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Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Definitely jsDelivr https://github.com/jsdelivr/jsdelivr Billions of requests every month. Building the service is pure joy. I have lots of new features coming like a new website, stats per project and more.

How do you handle the traffic? How much does this cost you to run?

All traffic is served by CDN sponsors for free. But I pay for most servers, services and freelancers like designers and developers.

It costs a lot when I do changes requiring external help which is quite often.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Everything to do with cryptocurrency! I wrote trading bot that was actually making a small profit - and then the exchange got hacked and took all of my coins & dollars with it :( I've started to get into Ethereum and Solidity recently, but mining even a few coins just to have gas money costs more in electricity than they're worth. I'm letting my desktop mine anyways, but when I reach my pools payout threshold in a we…

The trading bot sounded fun. I was always curious about the bots that were apparently used on betting sites like betfair to perform arbitrage.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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http://www.overseer.tv I built a show tracker just for me (it's not nearly where I want it to be, so I don't share it anywhere, eg. currently my show database is out of date I need to see what broke my cron tonight. no ssl cert, no optimization at all I don't even know if my js is minified tbh, etc). I am the only active user http://www.overseer.tv/user/smt and I built this because I watch a shit ton of shows and I o…

Either this is the worst-scaling web application ever made or you are massively overpaying/overspeccing your VPS. Going to assume the latter.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Making vue components: https://github.com/euvl/vue-js-modal https://github.com/euvl/vue-js-toggle-button https://github.com/euvl/vue-notification

I'm just getting started with Vue 2, these look great and I'll definitely be downloading to experiment with.

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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I have a lot of projects like that!

https://f5bot.com - Social media monitoring. It can email you when your keyword (e.g. company name) appears on Hacker News or Reddit. I don't have any plans to monetize it. I just made it as a small fun project.

Also, like many here, I've made a bunch of open source software for no reason other than the joy of it. Don't ever see that changing. https://github.com/codeplea https://github.com/tulipcharts

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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A friend and I run https://www.brewnotice.com

It started as a project for us and a handful of friends, now we have around 2,000 users. All running on a $5 / mo Digital Ocean server.

We're not planning to ever charge for it. Right now it's just fun to work on, and it gets us into a handful of beer events. Win win!

Re: Ask HN: Projects that don't make you money but you're doing it out of sheer joy?

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Everything to do with cryptocurrency! I wrote trading bot that was actually making a small profit - and then the exchange got hacked and took all of my coins & dollars with it :( I've started to get into Ethereum and Solidity recently, but mining even a few coins just to have gas money costs more in electricity than they're worth. I'm letting my desktop mine anyways, but when I reach my pools payout threshold in a we…

The trading bot sounded fun. I was always curious about the bots that were apparently used on betting sites like betfair to perform arbitrage.

I one quadrupled my capital with a betting bot running a martingale strategy. Then I made it run overnight and lost all the funds. Turns out there aren't any betting strategies that can last over the long run.

With a martingale strategy the chances of losing are miniscule but if you play 10,000 rounds at a 0.01% of losing, you're going to lose once. And that's when you lose all your capital.

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