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Re: Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?

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Post by sujon » Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 5:18 AM UTC

mrfusion wrote: post #62

halfjoking wrote: post #57

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There are probably a bunch on ProductHunt. For example https://remove.bg got a lot of upvotes - it probably uses this on the backend: https://github.com/tensorflow/models/tree/master/research/de...

So who would pay for that? I can’t imagine there’s much demand for an app to remove image backgrounds?

I think you have errors in this regard. Because in such work, Now the probability that has been created is incredible. You have been urged to investigate on some companies who belong to the same as remove.bg, for exemple: https://clippingpathindia.com

Re: Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?

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Post by techsin101 » Wed, Feb 20, 2019, 5:58 AM UTC

dvdgsng wrote: post #127

throwaway-1283 wrote: post #2

Indie Hackers is a good resource https://indiehackers.com The lowest effort/highest reward ones I have seen are curated subscription email groups e.g. a vetted list of high quality freelancer jobs for freelancers.

offtopic: this site is a real PITA ... https://i.imgur.com/waRlW5h.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/rms768q.mp4

wow... what for?

Re: Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?

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Post by jainmukesh » Thu, Feb 28, 2019, 9:32 PM UTC

opportune wrote: post #137

mittermayr wrote: post #34

Don't throw away an idea because someone else has already made it. This is crucial. People completely underestimate the amount of money you can make as a runner-up, or even as a 5th or 10th-place service in some markets. Most of the products I'm involved with have made me quite substantial amounts over the years compared to the minimal time required to upkeep them. There's at least ten companies I can name at an inst…

There are actually pretty straightforward reasons why it's not necessarily optimal to be first-to-market. Someone else has already tons of research into product-market fit and made mistakes along the way that you can emulate and learn from respectively. They've also jump started demand in the market for a similar product that perhaps has different features/quality/pricing

You don't always have to take an unknown path. Many times there are inefficiencies in the current businesses which you can try to solve. Also there may never be a perfect idea unless it is put to execution. I run a community board for deals https://flagdeals.in

Re: Ask HN: How to find profitable side project idea?

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Post by infinite8s » Mon, Mar 04, 2019, 4:33 AM UTC

jakobegger wrote: post #209

MacroChip wrote: post #208

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For 1, are you suggesting something like a GUI for a list of data transformation recipes? I.e. specify an input format and an output format and press play? How would these recipes be created?

Yes, that's kind of what I have in mind. I'm not sure how the GUI for creating recipes would work. It would probably need to be pretty complex. I have an idea in my mind where you arange premade blocks on a canvas and connect them with pipes (a patch based UI like Quartz Composer), but I doubt that this would really be the best way to do it. There's also tasks that are one-off (eg. migrate data from one system to ano…

Have you seen https://easymorph.com/? The author is here on HN (dgudkov).