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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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I got pretty into Stable Diffusion soon after it came out. Like a lot of users, I tinkered around with different ways to run it, going the usual route of running on my weak local machine, then going on to runpod, then implementing my own custom solution. What I came up with worked pretty well for me, so I created a site that allows users to upload custom models and run Stable Diffusion “in the cloud”. I launched in e…

When previewing models and your email is no validated, the link comes up in glorious html on the screen:

Click here to verify your email.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#22
post #13

OpenSay - Responsible anonymity in Slack, moderated by AI and team effort. https://OpenSay.co

Neat. What lib implemented that radar graph on the landing page?

Thanks! Heavily edited ChartJS Radar Chart

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#23
post #3

During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book. Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or…

> I get to say I am a co-owner in a Mexican horse ranc

You must get business cards made and start distributing them to friends and family whenever you get the chance. Not for marketing - to brag and to be able to be mildly annoying.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#24
post #3

During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book. Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or…

Nice! Was the booking system simple CRUD, or did you require credit cards for payment or reservation? Edit: Saw the URL from another comment. Great work, simple and does exactly what’s needed.

It's mostly CRUD, and the stack is very boring: Rails/Hotwire/Bootstrap, about 10k lines (we have apps for the staff on the ground, agents and agencies that we partner with, and some other stuff in there). The tricky part of handling the bookings is that on any given day we have a limited number of horses and multiple types of rides: 3 trails at 10AM, 1 trail at 3PM. A few times a month we'll max out the horses and not have availability for a given time. We can burst horsepower if we need to and accommodate bigger groups if we're hitting capacity and suspect load will maintain its current HPH. (that was a stretch; I tried)

We also track what horses have been used and how much so that we're not riding them into the ground — the people on the ground have an app I built in Framework7 to manage everything; they love it and Framework7 is very fun once you get rolling.

We ask for a 20% deposit to "hold [your] horses" and to prevent no-shows; the rest is transacted at the ranch (though we make the option to pay in full available if you email us). Our cancellation policy extremely flexible and though we say 24 hours on the site, we've never not refunded someone.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#25
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome work! Would you mind sharing? I live in Mexico City and would love to try horse back riding.

Sure. We're in Vallarta if you ever make it out this way. :) https://ranchoelcharro.com Obligatory disclosure: some semblance of ownership.

The team page made me laugh out loud :D

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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https://seniormindset.com/ – book and workshop helping people with the shift in mindset that goes into being a senior [software] engineer.

You can tldr my philosophy as “business results trump technical excellence”

No MRR but made about $40k in sales last year. Biggest challenge is figuring out how to turn that into stable revenue. Biggest opportunity is that unlike my previous (technical) infoproducts, this one doesn’t expire in 6 months.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#27
post #3

During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book. Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or…

> I get to say I am a co-owner in a Mexican horse ranc You must get business cards made and start distributing them to friends and family whenever you get the chance. Not for marketing - to brag and to be able to be mildly annoying.

It's definitely my favorite fun fact. I'm grow up in the city but I spent a few summer days on a horse growing up. One of my earliest memories was horseback riding with my mom. I must have been no older than 18 months.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#28
post #15

I got pretty into Stable Diffusion soon after it came out. Like a lot of users, I tinkered around with different ways to run it, going the usual route of running on my weak local machine, then going on to runpod, then implementing my own custom solution. What I came up with worked pretty well for me, so I created a site that allows users to upload custom models and run Stable Diffusion “in the cloud”. I launched in e…

Unless you're wanting people to save the images on the landing page, please optimize the images. WebP and only as big as they need to be rendered.

If I go to a service designed around images and it's taking 5 seconds on a SOLID fiber connection to fully download, it doesn't give me confidence that I'm going to get a fast experience in the rest of your site (even if it's not directly related).

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#29
post #25
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure. We're in Vallarta if you ever make it out this way. :) https://ranchoelcharro.com Obligatory disclosure: some semblance of ownership.

The team page made me laugh out loud :D

Thanks! We get a lot of compliments on the copy. I wanted to reflect that we are indeed a Mexican horse ranch without the site being incredibly boring. There's only so many cool things you can show/say before you realize that horses aren't really all that interesting on the internet.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#30
post #13

OpenSay - Responsible anonymity in Slack, moderated by AI and team effort. https://OpenSay.co

Very cool, I don't think most folks realize how much this would help reduce favoritism and nepotism in the workplace.
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