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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 dividedcomet »

Tapehendge: https://hec.works/tapehendge/

Tapehendge is a phish music streamer I built because I wasn’t happy with the Phish live streaming app (no single song repeat) and the UIs of other tape-based websites didn’t have a friendly enough (to me) interface to just open up and start listening to music. The project won’t ever earn me any money, but it brings me so much joy to open up at work and just burn through some code listening to a good ‘First Tube’ on repeat from my own website that I’ll happily pay the $11/month cost for as long as I possibly can. And it’s so fun to play PM and ask folks what could be better about the site and go implement it.

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Post by ultrablack »

xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: 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.

Make money through referer links?

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

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Post by izerik »

code_Whisperer wrote: post #171
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…

Unsolicited feedback: If this were also offered as a web-based application I'd probably use it (sitting at my desk all day I don't want to use my mobile device for music). Maybe sell rotating ads or sponsorships (on screen but not in the audio stream, please!) to make some $. Very cool.

If you're on an M1 MacBook, you can run the iPad app on it, pretty responsive.

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

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Post by vertis »

stickfigure wrote: post #363
shon wrote: post #124

Wanting to experiment with Shopify, I decided to make a t-shirt shop for cyberpunk and sci-fi stuff. So I registered a short sci-Fi sounding domain: https://hex7.org and proceeded to toil (many many mouse clicks) away stocking my shop with with hand-designed shirts and coffee cups and then waited. 2 years in, not a single sale : Partly I wanted just to add products and see if the combination of Shopify, Google, and m…

I run a SaaS service for large POD merchants (basically, people doing what you're trying to do, many of whom are making a living at it). Shopify does not give you organic traffic. You don't want to start with Shopify unless you already have a dedicated audience. If you're just getting started, places like Redbubble and TeePublic are the easy way. Low margins, but it's "fire and forget". Amazon Merch used to be the ho…

Was going to say almost exactly the same thing. Etsy is a far better place to start for this kind of thing. Makes it easy to add some level of internal/external advertising as well to get started.

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

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Post by yesthisiswes »

sam- wrote: post #83

https://typeracelive.com/ I wasn't satisfied with other type racing sites because they were not real time enough for me. I wanted to be able to see exactly where the other racers' cursors were and where they made errors. I don't expect to make money any off of this, but it was fun to build and I find it fun to play with my friends every once in a while. The stack is React and ChartJS in the FE (that's it), and Rust w…

This is really well done. I completed it on my phone. I wonder what the gap between typing on a phone and keyboard are?

Anyway awesome project!

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

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Post by jarrenae »

I've created over 100 projects since last year. Most of them were made - from idea to launch - in 24 hours.

I work at ae.studio, in a division called same day skunkworks.

If you like Agency Increasing side projects check out https://ae.studio/same-day-skunkworks

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

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Post by WrtCdEvrydy »

maphew wrote: post #796
WrtCdEvrydy wrote: post #214

PoachMe.Dev: https://www.poachme.dev/#/devLand?reqCode=HNGOBRRR Premise: Recruiters spam left and right, so we decided to create a website just so they could get a familiar calendar-like interface but asked them to pay for your time. As soon as we exposed the external version with the URL, we decided to make an automated template ("Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and we can chat more about this. You'll recei…

Followed the 1st link in post, used GitHub sign-up button, allowed pop-up, signed in to GH, authorized app, ended up on white page with message about missing session status or something (sorry, I didn't capture verbatim message). Went back to 1st page and tried again. No GH login prompt, white page with coloured progress bar at top, ended up back on initial page with message "Unable to establish a connection with the…

Sorry, man, things be on fire over here... I didn't think anyone would actually sign up.

Gonna check this out and see what's wrong.

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

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Post by spicyusername »

xPaw wrote: post #274
modeless wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or somethin…

I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.

Not all heroes wear capes

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

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Post by bigthymer »

DanForys wrote: post #336

The Animator: https://theanimator.co.uk/ Originally an experiment when the HTML Canvas element was new and exciting, to see if I could make a website to create flip-book style animations. I have no proof, but I'm pretty confident it was one of the first websites that could do so. ~12 years later, a refactor from PHP to NodeJS and React and LOTS of spare-time sunk into it - it's moderately successful by my standards.…

Do you do any marketing? Do you share/ promote to teachers?

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

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Post by zed_labs_dev »

Trek: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ml.zedlabs.tvt...

this is the app I'm currently most invested in. It allows keeping a very detailed track of one's TV/Movie consumption through stats and weekly usage charts, only for android though

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