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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 iKlsR »

nsb1 wrote: post #539

Not quite ready for prime time, but I've spent the last couple of weeks building a fast, free, parametric part library for makers to use for widget-type parts rather than complex models. I found the current set of part libraries to be to slow and/or cumbersome for my tastes. It's 100% static and hosted on GitHub pages. It uses WASM versions of OpenSCAD and SQLite for dynamic content with all processing being done in…

Checkout https://make.craftyamigo.com/, might be something on your roadmap. https://twitter.com/navidsafa/status/1604294611278643200

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Post by pwpw »

CodeIsTheEnd wrote: post #645

I run Plain Text Sports ( https://plaintextsports.com/ ). I got sick of waiting for ESPN to load so I made a site with the goal of providing immediate access to what people actually care about: sports scores. It's pretty fully featured at this point, supporting the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS, Premier League and Champions League, college basketball and college football, WNBA, NWSL, and the World Cup. And for a lot of lea…

Really love the site. Is there a way to view multiple football/soccer leagues (i.e. Premier League (PL) and Champions League (CL)) at once?

I know you said you're just maintaining the website, but if there were a simple way to follow a team, that would be a really nice QOL addition. That way I could follow a PL team and see their CL matches as well without having to switch between pages on the website to make sure I don't miss a match. Perhaps adding the team as an URL parameter could keep the design simple?

If you want to take it to the next logical step, there are more leagues that a football club can compete in such as the FA Cup and Europa League. This of course is Europe-centric.

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Post by daedelus_j »

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…

This is cool! How do you categorize “right” and “left”?

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Post by kitplummer »

tommoor wrote: post #182
kitplummer wrote: post #141

LowEndInsight: https://www.lowendinsight.dev Basic analysis of open source software's source - for things like "bus factor". Started as a research project, probably going to die as a research project.

Why not have a UI where you can enter a specific GitHub repo and get the result back?

That exists, it is just hidden right now. If my intent was to offer this up and a for-the-public-good I'd turn it back on. But like most of the other comments here, at some point it just doesn't make sense for me to foot the bill to run it. It would be one thing if it was a simple front-end, with a simple back-end. But processing this insight is a little bit resource intensive which creates a cost burden. Academically it wasn't a big deal to run this in a true HPC, the costs have already been covered. Commercially is a different calculus.

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Post by DanForys »

bigthymer wrote: post #889
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?

No, never marketed it. Had vague ideas to do so - but thought I needed some more admin functionality first. Things like being able to white label it for a school, upload CSVs of student accounts, those sorts of things.

Those who do already use it must have just discovered it by search or word of mouth.

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Post by DanForys »

physicsguy wrote: post #515
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.…

This is really nice!

Thank you kind guy of physics :)

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Post by luxpir »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #282

At this rate, assuming my work costs nothing and no hardware ever breaks and no prices ever go up, I'll break even with Marginalia Search in Q2 2031. So there's that. But it's not really a get-rich scheme.

Keep going. Google buy-out in 2025.
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