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Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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I started Yomi.ai just two months ago. It made a few hundred dollars so far. I am trying to develop the number one resource for Japanese language learners who want to improve their reading skills.

My ideal customer is has a good command of the English language and is trying to pass the Japanese Language Proficiency Test on the level N1 or N2.

Since it's such a niche, I don't talk too much about it.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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post #408

In this virus season alone I've made $8000 in sales. You'll find various subreddits where people are buying around 5-10spools a month. Imagine how much virgin plastic is being added like that to the environment. I've been creating filament and selling it: https://medium.com/endless-filament/make-your-filament-at-ho... This activity also help recycle waste plastic. Production cost of filament is $7.5 per 5kg and filam…

There was a company doing just this on a recent episode of Dragon's Den (Canadian equivalent of Shark Tank). I even think it was a bunch of high school kids.

I've no doubt anyone can do this within a few weeks (if they work on weekends only)

People can start with extruding clay or Noddles to start

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

#423
I started selling clothes through print-on -demand platforms. Didn't earn much yet, but didn't put much effort into it either. I even got featured on the Modsly platform blog as a success story which is kind of cool :)

https://blog.modsly.com/how-i-made-my-first-sale-after-2-day...

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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post #353

I copied an app from the App Store. Their business model was free desktop application but $20 for the iOS client and I really wanted it so I made a 'clean-room' implementation with CloudKit and charged $0.99 for a one-off cross platform sale. Bit brazen, but the idea isn't entirely unique. Edit: P.s email me at adam@adamfallon.com if you would like a promo code to get the app for free :). * https://apps.apple.com/us/…

What kind of revenue did you get from it?

Close to $2k with very minimal self-promo across a few sites. I mostly made it for me.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

#425

Won't be a customer for this product...we have three German Shepherds..too much work...and they will swallow them up in a microsecond. I will, however, give you an idea for another product. Don't know if it has an audience, but it is along the lines of what you are doing. When large dogs are small you can buy pre-made treats and they'll spend a good amount of time working on them. Past a certain age/size they'll inst…

I hadn't thought of it before, but when our horses get their feet trimmed, the dogs (a 100lb Shepherd and a smaller Shepherd mix) love to gnaw on the trimmings. Hoof trimmings are basically really thick fingernails.

They'll gnaw on them for hours. Wonder if there would be a market for it.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

#427

Won't be a customer for this product...we have three German Shepherds..too much work...and they will swallow them up in a microsecond. I will, however, give you an idea for another product. Don't know if it has an audience, but it is along the lines of what you are doing. When large dogs are small you can buy pre-made treats and they'll spend a good amount of time working on them. Past a certain age/size they'll inst…

I hadn't thought of it before, but when our horses get their feet trimmed, the dogs (a 100lb Shepherd and a smaller Shepherd mix) love to gnaw on the trimmings. Hoof trimmings are basically really thick fingernails. They'll gnaw on them for hours. Wonder if there would be a market for it.

Dogs will eat anything. One of my GSD's almost died after eating about a third of a blanket. His xray looked down-right scary, with this ball in his stomach. We were very close to having to have surgery to cut him open to remove it (which would have been very dangerous and very expensive). Somehow he managed to vomit the thing out in large chunks. We all dodged a bullet on that one.

So, yeah, it doesn't surprise me that they would eat horse hoof trimmings.

If you were to productize something like that you'd have to make sure you run through some testing to ensure dogs won't be harmed. The product liability element in products that people and pets eat should not be ignored, particularly in a litigious society like the US.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

#428
I made around 2 k€ with a celebrity pics website, in the late 90s, just before the explosion of the internet bubble.

I misspelled the celeb's name and my site was the 3rd result on Altavista when other people made the same spelling error. I put a counter and saw a lot of visits, so I added some banner ads.

A few weeks later I got a nice paper check that I converted from French Francs to Belgian Francs in the bank. It was before the EUR!

It was nice to have some pocket money, but I've always been ashamed of this site. 20 years later, I'm starting to think that it was kind of cool... It's still on archive.org!

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

#429
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a look and this might be a completely ignorant suggestion (I don’t have a dog) but to me it was very surprising that dogs would like frozen food, so maybe you should explain that/why they do. Just seemed counterintuitive, I’ve never seen anybody give anything frozen to their dog.

Dogs can't sweat, which makes it hard for them to cool down. They cool off by panting. In hot weather, I imagine a lot of dogs would go for something cold to consume if it was made available.

Hey, it's a bit of a head-scratcher why I made a note (well, username tag) of this, but according to it, it's your birthday today or tomorrow.

Might as well put the info to good use, so if correct: happy birthday!

(I suspect this was around the time a year or two ago that I was testing out my HN tagger extension/server)

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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post #109

We have been building on the side for quite some time a image enlarge/upscale service based on convolutional neural networks algorithms: https://deep-image.ai More details about the technology side: https://teonite.com/blog/deep-image-thanks-to-machine-learni... Now we’ve just launched payments - so we have to see some time about the results.

Interesting, do you need gpu compute on the backend?

Yes - all AI/ML is done on Nvidia GPU
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