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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

gendestus wrote: post #58

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

I love it, but I fear this is temporary.

Like the early days of the internet when you could open up port 80 on your home machine and connect via unencrypted http. In other words getting unbiased information from LLMs will be a challenge and LLM biases will become political, but right now, for a minute, we can have nice things.

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

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Post by bberenberg »

mNovak wrote: post #46

https://www.bytebucket.co/ Made as a hobby during the pandemic -- it scrapes eBay listings for laptops, and provides a parametric search (RAM, SSD etc) inspired by the likes of Digikey and Mouser, and sorts on total value. I like to buy used electronics, but this kind of search is still shockingly bad on typical marketplaces (Amazon etc) An example search to get you started: https://www.bytebucket.co/?mincpu=800&minr…

Really cool. Any plans to add GPU analysis support? I am looking for a cheapo "gaming" laptop to play iRacing, and your tool would be helpful in that.

Btw, I think you have a bug with power usage: https://www.bytebucket.co/?mincpu=800&minpower=15#t this should show a number of results

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

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Post by momofuku »

maxwelldone wrote: post #64
momofuku wrote: post #45

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I work in robotics, so I always find clean front-end implementations pretty neat. Can you tell me how you got this to work? How do you host all of it? What is the back end you use? I apologize if this seems too basic, but I'd appreciate any details you have for me. My goal for this summer is to work a bit on front end tech, so that I can present better visualizations, and build simple CRUD apps to showcase my data. T…

Thank you! The way it works is very simple. I'm copying from a comment I made earlier: Everyday IMDb publishes bare bones datasets at https://www.imdb.com/interfaces/ . I've a bash script to download them, format and load into MySQL from which I export two types of json files: 1) A file with all the TV shows names, id, ratings etc (shows.json) - this is what's used for search. It weighs 2) A file for every tv show wi…

Thank you so much for the detailed explanation and pointers to resources. I am very excited to get started from this.

Thank you again!

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

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Post by dave333 »

quickthrower2 wrote: post #70
dave333 wrote: post #16

String of free sudoku sites supported by Adsense. https://samurai-sudoku.com https://fiendishsudoku.com https://extremesudoku.info https://www.extremesudoku.info/printables/sudoku-printables.... https://sudokuhints.com https://easysudoku.org https://sudukopuzzles.org https://sudokuprintables.org

Why so many domains?

One for samurai puzzles and the others show different difficulty levels and different sets of puzzles. Extremesudoku.info shows the most difficult puzzles we have come up with. Easysudoku.org is the opposite. Sudokuhints.com and fiendishsudoku.com both show a range of difficulty but the puzzles are completely different. Sudokuhints.com was actually the first site and fiendishsudoku.com came up as a redesign. Sudokuprintables.org and sudukopuzzles.org are both designed to allow printing of 2, 4, or 6 puzzles per page and have different sets of puzzles.

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

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Post by perilunar »

https://www.timepasses.net/ a timeline of your life, human history, and the universe

https://sunclock.net/ a 24hr clock that shows sunrise, sunset, twilight times, and the position of the sun and moon

https://bigclock.app/ it's just a clock, but BIG

They're not monetised apart from a buy me a coffee button.

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

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Post by iamflimflam1 »

I run a YouTube channel - it ranges between $100-$300 a month ad revenue and $100-$400 sponsorship (depending on how productive I am).

The main issue with it is time - there’s no way I would go full time YouTubing with the current numbers so the day job has to take priority.

https://www.youtube.com/atomic14

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

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Post by scary-size »

vivekseth wrote: post #63
scary-size wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have fun going down the rabbit whole of parsing structured data from ingredient phrases. Had a fun few weeks with that!

Yeah it has not been trivial so far! Let me know if you have any tips you can share

I settled on a regex based approach with lots of data clean-up and normalisation up front. Example of my site [4]

Some other approaches I spent a lot of time on:

* Extracting Structured Data From Recipes Using Conditional Random Fields [1]

* Chef Watson [2]

* Ingredient Parser - Model Guide [3]

[1] https://archive.nytimes.com/open.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/0...

[2] https://blog.kitchenpc.com/2011/07/06/chef-watson/

[3] https://ingredient-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/guide/ind...

[4] https://pretty-recip.es/recipe?recipe-url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww....

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

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Post by notpushkin »

https://lunni.dev/

Lunni is a dashboard for Docker Swarm. It helps you if you already use docker-compose to develop an app locally, and just want to deploy it with as little effort as possible. It also has a bunch of apps available for one-click install in the built-in Marketplace, like Vaultwarden, Chatwoot, or PocketBase.

I'm trying to get myself to start writing to potential customers, but haven't succeeded just yet. (If you're interested in a demo, let's chat! https://cal.com/notpushkin/lunni) As such, MRR right now is still exactly $0.

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