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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 CodeIsTheEnd »

pwpw wrote: post #912
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…

The intention is to put the schedules for everything on this page:

https://plaintextsports.com/premier-league/2022-2023/clubs/l...

The challenge is that these pages are really labor intensive, because I want to show relevant information for whatever league is happening, e.g., group stage points, leg of Champions League matches, and it's really difficult to figure out how to fit everything in just 45 columns.

I complained about it in this tweet: https://twitter.com/CodeIsTheEnd/status/1569489636900347904

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

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Post by kacovvv »

yesthisiswes wrote: post #897

AppHunt https://apphunt.org It’s a newsletter that sends out posts about interesting iOS apps every week. I bought the newsletter on microns.io in December 2022. It’s a ghost blog / newsletter hosted on a VPS which isn’t expensive. However I’m using mail gun and that part is pricey. I’m thinking about switching to something else soon but mailgun integrates pretty easily with ghost. I write software at work so I figur…

Hmm, I think you could buy a subreddit https://www.microns.io/startup-listings/reddit-growth-hackin... - but AppHunt is good too anyway!

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

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Post by maltris »

xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

Cool! I've been recently using it to find free weekend games.

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

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Post by prakashn27 »

xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

Steam should buy you , you are driving revenue for them.

I respect you for what you have done.

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

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Post by chrisandchris »

pjmq wrote: post #359
chrisandchris wrote: post #355

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Downloaded, will test it, looks very promising. Absolutelty willing to donate. Do you take donations?

The bottom of the settings screen has a 'buy me a coffee' link but I'm equally happy if you're using it and enjoying it! Or if you have feature requests please send them my way! Those are worth an awful lot :)

Thanks! I had some issues with playback as soon as the app was im background. The song switched but it did not start to play.

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Post by DrewArnold1 »

daedelus_j wrote: post #914
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”?

Thanks! I use the media bias ratings from AllSides: https://www.allsides.com/media-bias/ratings

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Post by DrewArnold1 »

code_Whisperer wrote: post #901
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)?

Thanks! I was thinking internal reporting at enterprises would be the first place to start. I could automate reports that analysts manually generate. This would cover 90% of the report building process for them, with the remaining 10% being editing the AI report output.

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Post by gerogerke »

kh_hk wrote: post #908

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 tha…

Very cool. I just checked your site after some time and happily saw that my city is now supported. Upon checking in the API, it's using the unofficial GBFS feed that a couple friends and I are hosting (which we're also earning 0€ from).

We built our own GBFS GraphQL abstraction called gbfsQL [1] a couple years ago that makes working with GBFS less difficult.

[1]: https://github.com/mapintelligenceagency/gbfsQL

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Post by mackrevinack »

shon wrote: post #124

Wanting to experiment with Shopify, I decided to make a t-shirt shop for cyberpunk and sci-fi stuff. So I registered a short sci-Fi sounding domain: https://hex7.org and proceeded to toil (many many mouse clicks) away stocking my shop with with hand-designed shirts and coffee cups and then waited. 2 years in, not a single sale : Partly I wanted just to add products and see if the combination of Shopify, Google, and m…

dunno if its just me, but i think a dark site would suit a cyberpunk theme better. the photos with the plant and chair don't look very cyberpunk either

the other thing i noticed is that the graphics on the main page are hard to see when on mobile. the graphics are small enough so when you include the models head in the photos then the graphics are even smaller. maybe the thumbnail/first photo could be zoomed in. threadless.com for example just crop at the models neck.

also, maybe if you could find stock photos of people that look more cyberpunk that might help

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