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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by Shocka1 »

logotype wrote: post #750

I built FIXParser https://fixparser.dev initially because I wanted to learn HFT. This was over 10 years ago, but I still maintain and build it to this day. Turns out several companies find it useful too! It doesn’t make much money, but I’m more stubborn than smart so I’m quitting my day job and will work full-time on FIXParser next year.

As someone who has been using APIs for automated retail trading the last few years now, this is highly interesting to me. I've heard of FIX protocol before, but never thought to use it as a retail trader - would this be practical for someone like me?

APIs from the popular brokerages have done the job, but I've experienced more than my fair share of request failures. This sometimes can be the trades themselves, which includes opening/closing higher risk I realize your software is a parser and I may have went on a bit of a tangent, but I'm always open to new ideas and ways to make my project more efficient.

Edit: Also, nice use of the linear gradient on a couple of your buttons in dark mode. I feel like I remember that css trick on HN one day and thought it was clever.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by _hnlo »

saltcod wrote: post #575
_hnlo wrote: post #344

I've worked on and run [link redacted] and the related subreddit and forum for 15+ years. I've generally done everything alone as an exercise in scaling utility for others with constrained time on my part. Have used AI heavily in the last few years, which has been the greatest force multiplier of my career for sure: scraping, evaluating, summarizing, organizing, indexing, moderating, writing, ... I've coded so much a…

very cool — I assume you've monetized this past 500/mo?

I've got a bit of a meta game going where I try to just break even and cover hosting/compute costs.

I'm a huge fan, proponent and dependent on Supabase by the way, I don't know what I'd do without you guys.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by kirso »

andygcook wrote: post #69

I started a side project with my older brother called NanaGram.co that makes it easy to text message photos to a unique phone number, then once a month they get printed and shipped to your loved ones. If you have kids, it makes a good holiday gift for the grandparents if you're stumped on what to get them. I've since moved on from it, but my brother makes enough to work on NanaGram full-time now. It's also just been…

Very cool! Always wondered how solo engineers deal with physical and shipping? I suppose there is some sort of API that allows prints and shipping on behalf?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by kirso »

duck wrote: post #114

Still running https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years and 60k+ subscribers. It has been hard to put a lot of focus on it the past couple years, but been finally getting some time to spend on some improvements there. Income here has always been simple sponsors which I'm very grateful for.

I landed on this page thanks to the newsletter.

I also use Raycast HackerNews aggregation but I appreciate your email every time it lands.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by epaga »

charsi wrote: post #724
epaga wrote: post #16

I made SmoothTrack, a no-equipment head tracking app for iOS and Android which lets you control the game camera in sim games (like MSFS 2024 for example) with your head - basically like TrackIR, just without any equipment and for $15 instead of $150. I originally made the app just for myself to save myself the money of buying a TrackIR system, but then /r/flightsim begged me to release it as a full app. Last month, I…

The site's cert expired yesterday.

Thanks, fixed.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by epaga »

DaBarrington wrote: post #743
epaga wrote: post #16

I made SmoothTrack, a no-equipment head tracking app for iOS and Android which lets you control the game camera in sim games (like MSFS 2024 for example) with your head - basically like TrackIR, just without any equipment and for $15 instead of $150. I originally made the app just for myself to save myself the money of buying a TrackIR system, but then /r/flightsim begged me to release it as a full app. Last month, I…

Do you know about vtubers? In case you don't, they are people that record or livestream themselves playing games and whatnot. Instead of using a regular face camera to put themselves onto the video feed, they use a 2D or 3D animated model. Most people use a desktop webcam which can do decent tracking or an iPhone which does really good tracking through ARkit, but there isn't really a decent solution on Android. It co…

Thanks! Yeah, I've been asked about this a few times - however, it does look like this is basically exactly that (using ARKit and ARCore) and exists already: https://denchisoft.com Have you heard of this tool?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by DaBarrington »

epaga wrote: post #756
DaBarrington wrote: post #743

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you know about vtubers? In case you don't, they are people that record or livestream themselves playing games and whatnot. Instead of using a regular face camera to put themselves onto the video feed, they use a 2D or 3D animated model. Most people use a desktop webcam which can do decent tracking or an iPhone which does really good tracking through ARkit, but there isn't really a decent solution on Android. It co…

Thanks! Yeah, I've been asked about this a few times - however, it does look like this is basically exactly that (using ARKit and ARCore) and exists already: https://denchisoft.com Have you heard of this tool?

VtubeStudio plus an iPhone for mocap is the standard for the big-time vtubers that use 2D avatars, however 2D avatars actually have quite a high barrier to entry because pretty much your only option is to have something commissioned. 3D avatars tend to be what nearly everyone starts out with because there are several free programs out there that can help you make a decent starter avatar.

VtubeStudio only supports the nicer 2D avatars and as far as I know has no intention of getting into the 3D side of things. There are a few decent programs people use with 3D avatars(links below), but it seems they aren't really as high quality as VtubeStudio so they don't have the market cornered like VtubeStudio does for 2D.

As far as tracking goes, on the camera side of things there isn't really any difference between 2D and 3D that might limit you to one or the other.

There is a pretty large demand for tracking apps on Android because there are no widely used apps currently available. Big-time vtubers usually get iPhones so they can use the ARkit tracking that is Apple only, but a lot of people just starting out have Android and are currently forced to use a regular PC webcam that tends not to be as accurate and also doesn't allow people to offload the computing resources needed for face tracking to their phones.

Vroid Studio(the main app people use with 3D avatars): https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486350/VRoid_Studio_v201...

Warudo(this one is a lot newer than Vroid Studio so it has a lot less users, but is probably the second most popular 3D app): https://store.steampowered.com/app/2079120/Warudo/

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by Loxicon »

archontes wrote: post #628
anonzzzies wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You really shouldn't listen to too many people. The only thing that counts is paying customers; everything else is just jealous people.

Dismissing disagreement as jealousy always bothered me. To think a person is jealous of you requires a lot of ego, like... narcissistic amounts of ego in my opinion. Either that or a world view so small that it can't conceive of other world views that don't align with yours. Some folks just can't imagine buying what some folks are selling.

Sure but... what is there to "disagree" with? customers are paying for it. If you don't want it, don't pay. But why expend energy on "disagreeing"?

weird.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by ensemblehq »

nspeller wrote: post #116

I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives. It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos. I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that i…

Wow. I’m very impressed by the site and even more so by how you did it over a winter break. It’s definitely very intuitive and I’ve been looking for a way to learn music theory as an adult. Thank you!
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