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Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by CodeSgt »

DanHulton wrote: post #102

Well, I've spoken about this before, and on here no less, but only really in response to posts like this. I don't do any advertising or speak about mine except in interviews, since it's usually indicative of the kind of requirements they're looking for. I created a SaaS bootstrap for Javascript called Nodewood [1]. It actually started as just a template for me, because there's a lot of setup for each new JS web proje…

I've considered purchasing an application boilerplate like nodewood, but can never bring myself to drop a couple hundred dollars on code of unknown quality using methods or conventions I may or may not like.

Do you offer any way to view the source before purchase?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by j0hnyl »

nojito wrote: post #47

I make a very sizeable side income on prediction markets. Basically, through scraping, collecting, and cleaning an obscene amount of data.

Any chance you can share one example of a topic you've bet on and the data required to do so? Maybe one that is no longer relevant?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by thenumchk »

I did a deep dive into history of Social Security Numbers (SSN) in the united states from available information and wrote a poorly executed static site generated from the information with google adds. Does a few hundred USD a month. http://numchk.com/

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by tylergetsay »

selcuka wrote: post #74
DeathArrow wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you hook the mouse in a browser extension?

You can detect the location but no, you can't change the position of the pointer using Javascript.

you could draw a fake one

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by gregsadetsky »

tylergetsay wrote: post #114
selcuka wrote: post #74

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can detect the location but no, you can't change the position of the pointer using Javascript.

you could draw a fake one

Exactly. You hide the native cursor with css and show an image on top of the page whose position you move around.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by SeanAnderson »

xnorswap wrote: post #109
macinjosh wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IMO "scalping" is OK and is just selling for what the market will bear. There is demand for something with limited supply (aka scarcity) so prices will go up. I also don't buy that it is unfair to the artist because if their tickets are being "scalped" they could just as easily add more dates to each venue to provide more supply to the market. Some artists do this but many just want to breeze through town in one show…

If tickets were sold for "market price" then the vast majority of people would be priced out of many events because the wealthy are so much wealthier than the average person that they'd simply monopolise a whole lot of entertainment. Not entirely unlike what has happened to the housing market in cities like London or Vancouver. If you're okay with huge swathes of the population going without whole sectors of entertai…

The scenario you're outlining seems to favor the consumers of art over the creators. Am I understanding you correctly?

It's my opinion that tickets should be sold for as much as the market will handle assuming the additional proceeds go directly to the artist. Any other approach is charity at cost to the artist.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by joek1301 »

scrozier wrote: post #69
gottebp wrote: post #29

After my grandfather got Parkinson’s disease circa 2005, I developed hand tremor cancelling software for the mouse [1]. It has gone through a lot of development since then; it is my best work as a developer. It suffers from the common flaw us engineers have of hyperfocus on the product while not caring about marketing enough. It makes enough. I have a hard time talking about it in everyday life for some reason. It fe…

I'm a software developer by trade. I've had essential tremor all my life. Virtually all doctors say, "well, at least it's a benign condition." Right. And it's affected my life in countless ways, none of them good. It's gotten slowly worse over the years. It's not debilitating, but it's frustrating, and it rules out some activities completely. As I type this I randomly touch the touch pad or an unwanted key, and rando…

The FAQ suggests a MacOS port is “underway:”

https://www.steadymouse.com/faq/

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by bogdanoff_2 »

plasma wrote: post #39
newbie578 wrote: post #17

I got a question for everyone reading. How to even decide what side project to work on? Should I keep all ideas in a spreadsheet and then choose one, or make a grading system for ideas?

I’ve put together lists of ideas before, here’s a few ways I’ve done it: 1. Any idea that comes in your head, jot down in a card or list. This is just to get in the habit. You may sometimes write a full page about the idea, sometimes it’s a sentence. 2. Quick triage, is this for “fame” (it’s just a small, time bound, scoped, fun project with no explicit objective or plan to earn money), or “fortune” (you’d only want…

Would you consider projects that solve your own problems or that are for "personal aesthetic fulfillment" (i.e. you think it's cool, regardless of what others would think) as a separate category?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by radiojasper »

I think I personally fueled the PSD2HTML craze by launching designslicer.com back in late 2006 and heavily undercut the competition by charging just $70 per 'sliced' page. I had no portfolio, just a dumb typical web2.0 era styled website and a very cheap price. I easily made $5000 with that website in the short 9 month period that it lived, then sold the domain for $1300. Also I noticed that $70 per page became the new price around all competitors after I launched, it was lovely to see.

The old version is actually still in the Wayback Machine [1]

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20061214053323/http://designslic...

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