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

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

#81

Post by ezero » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 11:20 AM UTC

I'm working on https://base.report, a web app to help retail investors and (primarily swing) traders to research the stock market effectively.

As someone who got interested in the stock market a few years ago, I didn't find anything that suited my needs in terms of features and design. So I developed a solution tailored to my requirements and eventually opened it up for others as well.

The key features include a stock screener with technical indicators like 50-day range, and a report view for each stock including charts and key financials.

I still use the app almost daily to aid my own stock market research. We currently have a few dozen active users.

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

#82

Post by quickthrower2 » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 11:26 AM UTC

dave333 wrote: post #75

quickthrower2 wrote: post #70

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. Sudokupr…

Thanks! What I mean is why not one domain to host all of this? Must get expensive and more admin to have so many.

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

#83

Post by is_true » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 12:33 PM UTC

gremlinsinc wrote: post #34

claudiulodro wrote: post #18

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!

We should team up, this is my side project, although it's also drooling over new ai developments.

generative-compl.ai/ning

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

#84

Post by is_true » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 12:37 PM UTC

xnx wrote: 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.

On the bright side, people here will spend 3 years creating the latest microservice + ai orchestrated infrastructure before launching.

Also it could be the other way around, you need a solution for a problem you have. Say that you built something profitable and wait 'til someone "copies" your idea.

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

#85

Post by webjac » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 1:10 PM UTC

One I just launched, for fun and maybe profit?

https://thefuck.cards

Go make one for a friend (or enemy)

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

#86

Post by dearroy » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 3:03 PM UTC

https://earlybird.im

Helping startup people in early stage to validate ideas before investing too much time and money in product development, just crossed $500MRR after launching it 3.5 months.

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

#87

Post by x7ci » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 7:53 PM UTC

xnx wrote: 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.

If that's the case it definitely works as creators look for every opportunity to mention their projects somewhere and what better place than this thread.

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

#88

Post by wgj » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 8:39 PM UTC

quickthrower2 wrote: post #82

dave333 wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. Sudokupr…

Thanks! What I mean is why not one domain to host all of this? Must get expensive and more admin to have so many.

All those domains can still be pointed at the same deployment. The only extra cost is registrar and DNS, which is not much.

Usually the reason for this kind of setup is better SEO.

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

#89

Post by akudha » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 9:40 PM UTC

perlwle wrote: post #76

As a huge fan of podcasts, I am building a podcast information database that includes metadata on shows and episodes. 2 millions shows, 70 million episodes collected so far. Now, I just need to find the perfect audience for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

This is a crowded space, no?

Here is one idea - if you can list the advertisers for podcasts/episodes, that might interest new podcasters/other advertisers. Kind of a search engine to search podcasts by advertisers (or vice versa)

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

#90

Post by tmaly » Sat, Apr 15, 2023, 10:37 PM UTC

I made a udemy course for teaching kids ages 5 to 8 how to code a project in Scratch Jr.

I made $12 on it in 2022 with no promotion.

Not sure how people are finding it as it is on the 4th page in the search for phrase: Coding for kids

https://www.udemy.com/course/scratchjr-coding-for-kids/