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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 chaitanyapramod »

About a decade back, I had built a Chrome extension[1] to search MDN from Chrome address bar and navigate directly to the reference without opening a search page. It has slowly been gaining users over the years organically and there are enough users that I have to spend a couple of dollars to keep the (Google) search API up.

It doesn't have millions of users, but I'm glad that few thousands of users that use it find it valuable in their lives.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mdn-search/ffpifae...

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

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Post by Dobiasd »

EditGym - text editing training: https://www.editgym.com/text-editing-training/

It's a website for practicing manipulating text (start -> target, like a diff) quickly (timed) and efficiently (few keystrokes). The allowed keyboard shortcuts are only the "common" ones, that you can use in most "normal" (not Vim, not Emacs) text editors or IDEs.

I made this page not only because I was interested in building it, but also because I actually wanted to have such a training tool. Turned out, I really like using it, but almost nobody else does. :D (There are ads, but the revenue is basically zero.)

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

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Post by fillipvt »

Const-me wrote: post #403

Doing that for decades. An app for Windows phone, downloaded 140k times: https://github.com/Const-me/SkyFM Cross-platform graphics library for .NET: https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac Recently, offline speech-to-text for Windows: https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper At this point, I consider side projects like that as a hobby.

The whisper implementation is awesome. Thanks for creating it.

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

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Post by DanForys »

efreak wrote: post #965
DanForys wrote: post #336

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.…

502 bad gateway

Thanks - fixed. My server died a horrible death when another project spun out of control.

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

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Post by panphora »

kanon11 wrote: post #787
panphora wrote: post #187

hyperspace https://hyperspace.so/ My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open & easy-to-use core. The idea is simple: what if HTML was the source of truth for web applications? • Every app would be a front-end site that's remixable • Anyone could copy a site and use the tools you built to help you change it to edit it themselves • You could edit a site at any level of abstraction -- in the browser's de…

Any links to cool sites already made with this?

The home page is made with it :)

No cool sites made by users yet though, the creator (me) is still the only user haha

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

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Post by panphora »

l-portet wrote: post #608
panphora wrote: post #187

hyperspace https://hyperspace.so/ My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open & easy-to-use core. The idea is simple: what if HTML was the source of truth for web applications? • Every app would be a front-end site that's remixable • Anyone could copy a site and use the tools you built to help you change it to edit it themselves • You could edit a site at any level of abstraction -- in the browser's de…

ngl it's pretty cool but I can't find a use case for it

What about a simple blog?

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

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Post by NetToolKit »

jgarzon wrote: post #622
NetToolKit wrote: post #497

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like an interesting story that I'm curious about... how did putting a strong magnet in the ground help you install your main water line?

I had the main rupture under my floor which is a concrete slab. so Instead of breaking the concrete I routed a new line from the outside directly to the back of my bathroom wall, where there was a small space behind the shower to access the plumbing. Luckily there was no concrete underneath the bathroom tub so I made a hole with a power washer and a very long extension wand for it, directly vertical. In this hole I p…

Neat! Thanks for sharing!

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

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Post by lukassoukup »

PStamatiou wrote: post #65

Not currently public aside from maybe a thousand testflight users, but I built a stock and crypto portfolio tracker app focused on design. I'm a designer and developer and this was my first time diving into Swift/SwiftUI. Started as a covid project to learn SwiftUI and became a 3 year side project, complete with full node backend to do some auth, caching, cleaning up data and various things. It's called Stocketa. Her…

Hi, Would you be open to some collaboration? We are developing an app for net worth tracking (Sumio.app) and bought access to APIs with stocks, ETFs, crypto, and exchange rates... We are indie developers too, our ultimate goal is to create a privacy-first mobile app for financial planning. Technically we are competitors to Stocketa, but maybe we could find a way to collaborate. Best, Lukas

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

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Post by raybb »

captn3m0 wrote: post #362

endoflife.date: https://endoflife.date Created it because I was frustrated having to lookup information on multiple sites, and having to dig deep and read through terribly written support policies. No Ads, no tracking, all hosted cheaply on Netlify OSS Plan. Now at 100+ contributors, with 3-5 maintainers on the project. We have a long roadmap for the next year[0]. A contributor wrote a EOL Scanner that is based on a…

This is awesome! I would love is Swappa pulled from your api and could show device support. That could be an idea for a little browser extension.

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

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Post by erhosen »

sen wrote: post #810
erhosen wrote: post #808

Tactris: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/tactris-tactical-puzzle/id1537... I've been working on a mobile game called Tactris for the past three years. It's a puzzle game where players build lines and collect points using strategy and quick thinking. The game is available on the App Store, and I've been releasing updates and adding new features to keep it fresh. However, despite putting time and effort into the project,…

I feel like the screenshots and descriptions make it feel like “just another Tetris clone” and doesn’t really show/explain how it’s different, or even how the game actually plays? Explaining a bit better how it’s different to Tetris and why that makes it fun would go a long way to convincing people to try it.

Thanks! It's not a tetris clone, may be it can be my selling point :D
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