PolishPixels: https://polishpixels.com
Just made it in late 2022, in order to preserve some retro-gaming memories in context of early polish game-dev years. Pure passion project, as i was doing some gamedev on c64 in early 90-ties :)
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#842I built https://courses.so.
The concept: build courses with Notion.
The idea came from my partner in the project, who runs an e-learning community centered around no-code tools and wanted something simple and no-code-y to host their material.
I built it during a bad main-project burnout day and we've been improving and marketing it ever since.
We have a bunch of people using the free plan to publish their courses for free, but not enough users pay the 9€/month plan, which allows you to charge for the courses, to pay for the infra.
So we're in the negative monthly profit.
Still, it's a fun side project and we enjoy improving it and listening to user feedback.
If you want to offer or sell courses and you like Notion, check it out. Especially if you are a maker type, we offer API access and are working on full access to statistics and event webhooks so you can integrate it with your systems. We even have first party integrations with Zapier and Make.com.
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#843SteamDB: 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.
Grew up using this. Thank you!
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#844SteamDB: 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'm not an user myself but since many comments chastise you of not making money with ads, I would like to thank you for your work and for keeping it free from ads
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#845SteamDB: 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.
You're passing on $50k-100k per month of ad revenue from just basic banner ads... at least based on how RPMs were a few years ago. I respect that, definitely not the decision I'd make.
Simply by the fact he runs SteamDB without monetization, I can safely assume he's much richer than me. I would'nt try to teaching someone who's richer than me how to make money.
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#846Earlier quoted context omitted.
Wait, why are you not monetizing it? that traffic looks bonkers
I think Valve will shut it down once it learns about the monetization. AFAIK that is what happened to https://steamspy.com/ when they introduced paid subscription tier.
Valve didn't shut it down though. It just gave people privacy controls with sane defaults, cutting off data to scrapers. Not sure how much SteamDB depends on data like that but it seems to be doing fine.
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#847Everyone 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[…
You can sell loot boxes that contain different colors. Also sell finishing coats by the pixel. Once applied and dried (moderation) the underlying pixels can no longer removed.
Sounds like the million dollar web page where you just buy pixels for $1.
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#848I almost forgot I run this project. It makes less than 1€/month average :D.
I built https://banco.surf, which gives you API access to your european bank account's transactions and balances.
The eu-only restriction is a matter of the PSD2 provider I use.
Price: 1€/month per account. Prepaid. No subscriptions.
It's mostly (and openly) a thin wrapper on top of that Account Information Access provider. The selling point is that it abstracts away a bunch of auth and PSD2-specific processes giving you a trivially integrable HTTP API.
I also offer a first-party Make.com integration.
I use myself a bunch, and occasionally some people use it for some scripting, but not much in terms of MRR or real traction.
Still, costs me next to nothing so it's cool.
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#849Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…
This is very comfy.
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#850I released this site for finding baby names: https://mixedname.com/ It got ~2M visits at launch, but after that died down is now doing a bit over 1000 pageviews a day. I tried putting some ads, a baby-related affiliate campaign, or charge for extra features (which unsurprisingly worked the best), but because of the low traffic it was making It's a static site so doesn't really cost me anything to keep it on the serve…
That's a lot of visits at launch! Was it mostly organic search?