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.
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#932Citybikes: 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
Will send you an email, happy to chat.
[1]: https://github.com/eskerda/pybikes/blob/86c8cca04b9e747fda1e...
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#934Holy 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.
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#935Holy 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.
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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#936I 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…
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#937Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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
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#938I’ve made roughly -$400 so far from my jazz sticker business, https://www.jazzstickers.com . Not trying to make money, only to roughly break even and make more of my ideas happen.
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#939Medium for developers and other tech folks. Or like dev.to, but "hopefully" better UX for driving discussions etc. Also supports live audio sessions.
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#940SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.