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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 martindbp »

Lazybug: https://lazybug.ai

Learn Chinese the lazy way, by watching TV. The selection of shows is pretty good due to hard-sub OCR. It's free and open source, with content served through a CDN and a minimal (optional) backend for auth and data syncing. All user data is stored locally in the browser. Not exactly released yet, but it's getting there. Browser extension is also in the works for videos not on Youtube (or not embeddable).

The main idea is gradually hide more and more words in the subtitles so as to minimize the amount of information you need for comprehension. Once you have completely empty subtitles and you can still understand, then viola, you're fluent!

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Post by t0mek »

https://aqi.eco/

Open-source, crowd-sourced air quality page. I’m running it for 3 years now. Owners of private air quality detectors can use it to built micro-communities in their neighbourhoods. Eg. organization registered at https://mosina.aqi.eco installed dozens of sensors in their home town and is advocating for improving the air quality there.

Around 13k unique users and 40k sessions per month. Cost is about $35 for VMs and storage on DigitalOcean.

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

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Post by adnanc »

Ayah By Ayah: https://ayahbyayah.com

An iOS app which I originally released in 2012 as a simple app for listening to the recitation of a single Ayat (verse) of the Qur'an.

I've been performing intermittent upgrades over the years as I wanted to retain its simplicity and ease of use.

It's not much but its nice to have complete autonomy over something.

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Post by teye »

https://tenki.so is a tabular representation of the 7-day weather forecast across Japan, which I made for traveling opportunistically.

After the JMA updated their 7-day forecast to be harder to read at a glance, I started pulling and processing the data hourly using Cloudflare workers and trying to present it densely and intuitively using Flareact. It’s been fun exercising the limits of workers (streaming XML at first), organizing the data effectively, and playing with visualization… as well as having a great way to pick a destination when a spell of dark weather is approaching home.

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

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Post by coreyisthename »

adnanc wrote: post #865

Ayah By Ayah: https://ayahbyayah.com An iOS app which I originally released in 2012 as a simple app for listening to the recitation of a single Ayat (verse) of the Qur'an. I've been performing intermittent upgrades over the years as I wanted to retain its simplicity and ease of use. It's not much but its nice to have complete autonomy over something.

As a non-Muslim with very, very limited exposure to the Qur’an, I’d be interested to know some of your favorite passages you’ve personally saved and/or read often.

Cool app. Simple, to the point, and with actual useful functionality.

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

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Post by UntwistedApple »

pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: 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…

I love it! And I would love to have some kind of Home Assistant integration so Rad can wake me up with news in the morning.

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Post by Ndymium »

mzfr wrote: post #828
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/

Honestly, I don't know. I think WakaTime is great (based on what I've read), and it does time tracking which Code::Stats does not do (and probably will not do). Other than that, I don't really know its features because I've never used it, so I don't think in terms of how to compete with WakaTime. I just think of things that I'd like to see in my own service. I know people who use both, and why not?

Code::Stats started as my own version of an old site called Codeivate that had a similar XP based tracking system. Codeivate disappeared from the web completely for unknown reasons, so I launched my own because I liked the idea.

As for future ideas, one of the more requested things is user groups that would have combined statistics and internal leaderboards (with heavy disclaimers), so I'm definitely doing that at some point. I'd also like to do more gamification side things, like badges for reaching certain levels in languages. As a third, I want to look into monthly/annual reports that could be emailed.

If you have ideas, I'd love to hear them. :)

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

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Post by jackieboi »

Firstly What a great thread and such an interesting read I started https://www.stop-n-swop.com about a week ago after spending about 2 years' worth of weekends on it. It's a retro marketplace app (currently UK-only). It's costing about £50 p/m to run and so far it's made roughly £0 . Still early days!
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