These threads always pique my interest, and it's great to hear how people are innovating to make some extra income. Please share your new projects for 2018!
Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
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#3Alpaca My Bags - Travel website for pre-planned weekend vacations
https://travelalpacamybags.com
Been working on it on and off for about 6 months with my wife (I'm behind the tech, she's doing the trip planning/social media stuff). We're looking to officially launch within the next few weeks. We're starting out in the 2 person vacation niche, but looking to expand to other trip sizes and also to trips outside of the US later this year after launch. This will be my first B2C business, so excited for a little change of pace.
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#4json-menu, converts a json endpoint into a electron-dashboard for your mac.
Launched it a few days ago and already made me a few bucks.
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#5json-menu, converts a json endpoint into a electron-dashboard for your mac. Launched it a few days ago and already made me a few bucks. https://jsonmenu.com/
I really like this - is the price being hidden behind the "Buy License" button a deliberate design decision? I feel the price is low enough that having it shown upfront would encourage me to buy it, so interested in your thinking.
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#6Mine is a REST API monitoring service - because I needed one!
Going to rework the landing page a bit to make it more benefit/monitoring oriented, I don’t think ‘testing’ is compelling enough as a keyword.
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#7I decided to build https://maximiseyourannualleave.co.uk that is helping friends to plan 2018 annual leave in the UK.
I was inspired after reading an article that says if you book 14 days of your annual leave, you'll get 25 days in a row
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#8Manypixels - Unlimited premium design services for startups from $159/month (100% money back guarantee)
I started this in December 2017 as a side project but given its success it has now turned into almost a full-time job.
Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
#9Manypixels - Unlimited premium design services for startups from $159/month (100% money back guarantee) https://www.manypixels.co I started this in December 2017 as a side project but given its success it has now turned into almost a full-time job.
Sounds like a powerful service. What have you done to market it and find customers?
Re: Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell
#10Manypixels - Unlimited premium design services for startups from $159/month (100% money back guarantee) https://www.manypixels.co I started this in December 2017 as a side project but given its success it has now turned into almost a full-time job.
How do the economics work out for the clients? let's say we're just doing landing pages all month long (for example). If they turnaround in two days, that's about fifteen landing pages, which at $160 for the month comes out to about $11 each. Obviously this is a contrived and unrealistic example, but am I getting the math right?
I guess this is unlimited the way my data plan is unlimited: with rate capping?