I made a face mask and t shirt website filled with items I designed. Let's just say that I haven't quite met my quarterly sales goals... https://ronamerch.co
It honestly looks like a low effort scam website.
Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#192My wife has a side project selling antique maps. I built her a shopify site about 1 year ago that costs €30 p/m but it's hardly generating any revenue. I spent maybe 10 hours on it and she has spent about € 2000 on inventory. https://utrechtaandemuur.nl
This is very niche. I question who would really want to buy antique maps, except as for wall art. Can you venture into other things to sell on Shopify instead?
If you were the world leader in antique maps, you’d make a pile of money from that niche. Being able to search for authentic maps for anywhere in world, sorted by time period — that would be a big hit in certain circles. You could ask who would buy first edition printed books — but that’s also a pretty large niche with lots of passionate customers. For example, I’d be interested in old aviation charts or wartime maps from World War II or the US Civil War/etc.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#193I must have finished like 15 projects that was meant to be generating money and was technically capable to do that. Biggest failure was SAAS for organizing wineries and generating reports for carious government bodies. There are various old software from 90s that do that or you can use paper books (depending on country you are not allowed to use excel). I've spent around 3 years of fulltime work but it turned out far…
Don’t wineries need to apply pesticides to their orchards? I would gather that some of the pesticide-applying-drones, from a few Chinese drone manufacturers, might be useful to them. Is this something you can pivot to?
Sure, there are plans you need to adhere to, so you can get quality you need (and you need to keep records of what, when and how much you spray and calculate if you are within limit, depending on country and form of agriculture practice you adhere to). This is already in the app.
Drones for spraying is buzzword for past few years, but it isn't going to work for many different reasons both technical and legislative. At the end the act of spraying is not pain point for vineyards: the current technology is dependable, easy and proven. (Speaking as a certified farmer)
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#194I made a face mask and t shirt website filled with items I designed. Let's just say that I haven't quite met my quarterly sales goals... https://ronamerch.co
This feels like a high class GeoCities throwback... Made me both nostalgic and motion sick :D
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#195NN-512 ( https://NN-512.com ) generates stand-alone C code for AVX-512 neural nets The idea was that user companies (or even the hardware companies: Intel, AMD) would pay me as a contractor to implement deconvolutions, transformers, etc., as extensions to the free/open core I released (which includes very sophisticated support for all forms of dense convolution, fully-connected layers, pooling, batch norm, activation…
I saw this in one of your other posts and it seems super interesting to me.
1. Improve the web site slightly (add a contact method and pricing info) and make it clear that it's a company offering an enterprise software tool. Programmers will be viewing the site, so it doesn't need much more than is there already.
2. Charge a flat $7,500/year for a commercial usage license and increase it as the functionality increases. Offer email support and updates. Many programmers can buy a $7,500/year piece of software without their management even asking a follow up question.
3. Write some blog posts showing how to use it and why it's good. Some benchmarks (LOC, performance, etc) vs alternatives would be a good source of posts. Real world examples that people can copy/paste to start with is probably the most useful.
4. Submit the blog posts to HN and some subreddits.
5. Profit (maybe)
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#196By far most of my side projects died before seeing the light of day. Either because I lost interest or I found another project that did what I aimed to do better than I imagined. Only a couple went live but didn't get traction: - A site for ip geolocation lookup - A curated index of conference talks and meetups Last year I decided that I'd do much more market research before writing any code, and that I'd see it thro…
https://www.nslookup.io/ Why not a droplet? I created something to lookup dns records within a project and it took me a couple of hours An I missing something about the complexity of it?
I'm using a droplet, but also pay for analytics (Plausible), Cloudflare Argo, ads (100 daily visitors for a euro daily).
The complexity so far has mainly been polishing usability (autocomplete, responsive design, parsing DNS records, adding ip info, etc).
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#197It wasn't a big serious project or anything, but for my first income generating project ever I made a small single player word game for Android that I should have tried to monetise more. Android had only been out for a couple of years at the time so it was easier to get noticed then. The game was free with an ad-banner during gameplay. I was making a decent amount in ad clicks and also had players emailing me for a p…
Wow, what a fun game! Projects made for the fun of it tend to have a certain charm to them compared to projects made for profit.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#198https://www.musictaco.co.uk - Find the cheapest place to buy albums online (you can also track your favourite artists and it will email you when they have a new release) To be fair, I built it primarily as a way to teach myself Rails, and in this regard it was a great success. But in the back of my mind I figured I might be able to make some affiliate revenue out of the traffic but it never took off. It has failed so…
I would imagine most people are going to buy the music where they usually buy it from. And with just three sites it compares I could just check these sites by myself. So for now it lacks a bit of content.
However, something I would like to see and i think could be more niche-oriented would be similar as this but for physical releases. Discogs does have some retailers, but they need to manually upkeep their inventory in there. If you could scrape physical releases and show where I can order album X for the cheapest (shipping included) or even see where it is available to buy, that would be a service I would love to use.
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#199In 2004 my brother and I developed a buttplug shaped like George W. Bush - we called it the Bushplug. Manufacturing was more expensive than we had expected but we sold about 100 of them - presumably as novelty gifts. Our price point was too high for a novelty gift and the nose was a little too pointy to be an enjoyable sex toy. We made our money back and had some fun with being featured on BoingBoing and Fleshbot. So…
The other alternative to the pointy nose theory was that there just weren't a lot of people who were into having W up their butt, but we felt that must not be the case.
> The other alternative to the pointy nose theory
you'd think it would have been much more successful with Obama
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#200I made a face mask and t shirt website filled with items I designed. Let's just say that I haven't quite met my quarterly sales goals... https://ronamerch.co
Sorry, but those animations are BAAAAD. Arguably worse than https://www.lingscars.com/ .