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I built this for a bit more than just "making money" (wanted some experience), and it is still early days. But I made an iOS game: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/two-birds-one-stone/id15396463... So far, my main win has been to qualify for the apple small business program, so I will qualify for the reduced apple commission next year. http://ideationapps.com/ (has gameplay video and other stuff for the curious).
By 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…
It's a physical game requiring at least 2 people so it's a tough sell this year. Still managed to sell about 100 copies though.
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.
I made a flexible, light-weight, card-based drag-and-drop kanban-ish planning tool called StoryWall and posted the MVP on Hacker News literally the same week Trello was released. Managed to take all the wind from my sails.
By 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…
I don’t see any ads on the site. How are you planning to make it profitable?
Its a very lightweight community search, designed for mobile first but won't suck on any platform...
I haven't put as much effort in promoting it and also not much in the last year due to personal reasons and general COVID-19 uncertainties. But I think it will come in handy as things wake back up either next year or soon after... Still have ideas to try out for improvement/refinement, which besides something that I can show off what I can do is also a proof of concept for ideas in its niche.
I don't think we have any subscribers for the non-free variant.
https://engineerdeck.com I tried to make a job board in the UK for Civil, Mechanical and Electrical engineers (and other "real life" engineering) because I'm in the field. Really, I did it to have a list of jobs to apply to. I'm not even sure I can make money from it though. Learning a lot about the internet and websites, so not all a failure. Maybe next year, I'll start charging.
NN-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…