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> could smoke himself into the Zone like nobody's business Can you elaborate on this?
Smoking weed to get into the proverbial, "flow" state.
What is the Ballmer Peak[0] equivalent for weed?
Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
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Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#562During the previous crypto craze a few years ago I built a .net service that continuously scanned 100s of sites for crypto news for specific keywords (configuration of sites and keywords stored in xml files) and texted me alerts when keywords hit, in an attempt to apply an event-based investment strategy to the crypto space. Given the immaturity of the market, small events often led to irrational spikes, and I made s…
I would like to use this. Any way to get access?
There isn’t at the moment. Curious what part interests you?
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#563https://yakdocs.com , I built it, then realized I needed to learn more about marketing, so I've been working on that. Hoping to get better at the business side and find my niche audience and target.
The scrolling does not work on iOS. I need to completely stop the scrolling to keep moving downwards, making it really tedious to try to read the site.
Thank you, that is very helpful. I will be pulling my mac out of storage and fix that :P
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#564Hi,
I wrote (and am still writing) Gig'o'Books (http://www.gigobooks.com) -- Accounting for gigs and side income.
I'm the first user (ie. dogfooding).
Thing is ... I'm sure there's a lot of people with gigs who would find it useful but for some reason, I'm having trouble finding them.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#565I am fascinated by hardware with poor software support so I built two highly unsuccessful native mac apps: MASS and LabelScope to work with weight scales and label printers. You can read their defunct websites at https://semireg.com/mass/ and https://semireg.com/labelscope/ Both worked in novel ways. MASS “floated” the current weight above all apps and when double-clicked would insert the current weight at the focuse…
Can you please please PLEASE support Brady printers? They're specialised label printers used in the laboratories. The software they use called LabelMark is no longer supported except lots of labs still have label stocks. So they're stuck used the pos software. To make matters worse its not supported on win10. I'm happy to be your lab rat and customer for life because we are never going to stop using the printers. I'v…
Replied! Thanks for the suggestion.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#566Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#567I made a face mask and t shirt website filled with items I designed. Let's just say that I haven't quite met my quarterly sales goals... https://ronamerch.co
the animations and aesthetic are lots of fun, assuming you intend them to be a kind of retro hip nod to an older web era. all these people hating on it have no sense of joy. but i think it might not be right for a site that sells medical gear for a pandemic. also, its hard for me tell based on the masks whether you are extremely online and irony poisoned (very likely) or a right wing grifter (very unlikely but possib…
Ha, glad you had fun! I'm definitely irony poisoned. I'm not sure if it would have the same punch if not for the inappropriateness of the content matter though.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#568An app for finding the best hotels for traveling with kids. It was basically crawling the booking.com API and then applying an algorithm to figure out if a property was suitable for families with children or not. It would do the usual. Parse descriptions and try to find keywords there, parse and count the number of comments mentioning family-related topics, up-score hotels with certain facilities and then push the im…
Had a similar idea to mine the booking.com data for cheap hotels. Kinda like Scott's cheap flight but for hotels.
I started the project but life got in its way.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
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I would be the target audience, but from the front page I don't see what value it brings over a spreadsheet. I won't register just to found out that. Does it automatically calculate travel costs?
Thanks for the feedback! In my view, these are some of the biggest advantages of Itinee over my previous spreadsheet planning: - Visualize everything on a map. This is big for me just to help organize what days it makes the most sense to do things - Estimate travel costs (e.g. Ride sharing) based on distances between stops - Easily adjust number of attendees. Some costs are split regardless of how many people attend,…
Estimate travel costs weren't apparent from the front page, there is no mention of it and the example plan (picture) only use walking.
I just found the Chicago itinerary in the blog post. It should be accessible from the front page.
I don't see enough value added over spreadsheets / custom Google maps to worth the money, but I'm pretty happy with our current system.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#570Late 2019, I launched https://stocks2.com , a financial site that posts a daily updated report for all NASDAQ/NYSE stocks.
It started well, increasingly growing audience and Adsense revenues until Google's May 2020 core update. Since then, the site started sliding in the SERPs and finally it now disappeared from Google.
Honestly, I still don't understand why Google has penalized the site so much. Any feedback will be appreciated.