Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by t_swapnil » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:12 AM UTC

amzans wrote: post #102

Mine is a side business: https://panelbear.com/ I started building it for myself at first, scratching my own itch. I don’t feel the same pressure as I had with my open source projects. I’ve been adding features when I feel the need for my own use (i.e. alerting system), or customers made a good point for why it’d be useful. Also, I don’t work on stuff that nobody requested yet. For example, you can’t even change your…

Been a user of Panelbear. Good product and simple alternative to Google analytics.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by 533474 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:15 AM UTC

pk78 wrote: post #130

Mind mapping: https://www.mapsofmind.com More of a scratching my own itch kind of thing. Has over 30k registered users but I don't even get enough to pay for my server! LOL.. So meh.. doesn't matter...

Fantastic web-app congrats

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by hactually » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:15 AM UTC

JustARandomGuy wrote: post #68

Writing a book on how to advertise on google ads. Don’t care if I make any money; I see so much money wasted on Google ads I want to at least try to centralize good Ads practices.

Yeah, add me to the list. I'm happy to review -- i'm in the same boat. We were outsourcing our digital marketing but after consecutive failures and about $50k in smoke, I took a handle on things and our adspend is lower, performant and attributable!

What a rort digital marketing is

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by hactually » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:19 AM UTC

I created jogly.io -- it has about 80 users, powers about 4 startups that I know of and yet, it's so simple.

Easily submit HTML forms or JSON calls at it and it chucks the formatted data to an email or Slack channel.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by amzans » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:21 AM UTC

t_swapnil wrote: post #181

amzans wrote: post #102

Mine is a side business: https://panelbear.com/ I started building it for myself at first, scratching my own itch. I don’t feel the same pressure as I had with my open source projects. I’ve been adding features when I feel the need for my own use (i.e. alerting system), or customers made a good point for why it’d be useful. Also, I don’t work on stuff that nobody requested yet. For example, you can’t even change your…

Been a user of Panelbear. Good product and simple alternative to Google analytics.

That's great to hear! Thanks for the nice words.

In case it's useful, I'm slowly releasing the next set of features related to Performance Monitoring, including alerts and integrations (e.g. Slack).

The reason being: it'd be great to get notified when something seems off vs having to check the dashboards all the time.

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by robotnaoborot » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC

Had a lot of them. Like radio which utilizes mpd. Music can be added via youtube links of uploading. You could vote and talk in a chat. And had telegram bot integration. Had to shut it down, but it's opensource https://github.com/pawnhearts/aiohttp_radio

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by [deleted] » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:22 AM UTC

huhtenberg wrote: post #180

zcbenz wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I answered the question in the first section of my blog -- I copied the `ArcTo` code from WebKit and I admitted it was a license mistake, and the copied code had been deleted 3 years ago.

This is good to know. My point was that your original post could've used more engagement on your part, in place. Especially when it came to the uncomfortable questions.

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Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by szopa » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

firedating wrote: post #18

I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

This is the sweetest and most wholesome thing I've seen in a very long time. Kudos to you!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by albertgoeswoof » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:23 AM UTC

firedating wrote: post #18

I develop https://firedating.me - my hobby project and a place for FIRE (Financial Independence / Retire Early) enthusiasts to find friends and a partner. My goal is to help FIRE people build meaningful connections and decrease the amount of loneliness in the community. I don't make any money, instead I've spent around $130 and 400 hours so far. It is actually a lot of fun to learn web development and encounter vario…

oh wow, this is peak FIRE

Each to their own I guess!

Re: Ask HN: What is your “I don't care if this succeeds” project?

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Post by tony0x02 » Tue, Feb 02, 2021, 10:24 AM UTC

igeligel_dev wrote: post #76

To be honest all my projects created till now. They are all super low-cost per month (around 10$ per month) and eventually they will grow. - https://caseconverter.pro/app - a simple online case converter, could probably grow it with SEO - https://getworkrecognized.com - app to keep a work diary and create self-reviews, actually paid for itself. Got promoted twice within 2.5 years at current company - https://linkediu…

The concept of getworkrecognized may have startup potential..just a thought