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

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

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https://markwhen.com Timelines in markdown (gantt, calendar, map, other views) It's open source ( https://github.com/mark-when/markwhen ) and there are some paid options for storing markwhen documents in the cloud. Straddling paid SAAS and open source is a bit tricky and I still haven't figured it out completely yet. I have some sponsors as well as some paid saas clients but it's not quite paying the bills yet... I l…

This looks really cool

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

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I also have multiple: https://alphalerts.com Alphalerts helps investors find new investment opportunities by offering stock, options and crypto alerts. https://chapati.systems/autoupdate/ Autoupdate automates the update process of various software like Python, Gitea, Zitadel, Drone, Kanboard, Caddy, Podman and System.

Do you pay for financial data? I remember searching for financial data APIs for commercial use few years ago, they were quite expensive. Don’t know if it has changed

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

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My side project is mainly just complaining about working for "the man" while not doing much about it. It's a crowded space, but it definitely makes less than $2k/mo!

Money isn't everything. It's good to pick something you can be passionate about.

He did. He is passionate about complaining :P

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

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Foldie to transfer files between Android and MacOS: https://github.com/FLopriore/foldie

It's a small project in Flutter I showed on HN few days ago. It's basically an alternative to Android File Transfer, but with a better UI and without the limitation of 1.5 GB files because it uses adb under the hood. MRR: €0 and it will always be this amount of money :)

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

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My most successful side-project so far is a small service for launching preview environment (https://codepreview.io).

I have a couple of customers involved, receiving great feedback so far, unfortunately, it doesn't generate enough revenue yet and it is progressing very slowly (chicken-egg problem).

I believe we can scale the number of customers but it is hard to find the right balance between doing sales and feature improvements. For obvious reasons, I prioritize consulting hours that pay our bills.

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

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During the LLM insanity of the last few weeks, I used GPT-4 to design a website that synthesizes unbiased news articles out of biased sources and it's producing some great output. Since it's more of a research project, I have zero intent to monetize it so it's definitely less than $2k/month: https://spinreactor.ai

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

#60

Electronic lead screw for metal lathe - https://kachurovskiy.com/ - started about a week ago and sold 4 kits so far. Unit cost today is 61€ so margin is rather slim too.

This is actually really cool.

Have you thought about contacting littlemachineshop.com to see if they'd be interested in carrying it? I've used them in the past to put together similar upgrades for my lathe.

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