Ideally “success” defined as extra income, but I’d also love to hear about projects that you have that are successful in other ways
Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?
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#2If you feel like a blog post: https://maxrozen.com/lessons-from-my-third-year-running-a-sa...
In short, started the 200th uptime monitor while working full time, added a bunch of features, did some marketing, added status pages and cron monitoring, and eventually, consistent effort paid off.
I might even let it employ me one day, but I enjoy my full time job at the moment.
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#3LangCSS https://langcss.com
Only one paid customer RN but I am adding features to make it more worthwhile, before I start promoting it proper.
Re: Ask HN: What's your successful or moderately successful side project?
#4LangCSS https://langcss.com Only one paid customer RN but I am adding features to make it more worthwhile, before I start promoting it proper.
In Safari 17 on macOS you have a 1460x1460 unserved image just above your Features section.
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#6started out as scratching my own itch of finding sec filings & went down a rabbithole, https://shareseer.com/ Its my platform to build and experiment. I have a couple of hundred users
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#7Not super successful yet but I've been working on https://nativi.sh on nights/weekends. It's a tool to help make your writing more fluent when you're working in a non-native language.
We have a fair amount of users who've worked it into their daily professional and personal writing, which I'm pretty stoked about. I've pretty much only worked on B2B stuff professionally so it's fun making something that an individual gets utility/happiness out of.
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#8I really like music, sound, acoustics, and human experience design so I started my own AV and event tech side business: https://eventworksav.com
It’s a lot different than software development :O
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#9I live from All About Berlin since a few years. It was and still is a labour of love, but now it also pays the bills.
A few subprojects like my citizens' office appointment finder and my form fillers also qualify. I really enjoyed working on those, and they got me a lot of goodwill from some city employees.
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#10My sideline makes about $12k a year, costs around $200 to run, and has been running for 15 years. It's a room booking system for schools. I reckon I need to put in 2-3 weeks of work a year.
I haven't figured out yet if I am a rubbish businessman or an excellent sideliner :-)