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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 code_Whisperer »

DrewArnold1 wrote: post #872

Partisan Playground: - https://partisanplayground.substack.com/ - https://twitter.com/PartisanPlayG This side project attempts to quantify the news cycle and show what each "side" of the media is covering. I've had this for a few years but never attempted to monetize it. It runs every day and is nearly 100% automated. My goal is to add text to the newsletter that describes the data using GPT-3. Then I will use the ne…

Thank you for sharing. I really dig the PartisanPlayground site/idea. Very well executed. As for the idea to extend that as a service to analyze other types of data, it sounds fascinating. When you say "others", do you have an idea who your target market would be? (e.g. government? enterprise? SMBs)?

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

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Post by sovok »

myself248 wrote: post #747
sovok wrote: post #588

https://font2png.com to create PNGs from icon fonts like Font Awesome. SVGs are usually the way to go, but sometimes you need a PNG. A previous tool that did the same went away, so I built my own. Also https://frt.rip , a whoopie cushion with spatial audio, because I had the domain lying around. Both don't make money, but they also have no users besides myself so they can run on my cheap server for free basically.

> Also https://frt.rip , a whoopie cushion with spatial audio This may be the most magnificent phrase I have ever read on the internet. But when I visit in Firefox (mostly vanilla, on Pop!OS), a scary warning pops up that the site is trying to do something to my machine, with no context of what. I presume that "spatial audio" requires some support beyond just whatever my browser already knows how to do, but.... what?…

Thanks. The spatial audio is just a feature of the excellent https://howlerjs.com/.

But I added MIDI keyboard support to the secret fart piano recently and thus Firefox throws up a scary warning. It's now disabled unless you access https://frt.rip#midi. But you can also use your computer keyboard to play/fart a little tune, see Web Inspector for instructions :)

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

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Post by drewchew »

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…

created an account here just to say i would pay for this service if it worked near real time. my wife and i were so bummed when simple went away and we haven't found a bank or service yet that feels like it provides the same feature set effectively.

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

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Post by pschanely »

hnrich wrote: post #640
pschanely wrote: post #516

Music Tonight: https://musictonightapp.com/ Makes a Spotify playlist of artists playing near you, tonight. No revenue. I really just made it for me; make the playlist in the am, listen during the day, and maybe see something that night.

This is really cool. I don't use Spotify so I'm curious if there are any plans for branching it out to other services like Apple Music? At any rate, I've shared it with some friends that do use Spotify and they all love it.

Oh, thank you! I don't have any plans for expanding to other music services. But skimming the Apple Music API, I think it's possible. Particularly if you think you'd use it, I'll investigate a bit more and let you know. :)

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

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Post by pschanely »

jimmygrapes wrote: post #629
pschanely wrote: post #516

Music Tonight: https://musictonightapp.com/ Makes a Spotify playlist of artists playing near you, tonight. No revenue. I really just made it for me; make the playlist in the am, listen during the day, and maybe see something that night.

Honestly this does a better job of letting me know who is playing nearby than any other event advertising I've seen. I have no idea who these people are near me today, but now I get to sample and discover them. I actually just bought a ticket for a small show at a school near me that I never would have known of otherwise. I dunno if you're into making money off of this but it's the sort of idea that has some legs. Th…

A little encouragement goes such a long way. Thank you for trying it out, and especially for coming back here to let me know how it went!

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

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Post by d0utone »

Kowwa: https://knowwa.com

It is still a "Solution in search of further Problems" though. I was looking for good solution of proper placeholders in GoogleDocs for i.E. Employment Contracts to quickly fill in fields, collaborate on text inputs, get suggestions from the past. So I created this tool that nicely interacts with predefined GDocs.

I even created a Raycast extension to generate Documents directly in Raycast!

Revenue 0$, costs about 10$/month.

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

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Post by kh_hk »

Citybikes: https://citybik.es

A bike sharing data aggregator. Started as an Android app for my local city, then an app for any city and then just decided to offer an API for free and let other people create apps, visualizations or research based on it.

Been running it for over 10 years. Major transport apps use it for bike sharing data (like moovit or citymapper) with zero contributions to our project. I am proud that there is at least one FOSS app for each major platform out there using the API, which kind of was my idea when offering the free API (and not big players leeching from it).

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

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Post by brimwats »

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…

another person who was crushed by simple going away and would love to pay for something like this!

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

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Post by code_Whisperer »

rhelsing wrote: post #569

Neptunely: https://neptunely.com I've been building a procedural music generation engine for the last 2 years. It's been a passion project. There are a handful of videos on youtube that showcase it. It can generate pretty good songs and transitions based on established rules. I'm hoping to make it more generally accessible soon, but so far I've just been using it to help me make my music: https://open.spotify.com/art…

Fascinating, thanks for sharing! (fellow musician/composer)
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