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Re: Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

#21
Personally, I've been working on OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com/) for over two years - it's a set of uptime monitoring tools, with a hosted status page.

There's an open source CLI (https://github.com/onlineornot/onlineornot), and a public API under active development.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

#23
I got bunch of those projects:

To test social media preview: https://ogtester.com/

To add location to images: https://geotagseo.com/

To use dictation for learning (German): https://www.flashdictation.com/

To decide the meal: https://whatdinner.com/ (WIP)

To get distracted:

https://mathlegame.com/

https://learnle.net/

To use Stable diffusing in Notion:

https://slashdreamer.coom

To experiment with Stable diffusing https://articletoimage.ai/ (WIP)

I did to solve a problem I had.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

#24
post #9

The cynic in me always suspects these questions are fishing attempts to see what ideas can be cloned to steal some of the revenue.

It's even better when it gets into specifics.

"Wanted: a feasible business idea not quite lucrative enough for the proprietor to be able to afford to take legal action."

Re: Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

#26
https://masala-joy.vercel.app/

I scraped ~100k recipes from across the internet, and made this site to focus on south asian recipes (~2k). I will soon add features to better sort and filter these recipes by various diets, ingredients, and regions in South Asia.

I just launched a few days ago, and no revenue yet.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

#27
post #21

Personally, I've been working on OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com/ ) for over two years - it's a set of uptime monitoring tools, with a hosted status page. There's an open source CLI ( https://github.com/onlineornot/onlineornot ), and a public API under active development.

Very nice! Took all of a minute to setup basic status checking for my personal web and mail servers. I'll definitely be recommending it to folks.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

#28
My main side project is Pivotuner[0], a MIDI effect plugin for adaptive pure intonation

It enables some pretty cool things like fairly straightforward microtonal modulation! Right now I'm working on a paper to submit to a computer music conference about it. Happy to send the draft if anyone's interested (email on website in bio).

I released it last December. I've had a couple sales, not many, but still enough to cover the cost of Apple developer membership, so at least I'm sort of in the positive!

Should also mention that I've gotten feedback on it from some pretty major artists, including Grammy nominees and winners like Jacob Collier! which is very very exciting

Happy to answer any questions!

[0]: https://www.dmitrivolkov.com/projects/pivotuner/

Re: Ask HN: Side projects making less than $2k MRR, what's your project?

#30
post #19

Couple of mobile strategy games: https://pollywog.games/ Card Crusade - a roguelike deckbuilder (similar to Slay the Spire) Barnard's Star - multiplayer tactical strategy game (like XCOM or Into the Breach) Both games are on iOS and Android. Makes just over $100 per month. It's a ton of work. Doing it wayyy more for the enjoyment/satisfaction of the project than the money.

The art on the games look great! Are these games made with unity?
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