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Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by squiggy22 »

mars4rp wrote: post #54

I created https://CoWriteStory.com/ last year, it is a platform for people to cooperatively write stories. I was sending lots of private messages to r/WritingPrompts/ users, and got tons of positive feedback but reddit blocked my account and keep blocking my new accounts. it is a good product but like lots of developers I failed at marketing and attracting users!

Have you heard of http://nanowrimo.org

Find out where these people hang out including hashtags etc. Huge community of starter writers.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by pelmenept »

I've built a surveying and feedback platform for businesses.

Basically after embedding code on your site, you can launch feedback surveys on your page to keep improving product or service. You can also send email surveys to your customers. https://insightstash.com

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by michaelbuckbee »

I often create side projects trying to see if a random concept is worth pursuing.

I built a service called "MeetingBetter" with the notion that you would setup your meetings in whatever system you're already using (Google, Exchange) and you'd also invite start@meetingbetter.com

When it got the invitation it would handle some basics around collecting agenda items, followups (if it was a recurring meeting, etc.) I'd thought of it kind of like Calendly. Anyway, not enough of a pain point and no really good traction channels, so I've abandoned it.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by DrSayre »

I built https://cocoa.dog recently. The idea is that you can send somebody random pictures of dogs with a message. Kinda like the Goats thing awhile back.

I mostly built it just to get some experience building something using Stripe and was not really intended to make a huge amount of money. But Im not sure if anybody has really used it. Im guessing the novelty of sending people pictures of things from a random number has worn off.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by agersant »

jpobst wrote: post #20

I built https://communiroo.com because I couldn't find a quick and simple single website to expose bug/feature tracking + SO type questions + forums + support requests for my other things I was building. It seemed (and still seems) like it fills a need for mine and everyone else's side projects. I think the biggest issue is marketing. I tried a few Twitter/Facebook ad campaigns that didn't really pan out, and an HN s…

This looks pretty great! I would have used it a few years ago, now I host my project on Github and use their built-in tools.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by shallot_router »

ineptech wrote: post #89

I made Word Nazi, which is essentially just a dirty version of Taboo (in the same way that Cards Against Humanity is a dirty version of Apples to Apples) in app form. Lessons learned: * I should've paid someone to do some decent graphics, turns out "minimalist aesthetic" is not the same as "no effort put in to design" * Making it a free demo, with the full game available as an in-app-purchase, sounds like a good deal…

That's an awesome website. Some highlights:

>Here is a small sampling of our Services offerings:

>GUID duplication

>Lamp stacking

>Despondency injection

>We're hiring! If you're a best-in-breed, 10x, full-stack rock star, we want to talk to you about joining our "posse". Here's what we're looking for:

>Senior Java Developer - Develop 15-20 Senior Javas per day

Maybe you should try to monetize fake companies instead. You're good at it.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by throwaway2016a »

konschubert wrote: post #87
throwaway2016a wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's really easy to get my real identity given a website that I own and I don't have a non throw away account. I use a throw away account because it gives me the freedom to discuss things openly without being judged based on my real world reputation or which company I work for.

Then the account you're using is not a throwaway, but you could create an actual throwaway to post it :)

I've been told this before :)

My thought was to throw it away initially but I have so much karma on this account I can't bare to part with it.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by bsamuels »

nikivi wrote: post #5

I have not built this project with the main goal to earn money from it but just to build something that I thought was missing in this world. I am trying to visualise all of world's knowledge with interactive mind maps focused on learning anything in a linear way. Here is the search engine that searches all of these interactive maps : https://learn-anything.xyz/ Both the search engine and the maps are open source so I…

this is really freaking cool

how do you generate the maps? maybe you can sell that to companies so they can index their internal documentation into mind maps

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by jpobst »

agersant wrote: post #95
jpobst wrote: post #20

I built https://communiroo.com because I couldn't find a quick and simple single website to expose bug/feature tracking + SO type questions + forums + support requests for my other things I was building. It seemed (and still seems) like it fills a need for mine and everyone else's side projects. I think the biggest issue is marketing. I tried a few Twitter/Facebook ad campaigns that didn't really pan out, and an HN s…

This looks pretty great! I would have used it a few years ago, now I host my project on Github and use their built-in tools.

Thanks! Yeah, GitHub is definitely the way to go for OSS or projects with technical users. This is designed more for things like closed source apps or SaaS.
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