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

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Eurotripr.com - a constant work in progress. The goal is as if NomadList and Indiehackers had a baby and that baby wanted to help others travel affordably around Europe.

This is pretty cool! How much manual work is involved keeping the data up to date?

I was also wondering about this. Or is there some automation in place...

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

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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 sto…

looks great, but your site doesn't show pricing?

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

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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 sto…

looks great, but your site doesn't show pricing?

Thanks! Here’s the direct link to the pricing page: https://base.report/pricing There should be a link to it in the footer as well. On the desktop, there should also be a link in the navbar.

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

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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?

Thanks, although I didn’t do any of the art :P and yes, both Unity!

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

I asked the question out of curiosity + shared what I'm working on.

Copying an idea and writing code will get folks maybe 10% of what goes into building a sustainable business, so I'm not too worried myself.

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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

Maybe GPT-4 or some other LLM? Maybe too expensive but I would think they'd be able to accomplish the technical task.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

looks great, but your site doesn't show pricing?

Thanks! Here’s the direct link to the pricing page: https://base.report/pricing There should be a link to it in the footer as well. On the desktop, there should also be a link in the navbar.

Great product, adding it to my investment research tools.

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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.

How many coffees have you received?

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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.

How many coffees have you received?

Not very many. Around 30.

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

I don't want to go into detail of all my APIs as most APIs are very expensive for commercial use and I see getting a really cheap one as a business secret.

I also created multiple libraries for fetching business data from official government sources (e.g.the SEC)

I try to get most of the data directly from the source and plan to launch a different product which will resell it.

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