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

Post by top_kekeroni_m8 » Wed, Jun 10, 2020, 8:19 AM UTC

awillen wrote: post #2

I really don't like talking about my side projects, so I guess they all qualify, but I'm particularly excited about one at the moment. Right now I'm working on a dog treat business - I make a treat mix that you add water to and freeze for a meat-based frozen treat. I feel really good about the product and the packaging design (and this is the first time I've ever worked on any kind of a physical product, so it's real…

Post by zatel » Fri, Jun 12, 2020, 1:25 AM UTC

winrid wrote: post #377

zatel wrote: post #271

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FastComments is really cool looking and so simple (it reminds me of brutalist web design). Could you explain a little on how you do limiting of page loads? I've been trying to add this kind of functionality to my own projects but can't think of a way to track it without storing in a db which seems like a bottleneck process if every page load is a write

Store an object representing the namespace (customer+month) and use whatever your DB's increment operator is to increment the count for that month. Keep a map, or use an LRU cache, to check the DB periodically to see who has gone past their limit. You can also fire off this write to the DB asynchronously since you don't care that much if it fails and you don't want to create back pressure in your application. For exa…

Post by benhurmarcel » Sat, Jun 13, 2020, 11:41 AM UTC

dehrmann wrote: post #105

benhurmarcel wrote: post #102

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There's also that many people have pretty fixed salary and evolution in their company. I won't make more money by dedicating more time or energy at my day job. It's fixed.

I'm in the same boat in that my next big increase will be from a promotion, but it's the time and energy that will make that happen. Another commenter was talking about a review site where they'd stay up all night watching infomercials to get a list of products to review, and then post the reviews on a site with ads. I respect the drive, but not getting a full night's sleep would definitely impact my performance at m…

Post by caviv » Mon, Jun 15, 2020, 7:36 PM UTC

ryannevius wrote: post #63

I don't typically talk about my side projects, but I made a simple Montessori materials website for use while teachers/students have been stuck at home the past few months: https://montessori.tools It has grown organically to 1,000 visits per day and ~$1,000/month. I have a couple of additional materials in the pipeline. Of course, I've already seen everything from the site shamelessly copied and posted elsewhere. Th…

Post by supercabbage » Tue, Jun 16, 2020, 4:14 PM UTC

Stevvo wrote: post #122

I work ~4 hours a week making aircraft add-ons for X-Plane, releasing one product every 3 months, net profit ~$5k a month total. It's fairly simple: 1) Commission Russian 3D artist to make model of aircraft -$1000 2) Commission Audio Engineer to do sound - $500 3) Tweak model to work well with simulator + animation - 12 hours 4) Paint model in Substance - 12 hours 5) Set up flight model in X-Plane's "Plane Maker" - 8…