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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 Weidenwalker »

https://codeatlas.dev - codebase visualisation tool

Takes your git repo and generates a beautiful visual representation of the code. Sort of an alternative navigation tool (in addition to IDEs) for large codebases. Can also run it as part of CI with our Github Action (https://github.com/codeatlasHQ/codebase-visualizer-action).

We made this because grokking complex software projects is really difficult and we've found that a visual overview of what's in a codebase can be quite helpful to get started.

E.g. checkout https://codeatlas.dev/gallery/kubernetes/kubernetes for the generated visualisation of the Kubernetes Github repo!

Currently making -10$/year to pay for the domain :D We slowed down active development after our initial attempts at dissemination didn't really go anywhere (bragging about side projects on the internet, ugh), but I'm still really keen on getting some feedback on whether this is actually useful to anyone else!

Note: The site works somewhat on mobile, but is much better on desktop!

Also, funny there's a post like this again, just like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531989 yesterday.

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

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Post by DustinBrett »

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS

My passion project is building an OS in the browser. I've been at it for 2 years now. I've had interest from people who want to turn a profit with it, but I am happy to just keep adding features and polishing it forever.

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

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Post by __MatrixMan__ »

winddude wrote: post #35

My question to those that are not making money or loosing money? I've been there before. How do you stay motivated to work on it?

I keep seeing problems in the wild that it solves and it's like an itch that I can't scratch. If I don't occasionally put work towards it I get all depressed and start having dystopian nightmares about the unscratched itch.

It's not exactly healthy.

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

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Post by jetrink »

toyg wrote: post #50
thomaslord wrote: post #21

Disclaimer: This project isn't currently publicly available. I was using Simple as my primary bank, and their Goals feature made it possible to do envelope-style budgeting really conveniently. Unfortunately the bank that backed them, BBVA, sold to PNC. This lead to my Simple being shut down, and my account was converted first to a BBVA account and then to a PNC account. When I lost access to the Simple app I first bu…

You'd be competing with the likes of YNAB, that provide a lot of features already today (including auto-import in most countries). Tough job.

YNAB is $100/year and though it is polished and well-designed, it's a pretty simple system that hasn't changed much recently. I think there's a lot of room to compete on price, particularly for users like me who still enter all of their transactions manually.

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

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Post by AlwaysRock »

I run a technical interview podcast. I have eng leaders come on and talk about their hiring practices then they do a live technical with me.

Episodes get some views. Spend about ~250 a month of tools and editing costs.

https://www.youtube.com/@TaylorDorsett

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

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Post by jaclaz »

findhumane wrote: post #36
code_Whisperer wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this has potential for a certain target audience. Not a criticism, but feedback: if I stumbled on this site I'd have no idea what it was about based on the current landing page. Will you be adding an intro/description about what the site is for? :-)

Thanks, great feedback. I'm using the same code for web and mobile apps (Expo/React Native), but mobile users have gone through the app store landing page, so I agree it makes sense to add a landing page for web users. I'm thinking of a small little pop-up on first visit, but let me know if you'd prefer something else.

Small side-side issue, it seems you have a typo, without Javascript I get:

JavaScript is required to be not enabled in your browser.

Reload

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

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Post by measure2xcut1x »

https://www.youtube.com/@audiosoundfx

I record sounds with a Shure MV88+ stereo condenser microphone connected to an iPhone. I airdrop the WAV files to a MacBook Pro, where a python script normalizes the audio to a loudness level of -14 LUFS with a level of -1 dBTP (dB True Peak ), generates an HD video, and posts it to YouTube. I'm just getting started. It's more of a hobby than a hustle.

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

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Post by toyg »

senko wrote: post #7

Bootstrapping a project generator tool for Django and Node: https://apibakery.com I expect (well, hope for) it to be making some money at some point in the future but don't worry since it's a side project and something I'm passionate about building even if it's just for fun.

This is actually pretty awesome. Unless you attach a cloud deployment setup (with all the complexity it entails in terms of monitoring etc), I don't see a serious monetization pattern for it (even the most hardcore cookiecutter agency probably wouldn't use this more than once or twice a week), but please publish the source if you ever take it offline.
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