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Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I have 2:

1. https://www.criarenquete.com.br - an easy and quick way to create a poll and share a link or embed it in your site.

2. https://www.gpebahia.com.br/gpe-pesquisa - a mobile app to collect surveys (with GPS tracking and random audio recording) and a dashboard administration to manage/monitor the surveys and extract data (pivot, frequency tables, etc.)

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Mine is a service to take payments inside browser extensions without needing to run your own server backend! https://extensionpay.com :D I made it so I could use it in my own extensions. Definitely lowers the barrier to making profitable side-project extensions. Open-source library is here: https://github.com/glench/ExtPay

5% on top of the Stripe fee? That seems extremely high - do you actually have customers willing to pay that?

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I am working on https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org A non-profit open source platform to facilitate loan-free education to help life-long learning, as well as increase income of teaching and non-teaching staff of education institutions. Edit: Any feedback, suggestion will help improve the project. Also, if you want to collaborate or want to know more about the project, then please email me. My email is in my profile.

whoa this is REALLY interesting! I wonder if you could try some pilot programs with places like https://www.recurse.com/ or other alternative educational institutions.

> whoa this is REALLY interesting!

Thank you very much!

> I wonder if you could try some pilot programs with places like https://www.recurse.com/ or other alternative educational institutions.

Yeah, that would really be helpful. Would you like to join the project and/or mentor me? You have fantastic profile and lot of experience in the education domain. You joining the project and/or mentoring me will make a huge difference to the project.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I am working on https://loan-free-ed.neocities.org A non-profit open source platform to facilitate loan-free education to help life-long learning, as well as increase income of teaching and non-teaching staff of education institutions. Edit: Any feedback, suggestion will help improve the project. Also, if you want to collaborate or want to know more about the project, then please email me. My email is in my profile.

What is the tech stack for this project?

This is tentative, but I was thinking of Hyperledger Iroha, Sovrin, Stellar and GNU Taler.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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Mine is a service to take payments inside browser extensions without needing to run your own server backend! https://extensionpay.com :D I made it so I could use it in my own extensions. Definitely lowers the barrier to making profitable side-project extensions. Open-source library is here: https://github.com/glench/ExtPay

5% on top of the Stripe fee? That seems extremely high - do you actually have customers willing to pay that?

Yep! My customers so far have been really happy. :)

To compare to other services: the Chrome Web Store fee was 5%, Gumroad's fee is 5% + the Stripe fee, and my main competitor is charging 6.5% + stripe fee. Pretty standard. Why do you feel it's extremely high?

And if you think about the value of ExtensionPay... it saves people at least $5 / month on server costs, plus the time/ energy/hassle of creating their own payment system (which involves creating a user management, integrating it securely with the extension itself, figuring out how to integrate with a payment processor, setting up a database, sending emails, managing a server etc etc). Plus a lot of my customers are indie developers with limited resources that just want to focus on their extension.

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whoa this is REALLY interesting! I wonder if you could try some pilot programs with places like https://www.recurse.com/ or other alternative educational institutions.

> whoa this is REALLY interesting! Thank you very much! > I wonder if you could try some pilot programs with places like https://www.recurse.com/ or other alternative educational institutions. Yeah, that would really be helpful. Would you like to join the project and/or mentor me? You have fantastic profile and lot of experience in the education domain. You joining the project and/or mentoring me will make a huge dif…

I'll do you one better and connect you with one of my friends who is actually an experienced educator/administrator. Send me an email: hello at glench.com.

Re: Ask HN: What is your current side-project?

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I am developing a browser extension to make a fill-in-the-blank language test out of any webpage.

I personally used this to improve my German vocabulary. This way one can learn new words from materials they naturally enjoy (vs boring text books).

The extension is available for Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/vocabboost/obgbcam...? Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vocabboost/

There is also a video example here: http://vocabboost.online/.

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