Not sure about anyone else, but I enjoy seeing the posts on side projects making money. Often while reading all of the comments I find new products or services I want, so I buy them and contribute further to that hustle's success. But for every hacker making $100 or more per month with their idea, there are hundreds more working hard, making nothing, struggling to get started. Does that describe you? Maybe the community just needs to hear about what you're offering, what you've been working on. If you've got something cool that has not yet gained traction, maybe it just needs to be seen by a gaggle of like-minded hackers and geeks. So share!
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#2I made a real estate thing that basically scraped a bunch of data and then built a NLP query interface on top to query real estate data in natural language.
Couldn't find a customer so it makes $0 haha. Here's an example of the system working, minus a pretty UI: https://imgur.com/a/ITDKtPC
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#33D dice rolling with friends https://dddice.com
Have some ideas on monetization in the future but for now it's just fun
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#4I just launched Find Humane, a free website and app for finding humanely raised animal products: https://findhumane.com/
Currently $0 revenue but we have some affiliate links to humanely certified delivery services, so hopefully the ball will start rolling!
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#53D dice rolling with friends https://dddice.com Have some ideas on monetization in the future but for now it's just fun
This is dope! Whats the tech stack behind it if you don't mind me asking?
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#6I made a real estate thing that basically scraped a bunch of data and then built a NLP query interface on top to query real estate data in natural language. Couldn't find a customer so it makes $0 haha. Here's an example of the system working, minus a pretty UI: https://imgur.com/a/ITDKtPC
Does ruby have an NLP library or are you rolling your own?
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#7Bootstrapping a project generator tool for Django and Node: https://apibakery.com
I expect (well, hope for) it to be making some money at some point in the future but don't worry since it's a side project and something I'm passionate about building even if it's just for fun.
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#9I don't make a dime off my art newsletter but I still keep it going:
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#10I'm working on an open source online coop 2d platform game called DDraceNetwork: https://ddnet.org/
A lot of keeping infrastructure running, code reviews for the active developers we have, community management, some development: https://ddnet.org/news/ddnet-year-2021-in-review/
The community is the main reason for me to keep it running. We only cover server costs, but no one takes any payment to work on DDNet.