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Re: Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects – Show and tell

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Post by juliend2 »

kept3k wrote: post #590

Holy Bible Study & Cross-Reference Tool: https://bible-ui.rkeplin.com/book/kjv/1/1 Also, Holy Bible Search & Cross-Reference API: https://www.rkeplin.com/the-holy-bible-open-source-rest-api/ Made 0$ so far :)

Nice! I did a few projects like this, but with more modest UIs:

- https://github.com/juliend2/data-bible , for french translations

- more recently: https://1mbible.co

Have you thought about using some AI techniques (like Word Embedding) for your search engine? I'm interested in toying with this a bit in my next Bible-related project.

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Post by sadn1ck »

xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

Wow, thank you for your work! Regularly use steamdb, lovely site!

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Post by aliqot »

xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

Respect

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Post by machilin »

Recently decided to launch MessageDuck: https://www.messageduck.com after working on a few side projects but never actually launching for many years. It is similar to Mailcharts and ReallyGoodEmail, but for SMS which Mailcharts has as well but the price is out of our range.

Basically it is a library of thousands of SMS messages to help marketers get the latest SMS data and launch their campaign in minutes instead of days. Currently earning $0 and incurring some cost of about less than $100 a month but overall it meets our own need. It was an internal tool we used but we decided to launch it to the open web and see if there was any demand for it. Currently it has all the features of a MVP and already works great for us but we are adding some new features every month as well.

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Post by kk6mrp »

emeth wrote: post #628

https://historicalchristian.faith/ An open source database that pulls up all historical Christian commentary on a verse in the Bible - e.g. see how the early church fathers interpreted a verse, it's often illuminating. Was inspired by CS Lewis' comments about the "Old Books": "Every age has its own outlook. It is specially good at seeing certain truths and specially liable to make certain mistakes. We all, therefore,…

This is awesome! I'm certainly going to be taking a look. I've been reading from C.S. Lewis's letters recently and found a lot of value, so it is especially nice to read this!

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Post by intelVISA »

berkle4455 wrote: post #414
nabakin wrote: post #356

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Impressive. What's your tech stack? How are you able to keep the cost so low?

php, nginx, mariadb (mysql). The stack that continues to deliver robust, low-cost, and reliable solutions yet HN shits on it at every opportunity.

nginx is decent to be fair

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Post by machilin »

xPaw wrote: post #196

SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/ I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot more. In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique visitors.

Used it some years ago and thought that it was a really good front-end to the Steam store since the search interface is a bit lacking. Am surprised to see that this has millions of visitors but has such low running cost. Must be really highly optimized SQL queries and code there!

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Post by philistine »

Game Boy Essentials, my attempt to catalogue the appeal of the Game Boy. I write articles online, and then turn them into a book every twelve articles.

I moved from hand-coded HTML to Jekyll, and published my first book using Pages from Apple to make the PDF, but now use XeTeX and a custom HTML conversion to make my books with a single button press.

I used to use Kindle Direct Publishing (née createspace) but have very wisely moved on to Lulu. Amazon had banned me for using content readily-available online. I appealed and got my account back but they still haven't resolved the problem with my books. I totally blame the recent staff cuts at the company.

Lulu is slightly more expensive for my customers but the books are colour and I don't feel like I'm using the forgotten service of a company who doesn't care.

The website is hosted on AWS using S3 and Cloudfront, my registrar is Amazon and I'm absolutely looking for an alternative if anyone has any.

I'm at https://gameboyessentials.com

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