or provide a free tier or trial, I'm much more likely to test it out.

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

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Post by rajatjindal0083 »

Translate Thread: https://translatethread.com

translatethread is an online service that quickly and easily makes translated threads available for your reading

it is especially useful when threads are longer than let's say 5 tweets.

e.g. this (https://translatethread.com/thread/1611826522196742144) is translated version of this (https://twitter.com/d0l0h0va/status/1551663292493565957) which had 309(!!) tweets.

I currently make $0 from running this tool.

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

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Post by mzfr »

Ndymium wrote: post #193

As a hobby project, I run Code::Stats[0]. It's a website that tracks what languages you are programming in (via editor plugins) and gives you a profile page with various statistics[1]. It's ad-supported (with EthicalAds) to deal with server costs, or you can buy a support account to remove ads. The site and all the editor plugins are open source, the site is written in Elixir (but I'm looking at integrating Gleam in…

I just saw this and as a project this looks great. But the more(maybe most) popular version of exactly this tool is Wakatime[0] and I've been using it for quite a while now. So my question here would be what "new" feature you plan to add to this so you can standout from other similar but popular services?

[0] https://wakatime.com/

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

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Post by keizo »

Grugnotes.com trying to be the lowest effort note taking app. Been working on for four months nights and weekends. Just text, basic html, try to keep anything fancy serverside. Some ways I’m so happy with it, but also such a buggy side project I’m hesitant to share and try to charge. Having fun with it.
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