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Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by lettergram »

ethanpil wrote: post #10
lettergram wrote: post #7

Easy A - https://easy-a.net/ The website provides a semester simulator that can (accurately) predict student grades, workload, etc for a given course / semester. It also provides a breakdown of the grade distributions, work load (in hours), difficulty, etc. For every course, professor, and combination there, for universities on the site. Profitable is relative, I spent around 100 hours tossing the website together an…

Interesting, how was this data made available to you?

Sent in a FOIA request for course(s) and grade distributions. Users can also add data about themselves to improve prediction accuracy:

https://easy-a.net/foia

http://austingwalters.com/foia-requesting-100-universities/

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by colinbartlett »

StatusGator: https://statusgator.com

Monitors status pages of cloud services with optional notifications and creates a unified status page of your service dependencies. I wrote a blog post recently about how profitable (barely) it is: https://blog.statusgator.com/anatomy-of-a-profitable-side-pr...

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by rlv-dan »

Desktop utilities: http://www.rlvision.com

I've been making freeware and shareware for a long time. Some are shareware and still make some (not much) money.

Edit: You might be interested in this retrospective I wrote about my personal favorite utilities: http://www.rlvision.com/blog/16-years-with-flash-renamer-a-d...

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by colinbartlett »

pigpen34 wrote: post #2

CronAlarm - https://www.cronalarm.com A platform for monitoring cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Nobody here is getting rich from it, but it is profitable and brings in some extra cash which is nice.

Looks great. I've used a similar service for a while called Dead Man's Snitch https://deadmanssnitch.com. Your product name is arguably more straight forward.

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by csallen »

IndieHackers.com will break $3-4k in monthly revenue this month or next, mostly from advertising. It costs me <$200/mo to run. It features all sorts of interviews with developers running profitable side projects themselves, so check it out if you're looking for ideas or inspiration!
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