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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

#941

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!)

Thanks!

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

#942

https://thoriumsim.com A multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator game, where your crew each takes a different position on a futuristic spaceship, explore space, meet aliens, complete missions, and hopefully keep your ship in one piece! If you've ever played Artemis, Empty Epsilon, Starship Horizons, Star Trek: Bridge Crew, heck even SpaceTeam, this is in the same genre. It's pretty much Space DnD, with the option to h…

How do I play it? Clone the gh repo?

You can build it from the source on Github, or download the latest alpha release here: https://github.com/Thorium-Sim/thorium-nova/releases/tag/v1....

I've got a quick demo of the current alpha here on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=li51J9c1Wpo

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

#943
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.

I have used your site so many times. Thank you for all the work you’ve put into it.

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

#944

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…

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

#945

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…

Have you seen https://dasbudget.com

It's a near clone of the Simple interface with new enhancements like CC Integration. Currently active in the App Stores. Web App is coming soon. uses Plaid and MX for integration

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

#946
post #708

iOS app Blind Compass https://github.com/mltony/blind-compass I am blind and I developed this auditory compass for blind people that communicates your heading as two tones - musical interval between them encodes your heading. It helps white cane users not to get confused in space or walk straight across large open space by locking heading. It also makes me look like a lunatic, because I put iPhone into phone holder t…

This is brilliant! It reminds me of the North Paw anklet, which I think dates from back when phones didn't include magnetometers. If I keep my phone in a hip holster but get the audio over a Bluetooth earbud, is that likely to be useful? Do you wear it on your hat so you can swivel your neck and "probe" the compass response, or because you get better results up there in some other way?

I do use it with bluetooth headphones - bone conductance headphones, so that I can also hear the street. I tried to put my phone in the pocket, but then heading fluctuates with every step. I assume this might be enough for someone, but I prefer to hear accurate heading, wich allows me to walk straight comfortably.

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

#948
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.

How would you suggest starting data-mining for a project like this?

Every time I think of a project like this, I convince myself that steam/amazon/twitter/Facebook/etc will rate limit any bot that tries to scrape data from their service.

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

#949
post #550

https://gif.so Every subdomain gets its own gif, so you can query by url (i.e. https://hackernews.gif.so ). Anyone can change the image that loads on a given page... one day I'll make it a voting system. Useful for quickly putting a gif of an arbitrary thing in chat apps as most will unfurl the image directly. If you just want a static image, use https://jpg.so instead. Someone else made this years ago and hosted it…

Small bug I've noticed, with gboard keyboard when you select a suggestion the keyboard adds a space after.

So it'll input "dog smiling " and your website will give a 404.

A trim of trailing spaces should be an easy fix.

Thanks for this page, I find it much better at recommendations!

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

#950
Grid tool https://www.gridtool.xyz/

A single page app to draw a grid (square or hex) onto a picture. Made with Mithril.js and Bootstrap to scratch my own itch, using it to make battle maps for DnD. None of the alternatives were as simple as I had in mind. Also works for cross-stitching patterns!

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