Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

Post by skr5 » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 2:24 PM UTC

montenegrohugo wrote: post #87

I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since my background is in AI, I made my own. → https://www.namy.ai It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from…

Post by cushychicken » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 2:58 PM UTC

ultrasounder wrote: post #441

cushychicken wrote: post #421

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How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards? I don't care about People and Recruitment teams. I care about People and Recruitment teams for a very, very specific subset of electrical engineers . My thesis is that HR and Recruiting for the sorts of roles I care about isn't very effective to begin with. The lack of specificity in existi…

Next up, Leetcode for VHDL/Verilog. Heck what's stopping LeetCode for LtSpice/Altium/Solidworks. Create artificial Supply crunch and You have the exact same scenario playing out in Software engineering field where candidates jostle for "highly competitive jobs" where they are put through a hazing routine called "white board interview". I visited the SAC Goldrush museum recently and came away from this fact embedded d…

Post by idreyn » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 3:24 PM UTC

vittor1o wrote: post #528

Xevi wrote: post #425

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I have nothing against the previews. However when a website hijacks the link to serve a stripped down version of the content locally, it goes against the expectations of the user, and it can really f*k up accessibility tools. This is a bad use of javascript imo. A really bad use. And unfortunately it is being pushed as a way to retain users, meaning that it prioritises profits over everything else. I don't want to be…

I do sometimes get similar first impressions, though when you look closer at the implementation - the very opposite of your comments is true. Accessibility of the previews has been thought through & tested. The previews are clearly marked when they open in a lightbox. When you are using a screen reader, the experience improves(!) significantly; on click you get the content right away, not a website in a tab where you…

Post by Joe2337 » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 4:23 PM UTC

cmeacham98 wrote: post #222

kouteiheika wrote: post #35

I'm running a website for people learning Japanese and currently making ~$590/month from Patreon donations: https://jpdb.io/ This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working publicly for the past year. Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959

Hi, if you're still around: jpdb looks really cool, but will it work for somebody who is a complete beginner? I want to learn Japanese, and intend to commit time to doing so sometime in the upcoming 2-3 months. However, right now, I'm literally at zero. Is there somewhere else I should go to learn things like basic grammar and sentence structure first, or will jpdb help with that sort of thing too?

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 4:34 PM UTC

Joe2337 wrote: post #547

cmeacham98 wrote: post #222

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Hi, if you're still around: jpdb looks really cool, but will it work for somebody who is a complete beginner? I want to learn Japanese, and intend to commit time to doing so sometime in the upcoming 2-3 months. However, right now, I'm literally at zero. Is there somewhere else I should go to learn things like basic grammar and sentence structure first, or will jpdb help with that sort of thing too?

I'm creating a free Japanese course that ships as a flashcard deck for Anki. It completely starts from zero, maybe it helps you: https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/911122782 I guess this format is similar to what jpdb offers, maybe you can even import it there. The deck currently covers most grammar and a little more than 800 words on ~1800 flashcards. It's mostly based on anime though, so at least some interest in this…