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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 fnfontana »

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.

I would suggest you to place a donation regressive counter with the price that takes to make the website run, let's say 100 USD, everytime someone make a donation the value updates until it reaches the donation goal of the month.

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Post by pjmq »

pjmq wrote: post #327
pjmq wrote: post #84

Radiant: https://getradiant.app/ Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio presenter called Rad. Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music…

If anyone is interested in learning more, suggesting stuff or getting support etc I've set up a discord that I've done a frankly appalling job of promoting -> https://discord.gg/4YgkhAgfJ5

BTW you can also follow along on Reddit if you'd prefer doing it that way -> https://www.reddit.com/r/RadiantApp/

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

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Post by code_Whisperer »

What an incredible read! Thanks to all who responded.

Thought I should toss my own response into the mix. For a long time I've sent little (hopefully) helpful emails to fellow entrepreneur's websites letting them know about misspellings, script errors, and other issues. Never as criticism, but rather as an attempt to be helpful. I close by letting them know about my service at https://www.picnits.com/ Almost all send back an email with profuse thank you's, but I've still not landed a single customer for picnits. What I thought was a great idea is apparently not. I suppose I can just keep the site live, but it has become discouraging.

I also have a graveyard website littered with the bones of all my past startups, as well as projects I did for clients that either failed to generate positive cash flow or (more likely) never got launched. For various personal reasons I am now starting to offload all of the domains to try and recover some of the time and cash investment. Ironically, this website has ALSO made zero dollars. :-) If you want to see my boneyard of domain names, shoot me an email (address in profile) and I'll send you a link. I don't want to post it here publicly because I started this post out of a genuine curiosity about other peoples' projects, not to try and sell stuff.

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Post by vqc »

chrisco23 wrote: post #519
vqc wrote: post #317

I've fallen into the chess craze. I put together www.chessrapid.com for my own use. It's a version of Puzzle Rush / Puzzle Storm that has the added benefit of: 1) filtering by tactical themes and 2) seeing what themes you are frequently slow on / incorrect on. This way I can narrow in on the tactical themes that I need to improve pattern recognition on (e.g. I can take a break from Mate in 1 and Mate in 2; I really n…

Thanks for making this, just gave it a try. You might be able to work with the chess.com people in a way that might generate some $$. Or, better, work with the lichess folks (not for $$). I'd like to be working on something like this. Meanwhile, I think I'll run it some. Holes in my tactics especially in blitz showing up too often at the local chess Meetup.

@chrisco23 can I trouble you to send me an email at vince@chessrapid.com?

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Post by alessiovierti »

I’ve recently developed a simple web app for taking notes on a map: https://notemapp.com It’s like Google Maps but with drawing tools. Here’s the GitHub project if you find any more bugs/issues: https://github.com/notemapp/notemapp-web

I’m gonna use it on my next travel for tracing routes and saving some points of interest.

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Post by nodra »

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…

Love this!

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Post by bunkerbewohner »

pncnmnp wrote: post #107
bunkerbewohner wrote: post #46

https://wordhazard.net/ "Heads Up" but online and in multiple languages at the same time, e.g. even if an English word is up to be guessed, you can enter the equivalent word in Spanish or German, and you will get points for that, too. I created this because I like word games like that but my friend group is quite multilingual and most are not native English speakers.

Looks really cool! Thanks for sharing. IBM Research has something similar called "Guess the Word!"( https://guessthewordgame.mybluemix.net/ ), where you can play with an AI agent. Their paper: https://www.katygero.com/papers/2020_MentalModelsofAIAgents....

Thank you! That IBM project is pretty cool, too! I was surprised how well the AI is at guessing!

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Post by drumttocs8 »

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.

Are you independently wealthy from another project or inheritance?

Would you monetize it to fund a nonprofit or charity?

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Post by nullfish »

anandvc wrote: post #947
nullfish wrote: post #3

3D dice rolling with friends https://dddice.com Have some ideas on monetization in the future but for now it's just fun

Very cool! I'm curious: How did you render the 3d dice? What's the front end stack?

Thanks! Frontend stack is React, Three.js, and Cannon.js. We use FBX for the models mostly but started to support GLB files recently which open up a world of new options for customization.
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