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looks super sleek, but I think a landing page that explains what's tiblar and why I should use it would help.
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?
#92I built a Tinder-like matchmaking app where users log in with their Facebook account and the app then auto-matches users by their FB likes. I thought taking the hassle out of swiping could give my app an edge over Tinder. It was working fine for a week or so before Facebook caught up and revoked my API keys (effectively killing the app). They didn't give any reason besides some vague recommendation to review their Te…
I've heard that it's a good rule of thumb to not develop something that is just an extra feature of an existing behemoth (e.g. Atlassian plugins etc., but also the thing you built). If you're failure, then you've wasted time and money and if you're a success, the behemoth will just reimplement your work as a part of their platform. Pretty much the only way to win it so make something that provides marginal revenue, w…
Wordpress/Automattic bought up successful plugins like WooCommerce and just integrated them.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#93I built https://pagewatch.dev (a service to test your site for responsive/layout issues) over the last year.
I have a few customers but it is growing much slower than I expected. If I were to start building it now I would spend much more time building some kind of audience, just driving even a few visitors a day is hard starting from scratch.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#94Recent Failure -- I'm not getting customers. I love reading online content. It is tough to read quality long-form content online. So, I built https://pipecontent.com -- By Sharing your article collection(One-tab, Toby, Notion, Google-Docs, Twitter-Threads, Evernote, Dropbox, Website Link) -- Receive clutter free ready to print PDF OR A high quality printed magazine. Feedback appreciated.
Looks cool but it took 6.5 sec on my pc to load the entire website and even more on mobile. And I have a pretty decent connection. Maybe that's where you lose some audience?
Same, I think it is just because of the 50 page PDF in display (though it does load asynchronously from the rest of the page).
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#95I spent $1.4 million of my own money attempting to dethrone Craigslist in 2007. Didn't work.
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Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#96I've spent a whole bunch of time on CoolBeans (now OpenBeans http://www.openbeans.org), a "distribution" of NetBeans.
I assumed it would be possible to do a lifestyle business out of catering to a subset of the over 1M NetBeans users. Turns out it is not so easy.
I spend some money for a Windows machine to digitally sign builds, the macOS dev certificate and hosting. But the bulk of the cost was the time it all took.
PS: The .xyz domain in combination with the Windows antivirus solutions (looking at you ESET) was a major annoyance. Switched to .ORG just in time for the whole debacle there.
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
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What is it? Looks like a social network? Is it competing with generic ones like FB or does it have a niche?
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#98I built a hotel PMS system in 9 months without trying to sell it first to hoteliers (no industry experience, talked only to 1 hotel owner). Found out it's hard to sell it, even if almost/fully free. https://hoteliera.com/
Great design!
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#99I built a tool [1] for collecting audit logs from all your SaaS tools (Dropbox, Github, Okta, GSuite, Zendesk, etc) and pushing them into your log collection tool of choice (Splunk, Sumologic, Elastic, etc). It solved a personal pain point I had but I was never able to find any customers for it. [1]: https://logsnitch.com .
The only option I have is to enter my email, which I'm not doing without seeing some examples of usage, pricing, etc. May I suggest putting together a standard one-page brochure-type landing page?
Re: Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
#100I built a Tinder-like matchmaking app where users log in with their Facebook account and the app then auto-matches users by their FB likes. I thought taking the hassle out of swiping could give my app an edge over Tinder. It was working fine for a week or so before Facebook caught up and revoked my API keys (effectively killing the app). They didn't give any reason besides some vague recommendation to review their Te…
This like the case of Amazon antitrust
current Tech giants are need to be replaced