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Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by robric »

ptd wrote: post #43
robric wrote: post #37

I turned part of my personal site into a membership site for aspiring remote workers. On the membership landing page is a free signup. You get access to a 12-lesson course with tutorials and tactics I’ve used to land three FT remote jobs in my career. The upsell was group coaching. Some people got excited about this. Only a few people paid. I learned that unemployed people are not usually willing to pay for a service…

This business sounds like it would lend itself well to an ISA model.

I Googled ISA model but it didn't make sense to me in the context of monetizing this site. May you expound on this?

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by kmf »

Working on https://jobsindevrel.com, a job board for developer advocates and devrel jobs. So far it’s only cost ~$310: $300 for a nice lifetime deal on the job board software and $10 for the domain.

I haven’t launched it yet, but starting to build up the Twitter (https://twitter.com/@jobsindevrel) and the mailing list so that when there is some actual traffic coming in, it should (ideally) be profitable pretty quickly. Hoping to launch next month!

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by 1f60c »

chrisseaton wrote: post #68
benibela wrote: post #58

My German library app to track books borrowed from a library: http://www.videlibri.de/ It was doomed from the start, because basically no one goes to public libraries anymore. But you cannot go to a library without it. Like this week I saw a post of someone getting a 150€ late fee bill from the library while having no idea why, that would never happen with my app. That should have been well monetarizable, pay for my…

> But you cannot go to a library without it. Why is this? Did you arrange some kind of exclusivity deal with libraries in an area to manage borrowing so that people have to use it?

I think GP means that people should want to use the app because it can save them from having to pay late fees, not that people need to use the app. Like saying "Yelp, cannot go to a restaurant without it".

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by keeble »

Personal skincare routine assistant https://bomiapp.com/

Spend most of the second part of the year developing a solution for people that are struggling with skin care consistency. Launched one month ago, still trying to build a community and see if people will be willing to pay for a service like this.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by arkadiyt »

I built a tool [1] for collecting audit logs from all your SaaS tools (Dropbox, Github, Okta, GSuite, Zendesk, etc) and pushing them into your log collection tool of choice (Splunk, Sumologic, Elastic, etc). It solved a personal pain point I had but I was never able to find any customers for it.

[1]: https://logsnitch.com.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by poulsbohemian »

benibela wrote: post #58

My German library app to track books borrowed from a library: http://www.videlibri.de/ It was doomed from the start, because basically no one goes to public libraries anymore. But you cannot go to a library without it. Like this week I saw a post of someone getting a 150€ late fee bill from the library while having no idea why, that would never happen with my app. That should have been well monetarizable, pay for my…

> because basically no one goes to public libraries anymore

Is this a German thing, an urban thing, or really a true statement universally? I ask because prior to covid lockdown, we made at least weekly trips to our public library and it always had a steady stream of patrons.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by freeplay »

Way back in the early-ish days of iPhone (around the 4 and 4s), I created an app called TenTwenty.

It allowed you to quickly and easily share your location with anyone. Also gave weather conditions at said location and nearby landmarks to look for in order to help find it. Worked cross platform as well.

Everyone who used it thought it was great. However, not a whole lot of people used it. Originally sold it for 99 cents and eventually switched to a free, ad-based version.

Made about $1000 in total over a couple years and pulled it from the app store once Apple implemented pin drops and location sharing natively.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by phreeza »

microLED5nano wrote: post #56

Read 25 years computer news, summarized OLED touchscreens since 2018. Amazon "Google Phone News September 2020 micro LED TV, 5 nano meter chips" published after edited (by price, some alphabetical) chapters like cheap, solid state battery. I paid for a little advertising but those already in industry more interested than business people. LibreOffice needs Android update.

Is this some kind of bot? I can't parse the response at all.

Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

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Post by chaostheory »

If I remember it correctly, I initially wanted to build a LinkedIn alternative; but then it morphed into a IMDB alternative to give credit to where it's due

https://theymadethat.com

Besides answering who built what https://theymadethat.com/things/k4z/iphone

and who worked together and what makes up what https://theymadethat.com/projects/7da659d8-629f-5c10-9160-7a...

You can also use it to figure where something was used https://theymadethat.com/things/3r1/storyboard/show_used_for...

Different versions of a product also have their own profiles https://theymadethat.com/things/6wy/apple-macintosh/show_ver...

I'm still maintaining it, with some modest future goals of making the UI more mobile friendly

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