Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why?

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Post by jpasden » Sat, Feb 29, 2020, 3:42 PM UTC

sethlivingston wrote: post #220

I launched a little consulting side gig on Fiverr to build dashboards and reports on Google Data Studio. The good: - I got plenty of customers (side gig volume) from all over the world. - Many of them were very happy with the results. - Collecting requirements for reports and dashboards is notoriously difficult and volatile, but I was able to keep this under control. I credit my age (48) and experience for that. The…

This is why I like using Fiverr as a buyer... Occasionally you find someone doing something cool for an absurdly low cost as an experiment or an exercise. Those are the good deals, and they're ephemeral offerings. Glad you enjoyed your time there!

Re: Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why?

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Post by bcherny » Sun, Mar 01, 2020, 5:44 PM UTC

h00dui wrote: post #217

bcherny wrote: post #26

Lease.ly, a common app for apartment rentals. - In SF (a seller’s market), prospective tenants only wanted to use it if their prospective landlords asked for it, or if it gave them an advantage over other prospective tenants - Landlords have their existing process that works, and didn’t want to change it. Things like comparison views for tenants, pulling in social media info, and automatic credit reports were helpful…

did you pivot to VIN #s?? I'm interested in seeing what you had/have for lease.ly with regards to the common application.

VIN #s?

Re: Ask HN: What's your latest failed side project and why?

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Post by jackthebadcat » Mon, Mar 02, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

I created Frifrofru (https://www.frifrofru.com/). Another china stores dedicated coupons/promo-codes website build using free stuff (Azure free, Mongo Atlas, Docker Hub, Github Actions). The domain is also free (2 years free). It's alive but with no more development. Why? Most of the stores that I want to share, only provide files that I can't get automatically, no API's and from my side no time to do it manually. The project started because some friends start asking if I know some promo codes. Most of them stop buying things 1 years ago. Bonus note: it's something that I'm against (consumerism). I prefer some of the other side projects that are focused on "green" things or in helping animals and persons.