For me its when I have to knuckle down and fix up my CSS lol
Enjoy my side project unfinished beauties:
https://www.adfreetube.com/
https://qmaps.io/
https://propertytracker.net.au/
I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
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Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#132Started creating a library of retro game clones built with PyGame for people to use as a learning resource (I was learning too). I built a crummy clone of Pong and a near pixel perfect clone of Frogger...and then lost interest.
But, I'll likely come back to build another some day when the mood strikes me.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#133We should start a club with the amount of us in the same boat... what should our domain be?
Matchmaking service for swapping unused domains with other side project hobbyists.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#134> I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again. At least you're actually doing the "I code for 3 all-nighters" step! I've stopped too many projects at the "I buy a domain name" stage, and added an intermediate "I create a Trello board" step between that and starting to write code. No need to pull all-nighters, which are hard to do with family and a full-time job, if all I need to…
I'm actually having some success now with the > I buy a domain name → I set up a bug tracker → I spec out a bunch of tasks → I let Claude Code do the coding Seems more sustainable to me than working a full-time job coding, then adding another coding side project. Nice change of pace to just be describing what I want my app to do (during my work day), then letting Claude Code buzz away while I do my day job.
how are you managing keeping up to date wiht the tasks and update to tasks. What bug tracker do you use.. do you mean jira??
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#135I buy a domain name but struggled to find the time to work on it, so I put it up for sale as a holding page. I have accumulated a collection of...
https://www.bankaccountstatements.com
https://www.customerdatavalidation.com
https://www.customerdatavalidation.co.uk
https://www.confirmationofpayee.co.uk
https://m.emori.es
https://www.bankaccountchecker.com
Grab yourself a bargain if you are interested to complete the project.
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#136My approach is usually: start building the thing -> 'hmm a DSL would really make this easier' -> 'hmm I think it needs a custom parser' -> project dead
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#137> I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again. That's ADHD for you. A former coworker of mine lamented this - "I start so many projects or hobbies, but just when I feel like I've learned a lot I lose interest". I had to point out to him that his hobby isn't - whatever, sheep shearing or book bindery or underwater basket weaving - but rather his hobby is learning things . That's a…
Is that why my wife keeps telling me I need to get a diagnosis?
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#138> I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again. That's ADHD for you. A former coworker of mine lamented this - "I start so many projects or hobbies, but just when I feel like I've learned a lot I lose interest". I had to point out to him that his hobby isn't - whatever, sheep shearing or book bindery or underwater basket weaving - but rather his hobby is learning things . That's a…
Dan Okrent (fascinating guy [0]) has a great line:
"My wife calls me a serial obsessionist"
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#139tangential question for the HN side-project crowd: i have lots of ideas for fun little side projects that would never be revenue generating. i'll go on a tear and start building it, but when it comes time to figure out how much it'd cost each month for domains/cloud services/etc I talk myself out of it. I'm not talking about big LLM bills here, just things like $25/month for the database, $10-50/year for a domain, et…
What's wrong with a single domain and a $5/m VPS that keeps both DB and application on it? I ran a paid business app on a $5/m VPS. No complaints. If your $5/m VPS cannot handle some load, then that's when you upgrade it. And, TBH, at the point that your $5/m VPS is at 80% load on a paid product, you're already getting a few thousands of dollars of revenue from it anyway.
if i were just using a dataset to store user settings, i could get by with something tiny.
but my problem is that my fun project ideas are usually some variant of "theres a huge dataset, lets build some fun dataviz on it". which is a problem because a) i need a big db to store that giant dataset and b) the db size doesn't scale with usage, so i can't just put it off until later
Re: I launched 17 side projects. Result? I'm rich in expired domains
#140> I buy a domain name → I code for 3 all-nighters → I lose interest → I start again. That's ADHD for you. A former coworker of mine lamented this - "I start so many projects or hobbies, but just when I feel like I've learned a lot I lose interest". I had to point out to him that his hobby isn't - whatever, sheep shearing or book bindery or underwater basket weaving - but rather his hobby is learning things . That's a…
> his hobby is learning things.
I've rarely felt so seen.