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

#961
https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

Been grinding on it on the side for some years now. I make $0/month from it.

I really believe in the idea, so I'm just trying to get it to MVP so I can really prove what it can do. It's been tough finishing the lambdas portion of the compiler.

I need help with some patches to get it finished!

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#962

Everyone Draw: https://everyonedraw.com I created a little experiment a few years ago to see what would happen if anyone in the world could draw pixel by pixel on an infinite, shared canvas. It has attracted a small community of fans who use it to relax and practice their drawing skills. The community has spawned some breathtaking pieces of collaborative art, including a world map[1], a galaxy[2], and a magic forest[…

I played around with this for a while, and then realized it polluted my browser history with hundreds of entries. Please don't save a new history state every time the canvas moves. It would be easy enough to get rid of on desktop, but I'm not on desktop; the only way to remove these is to select them all individually and delete.

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#963

https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS My passion project is building an OS in the browser. I've been at it for 2 years now. I've had interest from people who want to turn a profit with it, but I am happy to just keep adding features and polishing it forever.

This is impressive. If Firefox has resist fingerprinting config option enabled, timezone is forced to UTC. You may want to allow a custom offset.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1322612

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#964
post #584

https://universe-dawn.com a browser based mass multiplayer online game with a sci-fi "the expanse" like setting. remember the old school (2004) games you used to play with your browser. play it again with new technology but old flair. currently there are 150 players, but no money made so far because I don't like pay to win and without that it's hard to monetize such a game I recently translated it into english so eve…

You can might be able to monetize by adding things like probabilities or in-game calculators. One of the early Facebook mmos I played had this, and I was happy to pay $5 a month until they decided to be p2w instead.

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

#965

The Animator: https://theanimator.co.uk/ Originally an experiment when the HTML Canvas element was new and exciting, to see if I could make a website to create flip-book style animations. I have no proof, but I'm pretty confident it was one of the first websites that could do so. ~12 years later, a refactor from PHP to NodeJS and React and LOTS of spare-time sunk into it - it's moderately successful by my standards.…

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

#966
Aggregated Crypto Job Board: https://www.arcanecareers.com

I'm getting back into web development after a long hiatus and wanted to build something relatively straightforward. Was pleasantly surprised to see less JavaScript fatigue than before. Stuck with vanilla Rails though (ViewComponent is my poor man's version of React) and Tailwind for CSS which gets the job done, no need for a SPA.

Then started playing around with AI/ML for automatic categorization of jobs into departments which has been a fun and educational exercise.

Will implement the ability for companies to post jobs soon!

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#967
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.

Thak you (and Marlamin) for SteamDB and especially for providing Linux filters as well as the steamdb IRC bot that you ran. Sad that you moved your channel off of IRC when Freenode died.

Respect for keeping the site ad-free.

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#968
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 am a bit late to comment but thanks for creating and maintaining the service for all this time! it really came in clutch when deciding on buying new games.

i am curious to hear from you about your experiences with people trying to scrape data off the site. i noticed that we cannot go back beyond a couple years for price history without logging in for one. is that a decision made because of people scraping data?

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#969
post #218
post #143

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To be honest the t-shirts don't look that great. Maybe there is room for improvement.

FINALLY some product feedback!! What would make them better?

Maybe it's not my style so take my opinion with a pinch of salt. Hal9000 and Ono Sendai design are too basic tbh. Broseph feels much better. Also the black color really feel like it's for teenager or maybe metal vibe people (could be the customers you're targeting?). Maybe try to show different tshirt color in the front page so we know there is more than just black. Try to add more design? All the best!

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#970
post #441

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Very cool. An alarm function would be nice. Waking up with Rad! My family is blown away by the idea.

Interesting! I've never actually thought about that! Very clever! If it was launched from the alarm it could start the show with "Gooood morning, looks like it's going to be and , now let's get to the reason we're both here; great tunes." or something.

Public transport info for those of us that live in countries with good APIs for this stuff that travel in, too.

A long time ago I had an internet radio (musicpal) that played shoutcast stations, you could point the screen at RSS feeds; it felt kind of futuristic to have info on when my next train to work was on it, this would even more so.

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