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

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I've been running https://chat.dog for 7 years — don't spend any time on it but it's a fun side project. Building https://mailgrid.app now.

Hi! Are you looking for a partner for chat.dog? I'll be happy to work on project. If you want, please reach me ferhat@ekofi.science - Thanks!

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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

Thanks for replying and for providing feeds much on the same philosophy as citybikes. I guess the feed you mention is for Aachen [1]? Sometimes I take a very hands-off approach on the library contributions, so I do not know about specifics. At the moment our gbfs feeds come with a 'gbfs_href' field mentioning the source. Is there any way on which I can give more credit to the work you are doing? It would suck for our project to perpetuate the same kind of damage we receive from other projects, so this is important to me.

Will send you an email, happy to chat.

[1]: https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/blob/86c8cca04b9e747fda1e...

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

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post #590

Holy Bible Study & Cross-Reference Tool: https://bible-ui.rkeplin.com/book/kjv/1/1 Also, Holy Bible Search & Cross-Reference API: https://www.rkeplin.com/the-holy-bible-open-source-rest-api/ Made 0$ so far :)

Nice work. When I change the version after a search, it resets to Genesis. I think it should keep the search results.

Thanks, - yeah I agree thanks for catching that

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post #590

Holy Bible Study & Cross-Reference Tool: https://bible-ui.rkeplin.com/book/kjv/1/1 Also, Holy Bible Search & Cross-Reference API: https://www.rkeplin.com/the-holy-bible-open-source-rest-api/ Made 0$ so far :)

Nice! I did a few projects like this, but with more modest UIs: - https://github.com/juliend2/data-bible , for french translations - more recently: https://1mbible.co Have you thought about using some AI techniques (like Word Embedding) for your search engine? I'm interested in toying with this a bit in my next Bible-related project.

Nice, - I like the simplicity of your UI. Though I can't read French, it looks like you've got some nice features there.

No, I haven't thought of thought of that. Very cool idea.

I'd like to make the API accessible via JS from all domains, but using an API token. I'm starting to get a lot of requests to use the API, however, most everyone wants to call the API directly via JS. Right now they have to go through a proxy like NGINX or some server side proxy.

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post #834

I released this site for finding baby names: https://mixedname.com/ It got ~2M visits at launch, but after that died down is now doing a bit over 1000 pageviews a day. I tried putting some ads, a baby-related affiliate campaign, or charge for extra features (which unsurprisingly worked the best), but because of the low traffic it was making It's a static site so doesn't really cost me anything to keep it on the serve…

We used this site to help choose our baby name, thank you for building it! If only gratitude could pay server costs...

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post #651

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> https://font2png.com to create PNGs from icon fonts like Font Awesome. Would you consider an extra slider for the corner radius? That would allow to download icons with a background which is not completely square, but also a squircle or circle (maximum corder radius).

Alright, the background can now have rounded corners with smoothing / squircles like in iOS, using Figmas algorithm. Thanks for the suggestion! → https://font2png.com

Nice! Thank you for taking the request and for the fast turnaround.

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#938

I’ve made roughly -$400 so far from my jazz sticker business, https://www.jazzstickers.com . Not trying to make money, only to roughly break even and make more of my ideas happen.

Thanks for introducing us to your products. Glad to have found you (and I just ordered a couple!)

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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.

Hey there! Thanks for creating this site. Long time user here. It is an awesome product! I was curious about the system design diagram of SteamDb. What type of DB do you use to record historical prices?
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