[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projec...
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Ask HN: Those making $0/month or less on side projects - Show and
tell
Not sure about anyone else, but I enjoy seeing the posts on side
projects making money. Often while reading all of the comments I
find new products or services I want, so I buy them and contribute
further to that hustle's success. But for every hacker making $100
or more per month with their idea, there are hundreds more working
hard, making nothing, struggling to get started. Does that describe
you? Maybe the community just needs to hear about what you're
offering, what you've been working on. If you've got something cool
that has not yet gained traction, maybe it just needs to be seen by
a gaggle of like-minded hackers and geeks. So share!
Author : code_Whisperer
Score : 510 points
Date : 2023-01-27 15:42 UTC (7 hours ago)
| biggins wrote:
| Just kicked off the beta launch of Flourish, a performance
| review/management platform that uses a radial based approach to
| growth frameworks instead of the traditional ladder based. It
| aims to reduce the impact of bias in performance reviews and
| reward your individual skillset.
|
| https://joinflourish.io/
| l72 wrote:
| Go Transit: https://gotransitapp.com/
|
| I've built and maintain website + iOS + Android apps for public
| transit for several small municipalities that don't have a good
| solution. I usually end up adding cities if I visit there and an
| unhappy with their app offering.
|
| Most of these municipalities use a smaller 3rd party vendor for
| tracking their buses, but often, the user facing application is
| sorely lacking. My applications utilize the same data, but try
| to:
|
| 1. Have a simple interface for quickly tracking buses 2. Have a
| simple interface to see times at your stops 3. Be specific to the
| city/transit agency. Most of the 3rd party vendors don't white
| label their apps, so somehow you have to know to download the My
| Stop app for Birmingham, AL, even though searching the App Store
| for Birmingham won't bring that app up. Once you have the app,
| you then have to find your transit agency.
|
| Currently, I support Availtec, RouteShout, and TransLoc.
|
| This was originally built for me in Birmingham, and I slowly
| expanded it as I visited other cities.
| mtrpcic wrote:
| Just a friendly heads up, but Go Transit is also the name of
| the regional transit system in Southern Ontario, Canada
| (originally named GO Transit for Government of Ontario Transit,
| as it started as a part of the Ontario Ministry of
| Transportation). Calling it out because your app looks cool,
| but with the direct overlap in name and product focus, it could
| lead to a future trademark dispute if your app takes off.
|
| https://www.gotransit.com/
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GO_Transit
| l72 wrote:
| Yeah, I know. However, I white label all the applications, so
| the app ends up being called "Go Birmingham", "Go Steamboat",
| "Go Grand Rapids", etc... My users rarely actually find
| https://gotransitapp.com, and typically just search for City
| + transit on the app store.
| richbell wrote:
| A bit of an unfortunate naming/seo clash as GO Transit is the
| public transit service in Ontario Canada.
|
| https://www.gotransit.com/en/
| countvonbalzac wrote:
| Do google maps / apple maps / transit / citimapper / moveit not
| work for these cities?
| l72 wrote:
| Typically they do not. The Agencies _might_ submit GTFS data,
| but rarely do any of these vendors provide real time data in
| GTFS-RT that Google/App and other would need.
|
| I find commercial apps like transit and moveit are only
| willing to work with bigger cities, and have very little
| interest in smaller agencies.
| javiermaestro wrote:
| Interesting! Have you considered reaching out to one of
| those (e.g. Citymapper) and see if they would like to work
| with you? Either employ you, subcontract you, use you as an
| API, or whatever! :)
|
| I think it's really cool that you maintain such a service
| and maybe they can find in you a good partnership!
| orax wrote:
| Not exactly my project, but I have been helping a friend of mine
| work on his pet project for the last couple of months:
| https://limeline.app/.
|
| He currently makes no money from it and has no intent on making
| any anytime soon, hosting cost are pretty low and it was pretty
| much just created out of a need we both had: being able to
| aggregate all our sources for our morning technology watch.
|
| In the end, with feedback from a couple of friends, he built a
| simple "no inbox" RSS aggregator with some nice extra features
| (account-less page management, sharing & forking of feeds, ...).
|
| It is still in a pretty early stage, but I really like where this
| is going and feels like it deserve more visibility.
| phoenix24 wrote:
| I just checked it out, very cool. Always wanted something like
| that.
| jcims wrote:
| I bought yo.wtf five years ago hoping an idea would come to me.
|
| So far no epiphanies, but I'm <$0 revenue so I think it still
| counts.
| superfamicom wrote:
| https://wiki.superfamicom.org/
|
| A custom made wiki for documents and resources related to
| developing software (games) for the Super Nintendo / Super
| Famicom. Started in 2010 and still going strong, switched
| software a few years ago from Ruby to Node.
|
| https://sfc.fm/
|
| An online emulator for the SPC700, the sound chip from the Super
| Nintendo / Super Famicom with a large selection of the game
| library's OST to listen to. Designed to scratch a personal itch
| and play with Emscripten years ago.
| JoeOfTexas wrote:
| https://acos.games
|
| I created a platform and simulator for developers to create
| multiplayer turn-based browser games using JavaScript. It's been
| in development for about 2 years and online for 1 year.
|
| The plan is to allow all games to have ranking and competition
| features automatically built-in.
|
| It has tons of carefully crafted features, but I have failed to
| gain any interest in the project, so its just sitting there
| waiting for someone to love it.
|
| I am losing $60/month on the dedicated server the whole
| infrastructure runs on.
| schemescape wrote:
| I played one of the games after seeing it on HN a while back,
| and it's very polished! But... I don't have a lot of free time
| to play games like that :(
| JoeOfTexas wrote:
| Thanks =)
|
| Web gaming seems to be a niche area these days.
| Const-me wrote:
| Doing that for decades.
|
| An app for Windows phone, downloaded 140k times:
| https://github.com/Const-me/SkyFM
|
| Cross-platform graphics library for .NET:
| https://github.com/Const-me/Vrmac
|
| Recently, offline speech-to-text for Windows:
| https://github.com/Const-me/Whisper
|
| At this point, I consider side projects like that as a hobby.
| elektor wrote:
| I just tried out your Whisper Windows port and it worked
| perfectly for what I was looking to do, thank you so much!
| ambersahdev wrote:
| Discord and Slack Notifications for Terminal Commands
|
| Nudge Notifier: https://NudgeNotifier.com
|
| Availability: MacOS, Slack, Discord.
|
| Why:
|
| - Builds at my current monolithic architecture employer take
| forever and I often notice failed builds too late.
|
| - I don't like pausing Seinfeld to go check on my terminal.
|
| - Developer Productivity is on a lot of companies' minds and
| Nudge pings developers when they can resume their work.
|
| - Reminded me of https://xkcd.com/303/
|
| Features:
|
| - Effortless mobile notifications for long-running terminal
| commands.
|
| - It'll even notify you when your builds running over ssh finish
| execution without installing it on the ssh target.
| ambersahdev wrote:
| Also built completely in Python
|
| Here's the Slack Bot: https://slack.com/apps/A046S38NNE8-nudge
| quechimba wrote:
| I've been working on server side VDOM based web framework in Ruby
| that streams DOM-patches to the browser. It uses Haml as React
| uses JSX. The syntax makes it really nice to use. It's pretty
| fast but it needs a lot more work before it's ready to use for
| any real world projects. Would be cool if someone tried it out
| and maybe even made some improvements.
|
| https://github.com/mayu-live/framework
| rajasimon wrote:
| Blog Streak https://blogstreak.com | BlogWithNotion is taken as
| of now but will get it I think.
|
| It's an another Notion to Blog integration service.
|
| _Who can benefit from it?_
|
| This project is for people who running a static blog because of
| their scary speed and publishing it by git push.
|
| _Who can 't benefit from it?_
|
| People who don't love blogging and hate Notion. Sorry guys I did
| integrate with Notion because it's one of the tool I come across
| which can satisfy the hectic Hugo markdown properties.
|
| Price? I set $5 per year and I think that's worth the month to
| spent for this little integration tool.
|
| Any questions? please.
| AlexanderTheGr8 wrote:
| Semantic search for any video : https://semanticvideosearch.com/
|
| As the name suggests, this allows you to search any video using
| meaning and context. This is very useful for skipping through the
| fluff on youtube videos.
| [deleted]
| jasfi wrote:
| Not side projects, but I'm a solo founder with 2 projects not
| currently generating revenue. So I feel like I'm within range of
| the request.
|
| LogicTrader: https://logictrader.xyz - automated trading,
| currently crypto only and demo mode only.
|
| InventAI: https://inventai.xyz - will be a toolbox for generative
| AI services. Can't say much more before the launch.
| ExxKA wrote:
| For logic trader, remember to factor in slippage and market
| depth.
| asawilliams wrote:
| Shorter Shower: https://shortershower.com It's a mobile
| application that helps you take a shorter shower to save water,
| time, and electricity.
| keroro wrote:
| https://lilhash.com/ https://github.com/jackbow/lil-hash/
|
| A simple temporary URL shortener that produces easily
| rememberable and speakable URLs. The links expire after 24 hours
| so there's always a one word shortening available. Receives
| approximately 20,000 visits each month.
|
| Useful for sharing a link in a presentation, or between devices
| when you don't want to login to your email, etc. When its easier
| to remember or say a link than send it.
|
| Fits in cloudflare workers free tier.
| ezfe wrote:
| Minecraft "Tellraw" Command Generator:
| https://www.minecraftjson.com
|
| Allows you to create the commands that generate formatted text in
| Minecraft.
| kevmarsden wrote:
| Active Trackers: https://activetrackers.com
|
| A fitness web app I built during the first year of COVID to track
| pull-ups, push-ups, etc. A couple of my family members purchased
| a subscription, but otherwise it hasn't gotten any traction.
|
| I have monthly goals for push-ups and pull-ups, so I still use it
| every day to track my progress.
|
| It's built with Laravel, using Spark, Jetstream, and Tailwind.
| Before building the app, I had only dabbled with Laravel, so
| building it was a great learning experience.
| jacobmarble wrote:
| https://zagi.net/ is a pay-for internet search engine, backed by
| Bing. I have been using myself for over a year. As it turns out,
| getting a payment system working is super frustrating.
|
| Current revenue is less than $5 per month (just me), and costs
| are less than $100 per month.
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| I was interested to understand the concept behind this service,
| went to the site and clicked the Docs link, but got " Not
| Found". Can you provide a simplified explanation for the
| concept behind the site? Thanks!
| djbeadle wrote:
| I'm working on a photo-sharing service for groups to replace
| shared Google Drive folders. Even if a Google Drive is publicly
| editable uploads count against the uploader's quota unless they
| select all, right click, change owner to the folder owner which
| is a bridge too far.
|
| By default anyone can upload to a gallery but they are identified
| by hard-to-guess UUIDs. This makes passing galleries around SMS
| or any chat platform very easy but one thing I did not expect is
| groups forming long-lived persistent galleries. Once you have
| more than one or two of these they become hard to keep track of.
|
| I am currently working on an app with optional accounts for end
| users to (1) keep track of multiple galleries (2) allow iPhone
| live photo uploading (no way to do that within Safari) and (3)
| allow iPhones to upload pictures with metadata which Apple strips
| from all Safari uploads.
|
| Here's a demo gallery with uploading disabled:
|
| https://shareable.photo/73f4b812-51bd-42de-99f6-c58f65b18ae1...
| kcbanner wrote:
| TurboSearch: A MSVC extension frontend for the excellent command
| line utility, The Silver Searcher (Ag).
|
| https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CaseyBan...
|
| Price: $12
|
| I use this tool myself daily as my main search tool inside MSVC.
| I built it because I was frustrated with how slow other tools
| were, and before I built this I would use ag in my console
| instead.
|
| I've sold one copy, but I solved my own problem so I'm happy!
| vqc wrote:
| I've fallen into the chess craze.
|
| I put together www.chessrapid.com for my own use. It's a version
| of Puzzle Rush / Puzzle Storm that has the added benefit of: 1)
| filtering by tactical themes and 2) seeing what themes you are
| frequently slow on / incorrect on. This way I can narrow in on
| the tactical themes that I need to improve pattern recognition on
| (e.g. I can take a break from Mate in 1 and Mate in 2; I really
| need to work on middle game).
| chrisco23 wrote:
| Thanks for making this, just gave it a try. You might be able
| to work with the chess.com people in a way that might generate
| some $$. Or, better, work with the lichess folks (not for $$).
| I'd like to be working on something like this. Meanwhile, I
| think I'll run it some. Holes in my tactics especially in blitz
| showing up too often at the local chess Meetup.
| yboris wrote:
| _Simplest File Renamer_ - batch rename files with your favorite
| text editor (and see the diff of the changes)
|
| https://yboris.dev/renamer/ -- FREE
|
| MIT Open Source: https://github.com/whyboris/Simplest-File-
| Renamer
| imachine1980_ wrote:
| I need this thanks
| danaris wrote:
| https://battlemaster.org/
|
| A browser-based roleplaying strategy game that's been running
| continuously--with unbroken in-game history--since 2001. I
| inherited it from its original creator, Tom Vogt, in 2020, after
| several years of being its primary admin and developer.
|
| It's a pretty niche kind of game, and without any fancy graphics
| or anything, it's definitely suffered since the smartphone
| revolution. It also doesn't help that it's got a pretty rough
| learning curve, and a poor new-player experience (addressing that
| is actually #1 on my TODO list right now).
|
| Still, it's got a good community of players who really love the
| game, and it provides something pretty unique. Almost all content
| in the game is player-created, with conflict primarily driven by
| player character interactions.
|
| I do take donations and have a Patreon for it, but that basically
| just covers server expenses. Comes to just about break-even over
| time. I don't expect it to ever be a significant source of
| income, but I would love to get it into a state where it has a
| steadily growing playerbase again.
| mark336 wrote:
| I created a website that is works like user-forum like Reddit,
| but to be used to make conversations like Twitter. Part of why I
| made it was my frustration with Twitter. A side idea is it could
| be used to store data, in parent-child format. You can use it
| like Twitter to start conversations or to keep track of lists or
| personal or project data.
|
| It isn't wholly functional, you can not reply to a post yet, but
| you can make a thread initial post. Don't have a
| login/registration yet, just post something. For some reason if i
| haven't used the site in awhile I get an error, but it works on
| reload. If you get that let me know. It doesn't have https yet,
| it is here: http://www.yuyaykuna6.com/gigabots/db
| lrobinovitch wrote:
| I'm building a terminal application for Hashicorp Nomad called
| wander: https://github.com/robinovitch61/wander
|
| wander for Nomad is as k9s is for Kubernetes.
| DanForys wrote:
| The Animator: https://theanimator.co.uk/
|
| Originally an experiment when the HTML Canvas element was new and
| exciting, to see if I could make a website to create flip-book
| style animations. I have no proof, but I'm pretty confident it
| was one of the first websites that could do so.
|
| ~12 years later, a refactor from PHP to NodeJS and React and LOTS
| of spare-time sunk into it - it's moderately successful by my
| standards. Got kids from all over the world creating stuff - some
| even very impressive. From my logs, I can even see some schools
| in the USA are using it in some lessons.
|
| It's been a pain sometimes when troublemakers are hell-bent on
| making, well - trouble! Definitely build your moderation tools
| from the start folks.
|
| It has a few ads sprinkled over it in a futile attempt to cover
| my server costs, but probably has a net cost to me of about
| PS20/mo.
|
| Genuinely love that kids and teachers use it - even my daughter
| is on there. It's been absolutely fascinating and heartwarming to
| see how some of the kids have developed their art and animation
| skills over time. Maybe one day it'll be bug-free and "finished".
| physicsguy wrote:
| This is really nice!
| netruk44 wrote:
| I was annoyed that I had to install FUSE on my Mac just to be
| able to browse my Borg backup repositories (it's a mildly arduous
| process of disabling some security settings if it's not installed
| already), so I made an Electron GUI with the help of ChatGPT and
| Copilot: https://github.com/Netruk44/borg-repository-explorer
|
| I really don't expect this to ever make money, I just had a need
| and a desire to learn/explore how Electron works (Sorry! I know
| people hate it for how heavy it is, hah).
| empressplay wrote:
| turtleSpaces: https://turtlespaces.org A 2D / 3D Logo interpreter
| written in Golang and compiled to WebAssembly. You can make art,
| animations and games with it. Been working on it for a few years
| now, eventually want to have some kind of paid membership option,
| or the ability to package user-created projects as apps. But
| until then shipping is its own reward :)
| agreon wrote:
| https://game-watch.agreon.de (I know, my naming is great) is a
| service to get updates for games that you are interested in.
|
| I'd often watch game release previews like the E3 and put the
| games that interested me in some kind of list. Now I would have
| to check manually for news about a release date or in which
| stores they would be published. GameWatch takes off this work
| from me and maybe also from you :).
|
| I know it was most probably done before in some similar way, but
| I didn't even search for alternatives until now. It would have
| been a good idea if I wanted to create a real market competitor,
| but that was not my motivation. I wanted to craft something that
| was my own, and not a copy of some product. I didn't want to
| spoil my creativity.
|
| I guess the most asked question will be: Why don't you crawl all
| the games beforehand and let the user search in your database.
| After all, it would improve the usability as users would not have
| to wait for the crawl to happen on demand. Also, you could show
| useful information like price history etc. per store.
|
| Well, besides the limited resources I wanted to invest, the
| project was born with a different idea than price monitoring in
| mind. Rather, the main idea was for me - as a user of many game
| devices - to get updated as soon as a game is added to a specific
| store (Maybe some games would be nicer to play on the Switch?).
|
| A preliminary crawl would not really have helped in this case.
| Besides, the on demand crawl results are cached. So if a popular
| game is searched for often, the overhead won't really be
| noticeable.
|
| Costs:
|
| - ~5EUR DataDog Logging
|
| - ~10EUR VPC (but that is also used for other things)
| interestica wrote:
| I'm working on something that uses immersive/360/vr video for
| seniors who don't have the ability to travel or see loved ones
| easily. I'd love some help if you have an interest in the VR
| space or helping an aging population. SLVR.ca
| [deleted]
| kulor wrote:
| https://inferoo.com
|
| I have a few engaged users of my daily personalised newsletter,
| main USP is showing your calendar events for the day. Not
| monetised yet.
|
| It's been fun to create, dealing with timezones, ingesting,
| processing and presentation of data etc etc. I use it myself
| daily, have done for years now so it's already paid for itself.
| newbie578 wrote:
| I created a mobile app which purpose is to help people keep track
| of their project ideas..
|
| Nothing special really, the app gained little traction but I use
| it personally.
|
| As a person who has often wandering thoughts, I found the best
| way to capture them is to write them down.
|
| So I have basically 30 project ideas (mostly mobile and web apps)
| and I don't know which one to start and keep track of them, so I
| decided to help myself and built the app.
|
| I can rate my own ideas on some parameters, label them, and sort
| them by their status. It helps with having a clear mind.
| pvsukale3 wrote:
| https://ossdatbase.com
|
| A catalogue of open source software. Recently it is picking up a
| little steam.
| (https://www.similarweb.com/website/ossdatabase.com)
|
| Costs me $10 a month in hosting, Rails app. I have a job now, but
| plan to keep updating it. The site is open source
| https://github.com/prithvi16/ossdatabase
| tehlike wrote:
| site seems down.
| loktarogar wrote:
| looks like they typo'd, it's https://ossdatabase.com
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| Semantic Paint will be a system for annotating text that does not
| rely on filenames or URL's or any other naming system. Instead it
| uses fuzzy hashes to identify where in the text to attach the
| annotation. If you peer your node with other people, you'll see
| their annotations too.
|
| It's like the web, except you don't need permission to create
| links between data, and whether you see other people's links/data
| depends on whether you explicitly subscribe to their
| "brushstrokes" in that "color".
|
| "Colors" might include:
|
| - this-javascript-is-malicious-and-here-is-a-patch-that-neuters-
| it
|
| - this-is-a-claim-and-here-is-evidence-for-it
|
| - the-food-described-by-this-menu-entry-causes-allergic-
| reactions-for-people-with-this-kind-of-allergy
|
| Ideally, users (or aggregations thereof) will emerge as
| authorities on these topics and we can figure out how to pay them
| for being useful curators.
|
| Since the references ( _this_ and _here_ in the above example)
| are anchored to other pieces of text by CTPHs and not by name,
| you can find text in the world and point your camera at it and
| now you have links to follow.
|
| There's a mapping between CTPH identified text and cryptographic-
| hash identified text, so we can use a DHT to move content around,
| I'll probably have plugins for different network constraints
| (i.e. Bittorrent, IPFS, Freenet, SSB, etc).
|
| Since I'm solving the hard problem of naming things by just not
| naming things, I don't need an always-available DNS server (for
| instance), so I might as well see what else I can do without. I'm
| shooting for partition tolerant and latency tolerant, to run over
| secure sucttlebutt protocol (which presumes that the user is
| moving around gossips over ad-hoc networks), so it can be useful
| in a world where the ISP's are unusable for some reason.
| danielskogly wrote:
| https://wishy.gift - A privacy friendly wishlist service, made
| for my SO after she got 4 thermoses for Christmas a year and only
| needed 1. Costs ~$30/mo, but is used by my entire extended
| family, which makes it all worth it :)
| 50yearsold wrote:
| Working on a trading (stock/etf) web application (for day
| traders) built using spring boot, react, mysql, docker, docker-
| compose, terraform, variety of aws services (s3, codebuild,
| codepipeline, ec2) Not yet live but will publish in couple of
| months.
| sickmartian wrote:
| https://sickmartian.com/trackendar/
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sickmartia...
|
| Trackendar, an habit tracking calendar app. Not currently
| monetized, got some initial traction, put ads which I promptly
| removed as they made the app look like shit and had some 'add
| ons' with which I made between 400-500 USD, I didn't get to see
| that money as getting an USD payment in Argentina was a PITA so
| the US has them now :/
|
| All local data, so no cost except a lot of time learning 'old'
| android and constantly maintaining whatever google wants to
| change or deprecate + updating the date/time library with the
| latest TZ changes. Has more features that it needs or users want
| to learn to use like categories, themes, reports...
| burnt_toast wrote:
| Marqus: https://github.com/EddieAbbondanzio/marqus
|
| It's yet another markdown based note taking app. I wanted
| something that gave as much screen real estate to the note's
| content vs navigation so it'd be easy to use on small screens,
| and I also wanted to save my notes in plain files vs a
| proprietary format.
|
| I don't plan on charging any money for the app itself so it'll
| never make me any money but I do plan on offering an optional
| note syncing service for multi-device support that'll be a few
| bucks a month.
| spagett wrote:
| A website/marketin company
| https://www.constructioncompanywebsites.com/
|
| I wrote a program that makes websites from an INI file, it
| handles everything except for the domain name purchase.
|
| Currently working on the marketing/business plan part of
| everything, which is very different from software engineering.
| winddude wrote:
| My question to those that are not making money or loosing money?
| I've been there before. How do you stay motivated to work on it?
| __MatrixMan__ wrote:
| I keep seeing problems in the wild that it solves and it's like
| an itch that I can't scratch. If I don't occasionally put work
| towards it I get all depressed and start having dystopian
| nightmares about the unscratched itch.
|
| It's not exactly healthy.
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| It can be a struggle, for sure. Personally, I am driven (for
| some unknown reason that seems bigger than potential income) to
| create new things, and am swamped (plagued?) by dozens of new
| ideas every week. Not just in tech, but also in art, writing,
| music and more. I'll be the first to admit, I've had plenty of
| stinkers, and on occasion it took someone I trusted to be
| bluntly honest with me before I would give up on an idea. For
| an embarrassing, personal example of this, see nubbers.com,
| which made exactly THREE sales over 3+ years before I finally
| shut it down. Although my friends and family still use the
| product - for free, of course.
|
| But I guess in the end, it comes down to what you believe. Do
| YOU think it's a good idea? Are you willing to fight for it? If
| your answer is "yes", then keep going. Ask yourself what you
| would do if someone cloned your product overnight and started
| selling it... what would you do to make your original product
| or idea better and compete against them? How would you
| reposition and regroup to fend off this tedious interloper? Or
| would you just throw in the towel? Ask yourself if you might be
| able do some guerilla marketing. Take a group of your friends
| to pertinent trade shows, all of you wearing shirts emblazoned
| with your website or product name, just wandering around. Make
| business cards with special offers and leave them in random
| office building restrooms (or bars or clubs or whatever makes
| sense for your product). Find a related product with whom you
| can partner and ride each other's coattails. Hire some social
| influencers to mention your brand. Create giveaways and
| contests. Yada^3.
|
| If you believe in it, don't give up and do what it takes!
| kevincox wrote:
| I've been using RSS-to-Email services for almost a decade but
| wasn't really happy with any of them. So I launched
| https://feedmail.org/.
|
| I never really expected to make money (and the service is priced
| to be very low-cost without a huge margin) but currently we are
| approximately breaking even (about $20 negative after 13 months).
| So it looks like in the long-term it will probably pay for
| itself.
|
| But the main thing for me is that it behaves exactly like I want
| (although I have already added a few features that I didn't want
| for other users).
| ghaberek wrote:
| I am the proprietor of the OpenEuphoria Group
| (https://openeuphoria.org/). We make maintain the Euphoria
| programming language: a general-purpose interpreted programming
| language with a simple syntax and flexible type system.
|
| The original developer released Euphoria 3.0 as open source in
| 2006 and the new group was formed to continue development. And
| they were quite successful for a while. Euphoria 4.0 was released
| in 2008 with many new features. But after a few more patches, the
| original group effectively disappeared around 2015 and version
| 4.1 was never released officially.
|
| I took over ownership of the domain and website in 2018, then
| migrated the code hosting to GitHub
| (https://github.com/OpenEuphoria) and started digging into
| continuing development. The hosting and domain registration cost
| me about $100/year, some of which is paid by donations from the
| community. But money isn't really the concern; what I need is
| time.
|
| I've been using Euphoria for over 25 years but I only started
| working on its development in the past few years. If I could do
| this full time I would, but right now I can only put in a few
| hours a week and I'm not even sure how viable Euphoria could be
| as a means of income.
|
| We need at least one or two more _actively_ involved volunteers
| who can help get version 4.2 out the door. And after that we need
| to rebuild the website, finish migrating to GitHub, and focus on
| new features and development tools. If you 're reading this and
| would like to contribute, please comment here, sign up on our
| forum, or email me directly: ghaberek@gmail.com
| kenforthewin wrote:
| https://litchan.com/
|
| Link aggregator / RSS reader with real-time commenting. No plans
| to monetize it. I mostly built it to learn Phoenix Liveview and
| TailwindCSS.
| madisp wrote:
| https://emulator.wtf/
|
| We're building the world's fastest / most scalable / reliable
| Android-emulators-as-a-service with the goal of reducing
| everyone's CI time spent on waiting for instrumentation tests to
| finish.
|
| Two long-time Android devs as co-founders, been working on this
| on many nights over the last year. Starting to take shape & close
| to breaking even.
| sbmkvp wrote:
| https://sbmkvp.github.io/rta_booking_information/
|
| A simple one page app that shows next available driving test in
| the state of New South Wale, Australia. The script runs as a
| container and commits updates to a GitHub repo periodically.
| GitHub pages then render the latest data.
| partyguy wrote:
| https://spacehey.com - a MySpace-like retro social network
| without any tracking or algorithmic feeds. Including customizable
| profiles (with HTML & CSS), bulletins, and more.
|
| I started it 2 years ago and it's pretty successful with about
| 600k registered users so far. I really enjoy building it and
| looking through all the creatively customized profile pages! It's
| so much fun!
|
| It's currently funded with donations and merch, but it sadly
| doesn't cover the costs atm.
| methodical wrote:
| https://www.budgetable.io/
|
| This feels like the 3rd budgeting application post on here lol,
| but here we go.
|
| A next-generation budgeting application, offering everything YNAB
| does, except at a lower price point, mobile application available
| (iOS & Android (soon)), plus with added features such as balance
| projection into the future as well as the ability to input
| fictional transactions and see outcome of those transactions on
| disposable income, etc.
|
| Integrates with Plaid for banking, AI categorization and
| recurring transaction detection, auto-syncing transactions, the
| whole bunch.
|
| I have a lot of features in the works to bring it much further
| than YNAB, although I think I already have feature parity. I
| don't have really much free money currently (saving for something
| big), so I don't really have much to allocate to marketing, so
| currently just spreading via word of mouth.
|
| I really just made it as a budget replacement for myself, as I
| was running out of a google sheet which made it difficult to
| really use.
| rolobio wrote:
| https://wrolpi.org/ Been having a great time on my side-project
| WROLPi. Its preparedness-oriented software which allows you to
| create an offline library. Videos, web archives, maps, epub/pdf,
| etc. Really easy search, low power usage if you run on in a
| Raspberry Pi. Just put out the first Raspberry Pi image, which
| makes installation super simple. Hoping to get a Debian image
| soon.
|
| Currently "videos" is pretty well flushed out. Still some work to
| do with web archives. Maps has been a huge headache simply
| because maps are so large. Got PDFs and EPUBs searchable
| recently.
|
| An abbreviated list of the technologies I've used to built it:
| Python, ReactJS, Open Street Map, yt-dlp (videos), SingleFile
| (web archives).
| codazoda wrote:
| Hahaha... I like this one. Here's how I lost money for 25 years
| building failed businesses.
|
| https://joeldare.com/how-to-lose-money-with-25-years-of-fail...
| bmelton wrote:
| So I _just_ started on this a week and a half ago, but thanks to
| a recent layoff, I 'm able to churn through it a little more
| quickly than I thought I might be able to, and I don't anticipate
| it ever making any real money, so I think it counts.
|
| The gist is that it's a site for imagining who would be cast into
| the roles of comic books, anime, books, or old TV series (or
| film) if they were adapted into modern a modern movie.
|
| It was originally born out of the idea when The Dark Knight
| aired, and I was pretty confident that Heath Ledger was going to
| be good, but when I was chatting with a different group of
| friends than those who had already heard me say that, nobody
| believed it. So the first pass of it was just a simple form of
| social proof, but the more I've thought about it over the years,
| the more it's evolved.
|
| It's pretty useless right now, but at the pace I'm going, I
| should be able to have a workable MVP in the next few days before
| I have to start looking for another job.
|
| https://fancasting.com
|
| The frontend is Next/React, and the few 'backend' pieces are also
| Next API functions (which isn't something I've really delved into
| before, so kind of fun, ignoring the weird latency effect of
| functions) - the only thing that currently resembles what I'm
| used to as a backend is the Planetscale DB, which it speaks to
| via Prisma.
| eko wrote:
| Thank you for this thead!
|
| I am currently working on a new open-source project, completely
| free to help enterprise manage their authorizations on a ce
| realized application: https://www.authz.fr/
|
| Main benefits whereas existing projects is the simplicity of use
| and the frontend web UI which is generally in paid offers.
|
| It comes with Service Development Kits in multiple languages (Go,
| NodeJS, PHP, Python) and more to come soon.
|
| I hope someone could find something interesting here :)
| jimnotgym wrote:
| Bonsai-garden.com
|
| I put this together over Christmas while I had the flu. I just
| wanted a way to keep a nice timeline for development of bonsai
| trees.
|
| I have a long list of features I would like to add, comments,
| likes etc. Some better pictures would be great too!
|
| It is built in Flask. I don't get to code too much at work any
| more, so this was a fun thing to do
| Slaul wrote:
| I'm not ready to show it off yet, but I'm working on a workout
| and nutrition tracking service.
|
| No other tool or service out there matches the feature set I want
| so I decided I'd just build it.
|
| My goal for workout tracking is mostly to make it crazy simple
| and super fast. As close to 0 barrier between you and your
| tracking. I want PRs to be more than just "moved a bigger amount
| of weight". I think volume PRs from rep records, etc are also
| important.
|
| For nutrition tracking, I want the ability to save some commonly
| used foods to my local storage to make it faster.
|
| I want discoverable meal planning. The plan is to basically let
| the user pick a protein, then a cooking style, which expands into
| different recipes and then side dishes to fit the remaining
| macros of a given individuals macro goals.
|
| For calorie tracking, I think its important to display that
| weight change isnt a day by day thing. You need to look at the
| caloric deficit or surplus for the week or the month vs weight
| change to see how you are doing. Most other trackers just give
| you feedback day by day which doesn't really represent reality.
| They also don't automatically adjust your TDEE over time with
| weight change.
|
| Not sure if anybody will pay for it, but I want it so I'm going
| to build it :)
| Linell wrote:
| A few years back I built a tool that pulled your data from
| MyFitnessPal and calculated a running TDEE for you, so that it
| was easy to adjust week to week. It was very useful to me and I
| managed to get somewhere in the range of 100 active users
| before I ended up moving on to other projects.
|
| I say that to say good luck, I think your app will be useful!
| jroesner wrote:
| metrik.one : https://metrik.one/
|
| Advanced analytics for Mailchimp. It provides deep insights into
| subscriptions, opens, clicks and campaigns. In addition it comes
| with advanced segmentation based on subscriber behaviour instead
| demographic data. And it includes a cohort analysis, that helps
| to reduce inbound ad cost dramatically by not just focusing on
| CAC but prospect groups that actually open and click.
|
| We built it out of our own need (running https://8bitnews.io/)
| and target newsletter senders, who prefer data driven decision
| making.
|
| Instead of building the next SaaS we decided to build a desktop
| app. Privacy and data protection were the main drivers behind
| that decision.
|
| Currently in beta, but close to a release and seeking market
| validation.
| ciguy wrote:
| I don't have a website yet, but have a working prototype of a
| backup tool which allows you to easily and simply backup AWS RDS
| Instances, Google CloudSQL Instances and (coming soon) Digital
| Ocean and K8s hosted Databases.
|
| One of the main pain points I see in the DevOps space around
| managing backups is making sure they are actually valid, working
| and can be recovered. Now that I have the backup part working on
| AWS and Google Cloud I am working on validation rules so that
| backups can also be validated on a schedule so you know they are
| up to date and can be recovered quickly and automatically.
|
| If this sounds like something your org could use, reach out
| (Email in Bio) as I am looking for a few organizations to work
| with for free as I develop the open source core of the product.
| Once that's more mature I will probably add a paid front-end and
| SOC compliance reporting feature for orgs that need it.
| INTPenis wrote:
| I'm forking over 200 USD a month for a few thousand users on
| mastodon. I get about a third payed in donations.
| ben174 wrote:
| www.showertexts.com
|
| Sends you a daily SMS with the top upvoted /r/showerthoughts of
| the day. I've been running it for several years and people seem
| to really appreciate it.
| noname120 wrote:
| https://qwerty-fr.org/
|
| Note: This keyboard layout is not just about English/French
| anymore. You can now type pretty much every latin language in the
| world: Spanish, Portuguese, Irish, German, Italian, Catala,
| Dutch, Danish, Flemish, Swedish, Norwegian, Finnish, Czech,
| Polish, Romanian, Lithuanian, Serb, and many more but my fingers
| are already hurting.
|
| Now... Time for the sales pitch!
|
| ~~~~~~~~~
|
| Are you tired of the limitations and inconvenience of the AZERTY
| keyboard layout when trying to type in French? Introducing
| QWERTY-fr, the ultimate keyboard layout for French and English
| language users! This layout is based on the widely used QWERTY
| layout, but with added symbols and diacritics to make typing in
| French easy and fast. Plus, it's easy to learn! With QWERTY-fr,
| you'll no longer have to rely on autocorrect to fix the
| shortcomings of AZERTY.
|
| QWERTY-fr also eliminates the frustrating letter swaps and
| shuffled symbols of AZERTY, making software shortcuts and
| remapping a thing of the past. Plus, you'll be able to type
| special characters like "E" and "C" with ease.
|
| Our layout follows a strict superset of the QWERTY layout,
| meaning all keys are in the same location, so QWERTY users can
| easily transition to QWERTY-fr. To type special characters with
| diacritics, there are simple rules to follow. AltGr corresponds
| to Option on macOS and Ctrl Alt on Windows. With AltGr and the
| corresponding letter, you can type characters like the grave
| accent, acute accent, circumflex, diaeresis, cedilla, and
| ligature.
|
| So why settle for the limitations of AZERTY when you can have the
| best of both worlds with QWERTY-fr? Try it out online without
| installing it and join our Telegram community to discuss and
| provide feedback with other users. Don't miss out on this game-
| changing keyboard layout!
|
| (Courtesy of ChatGPT.)
| r0s wrote:
| This year I made a beginners video course for managers to get up
| to speed on testing, Ready to Test:
| https://testfromthetop.com/ReadyToTest/
|
| I'm a senior engineer specialized in test automation. I realized
| the real challenge with testing isn't technical, it's leadership
| buy-in.
|
| I haven't really launched yet, revising my copy and tweaking
| everything, building a marketing strategy. If it gets some
| traction I have more advanced classes planned.
| rhelsing wrote:
| Neptunely: https://neptunely.com
|
| I've been building a procedural music generation engine for the
| last 2 years. It's been a passion project. There are a handful of
| videos on youtube that showcase it. It can generate pretty good
| songs and transitions based on established rules. I'm hoping to
| make it more generally accessible soon, but so far I've just been
| using it to help me make my music:
| https://open.spotify.com/artist/3Xtq9IlfA0l3dNPe3lhGAY
| jfornear wrote:
| I've been running https://chat.dog for 7 years -- don't spend any
| time on it but it's a fun side project. Building
| https://mailgrid.app now.
| zeta0134 wrote:
| I work on NES homebrew projects, mostly involving chiptune
| libraries that can be used to make games on the original
| hardware. I'm especially happy with the visualizers for turning
| musical creations into videos. I'd love to spend more time on it
| but I have to pay the bills, but still... figured I'd make good
| on the desire and try to turn it into a Patreon.
|
| https://www.patreon.com/zeta0134
|
| Here's like... pretty much all of those projects running in the
| browser at the same time: the music engine, the emulator, piano
| roll, and some of my own covers as demo tracks.
|
| https://rusticnes.reploid.cafe/wasm/?cartridge=bhop-2a03.nes...
|
| It's an extremely niche thing to even be into, and I'm very new
| to this whole self-marketing thing, so I'm still learning the
| ropes. Right now I don't make enough from my own patrons to
| offset the amount I happily pay each month to other creators. I
| enjoy the work on its own merits, so that's fine, but it would be
| great to one day connect with enough of an audience that I could
| justify spending more time on it than I already do.
| moepstar wrote:
| Not sure if you know him, but there's Remute, an artist from
| Germany who does... hm... electronic music and publishes it on
| vinyl and most of the time in some kind of cartridge format
| (Hucards, Gameboy, SNES etc...)
|
| Not sure if he's done anything for the NES yet...
| nodablock wrote:
| https://nodablock.com - I create you an Internal Dashboard for
| your Web3 project with 1 click - I give you Analytics + automatic
| smartcontract vulnerability scanning + a visualization of
| transfers between address. A good usecase now is for the Porshe
| NFT that has some suspicion of wash trading - With my token
| visualiser [1] you can clearly see the top tokens exchanged
| between the same wallets.
|
| Not quite ready for a release, but I made it public last week -
| without talking much about it - hoping people navigating the
| visualizers and dashboards will reach me out. But it's still not
| making money.
|
| [1] https://nodablock.com/nft/porche-911
| findhumane wrote:
| I just launched Find Humane, a free website and app for finding
| humanely raised animal products: https://findhumane.com/
|
| Currently $0 revenue but we have some affiliate links to humanely
| certified delivery services, so hopefully the ball will start
| rolling!
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| I think this has potential for a certain target audience. Not a
| criticism, but feedback: if I stumbled on this site I'd have no
| idea what it was about based on the current landing page. Will
| you be adding an intro/description about what the site is for?
| :-)
| findhumane wrote:
| Thanks, great feedback. I'm using the same code for web and
| mobile apps (Expo/React Native), but mobile users have gone
| through the app store landing page, so I agree it makes sense
| to add a landing page for web users. I'm thinking of a small
| little pop-up on first visit, but let me know if you'd prefer
| something else.
| jaclaz wrote:
| Small side-side issue, it seems you have a typo, without
| Javascript I get:
|
| JavaScript is required to be not enabled in your browser.
|
| Reload
| findhumane wrote:
| Thanks! I'll fix that in the next release.
| nsb1 wrote:
| Not quite ready for prime time, but I've spent the last couple of
| weeks building a fast, free, parametric part library for makers
| to use for widget-type parts rather than complex models. I found
| the current set of part libraries to be to slow and/or cumbersome
| for my tastes.
|
| It's 100% static and hosted on GitHub pages. It uses WASM
| versions of OpenSCAD and SQLite for dynamic content with all
| processing being done in the browser. Parts are added as GitHub
| issues, and can be added by anyone with a GitHub login
|
| https://parapart.com
|
| Next step: Content!
|
| Note: Currently not mobile-friendly.
| s-xyz wrote:
| Do I need an Umbrella Today?
|
| https://umbrellatoday.app
|
| The idea has emerged from my personal frustration with having to
| carry an umbrella (large or small). Large umbrellas are heavy and
| cumbersome to carry, and are often lost at events, while small
| umbrellas provide insufficient protection and are prone to
| breaking. The conclusion is that there is a need to minimize
| interactions with umbrellas as much as possible, and therefore we
| need a simple yes/no answer before leaving our premises.
| breckenedge wrote:
| https://www.breckenridge.dev/macrometer/
|
| MacroMeter is a recent project that integrates with NutritionX's
| API and helps track each day's macronutrient intake. Cost is $0
| to host because it is 100% client side (uses localstorage).
| egillie wrote:
| WhatCharitiesWant.org - search charity wishlists in the US
|
| chatgptisdown.onrender.com - a pay per query version of chatgpt,
| originally marketed when it was often down and you couldn't pay
| for use yet
| 4926394057 wrote:
| https://bigfishquiz.com/
|
| This one was released around a year and half ago. To begin with I
| was advertising on Google Ads, but stopped about half a year ago
| when it didn't seem to be getting anywhere. The money I spent on
| ads up until this point, combined with the low number of sales,
| means this one is still solidly in the red.
|
| https://easyfleet.app/
|
| This one only went live a few weeks ago and is _very_ much still
| a work in progress. However; I find it easier to keep my
| motivation to work on someting when it's in the wild. I haven't
| done any advertising on this one so far, as it isn't really ready
| for that yet, I want to add more features first, but I'll
| probably advertise it at some point. I also don't love the domain
| name, so I'm hoping to find something better (preferrably a .com)
| before I start advertising.
| utf_8x wrote:
| I've been working on a videogame project for the better part of a
| year now (a construction and management sim inspired by Factorio,
| Stardew Valley and similar games, combining concepts and
| mechanics from all of them), writing my own engine on top of
| SDL2.
|
| It's not the most original idea and I doubt it will ever actually
| see the light of day but the main point of this project was to
| get into C++ (coming from Java) and I think it served its purpose
| very well.
|
| In reality it didn't cost me anything but I technically "wasted"
| many thousands of dollars of my time on it...
| shon wrote:
| Wanting to experiment with Shopify, I decided to make a t-shirt
| shop for cyberpunk and sci-fi stuff. So I registered a short sci-
| Fi sounding domain: https://hex7.org and proceeded to toil (many
| many mouse clicks) away stocking my shop with with hand-designed
| shirts and coffee cups and then waited.
|
| 2 years in, not a single sale :<
|
| Partly I wanted just to add products and see if the combination
| of Shopify, Google, and my super-niche geeky products would
| generate at least one lonely customer... but no.
|
| Did I buy ads? No. Did I SEO? No. Did I use ChatGPT to write tons
| of shitty Cyberpunk stories and blog them? BRB...
| drclegg wrote:
| Is there a particular reason you didn't buy adspace?
|
| I imagine it's the main way that most shopify stores make their
| sales, and is probably a good way to realise some gains from
| your time investment.
| putlake wrote:
| Do you supply a feed of your products to Google Shopping? It's
| free now.
| shon wrote:
| Hmm how does that work?
| stickfigure wrote:
| I run a SaaS service for large POD merchants (basically, people
| doing what you're trying to do, many of whom are making a
| living at it).
|
| Shopify does not give you organic traffic. You don't want to
| start with Shopify unless you already have a dedicated
| audience.
|
| If you're just getting started, places like Redbubble and
| TeePublic are the easy way. Low margins, but it's "fire and
| forget". Amazon Merch used to be the hot ticket but it's pretty
| saturated. I would say that Etsy is the most popular place to
| make money in POD right now - it's a little more involved (you
| pay listing fees) but you control your pricing.
|
| I've been in this space for about 6 years now. Happy to answer
| any questions.
| Namari wrote:
| To be honest the t-shirts don't look that great. Maybe there is
| room for improvement.
| shon wrote:
| FINALLY some product feedback!! What would make them better?
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Thanks for sharing. I like! One of my own current side hustles
| involves creating and selling t-shirts, hoodies, caps, etc.
| just like you. And also like you, I had ZERO luck trying to
| sell them in my own store (Shopify, WooCommerce). However, when
| I listed them on popular DTG-type sites, they started selling,
| and now sell several hundred $ per month. I'm talking
| Teepublic, Redbubble, Spreadshirt, etc. I didn't initially want
| to go that route because I thought making $2 or $3 per shirt
| sounded pretty crappy when I could have my own store and maybe
| make $15-$25 per garment. And also have control over my client
| base. But hey, a few hundred $ per month at $2-3 per shirt
| profit is almost infinitely better than $ZERO per month at $20
| profit. I dunno, maybe give it a try? :-)
| shon wrote:
| Wow that's amazing. Thanks
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| If you are interested, I'd also recommend that you check
| out Michael Essek's YouTube channel (no affiliation, just
| like his stuff). He is a very successful t-shirt designer
| who sells books and materials to help people design stuff
| like this, but he also dispenses a LOT of free advice on
| his YouTube channel, if you are lucky he'll even critique
| your design on his show and give you advice on how to
| improve! Check https://www.michaelessek.com/ or on YouTube
| at https://www.youtube.com/@MichaelEssek
| kevinbowman wrote:
| You have a sale. Maybe the most expensive mug I've ever bought
| :) I look forward to it.
| Mochila wrote:
| Have you heard of CyberDog, its a clothing brand in London
| mdev23 wrote:
| Recently got a fun AI wallpaper generator app launched for Mac
| OS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/diffusion-
| wallpaper/id16638055...
|
| It uses stable diffusion under the hood.
| superasn wrote:
| https://www.bootstrapsite.com
|
| I've been working on a Bootstrap 5 landing page builder for
| almost 1 year now (mostly just weekends though).
|
| It's like my pet project than any money earning business but it
| gives me pleasure to work on it so I just keep at it.
|
| My plan is to open source it soon so people can create their
| sites and landing pages for free and host it on their own
| servers. Initially I made it create my own sites and learn Vue 3
| but I'm kinda hooked on how it's turning out to be.
|
| Right now everything is free including ssl hosting. Maybe to
| support the hosting cost I will charge a one time fees later on,
| but except a small "Powered by blurb" there will never be any
| difference between paid and free plan.
|
| It's work in progress so I don't think it's ready for a Show HN
| just yet but that's the next big thing on my list.
|
| The main USP of this builder is it's targeted more for developers
| and people who know what Bootstrap 5 is than just another website
| builder (need to update the landing page to reflect that soon).
|
| If anyone has 5 minutes to spare and want to play with it I would
| _really appreciate_ your good honest feedback about the builder
| and everything. No signup or cc is needed for trying by the way.
| oschleic wrote:
| Looks pretty cool, one thing that would be nice is the ability
| to delete, copy, and paste from the canvas. Also on trying to
| signup with my email I got a server error followed by a message
| that my email already exist.
| superasn wrote:
| > would be nice is the ability to delete, copy, and paste
| from the canvas
|
| Yes it's possible. Please see this image
|
| https://imgur.com/a/zgnmF0E
|
| > Also on trying to signup with my email I got a server error
|
| Yes the server error was due to SES not being able to send
| emails (fixed now) but the account was created.
|
| Thanks for the feedback
| SMAAART wrote:
| I have been looking for something like this.
|
| I will play with it over the weekend and I will ping you my
| feedback.
| kaesve wrote:
| I make small web games, usually by twisting up one or two
| existing games. Like wordle, but also snake? Why not play both at
| the same time! Remember that pipe game? What if it was also
| tetris?
|
| A lot of these projects make for terrible games, but really fun
| side projects. I've been putting up the more playable ones on
| https://neonarcade.games
| captn3m0 wrote:
| endoflife.date: https://endoflife.date
|
| Created it because I was frustrated having to lookup information
| on multiple sites, and having to dig deep and read through
| terribly written support policies. No Ads, no tracking, all
| hosted cheaply on Netlify OSS Plan.
|
| Now at 100+ contributors, with 3-5 maintainers on the project. We
| have a long roadmap for the next year[0]. A contributor wrote a
| EOL Scanner that is based on a fork of grype[1].
|
| [0]: https://github.com/endoflife-date/endoflife.date/issues/2108
|
| [1]: https://github.com/noqcks/xeol
| moepstar wrote:
| Thanks for that! That looks extremely useful...
| yoble wrote:
| Keep Close Friends: https://keepclosefriends.com
|
| One day I noticed I was slowly losing touch with old friends - I
| moved, we all have busy lives and don't hang out just by chance
| any more. Those people used to be loved ones and now I wasn't
| sure. It felt like grief.
|
| So I built a simple website where I can list relationships and
| ideal meeting frequency (say, 2-3 times a year), then get a few
| relationship stats and a reminder when it's time to reach out
| again.
|
| I see it as a reminder that my life is short, and I like that. No
| other users yet but it feels right to try to help share that
| perspective around, for those who might want it.
| hayespotter wrote:
| Who's Hosting SNL : https://whoshostingsnl.com
|
| Very simple solution cause I was angry I couldn't just google the
| question and get the answer without a few clicks and scrolling.
|
| Costs under $10 a month hosted with cloudfront and S3
| JKCalhoun wrote:
| Ha ha, none of my projects make any money.
|
| I did a couple free solitaire games to learn Javascript [1]
|
| Also a free moon-lander game to learn HTML5 [2]
|
| And I am currently working on two more projects destined to not
| make any money.
|
| [1] https://kardland.com
|
| [2] https://www.mooncraft2000.com
| shahahmed wrote:
| Campah: https://www.campah.com/
|
| A linktree clone, but I was annoyed it was so tiny on desktop, so
| I made one. No customers, but had a ton of scammers use it for
| free sites. So I locked it down to paid.
| intrasight wrote:
| Just wanted to chime in with this. Even at $2000/month, most of
| the time I'm like "why am I wasting my time on this?"
| aaronblohowiak wrote:
| there is a market for 2k/month apps/businesses. feel free to
| email me if you want to sell.
| KerryJones wrote:
| https://stockoptions.io/
|
| I'm a value investor and found that most options trading tools
| out there are focused on day/momentum traders and were missing
| the necessary skillset that value investors use when selecting
| options, so I made this.
|
| My friends and I use it daily, it's helped us considerably with
| our trades (and in that way has made us lots of money), but we
| haven't done the marketing necessary to get this tool to other
| value investors. We also might need to put some tutorials on how
| to use the tools. It'd be cool to get paid subscribers at some
| point so it could cover its own cost and some other tools we want
| to make.
|
| If anyone is interested in this type of tool, I'd be very
| interested in getting their feedback!
| ExxKA wrote:
| Really interesting. I have been looking at building something
| similar to just educate Apes.
|
| Also interested in building an audit trail (portfolio tracker)
| for financial analysts in mainstream media, to keep it more
| honest. Think trustpilot for analysts but with a portfolio
| tracker curated by volunteers when they recommend trades
| KerryJones wrote:
| I love the idea of tracking people's predictions or buy/sell
| calls because I believe 99%+ are doing poorly and getting
| people hyped up just to lose money, it would be great to be
| able to show them their own record (I think many don't even
| track their own record).
| su wrote:
| https://wizar.co/
|
| Convert your existing e-commerce store into an Augmented Reality
| ready store.
|
| Been working on this for 2 years and just about to launch a new
| integration with WooCommerce.
| theptrk wrote:
| Todidlist: https://todidlist.com
|
| I built a web version of my original plaintext did.txt file.
| Plaintext is great for computers but I wanted a way to do a "did"
| ritual on iOS devices.
|
| There is 1 user, me. I feel like all the benefits comes from
| using it like a journal so I never actually read the dids or
| built any features to query them well.
|
| Original did file post:
| https://thepatricktran.com/2018/07/11/did-txt-file/ ** I lost the
| theptrk.com domain because I forgot to update my credit card.
| clepto wrote:
| I work on a Python game engine called Arcade[1] and other
| projects within it's Github organization such as pytiled-parser.
| We also help to drive continued development and improvement
| within Pyglet[2]. Recently, my efforts have been focused on
| creating a version which can be run in web browsers by using
| Pyodide and WebGL[3], though that is still fairly early stages.
|
| Arcade's primary focus is on being an educational tool for
| beginner programmers, so my hope is that with browser
| compatibility we can lower the barrier to entry further and make
| it more accessible and easy to get started with. In a similar
| vein to the goals of browser compatibility, we've recently
| enabled full compatibility with Raspberry Pi through the use of
| OpenGL ES(and this was largely only possible thanks to the huge
| amount of work that everyone involved in the Mesa project puts
| in)
|
| I'm not the original author of Arcade, but I am a current
| maintainer and put a substantial amount of time into it and it's
| community.
|
| [1] - https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade [2] -
| https://github.com/pyglet/pyglet [3] -
| https://github.com/pythonarcade/arcade-web
| palmbeachjeff23 wrote:
| Golden Squirrel: goldensquirrel.io
|
| Premise: Get all the upfront information you need to know as a
| software engineer before applying to a job. Accompanying podcast
| called "Chasing Squirrels".
|
| Price: $0 (implementing stripe next to charge employers for job
| posts)
|
| Cost to me: $500/mo in SaaS fees + podcast related fees
|
| Why do it? I became frustrated with how hard it is to find
| information about the engineer you'll actually be working for at
| the job, which is one of the biggest if not the biggest factor in
| looking at new roles. I wanted to de-risk the hiring process for
| devs by providing as much info upfront about the compensation,
| role, what they'd be working on, etc so I started with the
| podcast and just build the job board recently.
| nosecreek wrote:
| I built a tool for predicting the outcome of matchups in Yahoo
| Fantasy Hockey (head-to-head category based leagues). I find it
| helpful for determining what categories to focus on when picking
| up streamers/free agents. https://fantasyhockey.fly.dev/
|
| Also, I've seen a few budgeting apps on here. I didn't build
| Budget with Buckets[1], but I do think it's a great YNAB
| alternative _except_ that there is no mobile app. So I built a
| web app that can be used on mobile.
| https://buckets.goatcounter.com/
|
| [1]https://www.budgetwithbuckets.com/
| mliezun wrote:
| Cloud Outdated: https://cloud-outdated.com
|
| Small project made with a friend. Spending a couple bucks each
| month to keep it up.
|
| Premise: PERSONALIZED DIGEST OF UPDATES FOR CLOUD SERVICES
|
| Get notified when an updated version of a cloud service you use
| is available by gently nudging you to plan an update!
| rcgs wrote:
| Early Bird Edit: https://earlybirdedit.com/
|
| I hate scrolling through twitter, so I built a service to email
| me the best tweets in my feed. It's self signup and there's a
| discount code in the signup process if you'd like to be an Alpha
| user/avoid the fee.
|
| A handful of friends are using it and for the most part it's
| doing what I wanted it to do.
|
| Not sure what the future holds given the recently cancelled 3rd
| party apps debacle.
|
| P.S. I adventured into writing this on the Firebase stack
| (Firestore and Cloud Functions). Probably wouldn't again - the
| cold starts are simply too slow and the mitigations they suggest
| haven't been effective.
| atdixon wrote:
| https://www.chronos-desk.com/
|
| Personal tasks with estimates and focused on "local
| first"/desktop usage.
| Towaway69 wrote:
| Spread the love: https://spread-the.love
|
| Something I put together partly as societal comment and partly to
| make people a little happier. Turns out making others happier
| makes me happier.
|
| And no, it's definitely not designed to turn a profit.
| senko wrote:
| Bootstrapping a project generator tool for Django and Node:
| https://apibakery.com
|
| I expect (well, hope for) it to be making some money at some
| point in the future but don't worry since it's a side project and
| something I'm passionate about building even if it's just for
| fun.
| courgette wrote:
| I have an existing Django side project. Very simple app, but
| cool data. The usage is mostly querying the data in the Django
| admin and generating some reports.
|
| Very little custom code. Do you think I could realistically
| migrate and get something out of apibakery?
| senko wrote:
| If you already have a Django project up and running, you
| wouldn't gain much by migrating, as most of the value (for
| the moment) is in the initial setup, ready boilerplate and
| sane defaults.
|
| You could give it a spin tho (signup is free, and you can
| even create a demo project without signing up), any feedback
| is welcome!
| toyg wrote:
| This is actually pretty awesome. Unless you attach a cloud
| deployment setup (with all the complexity it entails in terms
| of monitoring etc), I don't see a serious monetization pattern
| for it (even the most hardcore cookiecutter agency probably
| wouldn't use this more than once or twice a week), but please
| publish the source if you ever take it offline.
| senko wrote:
| Thanks!
|
| I have some ideas for cloud deployment / testing, without
| making apibakery into a cloud hosting service (which is a
| different level of commitment I don't want to do on a side
| project).
|
| I do know even one-time template projects that charge one-
| time fee of $200-$500 per template, so the market is there,
| just need to figure out the best pricing strategy.
| itskarma22 wrote:
| that's pretty cool. Have you considered CLI version ?
| senko wrote:
| I did not, that's an interesting idea, thanks!
| phw wrote:
| I've been working on a book for new Ph.D. students:
| https://research-power-tools.com
|
| It's 95% done. Most of the (unedited) content is available for
| open review: https://nymity.ch/book/
| vinc wrote:
| https://pi.ctu.re
|
| Nice domain hack for a photography hosting app. Only one user
| over the last decade. It made absolutely no money but it doesn't
| cost me much to host it so it's not an issue at all.
|
| It's open source in case anyone would want to run it and I'm in
| the process of updating the app.
|
| My only regret is giving up on implementing Activity Pub years
| ago. It could have been interesting for the app to take part of
| the fediverse.
| sam- wrote:
| https://typeracelive.com/
|
| I wasn't satisfied with other type racing sites because they were
| not real time enough for me. I wanted to be able to see exactly
| where the other racers' cursors were and where they made errors.
|
| I don't expect to make money any off of this, but it was fun to
| build and I find it fun to play with my friends every once in a
| while.
|
| The stack is React and ChartJS in the FE (that's it), and Rust
| with Warp in the BE.
| Gadiguibou wrote:
| The website looks amazing! It's one of the nicest type racing
| website I've seen. :)
| schappim wrote:
| Introducing macOCR - a command line tool that revolutionizes how
| you capture text on your screen!
|
| With just one command, you can instantly convert any text on your
| screen into text on your clipboard, making it easy to use in any
| app or program. Plus, with support for popular launcher apps like
| Alfred, LaunchBar, and Hammerspoon, it's never been easier to
| access the power of macOCR.
|
| And if you're feeling really advanced, you can even use it to
| feed data into an OpenAI large language model for advanced text
| processing.
|
| Upgrade your text capture game with macOCR today!
|
| Price: $0
|
| MRR: $0
|
| Copy reworked by: GPT
|
| Prompt: "Rewrite for hacker news:"
|
| URL: https://github.com/schappim/macOCR
| whoomp12342 wrote:
| the anti captcha!
| eaplant wrote:
| https://docsite.io
|
| A dead simple tool to turn Google Docs (and Google Dive folders
| with many Docs inside) into published websites. It looks good on
| mobile, is super fast, and it uses the exact same formatting that
| appears in the original doc.
|
| It was inspired by an HN post, but I can't seem to find it.
|
| I'd love to get some feedback!
| Namari wrote:
| Looks like a good idea! It would be nice to have a video
| showing the whole process.
| Gazoo101 wrote:
| PlanMixPlay: http://www.planmixplay.com/
|
| About 7 years in building a touch-oriented performance interface
| intended to focus on both audio and video output.
| phil_kahrl wrote:
| https://weblum.photos/
|
| Sells a photo sharing app. People don't like to enter their
| credit card to buy, but at least the pay wall keeps the bots
| away.
| IanDrake wrote:
| [dead]
| DamnInteresting wrote:
| My latest side project is still in figure-out-how-to-get-users
| mode:
|
| https://feelers.online/
|
| The idea is to give content creators (authors, YouTubers,
| webcomics, bands, etc.) a way to inform their fans when new
| content drops. It also gives the fans a lot of control over how
| the notifications arrive.
|
| I made this to address a problem I experience myself. I operate a
| website that publishes on an irregular schedule, and it can be
| hard to let readers/listeners know when we have something new.
| aantix wrote:
| I've created Call Stacking, a modern debugger and code
| visualization tool for Ruby on Rails.
|
| https://callstacking.com
| masukomi wrote:
| this looks really useful. Especially when you're looking at new
| to you code. thanks. :D
| aantix wrote:
| It's perfect for onboarding new engineers.
|
| You go from dumping 100,000's of lines of code in their lap,
| to
|
| "Here's our endpoints, here are the important method calls,
| and the context for which they're called."
|
| If you'll be a tester, I'll give you a free team account.
|
| jim.jones1@gmail.com
| holistio wrote:
| We've been working hard on rethinking what's wrong with most job
| boards.
|
| We are focusing our approach around the #1 point of our
| manifesto: "a working relationship is just as much an opportunity
| for the employer as it is for the job seeker"
|
| Currently we are in a closed beta, reviewing profiles and making
| them public soon.
|
| Check it out: https://moonka.space
|
| If anyone is interested in a (free) developer profile or a (free)
| company profile with a VIP treatment as an early user, hit me up!
| stigma wrote:
| Automated Python utility to collect Zaptec EV charger usage and
| invoice details. Calculates a price per kWh and sends an invoice
| to the registered charger user using a third-party invoice
| solution.
|
| Zaptec has a decent API. Invoice retrieval (electricity) and
| invoice distribution is done by faking browser sessions with
| Python.
|
| I live within a housing association (townhouses) where the
| garages are separate from the houses. All chargers are on the
| same fuse box.
|
| Commercial solutions providing the same service are typically
| $5/month for each user plus a 0.01USD fee for each kWh. I figured
| I could save myself and my neighbors some money.
|
| Currently hosted on GitHub, but private repo as I am not too
| proud of my 3 evening rushed code.
| tlh wrote:
| Write and share recipes with people -
| https://www.osomatsu.recipes
| rkp8000 wrote:
| I haven't touched it in years, but during grad school I created a
| fully operational browser-based app for integrated note-taking
| and reference management for academic projects, based on locally
| stored markdown files, and designed to minimize attentional
| breaks: https://github.com/rkp8000/hypothesize .
|
| I ended up using it for the remainder of my PhD; however, it was
| unfortunately a bit too easy to accidentally delete an entire
| note document, and I never got around to fixing it (although at
| least one other person ended up using it as the primary tool for
| their grad studies also :) ).
|
| It definitely earned me no more than $0/month.
| marginalia_nu wrote:
| At this rate, assuming my work costs nothing and no hardware ever
| breaks and no prices ever go up, I'll break even with Marginalia
| Search in Q2 2031. So there's that.
|
| But it's not really a get-rich scheme.
| pjmq wrote:
| Radiant: https://getradiant.app/
|
| Premise: Takes your Spotify and turns it into a personalised FM-
| style radio station, complete with a snarky, AI-powered radio
| presenter called Rad.
|
| Rad'll quip, read you the news and weather on the hour, announce
| what you've just heard and what's coming next, gives you
| biographical info for bands you might not be too familiar with
| but most importantly; Rad helps you discover new music while
| playing all the songs you know and love, in a smart, contextual
| way.
|
| Availability: iOS, Android.
|
| Price: $0
|
| Cost to me: like 40-50 bucks a month.
|
| Why do it? I use it daily and so do many others. Great for house
| parties, offices, long car journeys or just your daily pilgrimage
| to the supermarket.
| alecco wrote:
| It would be nice if you could make the DJ a bit more like the
| ones in GTA radios, in particular Vice City. I would pay for
| that!
| pjmq wrote:
| This is literally my dream for the service. A personal GTA
| radio station. I'm entirely all ears if you have any
| suggestions on how to pull that off!
| alecco wrote:
| ChatGPT
|
| > Write a Grand Theft Auto Vice City in-game radio
| advertisement.
|
| > "Attention all Vice City residents! Are you looking for a
| new ride to cruise the streets in style? Look no further
| than auto dealership, "Tommy's Auto Sales"! We've got a
| wide selection of sleek sports cars, rugged off-road
| vehicles, and everything in between. Plus, with our no
| questions asked policy, you won't have to worry about where
| you got the money to pay for it. And for a limited time
| only, take advantage of our special offer: steal any car on
| the lot and bring it to us, we'll give you a substantial
| discount. So what are you waiting for? Head on down to
| Tommy's Auto Sales and step up your ride today!"
| pjmq wrote:
| Ahh so fake ads! That'd be neat actually! Going to work
| on that over the weekend :) TY
| RajT88 wrote:
| > Why do it?
|
| Doing stuff like this is how you get experience in areas where
| your day job may not provide you the opportunity.
|
| After all - employers don't care _how_ you got the skills, that
| you _have_ the skills.
| pjmq wrote:
| Also having something I'm passionate about gives me a lot of
| purpose. I've obviously up-skilled tremendously building (and
| then rebuilding it for cross-platform) but above all else,
| it's a lot of fun to build and it's something I personally
| wanted to see in the world and enjoy using!
| spzb wrote:
| I had this idea myself but never bothered to make anything of
| it. Thanks for saving me the effort!
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Unsolicited feedback: If this were also offered as a web-based
| application I'd probably use it (sitting at my desk all day I
| don't want to use my mobile device for music). Maybe sell
| rotating ads or sponsorships (on screen but not in the audio
| stream, please!) to make some $.
|
| Very cool.
| pjmq wrote:
| That's exactly what is coming next for it! A fully-fledged
| web app. It's actually built using web tech so it's an easy
| port. Just need to rebuild some of the native bits for web
| (ohh I might get to use wasm!) but once that's done it should
| be good to go. Planning on pushing out in the next 2 weeks.
|
| And yeah while I don't need to run ads on it at the moment,
| if the right sponsor wanted to work with me I'd be
| exceptionally happy to do so.
| andrewmunsell wrote:
| I'm curious about the stack-- is the app React Native with
| some actual native modules, then? Or is it based on
| something like Ionic?
| pjmq wrote:
| It was a native iOS app originally but now it's pure web
| (straight Svelte SPA, no UI framework) with native
| plugins.
|
| I did it because I don't have the time to maintain for 3
| platforms in parallel without one falling behind and I'm
| not a fan of React native personally. I spent a good
| chunk of time testing with much older hardware as a
| target to make sure performance wouldn't be a noticeable
| distraction for users and I'm happy with how it turned
| out :)
| ckosidows wrote:
| Doesn't Spotify have terms around not making money on any
| apps that use their API? From
| https://developer.spotify.com/policy/#iv-streaming-and-
| comme...
|
| > Except for the limited commercial uses for Non-Streaming
| SDAs (set out below) commercial uses are not permitted for
| SDAs.
|
| Their guidelines are super strict about using any music or
| artwork in specific ways. For instance, I'm pretty certain
| you need to display a Spotify logo any time you play music
| from Spotify, which I don't see on the player. And the
| player has rounded corners on the artwork.
|
| Some excerpts from https://developer.spotify.com/documentat
| ion/general/design-a...
|
| > To comply with our licensing agreements, you must always
| attribute content from Spotify with the logo.
|
| > Artwork must be kept in its original form. Don't animate
| or distort it in any way. This includes applying overlays
| and blurring.
|
| I'm not a lawyer so I'm sorry if I'm reading these
| incorrectly. I tried making an app using the Spotify API at
| one point and had it running but it got shot down a couple
| times for not displaying the Spotify icon. Good on you if
| your app is all set. I was always worried I was going to
| face the Spotify legal team with mine and gave up on it.
|
| I only mention these because I do love the radio! Great mix
| of genres so far!
| pjmq wrote:
| Radiant launched with a paid subscription model (like a
| dollar a month) Spotify shut it down, took away our API
| creds and left us in the lurch. Had to set it up again,
| with the subscription removed. That hurt because we had a
| good number of paying customers at that point.
|
| But we moved to be compliant with their guidelines after
| that and I carried it on as a labour of love.
|
| Now I'm actively looking at moving away from Spotify and
| on to my own data set and APIs that can match what
| Spotify has. I've built something like it before using
| the Cover Art Archive for the artwork,
| Acoustic/MusicBrainz for the metadata and custom logic
| built atop so I know it's possible.
|
| Once I've done that I can start looking for sponsors.
|
| There is always the possibility that if the userbase
| really scales up, Spotify would grant me a commercial
| license and allow me to commoditise the platform but I
| don't need that to happen really.
| freedomben wrote:
| Same, won't use a mobile app but would happily use a web
| app.
|
| Any plans for Youtube Music support? I rarely use spotify
| anymore. Not your problem obviously, just wondering if you
| have plans to expand.
| pjmq wrote:
| I've got plans to build my own "open music API" that'll
| make whatever service you use just an adaptor that Rad
| can tap into. At the moment Radiant is very embedded in
| Spotify's API ecosystem due to a few key features none of
| the other services has.
|
| Longer term thing sadly as this is very much my side deal
| but it'll get there.
|
| Probably make that new API and dataset OSS as I want
| other devs to build cool stuff without being at the mercy
| of the streaming services.
| dareiff wrote:
| Very much hoping for some alternative services
| functionality -- would love this in my shop. Cheers for
| an incredible idea!
| pjmq wrote:
| If you want something like this for a shop or store etc,
| ping me via rad@getradiant.app, we might be able to build
| something cool to fit that need (I've been toying with
| this idea for a while so it'd be nice to have a first
| user for it)
| hdjjhhvvhga wrote:
| > If this were also offered as a web-based application I'd
| probably use it
|
| #metoo
| yamtaddle wrote:
| Hell, ads would even make it feel more like real radio. Bonus
| points if the "host" "reads" them.
| thatguymike wrote:
| Me three!
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| This is... awesome! Great concept!
| pjmq wrote:
| If anyone is interested in learning more, suggesting stuff or
| getting support etc I've set up a discord that I've done a
| frankly appalling job of promoting ->
| https://discord.gg/4YgkhAgfJ5
| hyperific wrote:
| This sounds absolutely incredible. Definitely checking this
| out.
| msackmann wrote:
| I love the idea!
| goblinux wrote:
| Just downloaded. I loved JackFM back when I listened to
| terrestrial radio in the car - it was a station with a snarky
| robot dj and it was great. Thanks for making this!
| pjmq wrote:
| Is there like a link to a JackFM broadcast on Youtube or
| something? I'm super curious to learn what their formatting
| was like and maybe use it as a case study!
| kingbirdy wrote:
| I've been listening for about 30 minutes and it's pretty neat,
| I've already found some new music I like. However, the weather
| forecast told me it was 275deg F.
| pjmq wrote:
| Damn it! Thought I'd fixed this. Back to that micro service I
| go :(
|
| Thanks for using and for the bug report!
| pncnmnp wrote:
| I love this! I did something similar recently with Phoenix10.1
| (https://github.com/pncnmnp/phoenix10.1).
| jedberg wrote:
| Cool! Just signed up. I was a little turned off by how much
| access you need to Spotify. Is that just because they don't
| have granular enough permissions?
| pjmq wrote:
| I know it's a bit of a laundry list. Everything there is
| required to use the Spotify API the way I needed to. Playlist
| read/write so it can add songs you like to the 'Liked on
| Radiant on Spotify', Profile to set your locale when making
| requests and for setting your profile picture if you have one
| etc etc.
|
| I'll look at paring it back in future if I can!
| jedberg wrote:
| It makes sense what you ask for based on what the app does!
| I was just wondering if it was an issue with scoping and
| them not providing enough granularity.
| mindcrime wrote:
| FWIW, I think you meant to say "paring it back" and not
| "pairing it back".
|
| https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/pare
| Siecje wrote:
| What does it request? That part was in french for me.
| jedberg wrote:
| Basically write access to playlists and change access. I
| totally get why, I was just wondering if their scopes were
| limited.
| pjmq wrote:
| Weird its in french. Thats all controlled by Spotify which
| suggests your Spotify is set to french. Might be worth
| checking to see if your Spotify is being accessed anywhere
| else...
| pacifika wrote:
| Very cool. An alarm function would be nice. Waking up with Rad!
| My family is blown away by the idea.
| pjmq wrote:
| Interesting! I've never actually thought about that! Very
| clever!
|
| If it was launched from the alarm it could start the show
| with "Gooood morning, looks like it's going to be <insert
| weather> and <insert some info about traffic on your usual
| route>, now let's get to the reason we're both here; great
| tunes." or something.
| sbarre wrote:
| I'd buy that for a dollar!
| [deleted]
| blairbeckwith wrote:
| Well, that was an easy sell.
| ravivooda wrote:
| Is it possible to onboard service onto Apple Music?
| pjmq wrote:
| Not today but we're planning some radical changes to the
| music data we rely upon which should open it up to Apple
| Music, Deezer and beyond!
| perryizgr8 wrote:
| I love the idea, and I instantly downloaded the app. After a
| peppy welcome message from the robot, it doesn't actually play
| any songs. Just crashes constantly :(
|
| I can send you any debug info if you like. But no pressure,
| it's free as far as I can see and I don't want you to worry
| just because it doesn't work for me.
|
| Great idea anyhow!
| pjmq wrote:
| Yep. That's not good... thanks for the offer, if you could
| shoot over an email to rad@getradiant.app and I'll get
| whatever broken fixed this weekend and released by Monday.
| chrisandchris wrote:
| Downloaded, will test it, looks very promising. Absolutelty
| willing to donate. Do you take donations?
| pjmq wrote:
| The bottom of the settings screen has a 'buy me a coffee'
| link but I'm equally happy if you're using it and enjoying
| it!
|
| Or if you have feature requests please send them my way!
| Those are worth an awful lot :)
| tomjakubowski wrote:
| Looks like those clowns in Congress did it again! What a bunch
| of clowns.
| pjmq wrote:
| Rad literally says this
| vacooom wrote:
| Trying it now and it seems really nice! I wish you had a
| desktop/web version, and it would be my daily background radio
| while I work all day. Spotify's Discover Weekly playlists are
| nice enough, but they barely carry me through the first 1-2
| days, and then it gets pretty repetitive.
|
| It would also work really well as an Alexa skill, especially
| with Rad's commentary.
|
| What did you write the apps in?
| pjmq wrote:
| Yep, the idea is that the stream of music it plays is both
| time appropriate and always relatively fresh. You can tune
| its selection algo too with the thumbs up or down (long
| pressing on either for more fine controls).
|
| Web is due out in the next 2 weeks. Alexa skill has been on
| the roadmap forever as I've always seen smart speakers as
| like _the_ place it makes the most sense.
|
| The apps are Svelte based with capacitor (planning on
| switching to Tauri when that gets proper mobile support) and
| some custom plugins for the native stuff. It was a native iOS
| app but got a full rewrite to support Android and iOS with
| the web planned as a fast follow.
| vacooom wrote:
| Very cool! Joined your Discord server. Even if you don't
| want to monetize it right now, you should set up a Patreon
| or something like that, and at least let people chip in on
| your server costs.
|
| It would be a very cool community-supported smart radio
| service :)
| pjmq wrote:
| The app has a built-in link to 'Buy me a coffee' (which
| actually does cover my coffee expenses along with some of
| the hosting costs!)
|
| I'm quite keen to get a bigger community of people
| contributing ideas and maybe give me the push to move
| away from Spotify.
|
| Eventually, swathes of the service could go open source
| too if the community wanted it.
|
| Thanks for joining the discord!
| BucketsMcG wrote:
| This is super cool, but the first thing I wanted to do was cast
| it to the Chromecast plugged into my hi-fi. It seems casting
| isn't available yet - do you have plans to add it? It would
| make this a total winner for just playing music in the
| background.
| pjmq wrote:
| Chromecast support is a gigantic pain to implement! But I
| 100% agree it'd be excellent to have it!
|
| Maybe it's gotten easier since I last checked in on it
| thom wrote:
| Very cool, I've daydreamed about building something similar but
| always convinced myself I'd have to wait until text-to-speech
| was better to really incorporate all the sources I'd like.
| Awesome work!
| pjmq wrote:
| The major advancements in text-to-speech we've since in the
| last year have me planning on revamping Rad's voice (maybe
| basing it on Tom Sellek...who knows) but the fact we've come
| this far has really opened a world of opportunities for
| audio-first experiences.
| mguin wrote:
| You could use unreal speech for this. Not a plug but i
| found it really cheap to make realistic tts using an api
| using it.
|
| https://unrealspeech.com/
| airstrike wrote:
| This is fantastic
| dsabanin wrote:
| I think this is a really cool idea and you should keep working
| on this. You're onto something. Incorporate more day to day?
| Include podcasts that I subscribe to as programs? So much
| potential.
| pjmq wrote:
| Short-form podcasts are being looked at as sort of a
| syndicated content. Like there'd be a list of interesting
| shows like 'The Daily', 'Business Wars Daily' etc that you
| could subscribe to and have injected into the stream when
| appropriate!
|
| Obviously, I'd expand this with more full-fledged shows if
| people liked the format. You could even configure it with "I
| listen to my podcasts in the morning / after noon / when I'm
| driving" etc in settings and Rad would factor that in when
| choosing when to play em.
| achempion wrote:
| https://fluent.im
|
| Learn a new language by creating a mind palace. It used to be a
| flashcard app with dictionary and English only, but now it's for
| more languages and has different learning approach.
|
| I'm working on it for 4+ years, trying to build a good product
| people use before placing a price tag.
|
| https://nofuss.io
|
| Blogging platform I built as New Year hacking project, it doesn't
| have registration and all interaction happens through the email.
| You can email markdown and get it converted to the website.
|
| I built it to address my own wish for such tool but failed to
| find any potential customers. I plan to use it though, to host
| blogs for all my other projects.
| masukomi wrote:
| re nofuss In case you're not aware, Posterous used to do
| blogging via email for ~3yrs befoer they pivoted to something
| else tangentally related (i forget what), and then they went
| out of business.
|
| It's a great idea, and there may be enough business to support
| a single person. It was enough to keep them going for 3 yrs
| before the pivot.
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posterous
|
| in tangentially related news which might be of interest to you
| and others reading this: Years ago I wrote a tool to allow
| folks to blog via email to a Jekyll Powered blog.
|
| https://github.com/masukomi/JekyllMail
| achempion wrote:
| Thanks for sharing, I've found out they started
| https://posthaven.com/, what basically is more polished
| version of nofuss.
|
| What I find interesting, they sell blogging platform but
| don't have a blog themselves. I wonder how many blogs they're
| hosting and how do they acquire new customers.
| dinedal wrote:
| https://tvdatanow.co/
|
| We're an Ad Tech startup - cross device attribution measurement
| aimed at CTV specifically... and we have very few clients, just
| enough to pay the server bills and expenses but not enough to
| actually pay ourselves. Been like this for 3 years now.
|
| It's hard, because the job is fairly demanding and it takes
| effort to keep this kind of big data apparatus going, but at the
| same time it's never quite dead and almost just barely always on
| the cusp of getting big enough to support ourselves with it.
|
| We tried (and failed) to raise last year, so still entirely
| bootstrapped. With funding down right now another attempt at a
| raise doesn't seem like it's in the cards.
| corywatilo wrote:
| Here's something I'm just starting on:
|
| Find your dream RV. http://rvenvy.com
|
| With more people than ever working remotely, many are interested
| in ending their lease and exploring America - even moreso now
| that Starlink is widely available.
|
| At this point, it's a directory site, but I aim for this to be
| the Wikipedia of RVs.
|
| But if you don't know RVs, it can be daunting to figure out what
| you need. That's why I also created a Bubble app (as a prototype)
| that offers a wizard to help you find exactly what you want. It
| asks a series of questions in a TurboTax-style wizard:
|
| https://concierge.rvenvy.com
|
| Right now results are shared manually, but eventually this will
| be automated.
| chown wrote:
| Feedmas: https://feedmas.com
|
| Collecting feedback and customer support tool. For one of our
| products, we got tired of using a customer support tool that did
| too many things, we wanted something simpler but without
| compromising the core of the intent - supporting customers and
| helping with their issues. So, we made one of our own and have
| been using successfully for over a year and decided to make it
| available for others. Got some signups but not paying customers
| yet.
| ronsbrain wrote:
| [dead]
| tagawa wrote:
| Privacy-First Jobs - a job board solely for privacy-focused
| companies and orgs: https://privacyfirstjobs.com/
|
| Direct feedback from users is consistently positive but I'm
| starting to think a job board based around values is not the
| great idea I thought it was. Nevertheless it's still something I
| think should exist (and I might need it myself one day), so as
| long as the cost to keep it running is low, I'll keep it running.
| scoofy wrote:
| https://golfcourse.wiki
|
| It's a wiki for golf courses. I am a bit embarrassed to love
| golf, but want to create a platform for smaller courses to be
| seen along side their private fancy counterparts. I currently
| lose a dozen or so dollars per month to run it, but that will
| increase as the site grows. I'm not entirely sure how I'll run it
| if it ever really takes off. I've considered trying for c3
| status, because I don't _really_ need the money, but I 'm not
| sure whether or not that would be the limitations imposed by that
| would be.
|
| The one thing I want do want to say is that I want courses that
| are open to the public to be able to use the materials created on
| the wiki at their location. An entry can be as simple as a blurb
| with a link to the course website, or as complex as a detailed
| mapping of the entire course and greens (the different color
| flags on the homepage indicate different levels of detail).
|
| So, if someone maps a public course, that course can use that
| person's work on their scorecards instead of hiring and outside
| graphic designer. It effectively allows public courses to get
| detailed course guides for free and sell them onsite to raise
| revenues, but also provides a free alternative for folks online.
| I want it to be a way that people can casually spend their time
| to reduce the costs of golf, especially for cash-strapped
| municipal courses. Golf is too expensive, and this site should be
| a way to reduce the costs and make the game more accessible in
| general.
| kilroy123 wrote:
| I don't make a dime off my art newsletter but I still keep it
| going:
|
| https://randomdailyart.com/
| johnmaguire wrote:
| Looks cool - just signed up!
|
| FYI - I'm not able to expand the FAQs to see their answers.
| nummerfuenf wrote:
| I tried to subscribe, but it said there was a problem :(
| kilroy123 wrote:
| Interesting.
|
| Would you mind emailing me your address? I've heard others
| say the same thing and I could never figure out what went
| wrong. (Email in profile)
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Strange, might be an edge case, I tried and it worked for me.
| jccalhoun wrote:
| I review bad, low budget, and obscure movies on youtube:
| https://www.youtube.com/@calhounsreviews still less than 300 subs
| but I keep making them because I enjoy it!
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Thanks for posting this, I like low-budget and obscure, so you
| just found yourself a new subscriber!
| gejose wrote:
| Built a password protected daily journal app to encourage myself
| to write everyday.
|
| Wanted something very minimal and trustworthy and where all my
| data lives on my device and not on a server somewhere. Also
| wanted to see stats on how often I write and how much.
|
| iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/a-journal-a-day/id1659288235
|
| Android:
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.georgejose...
| edwnj wrote:
| [dead]
| conqrr wrote:
| Selaro https://getselaro.com
|
| Personal/Workplace links and url Organizer and Search. Its a
| chrome extension. I haven't actively marketed this, but happy
| with how I can use this everyday personally and have got decent
| feedback from few friends and family
|
| Price: $0
| iSloth wrote:
| https://botwars.io/
|
| Battle your code against others, was a quick weekend bodge that
| turned out kinda fun
| jgarzon wrote:
| I've made yet another magnetometer, but this one its free and no
| ads. It helped me locate a strong magnet in a hole I had put 5 ft
| underground. I was then able to excavate to it and install my
| main water line without digging a huge hole. check it out at:
| https://www.smartbrosltd.com
| reilly3000 wrote:
| I didn't even know this was a thing that was possible, let
| alone yet another, and Free!?
|
| Thanks. I've been looking for something like this or some sort
| of sensor setup to do the same.
| NetToolKit wrote:
| Sounds like an interesting story that I'm curious about... how
| did putting a strong magnet in the ground help you install your
| main water line?
| def- wrote:
| I'm working on an open source online coop 2d platform game called
| DDraceNetwork: https://ddnet.org/
|
| A lot of keeping infrastructure running, code reviews for the
| active developers we have, community management, some
| development: https://ddnet.org/news/ddnet-year-2021-in-review/
|
| The community is the main reason for me to keep it running. We
| only cover server costs, but no one takes any payment to work on
| DDNet.
| neiled wrote:
| https://jointgreetings.com
|
| (Currently totally free) online greeting cards that can be signed
| by many people digitally.
|
| Started it to learn sveltekit but fairly happy with how it turned
| out. Still more work to be done with optimisations etc but the
| framework is there.
|
| Currently losing $60/month as it's part of my mongo atlas
| subscription and I've not gotten around to putting it on a free
| version yet.
| readonthegoapp wrote:
| https://navbarlinks.com/
|
| i have a sort of a linktree, but the links are pushed out to my
| satellite sites via js snippet.
|
| i wanted a way to link all my $0 side projects to one another as
| easily as possible -- that is, add my new project to my
| 'universal navbar' and have it deployed everywhere instantly.
|
| so, when i spin up my new project, foobar.com, i'll go to
| navbarlinks.com, log in, add this link, save, and see it show up
| as a new header menu item on all my zero-dollar sites.
|
| an example of this dynamic navbar of links is at that site itself
| - at the top for now.
|
| i thought of adding new features, but wanted to see if anyone
| besides me found it useful. not so far that i know of.
| samteeeee wrote:
| https://accomplishments.app/
|
| Record your work based accomplishments
| hashamali wrote:
| https://paymewith.xyz/
|
| Made this to quickly share payment options across multiple apps
| such as Venmo, Cash, etc.
|
| No intention of monetizing, just a utility I wanted to exist.
| akshaykumar90 wrote:
| https://getsavory.co/
|
| I am making a minimal Pocket/Instapaper/Pinboard replacement. It
| supports tags as a first-class feature and no-feed as an anti-
| feature.
| NoBrainair wrote:
| https://www.stoxmap.com
|
| its just interesting to see how the globale economy is doing,
| although nobody seems interested :)
| ventisca wrote:
| Drive Declutter: https://drivedeclutter.com ,
|
| A snappy disk visualization tool for Windows 10/11 similar to
| DaisyDisk on MacOS. Developed in C++ from scratch without any
| frameworks, whole download is about 3 megabytes. A few hundred
| downloads and much fewer sales, it's currently a free download
| everywhere except for USA, where it costs a few bucks after a 24
| hour trial. Downloadable directly from the Microsoft Store:
| https://apps.microsoft.com/store/detail/drive-declutter/9P54...
|
| It's only making beer money but I enjoy maintaining it and adding
| features over time.
| phil_kahrl wrote:
| https://weblum.photos/
|
| Sells a photo sharing app in the form of individual SPAs hosted
| on S3. People don't like to enter their credit card to buy, but
| at least the pay wall keeps the bots away.
| [deleted]
| davely wrote:
| Since these things are all the rage, I've made something using
| Stable Diffusion (but with a twist):
|
| ArtBot: https://tinybots.net/artbot
|
| You can create images with numerous Stable Diffusion models using
| a distributed cluster of GPUs donated by volunteers -- it's
| called Stable Horde [1] -- an awesome open source API created by
| @dbzer0. The service was written up in PC World back in December
| (with generous mentions of ArtBot)[2]: "Meet Stable Horde, the
| crowd-powered Folding@Home of AI art".
|
| ArtBot is a front-end interface for interacting with the Horde.
| Unlike a lot of other services springing up around Stable
| Diffusion lately, mine doesn't require login information, all
| images are stored within your browser via IndexedDb and it's
| free!
|
| It's a NextJS app that currently costs me $5/mo via Digital
| Ocean. I recently received a single donation through the
| BuyMeACoffee website... coincidentally, on my birthday! Hah.
|
| Edit: I should note, in terms of tracking, I have some telemetry
| I built to log errors, tell me what pages people use, and a few
| events related to specific actions (basically, checking on if
| people even using a new feature I made). I do use Google
| Analytics to get some real time feedback on where people are on
| the site, but I've considered rolling my own solution to get away
| from that.
|
| Edit2: I should also mention that my spaghetti code is available
| on Github, if you're into that sort of thing.[3] I also keep a
| changelog, which I don't think you usually see with web apps, but
| I've been having a lot of fun with it.[4]
|
| Edit3!: I should also, also mention that LAION (Large-scale
| Artificial Intelligence Open Network) also wrote a blog post
| earlier this year on a partnership with Stable Horde for
| aesthetics training... and ArtBot was featured as well.[5]
|
| Bottom line: This is just a random side project I made, a ton of
| people seem to be using it (just crossed 3 MILLION images
| generated as of this week) and I am having _so_ much fun with it.
|
| [1] - https://stablehorde.net/
|
| [2] - https://www.pcworld.com/article/1431633/meet-stable-horde-
| th...
|
| [3] - https://github.com/daveschumaker/artbot-for-stable-
| diffusion
|
| [4] - https://tinybots.net/artbot/changelog
|
| [5] - https://laion.ai/blog/laion-stable-horde/
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| First, happy birthday.
|
| Second, this is pretty cool. I'll be checking it out more over
| the weekend, thanks for sharing it.
| igeligel_dev wrote:
| * Platform to organize internal hackathons:
| https://hackathon.camp * Tool to create glossaries within your
| corporations and have them everywhere in the browser with a
| tooltip: https://tooltipr.com
| georgi0u wrote:
| https://DeckOfCardio.com
|
| Deck of Cards Workout for iOS and Android. Pick a card, get the 3
| of Spades, do 3 pushups.
| interleave wrote:
| Great idea because the framing takes away a lot of the pressure I
| feel when talking about my side projects.
|
| Here are two open-source products I'm very proud of:
|
| * https://getstreamline.app A stream-of-consciousness writer for
| Obsidian
|
| * https://getpudding.app Have more fun with OSINT analysis for
| crypto token ecosystems
| pschanely wrote:
| Music Tonight: https://musictonightapp.com/
|
| Makes a Spotify playlist of artists playing near you, tonight.
|
| No revenue. I really just made it for me; make the playlist in
| the am, listen during the day, and maybe see something that
| night.
| actinium226 wrote:
| www.timeblocker.dev
|
| A webapp to manager your tasks and your time. No other todo app
| has a view that combines these things.
|
| I'm overhauling it now and hope to launch it in a few weeks.
| Currently it's making $0.
|
| If anyone is interested please let me know, I'm looking for a
| first 1-5 customers to use it for free and give me feedback.
| bunkerbewohner wrote:
| https://wordhazard.net/
|
| "Heads Up" but online and in multiple languages at the same time,
| e.g. even if an English word is up to be guessed, you can enter
| the equivalent word in Spanish or German, and you will get points
| for that, too. I created this because I like word games like that
| but my friend group is quite multilingual and most are not native
| English speakers.
| pncnmnp wrote:
| Looks really cool! Thanks for sharing.
|
| IBM Research has something similar called "Guess the
| Word!"(https://guessthewordgame.mybluemix.net/), where you can
| play with an AI agent. Their paper:
| https://www.katygero.com/papers/2020_MentalModelsofAIAgents....
| livinglist wrote:
| A hacker news client I made: https://github.com/Livinglist/Hacki
|
| Also a kanji learning app if anybody is interested:
| https://github.com/Livinglist/Manji
| eugene2010 wrote:
| I've been running my website + blog + newsletter + map [1] since
| 2018, and while I made about $900 in revenue in 2021, last year I
| generated $0.
|
| The website is a compendium of all the coffee shops I've visited
| in the metro Atlanta area over the last five years + dozens more
| in the travel section. The monetization angles I have tried
| include the Membership (reader-supported) model and the
| Sponsorship (company/brand) model (with a nod to Packy
| McCormick's Not Boring newsletter for the "Deep Dive" approach,
| which I am a big fan of). Coffee shops may also post paid ads to
| barista jobs on the "job board" section of the site.
|
| I wrote more about publishing content online, monetization
| strategies, and more in a recent blog post, for those curious
| [2].
|
| I recognize that this forum is more focused on products, but I
| think some would appreciate the effort in trying to scale a
| blog/website with incremental products/services available to a
| dedicated audience.
|
| [1] https://atlantacoffeeshops.com [2]
| https://www.atlantacoffeeshops.com/blog/a-brief-update-on-th...
| fronterablog wrote:
| This ask HN is great.
|
| I'm discovering quite interesting projects.
|
| Here's mine:
|
| I write a newsletter about mental models for entrepreneurs.
|
| Most content on the topic has too much jargon and is boring. So
| I'm trying to explain these useful ideas with business stories.
| And in an actionable way.
|
| After some iteration, started getting positive feedback and just
| crossed 4000 subscribers.
|
| It's free. But I'm planning to start monetizing it with sponsors
| soon.
|
| https://fronterablog.com/newsletter
| eckza wrote:
| https://gatesnaplabs.com
|
| Idea: Make software for the Olympic sport of bicycle motocross.
|
| Execution: Flawless. Built the app in Elm + Ionic Capacitor. It
| looks great and works perfectly. There's even a Web version at
| https://gearbag.bike
|
| Marketing: lol
|
| Result: I have spent five digits of money (paid my friends market
| wages for their help, particularly with UX and design) and made
| $6 from Google AdMob and have ~100 installs.
|
| Worth it. Doubling down on the next project this year.
| furyofantares wrote:
| a few wordle variants
|
| https://xordle.org (two puzzles on one board)
|
| https://fibble.xyz (lies to you once per row)
|
| https://warmle.org (clues based on alphabetical proximity)
|
| i don't have any intention of making any money from them. just my
| contribution to a fun and ad-free internet
|
| all 3 coded by me but the twist for fibble was from k & r
| garfield and the twist for warmle was from mike elliott
| spion wrote:
| Can we do projects that we know will stay at $0 but we still hope
| might gain traction?
|
| OSS: typed-graphql-builder https://typed-graphql-
| builder.spion.dev/ is a TypeScript based graphql query builder.
| No more writing untyped strings and running a watcher in the
| background - generate the builder from the server schema once
| then write any queries in TS with the help of the language server
|
| It was inspired by tql (https://tql.dev/) but generates a much
| smaller client and has full, automatic type inference for query
| variables used in input objects.
|
| (Side note: I feel bad about how similar it is to tql, but the
| code generation approach was so different (mainly inspired by
| graphql-zeus) that it felt like poor form to just send a PR
| changing everything.)
| IceDane wrote:
| This is very neat, and I've actually been planning on building
| something similar - just never got around to it. I wasn't aware
| of tql, though, so it's not unlikely I would have just used
| that instead.
|
| The only "downside" I can see is that all my projects are
| already set up to use graphql-codegen, and switching to this or
| tql would just not be worth the effort. This is because 1. it's
| really not that much of a hassle to run graphql-codegen on the
| side, since i'm already running other things on the side anyway
| 2. I'm also using graphql-codegen for other things, such as
| generating types for cache updates and such in urql.
|
| I might give this a spin in a fresh project, though. But it
| probably won't let me drop the codegen dependency completely.
| lnsp wrote:
| Valar: https://valar.dev
|
| It's kinda like a private SaaS platform. I just run it for me and
| a couple of friends right now and just hosting a ton of little
| fun side projects on it.
|
| e.g. https://tim-efa.valar.app which brings Munich's public
| transport schedule to your terminal (try it with curl, looks way
| better)
|
| It supports all kinds of things like bring-your-own-domain, e.g.
| I run my portfolio page https://espe.tech on top of it. It is
| partly open-source (actually only the CLI for now) but I plan to
| fully open-source it in the future after cleaning up the code a
| bit and improving testing and stuff :)
| alexpovel wrote:
| ancv: https://github.com/alexpovel/ancv/
|
| Idea: renders your resume as pretty terminal output. Others can
| view it in their own terminals: curl -L
| ancv.io/heyho
|
| Pipe to a pager for best viewing. Yes, it's just a nerdy gimmick
| with almost no real use!
|
| I provide a GCP-hosted server that works off GitHub gists (where
| your resume can live in JSONResume form). However, self-hosting
| is a first-class citizen and easy to use as well.
| Jarvy wrote:
| Home Intent: https://homeintent.io/
|
| It's a standalone application that integrates with Home Assistant
| and provides an OOTB voice assistant for your entities.
|
| I'm not actually sure how I would monetize it. I mostly saw all
| the pieces for it were open and had good APIs and built it mostly
| for myself. Eventually I realized others could use it and put it
| out there. I've never put in much effort to advertise it, but got
| a bit of a following.
|
| Luckily now with the Home Assistant "year of voice" a lot of the
| ideas are going to be integrated into Home Assistant directly and
| I'd like to think I helped influence it a bit.
| (https://community.rhasspy.org/t/2023-year-of-voice/4130)
|
| It's nice to have my ideas out there and let others (far more
| capable) continue on. Feels like the true nature of open source
| pxue wrote:
| Started a side project on helping short term renters find a place
| to stay mexico Riviera Maya that's not gringo priced.
|
| Airbnb and lots of foreigners here with lack of local knowledge
| are jacking up the price.
|
| Knowledge are generally shared in person or over WhatsApp/FB
| groups, not the most efficient.
| mike732 wrote:
| AI powered transcription and full text search web app:
| https://polyscriber.com
|
| Started late last year, it works, but has a limited feature set
| and a basic UI. The core/primary features are there and have some
| friends using it with free credits. Next planned feature will be
| an API to enable integrations like transcribing and searching
| recorded meetings.
| kris-s wrote:
| My mobile game https://smoldungeon.com doesn't make me any money.
| Was very fun to make though
| the__alchemist wrote:
| I wrote a scheduling and training application for fighter
| squadrons. Used in a number of active duty and ANG sqs. Not sure
| how to monetize it. Also have a target imagery generator for
| training that's widespread on one aircraft type.
| Taikonerd wrote:
| Ah yes, the famously cash-strapped military... ;-)
| toyg wrote:
| How are you not NDA'd to the wazoo...?
| ronaldsvilcins wrote:
| Free and opensource jamstack themes:
| https://ronaldsvilcins.com/themes/ Themes for static site
| generators Hugo & Jekyll I've designed and developed.
| riantogo wrote:
| https://discoflip.com aspires to put community owners in charge
| (especially with monetization).
| fullmetal_ wrote:
| I'm not sure if many rowers are also programmers, but I'm
| building a rowing app making $0 per month.
|
| iOS only for now: https://apps.apple.com/ie/app/oxun/id1624866789
|
| Works with any Bluetooth rowing machine (WaterRower etc),
| currently building support for Concept2 PM5 machines. It's one of
| the few apps that allows you to row indoors and outdoors.
|
| Cheers!
| 0xjmp wrote:
| GuardToro: https://guardtoro.com
|
| Started as plug-and-play security for web apps 5 years ago. The
| space got saturated so I decided to take on a new challenge and
| secure firmware. Securing "crypto" came about out of my network
| and demand, but then crypto took a dive again :)
|
| I feel super grateful to finally have others working on it with
| me, but we all work on it for free for now...
|
| I'm super excited about this space, specifically about securing
| ARM firmware. There is a ton of room to grow!
| mattgreenrocks wrote:
| AudioWrangler:
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/audiowrangler/id1565701763?mt=...
|
| Running verrrrry close to $0 net profit factoring in App Store
| membership costs.
|
| AudioWrangler is a native macOS (native as in not Electron) app
| that automatically switches to your favorite audio input/output
| devices automatically. When your computer wakes up in the morning
| there's a 30% chance it selects my internal speakers rather than
| DAC. Also has other nice features such as optionally muting your
| internal speaker when switching to it, which prevents your
| speakers from blasting out in a shared office if your BT headset
| dies.
| yscodes wrote:
| I'm building an End-to-End-Encryption app for Discord private
| chat, called discryptor.io [0]. It uses a Discord bot to deliver
| encrypted messages between users, rather than directly using the
| unprotected Discord chat.
|
| I created an MVP for Windows but unfortunately haven't had the
| time and resources to make a mobile app yet. I would love to hear
| not just feedback on the execution, but the idea itself.
|
| Also I'm not sure how monetizable the idea is but I'd like to
| give it a shot.
|
| [0] https://www.discryptor.io
| dom96 wrote:
| I'm actively working on two projects currently making $0 (and I
| don't necessarily mind):
|
| Mastodon Chirper - A browser extension which injects Mastodon
| posts into your Twitter timeline. Great way to transition to
| Mastodon without leaving Twitter. https://chirper.picheta.me/
|
| Mousetrack - A price tracker and deal finder for Walt Disney
| World holidays. I hope to make it the best source of data for how
| prices for these holidays change (especially during our current
| high-inflation times). https://mousetrack.co.uk
| richharms wrote:
| Echo Three: https://gitlab.echothree.com/echothree/echothree
|
| Headless commerce platform, focused on product information
| management (PIM), search, and other core requirements. GraphQL
| API around much of the platform, but also providing Jakarta EE
| APIs and a taglib for JSPs.
| Weidenwalker wrote:
| https://codeatlas.dev - codebase visualisation tool
|
| Takes your git repo and generates a beautiful visual
| representation of the code. Sort of an alternative navigation
| tool (in addition to IDEs) for large codebases. Can also run it
| as part of CI with our Github Action
| (https://github.com/codeatlasHQ/codebase-visualizer-action).
|
| We made this because grokking complex software projects is really
| difficult and we've found that a visual overview of what's in a
| codebase can be quite helpful to get started.
|
| E.g. checkout https://codeatlas.dev/gallery/kubernetes/kubernetes
| for the generated visualisation of the Kubernetes Github repo!
|
| Currently making -10$/year to pay for the domain :D We slowed
| down active development after our initial attempts at
| dissemination didn't really go anywhere (bragging about side
| projects on the internet, ugh), but I'm still really keen on
| getting some feedback on whether this is actually useful to
| anyone else!
|
| Note: The site works somewhat on mobile, but is much better on
| desktop!
|
| Also, funny there's a post like this again, just like
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34531989 yesterday.
| ssgodderidge wrote:
| Very cool! You could probably sell some kind of low-effort
| physical product, similar to: https://shop.lasertweets.co/. I
| bet there's some folks who would appreciate the coasters of
| their favorite repos.
|
| Or, even lower effort, sell nicely-formatted digital prints of
| the repositories, so folks could hang them in their office.
| tryauuum wrote:
| Looks like this would be great for analyzing Yandex leak
| efortis wrote:
| https://uidrafter.com
|
| It's a free: https://free.uidrafter.com
| telman17 wrote:
| Second Star
|
| https://secondstargame.com/
|
| Sci-fi game without combat, inspired by games like Myst and
| Firewatch. Been working on it with friends the last 4 years. I
| direct the project and compose the music. It costs me around 1000
| a year. Before I got into web development I worked in games.
| Definitely a passion project but eventually we hope to flip the
| switch on the Steam page. There's a free demo available but we've
| overhauled much of the gameplay since releasing it.
| thelandofrandom wrote:
| [dead]
| modoc wrote:
| https://thechillypony.com
|
| Allows you to configure a zip code and alert temp, and you'll get
| an email if the forecast temp falls below that alert temp, so you
| can know when you need to blanket your horses. Built it to
| scratch my own need. Makes $0 :)
| Ndymium wrote:
| I don't live in the US and don't have a horse, but I love this
| site. Such a simple site and a focused idea, it's refreshing.
| sum1ren wrote:
| https://fetcher.page
|
| Haven't got enough traction for me to want to implement payments
| ktilcu wrote:
| tello.tv was started by Josh Comeau but I took it over and add to
| it frequently. I have some ideas that can make this better with
| more users (inherently data) but right now it's free.
| magneticmonkey wrote:
| My friend and I have been working on a replacement for Facebook
| events in our social circle. We found that a lot of people are
| not using FB events anymore and were having a hard time planning
| social events. Not making any money (yet) but we hope to someday!
| We designed our app to make it easy to share invites on any
| social platform/chat group without being tied down.
|
| https://dateit.io
| asdev wrote:
| how did you launch this? to your existing social circle/friends
| or did you do any marketing?
| magneticmonkey wrote:
| We started with our friends and family. We have been running
| ads on the App and Play store. Nothing too crazy. We are
| starting to look into more local advertising to drum up
| interest!
| courgette wrote:
| Look nice. Can someone with a dumb phone and internet on a
| computer use it ?
| magneticmonkey wrote:
| Thanks! Yeah we support iOS, web and android! We are still
| adding support on web to create events but you can view and
| respond.
| and-not-drew wrote:
| https://beatyourbookie.app/
|
| Website for tracking betting lines and finding arbitrage between
| betting sites. I'm currently collecting all the data myself and
| am working to build a public API to allow others to access that
| data.
|
| It's currently costing me ~$150 a month between DB, servers, and
| telemetry.
|
| Even if it never makes a dime I'm really enjoying building it
| though. At work I switch to a role where I no longer write code,
| so having a side project where I can still do that is really
| nice.
| ExxKA wrote:
| Look up Better Collective, a Danish bootstrapped startup on the
| same premis which is now worth billions.
| and-not-drew wrote:
| Oh, nice! I'll take a look. Ty!
| aantix wrote:
| Smart Kid -
|
| Automatically remove "Liked" Youtube videos and subscriptions
| based on a set of keywords.
|
| This is helpful for younger kids that have Youtube video feeds
| full of Minecraft and MrBeast videos.
|
| It helps to balance out the recommendations and give a more
| diverse video feed of recommendations.
|
| https://smartk.id/
| [deleted]
| freeqaz wrote:
| LunaTrace: https://lunatrace.lunasec.io/
|
| Premise: Open Source[0] alternative to GitHub Dependabot and `npm
| audit` that focuses on helping you prioritize where to patch
| first (only 0.1% of CVEs are used in cyber attacks).
|
| Short YouTube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugdSyR2L6sY
|
| A newer video showing off the Static Analysis engine:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPd4MSUJ98M
|
| Price: $0 for Open Source repos. We're hoping to charge for
| private repos in the future, but we need to build out the billing
| features first lol. (We're at $0 in revenue currently.)
|
| If you are filled with rage because of CVEs spamming you, come
| vent your frustrations on Discord: https://discord.gg/2EbHdAR5w7
|
| We're looking for early customers that are interested in working
| with us. My email is on my profile. Cheers!
|
| [0]: Source Code, https://github.com/lunasec-io/lunasec/
| ladberg wrote:
| https://textshader.com
|
| Just a fun toy website I spent a weekend on. It costs zero to
| host (besides $12/year for the domain) and I don't ever plan on
| trying to make money on it.
|
| I don't think I'd ever be able to beat the equivalent hourly rate
| of my day job with side projects haha.
| AndrewStephens wrote:
| Best of the web right here.
| panphora wrote:
| hyperspace
|
| https://hyperspace.so/
|
| My 3rd attempt to reinvent the web platform around an open &
| easy-to-use core.
|
| The idea is simple: what if HTML was the source of truth for web
| applications?
|
| * Every app would be a front-end site that's remixable
|
| * Anyone could copy a site and use the tools you built to help
| you change it to edit it themselves
|
| * You could edit a site at any level of abstraction -- in the
| browser's devtools or with a site builder -- anyone could
| participate in the platform at the level they're comfortable
|
| Still early days, but I have:
|
| * CodeMirror/devtools editing
|
| * Read-only backups on every save
|
| * Quill.js plugin for content/blog editing
|
| * Copying other people's sites
|
| It's meant to be a no-consequences, lightweight way to make and
| share apps, ideas, and interactive sites (where every possibility
| fits into your head)
| l-portet wrote:
| ngl it's pretty cool but I can't find a use case for it
| masukomi wrote:
| it sounds a lot like you're reinventing what Beaker Browser had
| built on top of DAT, except that it could do more. For example,
| they made a distributed Twitter clone as a proof of concept,
| but folks actually started using it. Definitely included
| blogging stuff.
|
| Really cool stuff around taking sites and things other folks
| had built and using them as a basis for your new thing.
|
| https://github.com/beakerbrowser/beaker/ If you're not familiar
| i'd recommend starting with some of the YouTube videos giving
| an overview. It was pretty cool.
|
| Alas, the main dev was hired by BlueSky and is now working
| there... but wonders if maybe you couldn't take that idea or
| its tools, and mush it together with yours.
| pfraze wrote:
| Hey that's me. Thanks for the shout out
|
| @panphora yeah you're project looks like (IMO) a smarter
| version of what beaker was doing. Smarter because the p2p
| element ended up being a bit of a tech-fascination that got
| in the way. Hyperspace seems to be doing the actually-cool-UX
| of self-editing sites and then getting out of the way
| otherwise.
|
| The beaker team made a distributed twitter clone, but the
| cooler one (Rotonde) was made by 100 rabbits and you "made
| your profile" by forking somebody else's profile It's messy
| but fun (the software itself is viral!).
|
| If you create js apis for reading other sites and enumerating
| the files in them, you can get a lot of power out of that.
| pythops wrote:
| 1. Ask me anything GPT3 https://github.com/pythops/amagpt3
|
| 2. Open vision API https://github.com/openvisionapi
| raptor556 wrote:
| I made a real estate thing that basically scraped a bunch of data
| and then built a NLP query interface on top to query real estate
| data in natural language.
|
| Couldn't find a customer so it makes $0 haha. Here's an example
| of the system working, minus a pretty UI:
| https://imgur.com/a/ITDKtPC
| theappsecguy wrote:
| Does ruby have an NLP library or are you rolling your own?
| raptor556 wrote:
| Built a separate service that used spacy
| me_bx wrote:
| Gonna.surf: https://gonna.surf
|
| It's a surf forecast website (now limited to Fuerteventura North,
| Canary islands).
|
| I needed one location to get accurate information about the surf
| conditions around me - instead of having to check and compare 3
| websites/apps. I also figured that other surfers where often
| confused by the popular surf forecast solutions.
|
| Free, no ads, donations and sponsoring accepted (0EUR and 0 deals
| so far).
|
| The audience is growing slowly 1.5 years after launching, about
| 800 unique visitors / 5000 page views per month. The features in
| place and UX are not yet good enough to have people switch to it.
|
| I'm moving very slowly on the business development side because
| this part of the work is less exciting for me. I would love to
| find a co-founder (non-technical) who would be a good match to
| reach product-market fit then expand the product
| internationally...
| DustinBrett wrote:
| https://github.com/DustinBrett/daedalOS
|
| My passion project is building an OS in the browser. I've been at
| it for 2 years now. I've had interest from people who want to
| turn a profit with it, but I am happy to just keep adding
| features and polishing it forever.
| BudaDude wrote:
| This is really impressive!
| ravishi wrote:
| It actually feels really polished!
| bradgessler wrote:
| https://legiblenews.com/
|
| I have paying subscribers, but it's not a ton and it mostly
| covers sever and maintenance costs.
|
| I wrote about why I made this at https://legiblenews.com/about
| bergie wrote:
| https://flowhub.io/ - visual programming tool.
|
| This was a business, once. Now I'm running it as a free service,
| so it costs some hosting plus maintaining the domains.
| hisnameisjimmy wrote:
| https://www.artdiario.com/
|
| A new piece of art on your desktop wallpaper every day.
|
| Try it out! It's free! Expose yourself to art!
|
| I have no idea how I will monetize this, or if I ever will. I
| just want more people using it. I think it's such a fun app, and
| the effect is subtle. You passively get exposed to a new piece of
| art every day, and everyone who has the app sees the same art, so
| you can talk about it. Neat!
| kitplummer wrote:
| LowEndInsight: https://www.lowendinsight.dev
|
| Basic analysis of open source software's source - for things like
| "bus factor". Started as a research project, probably going to
| die as a research project.
| kitplummer wrote:
| Funny...I think posting here has generated a few clicks. Am
| seeing my background worker dying. :)
| tommoor wrote:
| Why not have a UI where you can enter a specific GitHub repo
| and get the result back?
| JessBuildsTech wrote:
| Jobs with Pride: https://www.JobsWithPride.com
|
| Premise: Handpicked jobs from LGBTQ+ friendly companies.
|
| It's a curated job board of the best jobs for our queer
| community, using publicly available information to source jobs at
| confirmed LGBTQ+ friendly companies - Verified by our 100% LGBTQ+
| team.
|
| Availability: Web
|
| Price: $0 (Paid packages are available)
|
| Cost to me: ~$100 per month
|
| Why do it? - Finding jobs at LGBTQ+ friendly companies is hard,
| clunky, and time consuming - More than a 3rd of LGBTQ+ people
| feel they need to hide who they are at work - 1 in 3 employers
| won't hire a Trans person - The LGBTQ+ community has kept me
| alive before, this is a small way I can payback the love
| r0s wrote:
| This is great, thank you.
| AussieWog93 wrote:
| This might sound dumb, but aren't most corproate employers
| completely accepting of LGBT people these days (well, LGB
| people at least)?
|
| What makes one company LGBT friendly and another not?
| epynt88 wrote:
| I've just released VegLog, a iOS app that helps me track my
| vegetable growing. I wanted an app that would let me compare my
| harvest over time, and look for patterns in growing conditions to
| help me maximise growth. The app has had some downloads, but no
| sales yet.
|
| https://apps.apple.com/us/app/veglog/id6444013681
| subpar wrote:
| https://gif.so
|
| Every subdomain gets its own gif, so you can query by url (i.e.
| https://hackernews.gif.so). Anyone can change the image that
| loads on a given page... one day I'll make it a voting system.
| Useful for quickly putting a gif of an arbitrary thing in chat
| apps as most will unfurl the image directly. If you just want a
| static image, use https://jpg.so instead.
|
| Someone else made this years ago and hosted it at jpg.to. That
| went down a while ago and I recreated it because it is fun and
| sometimes useful and not owned by Meta.
| granshaw wrote:
| Protip: If your aim is to make any money at all, avoid B2C like
| the plague
| putlake wrote:
| I built an Hreflang testing tool. https://app.hreflang.org
|
| Hreflang is an arcane SEO concept. If you have sites in different
| languages then you can tell Google/Bing that site.com/page.html
| and site.fr/page.html are basically the same page only in diff
| languages.
|
| The way to specify this is using meta tags in your HTML, and it's
| quite complex and error-prone. My tool checks if you implemented
| this correctly. It's running on a VPS so my cost is quite low.
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Holy schnikees, I learned something new today. Thanks!
| tylerjaywood wrote:
| I'm about break even on a learning project for me:
| https://chrono.quest -- until you factor in my dev/user support
| time lol
|
| It's a bite-sized daily history game, much inspired by Wordle.
|
| Why do it?
|
| Every once in a while someone emails about how they play it with
| their friends or family every day and it helps them keep in
| touch.
|
| Also, as a data engineer, I wanted to understand more of what
| goes into deploying a consumer web app. Turns out I much prefer
| crunching data :)
| that_dude_ wrote:
| I am building a permanent library whose subject is
| sustainability, I can't make money on it, because some of the
| book are copyrighted... So it is a blockchain storage based PWA
| offline first webapp that uses Arweave as a storage to
| permanently store knowledgeable books on the topics of
| sustainability. The goal of the library is to give PEOP;LE A
| CHANCE TO SURVIVE IN THIS WORLD BY USING OLD AND RECENT
| TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOWS us TO LEAVE IN A SUSTAINABLE LIFESTYLE -
| GOOD FOR US, THE FAMILY, THE EARTH AND THE ECONOMY.
| zkldi wrote:
| I've spent the past two years or so working on Tachi
| (https://bokutachi.xyz/) (https://github.com/TNG-Dev/Tachi),
| which is a modular tool for tracking rhythm game scores.
|
| Generally, everyone was using their own personal spreadsheets or
| ancient "just render everything" tables to analyse their scores
| and progress before this and I'm pretty happy with how it's
| turned out.
|
| What I'm probably most proud of is that adding support for a new
| game is adding a new module for it - all of the other features
| automatically work with it. This turns a "each game needs to have
| its own full-site tracker" into a "each game needs a
| configuration for this one tracker", not unlike how LSP
| simplifies adding language support for editors!
|
| Taught me almost everything I know about scaling a codebase, and
| despite being a niche tool it's picked up a lot of momentum (2k
| users, ~3m scores).
| mcgwiz wrote:
| https://blocvox.com
|
| tl;dr: crowdsourced microblogging platform that encourages inter-
| community dialogue. I.e. wrest the very fate of your causes back
| from self-serving officials, celebrities, and mass media!
|
| It started as a side project 10 years ago, before I took some
| time off to try to build it into something more. Alas I knew far
| too little of marketing and customer development.
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Sound interesting, tried checking on it but getting a
| "NET::ERR_CERT_AUTHORITY_INVALID" notice (NOT a criticism, just
| an FYI)
| dewey wrote:
| I've been working on my Twitter bookmark tool
| (https://getbirdfeeder.com) for the past year. I have some paying
| subscribers, but I mostly give that money to DigitalOcean for
| database and storage hosting.
| stanislavb wrote:
| Urban DJ: https://urbanpoll.com/dj Wordle for music! A fun poll
| for music experts.
|
| TL;DR - I'm bootstrapping a web-based music game that's a mix of
| Wordle and Dixit. It's an entertaining music competition where
| the community ranks 5 songs on daily bases.
|
| Background - My partner used to manage a similar game at work as
| a team-bonding activity. They would set a music topic for the
| week, and then everyone would add some songs to a Spotify list.
| Then, once everyone had suggested a song, they would vote for the
| top 3 songs and compete amongst one another. It was a bit time-
| consuming to manage and count the votes, though. I thought -
| yeah, that's cool, and it could be applied to many types of
| companies. One day I should build something similar and start
| selling it to tech companies. A year later, more or less, I found
| the time to come up with an MVP and present it to some of my
| friends. Most people that like music love it and have been taking
| part for a few weeks or a month at least. After several
| iterations and feedback-based adjustments, I've now "upgraded"
| the project from MVP to "Beta" and would be happy to have more
| people onboard.
|
| What I built - Urban DJ is the main stage where everyone can take
| part. You rate today's 5 songs (from 1-5) and then nominate one
| song on the next round's topic & suggest the topic after that.
| Your goal is to guess the community's vote. The more your vote
| matches the public, the more points you make. For example, if you
| position Song A as number 2, and 42% of the community has voted
| the same way - you earn - 42 points. It's an entertaining way to
| come up with "the best" songs on a given topic. I promise you
| that you will have fun if you love or know music. At the end of
| the day, as long as there are 5 persons playing the game - it is
| refreshed every day. The tech stack is Ruby on Rails + Turbo
| (hot-wired) & some Alpine JS.
|
| What's next - Given that the game has reached a good level of
| stability, my next goal is to attract more people playing it.
| After that, I will focus on the business element - allowing
| people to set up private music stages to play with their group of
| friends, classmates, and colleagues. There could be a one-off fee
| or a monthly subscription for companies... I haven't decided yet.
|
| My appeal - Please give it a go for a few days share your
| feedback on the process. I believe it should be able to be
| further simplified.
| eslaught wrote:
| I'm writing a science fiction novel series. I blog about the
| writing process here:
|
| https://exanderproject.com/
|
| Note: the first book is currently unpublished, but I'm happy to
| offer beta reader copies in exchange for feedback on the book.
| Contact info in profile / website.
| thealchemistdev wrote:
| https://GymTools.io
|
| To be fair. This project isn't meant to generate revenue. Back
| when I started webdev, I needed to learn how to publish a SPA so
| I threw something together in preparation for a larger and more
| complex app.
| MichaelMoser123 wrote:
| my project is PYX - an educational programming language with REPL
| / shell. It can be used to write programs in functional /
| procedural and object based styles.
|
| here: https://github.com/MoserMichael/jscriptparse
|
| and here: https://www.npmjs.com/package/pyxlang
|
| By the way: i see a lot of downloads via npm, don't know if that
| is due to bot activity or if there is real interest.
| paganre wrote:
| http://paganre.com/
|
| an experimental coding puzzle in typescript.
| Taylor_OD wrote:
| I run a technical interview podcast. I have eng leaders come on
| and talk about their hiring practices then they do a live
| technical with me.
|
| Episodes get some views. Spend about ~250 a month of tools and
| editing costs.
|
| https://www.youtube.com/@TaylorDorsett
| brianolson wrote:
| https://betterpolls.com/
|
| Tool for running online rankings/ratings polls. Use for low
| stakes stuff like deciding what movie to watch, group outing
| destination, club elections, etc. Can require google/fb login to
| de-dup votes, or can allow anonymous votes.
| eikaramba wrote:
| I made an App to help find out food intolerances. Basically make
| it super easy to enter what you have eaten. Not even based on
| individual items, just basic foods like soy, tomatoes, onions...
| help me figure out that it was garlic which was causing all the
| trouble.
|
| https://app.foodolyst.creatness.studio [Web]
|
| https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=studio.creatne...
| [Android]
|
| Currently trying to release it on IOS, but Apple is very strict
| with these types of apps.
| agreon wrote:
| Ah great, I always wanted to do something similar. Will check
| it out.
| petodo wrote:
| I'm not even trying, but my income dropped to like 1/10 from my
| record levels, I wonder when it will stop dropping. Luckily for
| me I am very frugal and not splurging, so I didn't need to adjust
| my expenses at all, since whether I earned 12000 USD per month or
| 1200 USD I still spend same, I guess will start doing something
| about it if I will earn less than I spend so I don't need to
| touch my ~13 years of expenses worth savings.
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Throughout my life I have found that hard times like what you
| describe are often the best motivator to start something new.
| This is an OPPORTUNITY my friend, so don't guess, just get out
| there and DO. :-)
| pcan77 wrote:
| I made and operate a small app called
| [FishHarmony](https://www.fishharmony.com/). It's a simple app
| for iPhone that tells you what fish species (fresh or salt, I
| offer both) are compatible with fish of different species! So if
| you want to see if Tetras get along with Rasboras, for example,
| you can check my app/website! I've done no marketing and get
| something ~200 active users per month and 1K+ downloads lifetime.
| Not much, but still cool that people are using it!
|
| I pay about 7/month for a Heroku instance and the stupid $99 a
| year for the App Store. Working on some freemium apps that will
| hopefully offset those costs.
| meehow wrote:
| https://privtracker.com/ Private BitTorrent tracker for everyone
|
| No plans or even ideas how to commercialize it, so it will stay
| at $-10/month.
|
| I made it just for fun, but noticed that there are some users, so
| I keep it running.
| fasouto wrote:
| Built a fun side project to learn Vue, https://wheelcarnival.com/
| a place to create and share roulette wheels.
|
| I'm not working on it but somehow it still has some traction, it
| averages 20k users/month (mostly teachers). Unfortunately my day
| job it's very time-consuming and I never find time to create a
| better version.
| markjerz wrote:
| Imitate Email: https://imitate.email
|
| A little tool for testing out email flows as you build/test apps
| - comes with an embedded widget so you don't have to context
| switch (see https://imitate.email/demo) for example.
|
| Earns nothing - spent far too much time researching chameleons,
| finding and, thanks to AI, creating Chameleon pictures :-)
| [deleted]
| Lazze2k5 wrote:
| Dungeon crawler: https://github.com/larsjarlvik/dungeon-crawler
|
| Trying to build a cross platform (including mobile) classic RPG
| with procedurally generated maps using Rust.
|
| So far it's playable but not much more. Currently working on more
| exciting map generation using wave function collapse.
| mister-x wrote:
| [dead]
| Ndymium wrote:
| As a hobby project, I run Code::Stats[0]. It's a website that
| tracks what languages you are programming in (via editor plugins)
| and gives you a profile page with various statistics[1]. It's ad-
| supported (with EthicalAds) to deal with server costs, or you can
| buy a support account to remove ads. The site and all the editor
| plugins are open source, the site is written in Elixir (but I'm
| looking at integrating Gleam in the future).
|
| Currently it's completely a free time thing; I make negative
| money on it. My dream would be to have enough paying users to
| work on it part time (even a little), but that's far away and may
| never happen. But I like using it myself so I'll keep running it
| for the foreseeable future.
|
| [0] https://codestats.net/
|
| [1] https://codestats.net/users/Nicd
| totemandtoken wrote:
| I'm no longer really working on it, but I was developing a
| "newsbetting" site, where you could read de-titled news articles
| and place a bet on the political bias of the article (far left,
| left, center, right, far right).
|
| There's a number of issues with the site, but you can view it
| here if you'd like. I'll load some articles just in case anyone
| wants to check it out, but as I said, I'm not really working on
| it anymore.
|
| https://www.rashomonnews.com/
| theSage wrote:
| https://www.jayporeci.in/
|
| I've been working on this CI system for a while.
|
| 1. Zero setup. Works on git hooks.
|
| 2. Python as the config language. Makes it very easy to do
| dependencies/matrix jobs/conditional jobs.
|
| 3. Offline first. It can work online with gitea as well.
|
| 4. Everything is in git. I don't need to muck around in and
| configure the CI system itself.
| paulorlando wrote:
| Here's one: I write (wrote is more accurate recently) a blog on
| unintended consequences (https://unintendedconsequenc.es/). Most
| of the support for it came from people here on HN, happily. And a
| bunch of people did buy memberships, but taking the work into
| account we're probably talking $1/hour. Learned a lot doing it
| though.
| collingreen wrote:
| DevEstimates
|
| I made a tool to turn my spreadsheet for project estimation into
| a slightly better web app experience. The premise is that project
| estimates (how long will feature X take to ship) tend to be
| extremely inaccurate and moderately toxic BUT if you don't /try/
| to make them accurate you can still get useful project data.
|
| This is essentially the 2 outside estimates from the "3 point
| estimate" project management paradigm -- I ask everyone working
| on the project for two intentionally extreme estimates - a
| mythical ship date if everything went impossibly well (works on
| the first try, the designs don't change, nothing pulls you away,
| etc) and a date that is intentionally after the ship date if
| absolutely everything goes wrong. These are extreme enough it
| tends to take the stress out of picking a date, they can be given
| from the hip in 30 seconds, and they obviously can't be
| weaponized as 'actual estimates' so there isn't as much fear that
| some manager somewhere will try to hold anyone to them as a
| deadline.
|
| There is no resulting "this will probably ship on date X/Y/Z"
| answer but it has been extremely helpful on my team so far since
| you can learn a lot from the relationships between the guesses -
| big gaps between team members means we're not on the same page,
| everyone jumping up means requirements just got changed or
| discovered, the guesses growing at the same rate week over week
| means we don't feel like we're making progress, etc.
|
| It has been a surprisingly effective tool when using it this way
| but I'm the first to admit it isn't for everyone since it does
| NOT spit out a "when will this ship" date and it actually just
| tells the project leader where to go do more legwork (and I think
| it takes a rare, mindful person to like using a tool that tells
| them to go work more - doesn't feel like a pain killer OR a
| vitamin). As a secondary benefit it has also been helpful for
| folks (me included) to reflect on our estimation accuracy after
| the project ships.
|
| I've made it in a "maybe this could make money one day if other
| people unexpectedly want this too" but I don't expect that and I
| honestly kind of love the project being just for my use case and
| not having customers - the writing is snarky (eg, "Estimating
| sucks but most businesses still demand estimates from their
| makers anyway..."), the ui is brutalist and minimal (no design
| framework other than the ironically named classless.css), and it
| is not very feature bloated yet. I have had fun throwing
| spaghetti code around and not worrying about breaking things for
| customers or impacting other team members.
|
| At this point the project is (minimally) feature complete and I'm
| using it for my real life work - I'm in the last stage of
| deciding where it is going to live in production so hopefully it
| can 'go live' next week instead of living on my laptop. I'll make
| a proper HN post at that point so y'all can roast me into
| oblivion since I need to be taken down a peg every once in a
| while.
| initramfs wrote:
| I have an open hardware project (libre, technically) to develop a
| solar powered phone. It's more of a concept, or a framework,
| rather than a list of components that I'm assembling outside of
| research. I would be more than happy if someone forked the idea
| and made something of it. https://hackaday.io/project/177716-the-
| libre-autarkic-laptop Anyone could manufacture it since the PCB,
| open cores (royalty free), blueprints and STL and PCB design
| would all be open sourced to anyone who wanted to make it, thus
| it encourages collaboration.
| franc82 wrote:
| https://myweddingseatingplanner.com is a tool that helps people
| automatically assign seating for their guests. The assignment is
| made based on the affinity between guests so that only people who
| are closed enough (that's friends) will be seated at the same
| table.
| soperj wrote:
| https://www.reciped.io
|
| Wikipedia like recipe site. Drag and drop meal planning, and
| automatically creates grocery lists sorted by grocery aisle.
| Grocery lists are built for mobile, swipe right to slide that
| item off the list.
| rain_checker wrote:
| I created https://dropory.com/ - an app that predict the day with
| the best weather for any location. Good for finding a good event
| or wedding date.
|
| Definitely been costing me more than any earnings! :)
| noodle wrote:
| I'm not going to go into details for the purposes of anonymity,
| but I took over a website that is a resource for a community I'm
| very involved in in order to prevent that website from being shut
| down. It costs me money to keep afloat, but I keep it afloat to
| maintain it as an entry point for the community. It does come
| with some fringe benefits that probably makes it worth paying for
| as well, but "worth" is very subjective here.
|
| It makes a little revenue with ads and Amazon referrals due to
| the traffic volume but it operates at a loss.
| kacovvv wrote:
| Linksaber: https://www.linksaber.com
|
| Put your read-later links into a custom weekly newsletter.
|
| Availability: iOS, Telegram
|
| Price: $2/month after a free month trial
| xPaw wrote:
| SteamDB: https://steamdb.info/
|
| I've been running it for over 10 years now, it's a database of
| Steam games, their updates, price history, charts, and a lot
| more.
|
| In the early days we took monetary donations but stopped a few
| years in. It costs less than 100$ a month to run. Cloudflare
| reports 552.2M requests in the past 30 days, and 6.09M unique
| visitors.
| ss108 wrote:
| Upvoting, as a Dota2 enjoyer/sufferer
| faangiq wrote:
| Dude take some revenue so you can continue doing cool stuff.
| xenotize wrote:
| You run SteamDB? Thanks for making this! I've used it for all
| those 10 years whenever I'm getting back into gaming and want
| to see what the popular games are! The player count charts are
| a really awesome feature. Thanks for keeping it running all
| these years.
| zucker42 wrote:
| Why do you not take donations?
| pmlarocque wrote:
| He does: https://steamdb.info/donate/ link is just above
| footer of main page.
| modeless wrote:
| "Currently we do not accept monetary donations"
| rasta78 wrote:
| Adding the donation link on the top banner should drive
| some donations. Currently, I can see it at the bottom.
| calderknight wrote:
| That's a bit misleading. SteamDB don't accept monetary
| donations. Games are they only thing they accept donations
| of.
| pmlarocque wrote:
| Well as xPaw already stated he does not seem to
| interested in money. I would guess:
|
| Give a Steam Award to xPaw
|
| A Steam Award gives the creator of this site Steam
| points!
|
| Is the best we can do to support his work! I just wanted
| to point there is a /donate. Not sure why it need to be
| cold hard cash to count.
| calderknight wrote:
| I agree it is good to share that there is a donate page,
| but I also think it's a good thing to point out that they
| do not accept monetary donations.
| xPaw wrote:
| Games gifted to the bot are used to gain access to some
| extra info.
|
| I do get game gifts to my personal account from time to
| time.
| bluesroo wrote:
| The amount of value I get out of your service is nuts! No
| better place to figure out whether a multiplayer game is worth
| getting... Daily users is hard metric to game or lie about.
| twostorytower wrote:
| I want to say thank you for building this, but also there's no
| shame in putting a simple banner ad somewhere on the page. Most
| people who care have ad blockers, anyways.
| skilled wrote:
| SteamDB is awesome!
| michaelmior wrote:
| I'm not a heavy Steam user, but SteamDB is great. Thank you!
| taesu wrote:
| You are an absolute chad. I salute you. Not to undermine your
| motive and intent, but people will gladly click on links to
| support your site. Regardless, what a legend you are.
| moneywoes wrote:
| Amazing. What is your setup like to make costs so low, a lot of
| caching?
| mehlmao wrote:
| Thank you! SteamDB has been super helpful for me. I like to be
| able to pull posters and banner art for games, and it's also
| super helpful for untangling bundles of Rocksmith DLC.
| moerschbacher wrote:
| That's awesome! I've been using SteamDB for years.
| jeffcox wrote:
| As someone who played Fallout 4 with mods, thank you very much!
| insane_dreamer wrote:
| Had never seen your site before (stopped gaming before Steam
| became popular), but in visiting it now, very surprised to see
| that CS is still __by far__ the most popular online game.
|
| Great resource. Thanks!
| johnmorrison wrote:
| Thank you! Love the site.
| tehlike wrote:
| amazing product.
| wisie wrote:
| Thanks for making this available. Has been a huge help over the
| years. Would make a good platform for other side projects (e.g.
| SteamDB YouTube) if you were to look for new challenges one
| day.
| meesles wrote:
| Avid user for years, so cool to see you on the social web!
| Thanks for your work! I'm annoyed for you at all these people
| trying to tell you what to do with your project, after you've
| been doing it successfully for 10 years and they have not.
| Y'all really think this person hasn't thought about monetizing?
| Take it easy startup-stans!
| AussieWog93 wrote:
| I can definitely see the frustration. Highly money-motivated
| people working their arse off to try and make even $1k MRR,
| and all this guy needs to do is push a button and he's got
| 100k. Must blow their minds.
| dxhdr wrote:
| You're passing on $50k-100k per month of ad revenue from just
| basic banner ads... at least based on how RPMs were a few years
| ago. I respect that, definitely not the decision I'd make.
| nomel wrote:
| I know nothing of this, but does .info reduce the numbers,
| compared to something like .com, all other things aside?
|
| edit: err, it's a genuine question, from someone that doesn't
| work in/with advertising, and had a .info domain within the
| first month they were offered. Here's a rephrasing: Do ad
| networks, or customers of those networks, treat TLDs
| differently?
| topicseed wrote:
| I see your maths here but Cloudflare hits include any assets,
| images, and so on so one page views fans out potentially
| dozens of hits. Cloudflare also includes all bots and non-
| human hits.
| MrGilbert wrote:
| I always wondered how Valve thinks about this project. And
| congrats on the project itself, for sure!
| xPaw wrote:
| I know some Valve employees use it.
| MrGilbert wrote:
| That's cool, thanks for the info!
| jeffwask wrote:
| You're a hero to all gamers. Take a bow sir.
| Ruq wrote:
| Holy cow, thank you so much for this resource.
| modeless wrote:
| Wow, you don't make any money on SteamDB? It seems like the
| sort of thing that should be able to make a lot of money. Even
| very minimal ads would probably bring in hundreds of thousands
| if not millions of dollars per year, and if you hate the idea
| of ads it seems like you could probably sell a premium
| subscription for some of the info you have that would be useful
| for devs, like imdb pro or crunchbase pro or something.
| xPaw wrote:
| I can, but I have no interest in doing that currently.
| giancarlostoro wrote:
| I wouldnt be surprised if you could easily work out some
| sort of deal with Steam, if a game page from your site
| leads to a buy on their end they give you a small
| percentage.
| tehlike wrote:
| As some others have said, affiliate is the way to go. You
| are already driving sales... Should be fair to you to get
| compensated.
| xd1936 wrote:
| Legendary.
| nchudleigh wrote:
| Would be dope to monetize the traffic and donate it or
| support indie game projects.
| modeless wrote:
| If you don't mind me asking, what's your day job?
| sswezey wrote:
| Thank you!
| 1270018080 wrote:
| I'll do it?
| tracker1 wrote:
| I completely respect the owner of SteamDB for not doing
| this... I'm not a fan of ad networks as it stands.
|
| Although, affiliate links to games might be an idea (assuming
| Steam has such a thing). At least for the purchase if someone
| is interested in buying.
| jffry wrote:
| > affiliate links to games might be an idea (assuming Steam
| has such a thing).
|
| Steam does not have such a thing.
| godshatter wrote:
| Does Amazon still do affiliate links? Because they sell
| steam codes for games.
| jbirer wrote:
| [flagged]
| sbarre wrote:
| >You're a fan of taking things and not giving anything
| back, I see.
|
| Don't be obtuse, that's not what he said and you know it.
|
| Ad networks are problematic not because of the ads but
| because of the tracking and page bloat.
|
| As he said affiliate links or some kind of custom non-
| tracking ads would be fine, and I'm not sure no one would
| be opposed to that.
| a_t48 wrote:
| > Be kind. Don't be snarky. Converse curiously; don't
| cross-examine. Edit out swipes.
| wellthisisgreat wrote:
| thanks a lot for making this happen, in this exceptionally
| altruistic way, learning that such as staple as steamdb is a
| passion/hobby project really makes one believe in the software
| engineering mission
| nabakin wrote:
| Impressive. What's your tech stack? How are you able to keep
| the cost so low?
| berkle4455 wrote:
| php, nginx, mariadb (mysql). The stack that continues to
| deliver robust, low-cost, and reliable solutions yet HN shits
| on it at every opportunity.
| bakugo wrote:
| Assuming it hasn't changed in the past 2 years:
|
| > nginx, latest php, mariadb.
|
| > and of less importance: memcached and influxdb.
|
| https://twitter.com/thexpaw/status/1315941483867000833
| xPaw wrote:
| That's still correct.
| nabakin wrote:
| What host do you use?
| xPaw wrote:
| Hetzner.
| nabakin wrote:
| Ty
| nabakin wrote:
| Thanks!
| pastor_bob wrote:
| When's the Next.js migration?
| princevegeta89 wrote:
| Wait, why are you not monetizing it? that traffic looks bonkers
| bakugo wrote:
| Thankfully, some people out there still do things because
| they enjoy it and not because they think there's money to be
| made.
| jonny_eh wrote:
| Most people who do things "just because", don't monetize
| because either it isn't possible or it isn't worth the
| effort. For a site with as much traffic as GP's, it's
| probably worth it. Regardless, anyone turning down that
| much revenue out of principle deserves a lot of credit.
| princevegeta89 wrote:
| Well, my 2c is that making money is an enjoyable activity
| as well. As someone who loved all the RTS/Tycoon games back
| in 2000's, I look at making money through own ventures as
| just another game at the same time
| vinhboy wrote:
| those two things are not always mutually exclusive
| cptnapalm wrote:
| I want you to know that I love you.
| sureglymop wrote:
| Wow, crazy to see how many players Unturned has. I used to love
| that game years ago. AFAIK it was created by a teenager at the
| time.
| lippingoff wrote:
| I love your site! I suggest it to everyone.
| dbingham wrote:
| Peer Review: https://peer-review.io
|
| It's an experiment in academic publishing. Can we crowdsource
| peer review of scientific and scholarly papers using a
| StackExchange like reputation system?
|
| And can we organize it as a non-profit funded by user donations?
|
| We've known for years that academic publishing through the
| journals is really badly broken. It hides the primary sources of
| human knowledge behind a paywall on the basis that the journals
| are doing the hard work of filtering out misinformation - but the
| journals are actually manually crowdsourcing the filtering to
| unpaid reviewers.
|
| And the filtering has broken down completely anyway in a world of
| self-publishing and predatory journals.
|
| So can we crowdsource the filtering using a software platform,
| instead of manually using journal editors?
|
| That's the premise of Peer Review. It uses a StackExchange like
| reputation system to match papers to qualified reviewers. It
| splits review into pre-publish review, focused on giving authors
| really good constructive feedback, and post-publish refereeing,
| focused on filtering malpractice. Reputation is primarily gained
| from votes on papers during refereeing, but can also be gained
| from giving good constructive pre-published reviews.
|
| Right now it's a side project and will probably remain so for the
| forseeable future. But if it ever gains significant traction, I'd
| love to form a non-profit around it and exploring having it be
| governed by it's users.
|
| It's an experiment in two ways: can we recreate the wikipedia
| model of funding with improved governance, and can we solve
| academic publishing through software mediated crowdsourcing.
| iambateman wrote:
| Https://SimplifyRecipe.com
|
| Currently earning negative money on this! It's a recipe organizer
| and simplifier...an app to make it easier for people to cook
| using recipes without the life story.
|
| This morning, I got my first angry emails from recipe publishers
| and it has me pretty bummed out. I knew they wouldn't love it,
| but I didn't expect this so early.
| flyaway269 wrote:
| I've been building www.steelroad.org to make entrepreneurship
| more accessible to all. There are so many great businesses that
| can be built with a little bit of sweat equity and process
| building. So far it's cost me $12 for the domain, and $50 to
| integrate it with substack. Haven't made a penny yet but
| subscriber list is growing.
| juicyj24 wrote:
| Astory: https://astory.dev/
|
| I started this website about two years ago. Astory's goal is to
| reinvent the process of building software to start with the
| design first. The idea is to have a dev tool which displays a
| live representation of a system. Astory will create development
| tasks as a result of altering the system design rather than
| creating tasks on a board and attempting to visualize the effect.
|
| I hope to make this website collaborative and allow for multiple
| ingestion formats to create a system design rather than just drag
| and drop like cloudformation or terraform templates.
| marketdev wrote:
| Market.dev https://market.dev/
|
| This is a new project, so I don't expect to generate revenue yet,
| but I want to turn it into a useful resource.
| michaelmure wrote:
| https://github.com/MichaelMure/git-bug
|
| Offline-first bug tracker (and soon-ish forge) embedded in git.
|
| I keep working on this because the idea makes a lot of sense to
| me, because I learn a lot from it and it benefits me indirectly.
|
| I'm not especially looking to monetize, but I'm curious about
| what this community think about it.
| JSLegendDev wrote:
| I'm making a desktop game to be sold on itch.io for 3$ (currently
| making 0$ because not out yet and it's difficult to make money
| with games anyway). I'm using JavaScript with the Kaboom.js
| library and Tauri as the desktop wrapper.
|
| My game is called HARVEST MOVE and it's a grid based movement
| game where you have to harvest as many plants as possible without
| getting killed by various animals.
|
| It's a puzzle game disguised as an arcade game.
|
| The game is still in development but I've started posting gifs,
| screenshots and some art of the game already on Twitter.
|
| Here is my twitter link if you want to check that out :
| https://twitter.com/JSLegendDev
| [deleted]
| jameslao wrote:
| Crocodile: https://www.crocodile.dev/
|
| Better code reviews for GitHub. It integrates with GitHub to
| provide a better reviewing and commenting experience for pull
| requests. Free for open source!
| collingreen wrote:
| I think about this space a lot - glad you're adventuring in it.
| austinhutch wrote:
| FindMASA: https://findmasa.com
|
| It's a UGC map of Murals and Street Art. I pay ~$60/mo for image
| hosting fees via Imgix.
| npilk wrote:
| Bulletyn is a custom news digest creator:
| https://www.bulletyn.co/
|
| No fees, no ads. Only costs me ~$5/mo to run anyways.
|
| As others here have mentioned, I maintain this because I get so
| much value out of it personally - it's easily worth the cost for
| myself. I have ~100 total users who I hope are also getting
| similar value.
| majodev wrote:
| google webfonts helper - https://gwfh.mranftl.com
|
| According to the Cloudflare December monthly stats, I had roughly
| 57k unique users, 15m requests, 1,3TB traffic. Though, most
| requests are likely to be bots/integrators spamming the API...
|
| Running on a bare metal k8s cluster (libvirt) on top of a single
| dedicated Hetzner server, ~70EUR/month. Not going to monetize it,
| but will maybe accept donations/sponsorings in the future...
| maoeurk wrote:
| I'm building https://polyglatte.com a language learning website
| (and app) for learning with real content like YouTube videos,
| subtitles, and text articles. Ideal for intermediate and advanced
| learners.
|
| Some neat features are that we fully parse the text and part of
| speech tag it, we have a system to prepare for difficult
| articles/videos with clips from easier ones, and the core idea
| scales really well to more types of content like chat messages
| and images (not public yet).
|
| Our focus is now shifting to on-boarding and marketing. We have a
| few users that have figured out how to really use Polyglatte and
| they love it and use it a lot but for the most part, many users
| leave without seeing most of the value we can provide.
|
| It's a self-funded 2 person project and we haven't monetized it
| at all yet.
|
| I have no problem charging for it but I need to figure out how to
| help people really understand the value we provide and reach more
| people before it would make sense to do so.
| gongdzhauh wrote:
| https://ideastrikes.com/ A project idea and brainstorming app.
| It's largely in an MVP stage and gets almost no traffic. I've
| done very little to promote it, and the UX can use a bunch of
| work, but I find it valuable for myself so I keep it online.
|
| It's a tool that I use, and no one else does, but I get enough
| value from it that justifies the annual domain name renewal.
| mathgladiator wrote:
| https://www.adama-platform.com/ is a platform SaaS which is
| costing me a few hundred a month while I build it up. I'm
| focusing on polishing up the static web server so it can be
| competitive and i can reduce my expenses. It's basically a
| realtime document store with a special language that is a modern
| Excel.
|
| I'm happy with where I'm at, and this year I'm going to focus on
| offering a commodity (static websites) with a realtime database
| upsell.
| Lukas_Skywalker wrote:
| Sheetmailer: https://sheetmailer.io/
|
| It allows users to create personalized emails from the data in an
| Excel sheet. They write a template like Hello
| {Name} Your grade of todays exam was {Grade}. Best
| regards Prof. X
|
| The mailer automatically fills out the gaps with the
| corresponding column of the Excel sheet.
|
| Since it's been running, I got a single one-time payment (about
| four years ago). I'm using it a lot myself though.
|
| Luckily, it's almost free to run (on a 13$/m Hetzner machine,
| shared with about 10 other applications). And as a teacher, I
| used it to send over 4000 emails containing grades and similar
| stuff to my students.
| measure2xcut1x wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/@audiosoundfx
|
| I record sounds with a Shure MV88+ stereo condenser microphone
| connected to an iPhone. I airdrop the WAV files to a MacBook Pro,
| where a python script normalizes the audio to a loudness level of
| -14 LUFS with a level of -1 dBTP (dB True Peak ), generates an HD
| video, and posts it to YouTube. I'm just getting started. It's
| more of a hobby than a hustle.
| PStamatiou wrote:
| Not currently public aside from maybe a thousand testflight
| users, but I built a stock and crypto portfolio tracker app
| focused on design. I'm a designer and developer and this was my
| first time diving into Swift/SwiftUI. Started as a covid project
| to learn SwiftUI and became a 3 year side project, complete with
| full node backend to do some auth, caching, cleaning up data and
| various things.
|
| It's called Stocketa. Here's the site: https://stocketa.com/
|
| and I opened up a few hundred Testflight spots if you want to
| play with it:
|
| https://testflight.apple.com/join/3dZwTVhS
|
| Unfortunately despite the insane amount of time I've spend on it
| (many, many weeks with 20 hours on it) I've lost interest. It's
| just so hard to find quality stock/financial data that allows
| commercial use which I'd need to put this in the app store and
| charge for it. I pay a few hundred a month now for data that
| always has issues, APIs that don't work consistently, staff
| that's unresponsive/rude when I tell them their API doesn't work
| or is wrong. I've dealt with 3 stock data providers already and I
| still had to build a scraping engine to get certain bits of data.
| The real providers charge thousands per month for this data for
| good APIs, which I can't afford. All that and only for US data.
| International data was another headache I gave up on.
|
| So yea, it's not a fun space to be in. If there was just a single
| API that was solid, worked and was not insanely expensive this
| would be a joy to work on. Polygon.io is the best API for this
| data but they don't understand indie developers and were telling
| me they had an amazing new plan for developers that was still
| close to $1k/mo.
|
| Now I'm wondering if I should try to sell it to someone with more
| resources to build out.
| xmaayy wrote:
| Unrelated to the app your building, I've been reading your blog
| for a few years. Thanks for the content stammy :)
| PStamatiou wrote:
| thanks!!
| kamilm wrote:
| https://scrabble-solver.org/
|
| It's open-source too: https://github.com/kamilmielnik/scrabble-
| solver
|
| I never intended it to make any money though. What brings me a
| lot of joy is that some people showed genuine interest in this
| project.
| SeanAnderson wrote:
| I just helped a startup exit successfully. I wore myself out
| doing so and it's not the first time I've felt worn out. I keep
| letting myself go too hard and forgetting I'm a human being first
| and foremost. I'm tired of feeling caught up in the cyclic
| bullshit and want to do better. I quit my job to focus on
| creating a personal, artistic expression, through software, in an
| attempt to help me grow myself. Hopefully it'll help others, too.
| My software is tentatively called Symbiant, but doesn't exist
| yet.
|
| ..
|
| I'm creating a web-first colony simulation game. I'm inspired by
| SimAnt, RimWorld, idleRPG, and Tamagotchi. My goal is to
| establish a strong, daily, mental health hygiene routine which
| promotes box breathing, gratitude journaling, and improved
| awareness of my health, fatigue, and motivation.
|
| The game unfolds on an alien world covered in a thick sea of fog
| and asteroid impact craters. Huge fog waves roam the planet,
| splash against the crater walls, and continually intrude with
| frigid moisture. A damaged terraforming satellite orbits the
| planet and directs its limited energy towards one crater which
| keeps that crater habitable. There are three entities in the
| story: an AI powering the terraforming satellite, the
| consciousness of a biologist uploaded into the satellite's
| computer, and a fledgling ant colony within the barely habitable
| crater. The player fills the role of the protagonist, the
| biologist, and the hostile weather plays the role of the
| antagonist. The goal is to terraform the planet without throwing
| it out of balance.
|
| The ant colony simulation runs on ~autopilot similar to idleRPG
| but with slowly unfolding visuals like 1x speed RimWorld. It's a
| real-time simulation which "runs" even when the tab is closed,
| but is only able to be controlled when the satellite orbits
| overhead and has line-of-sight with the crater. The queen hatches
| workers, workers expand the nest, navigate the fog, and search
| for food. The ants lay pheromone trails to food, but every night
| the fog rolls in and wipes clean the pheromones. Each day the
| ants begin searching for food once more. The colony grows
| optimally given available information, but is not omniscient or
| even opinionated. The colony will never push itself out of the
| local maximum of a single crater and struggles with attention due
| to the fog. Surprisingly, during initial nest expansion, the ants
| discover a rectifying crystal which allows them to sense
| electromagnetic waves emitted by the satellite. They develop a
| ritual around attempting to interpret these electrical impulses
| which provides a very rough form of of one-way communication from
| the satellite to the ants. The biologist leverages this
| communicational channel to assist the colony by providing high-
| level environmental awareness and opinionated responses.
|
| Each day, the player is asked to show up and check-in at a
| consistent time. The player wants to be able to nurture their
| colony, but they need to unlock the ability to do so. They begin
| by engaging with a guided, box-breathing routine while
| "awakening" the consciousness of the biologist. It's effortful
| for the biologist to take autonomy from the terraforming AI in
| the same way waking up is effortful and so the player is guided
| through that process. Then, the player is greeted with a
| technophilic UI which provides in-depth stats and charts of their
| colony and the planet. Based on current and projected resources,
| the user makes a decision to encourage the colony to push harder
| or to ease up. This influences whether the colony will push out
| of a local maximum, but comes at the cost of damaging the health
| of the ants. The player needs to balance pushing the colony to
| expand into additional land with tapering their exertion to avoid
| long-term negative effects. Finally, the player is given an
| opportunity to self-reflect and journal on the goals and progress
| of the ants. Gratitude journaling provides a means of keeping
| attention on high-value food resources such that the ants don't
| lose track entirely due to the fog. Non-gratitude journaling
| (i.e. venting, daily reflections) provide a source of entropy for
| the weather system of the world.
|
| Outside of check-in time, the player is only able to watch their
| high-level decisions slowly play out over the course of the day.
| The interface is calming and provides an opportunity for brief
| respite similar to taking a moment to observe an aquarium.
|
| Overall, I am building software to help me be more consistent and
| diligent in my personal growth and mental health hygiene.
| Sometimes when I get depressed I stop caring for myself, but I'm
| always good about showing up for others. I want to leverage that
| to promote self-care. Conversely, when I'm firing on all-
| cylinders, I tend to think my motivation and determination are
| limitless. I take on significant personal growth goals only to
| eventually reach a mental breaking point because I never identify
| a good time to push less hard until forced. So, I would benefit
| from a visual indication of where I am at on a
| motivation/determination boom/bust cycle so that I don't find
| myself surprised by burnout.
|
| I've never really responded well to software that implies I have
| problems which need fixing. Instead, I do much better when
| someone tells me a story, I contrast that story to my own, and I
| succeed in identifying personal growth areas through the
| reflection. Instead of creating "yet another mental health /
| journaling app" I am interested in telling a compelling, sci-fi
| story where the protagonist struggles to succeed in their goals
| due to a failure to acknowledge their humanity. I believe telling
| this story, while providing tools to participate and a pet to
| stay attached, is likely to instill long-term changes in those
| who engage.
|
| There's a discord link in my bio if you want to hang out and
| watch my insanity play out in real time. :) No significant
| software written yet, but happy to have help once I'm capable of
| providing clearer instruction. Currently working through
| discussions of potential game mechanics and trying to define the
| scope of the mechanics.
| InsOp wrote:
| https://universe-dawn.com
|
| a browser based mass multiplayer online game with a sci-fi "the
| expanse" like setting.
|
| remember the old school (2004) games you used to play with your
| browser. play it again with new technology but old flair.
|
| currently there are 150 players, but no money made so far because
| I don't like pay to win and without that it's hard to monetize
| such a game
|
| I recently translated it into english so everyone can play with
| us :)
| jtap wrote:
| I've made a bunch of projects that hit about 80% completion that
| I never end up finishing. My current projects that I have most
| recently put in some time are:
|
| https://cruisedirector.io/ I have it running on some of my sites.
| It continues to run but I have no customers, and I haven't tried
| to sell it as a service. Tracks user actions inside an
| application. Every click is tracked so you can make rules based
| on any user clicks and show prompts made with a graphical editor.
| For example: Someone is button smashing, you can ask them for
| feedback. Popup a message on first login in the past month...
| Really lots of fun stuff.
|
| https://ezdataloader.com/ I recompiled some old c# code from
| about 10 years ago, and with a few tweeks the backend now can run
| in mac, windows, or linux. Pretty sweet, other than the
| interface. I used electron for an interface and got it working a
| bit. But, I haven't put too much time into this one either. I'm
| tempted to scrap the downloadable executable, and turn it into a
| saas app. Might be a bit easier for customers I'm targeting. I've
| been pretty busy at my day job though, and haven't had time for
| this in the past year or so.
| totalhack wrote:
| Zillion: https://github.com/totalhack/zillion
|
| A python data warehousing / modeling / analytics library that can
| unify multiple datasources and writes SQL for you. It's alpha
| level at the moment and I just slowly chip away when time allows,
| though I'm using it in production in another project (which does
| make money).
| [deleted]
| kobu wrote:
| Comparing EV range from a specific location, e.g. from Chicago:
| https://www.range.guide/?location=USA,Illinois,Chicago&vehic...
|
| Why? Before relocating I was looking for an electric vehicle that
| would allow me to commute to work on a single charge and charge
| the car back at home over night. Couldn't find a way to do that
| easily so I created a page that lets you set coarse starting
| location and see the range to nearby cities. Learned about Svelte
| and maps in general.
| mesarth wrote:
| https://charts.town/ - Fundamentals of public companies
| visualised.
|
| After HyperCharts shut down I started building an alternative. I
| knew I wouldn't be the only one building an alternative but I
| liked the technical challenge. Let me know what you think.
| ekglimmer wrote:
| Ah I love this ask HN!
|
| I'm building an iMessage app (www.pigeon.ooo - nothing here yet,
| I just get a hoot out of the name) that brings note taking into
| iMessage. I built it because I wanted to be able to save/pin
| messages so that I wouldn't have scroll up to find important
| pieces of info. You can also share the lists directly through
| iMessage so that the others in the conversation can update the
| notes, which has been particularly useful for grocery shopping
| lists and weekly planners with my S/O.
|
| Currently working on a companion app so that I can view all notes
| not segregated by conversation, or ordered by due date etc.
|
| It hasn't been publicly released yet but it will definitely be
| net negative. Doesn't matter though because it's useful to my
| friends and I plus has been fun to build.
| joshlemer wrote:
| Is www.pigeon.ooo a typo? Doesn't seem to go anywhere
| ekglimmer wrote:
| Nope! Nothing there yet, I just get a kick out of the domain
| and wanted to share it, even if a bit premature.
| mcsniff wrote:
| You should add a clickable link. Also, it seems to just lead to
| a placeholder page as though it was just registered.
|
| http://www.pigeon.ooo
| ekglimmer wrote:
| Thank you! I would do if it wasn't just the place holder
| page. I just like the domain name we chose, I have clarified
| in the original comment.
| cmdli wrote:
| Bulwark Passkey: https://bulwark.id
|
| It is an open source passkey manager that allows you to export
| your passkey credentials in an open format. I built it because I
| think passkeys are much better than passwords, but all the
| currently proposed solutions (like Apple and Google) lock your
| login credentials to the device, which is a non-starter for me.
|
| It doesn't make any money, but I personally wanted it to exist,
| so now it exists. I'm hoping that it will help open source
| passkeys to take off.
| iSoron wrote:
| Loop Habit Tracker: https://github.com/iSoron/uhabits
|
| Open-source Android app for creating and maintaining long-term
| positive habits. We have more than 5 million downloads, but zero
| revenue and near zero recurring costs (no servers, since the app
| is offline-only for privacy reasons).
| joovuu wrote:
| https://heylaing.com - just here to help you practice your
| language. I got frustrated not being able to properly practice
| Spanish, especially for listening and speaking and did not have
| time to find a practice partner so started to create something
| that would allow me to practice my language skills in a more
| realistic setting....heyLaing was born. There's a whole lot more
| to the story but that's the tl;dr.
|
| It was great for me to learn how to code and design. I've always
| been able to code a little bit but this was my first real
| product. I realised I still suck at both coding and design but
| it's helped me so much, and helped me learn Spanish far better.
| It costs me about $5 a month to run this on a droplet from
| Digital Ocean.
|
| It's been great for my mental health and also concentration, i
| love putting my Product Manager hat on and solving the 'problem'
| and then figuring out how I am going to code it.
|
| I also now get about 1-3 new sign ups a day since 'launching'
| with a few posts on reddit a few months ago.
| mfrisbie wrote:
| https://www.trackandtrace.tools/
|
| Open source Chrome extension for Metrc, the primary cannabis
| track and trace platform in the US.
|
| It's free to use, but I'm proud to say that a significant slice
| of the cannabis industry uses this tool daily when reporting
| their business's cannabis activity.
| notShabu wrote:
| [dead]
| thomaslord wrote:
| Disclaimer: This project isn't currently publicly available.
|
| I was using Simple as my primary bank, and their Goals feature
| made it possible to do envelope-style budgeting really
| conveniently. Unfortunately the bank that backed them, BBVA, sold
| to PNC. This lead to my Simple being shut down, and my account
| was converted first to a BBVA account and then to a PNC account.
|
| When I lost access to the Simple app I first built myself a
| spreadsheet, and then started work on a webapp called Complex to
| replicate their functionality. Currently you have to enter all
| transactions manually, but I eventually plan to integrate with
| Plaid so I can automatically pull in transaction data. Without
| automatic transaction imports, I'd say Complex currently falls
| about halfway between the original Simple app and a spreadsheet
| in terms of convenience/ease-of-use.
|
| I don't have any kind of business model for this, but if I
| eventually make it public I'll probably charge a monthly fee to
| allow automatic transaction imports so I can cover Plaid's fees.
| There's not much server load required to run something like this,
| so I expect I'll be able to keep server costs below $20/month
| even if I pick up a couple hundred active users.
| scrollaway wrote:
| Share your email somewhere, or send me one (cf profile). I'm
| working on an app which you could be interested in :)
| kolanos wrote:
| A Plaid developer account is free and will let you connect to
| up to 5 bank accounts.
| Calvin02 wrote:
| Yes, but it also comes with giving Plaid all the data and
| history about your bank account transactions.
| phoenixy1 wrote:
| It's 5 by default, but you can actually connect up to 100
| accounts for free if you submit a request for full
| development access.
| hacker-brews wrote:
| Man I miss Simple. I'm honestly shocked and saddened that
| nothing took its place, though they were a major pain about
| getting my wife an account so we could join finances and then
| they closed a few months after I switched away.
| reilly3000 wrote:
| Check out Finta.io it's a nice simple service by a solo hacker
| and could be a great partner. She wraps Plaid and streams it to
| popular destinations like Sheets and Coda, where users are
| given some starter content in their account and are free to go
| from there. Check it out, the connector is slick, but the
| budgeting and analysis tools aren't there yet.
| toyg wrote:
| You'd be competing with the likes of YNAB, that provide a lot
| of features already today (including auto-import in most
| countries). Tough job.
| downrightmike wrote:
| YNAB is too much hassle
| jetrink wrote:
| YNAB is $100/year and though it is polished and well-
| designed, it's a pretty simple system that hasn't changed
| much recently. I think there's a lot of room to compete on
| price, particularly for users like me who still enter all of
| their transactions manually.
| lancesells wrote:
| I won't use Plaid to connect bank accounts so entering
| transactions manually would be my use-case. There are some of
| us out there. :)
| zbhoy wrote:
| Have you heard of the Lunchmoney app? I found it recently and
| find it to be a nice in-between of spreadsheet and full
| automated budget app. Plus it pulls transactions in
| KevinUK wrote:
| https://okzest.com
|
| My brother and I have built a tool aimed at email marketers,
| allowing them to create images with merge tag information on top.
|
| We are at $0 and now know why you should start marketing on day
| 1, this marketing stuff is hard!
|
| We have a solid MVP and there are so many possibilities to
| improve / expand the target market.
|
| Future versions could show a retailers best selling product and
| have the image dynamically change to 'low in stock', 'sold out'
| etc. If a retailer has multiple stores, we could show information
| specific to the closest store to you.
|
| We want to get some customers and let them help guide the
| roadmap.
| [deleted]
| yayo88 wrote:
| Chargabull - EV advertising
|
| https://www.chargabull.com
|
| We want to bridge the gap between local communities and EV
| chargers in the UK.
|
| We will install the charger for free and subsidise the
| electricity from local companies advertising on the screens.
|
| Anyone can buy an advertising slot on demand and then update
| content instantly via WebSockets and out android platform.
|
| We have built a programmatic DOOH platform by accident - had no
| idea about that space.
|
| Currently have 2 on trial and hope to get 25-50 installed this
| year
| codeapprove wrote:
| CodeApprove: https://codeapprove.com
|
| Basically CodeApprove is a code review UI for power users to
| layer on top of GitHub. I find that it really resonates with
| people who have worked at Google/Facebook/etc before and find
| Github's code review tools really lacking. You get conversation
| resolution tracking, auto-assignment of reviewers between
| 'turns', a personalized inbox, and a dense/fast UI with keyboard
| shortcuts for almost everything.
|
| (Note: I do have some users, but I just got out of alpha mode
| haven't yet charged any of them. I will get my first $ at the end
| of this month)
| nicoco wrote:
| Slidge, XMPP gateways to IM walled gardens: https://slidge.im
|
| 0$ a month and no plan to grow.
|
| XMPP is considered dead by many but I enjoy using it and bridging
| other IM services to it is fun. It helps me writing less crappy
| code at my day job, where I'm not a dev but rather a data
| scientist or something like that.
|
| For fun I also made it a way to receive notifications on replies
| to my HN comments.
|
| I'd be thrilled to receive contributions and feedback. ;-)
| yekm wrote:
| Not really expecting a revenue, just hacking around.
|
| Almost all grateful dead and Jerry Garcia concerts in telegram
| https://t.me/gdvault it would be nice if someone can remake all
| of it because it ended up quite ugly with song listings and
| overall structure. It's all in bash and code quality is quite
| bad, but I can throw it on GitHub of somebody interested.
|
| Xscreensaver with imgui https://github.com/yekm/imscreensaver
| only one for now, made it in a weekend just to proof of the
| concept. Help wanted
| jrochkind1 wrote:
| Not actually a profit-making thing, but a "community service"
| side project I work on is this, a Ruby community news and blog
| RSS/Atom feed aggregator:
|
| https://rubyland.news/
| pesfandiar wrote:
| https://javascript.onl/
|
| Wondered a while ago if I could make a static website where you
| could solve interview-style JavaScript problems in the browser.
| It uses web workers and local storage. There are Amazon affiliate
| links on the website for some books, but the account is
| suspended. It's hosted on GCP and I lose a few cents a month to
| keep it up.
| dgaff wrote:
| I run a ton of things! The one I work on most right now is
| International Persuasion Machines: https://ipm-corporation.com/
|
| The product, as it is right now, is a battery of tests of
| different browser configurations used by bot-makers, targeted at
| a URL, and then a ton of measurement around the cost of different
| theoretical implementations, which implementations are able to
| get through to a site, common themes among current working
| attacks, and how far into your stack bad requests might get. As
| an example, here's a scan of Kelley Blue Book, which I imagine
| tons of scrapers hit regularly: https://vulnerability-
| assessor.ipm-corporation.com/dashboard...
| orhunp_ wrote:
| CoolModFiles: https://coolmodfiles.com/ (just awaiting
| sponsorships)
|
| CoolModFiles is a web player that will introduce you to the most
| obscure and legendary tracks hosted on the internet's biggest
| module archive, modarchive.org!
|
| The web player works by simply fetching a random module from
| modarchive.org and playing it. No black magic involved!
|
| The idea for CoolModFiles originated among two programmer friends
| who used to send mod files to each other, which lead to the
| creation of a personal mod archive - one which had hundreds of
| cool modules at the time! Being in possession of those rare works
| of art (all the way from 80s!) was a privilege... When the
| awesome tracks started piling up, however, it naturally brought
| about a storage problem. The solution was simple: using a web
| archive!
|
| The programmer friends' idea, unfortunately, was beaten by
| modarchive.org many years ago. Realizing how unnecessary creating
| another internet archive was, the project evolved into a cool web
| player instead. A group of 3 came together to create what is
| known today as CoolModFiles.com. With it's modern look, it
| continues to surface thousands of long-forgotten mod files to
| introduce newer generations to the world of old-school digital
| music.
| MrGilbert wrote:
| I love that interface. <3
| trompetenaccoun wrote:
| Great!
| kayge wrote:
| Nice work, I hope you find that sponsorship!
|
| Feature request: button/key to randomly swap through those
| awesome backgrounds :)
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| AWESOME
| mark_mcnally_je wrote:
| My Youtube channel:
| https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiInY8BhSUtCarO6uu6i_g Videos
| about Linux and tech in general, I try and be entertaining as
| well as educational!
| ja3k wrote:
| I wrote a children's book: https://www.amazon.com/Exponential-
| Growth-Babies-Jake-Koenig... The subject matter may appeal to any
| parents here.
|
| For a bit I had google ads on my blog: https://ja3k.com but I
| only made $15 in a couple months so now I just have an ad for my
| book on my blog posts.
| Lapz wrote:
| Movienight: https://getmovienight.app/
|
| It's a chrome extension plus mobile companion app that adds
| social commentary to Netflix (We'll add support for other
| streaming services later). Reason for building this, was well we
| had an idea so why not build it :)
|
| Have launched it with friends and family and got positive
| reception. Won't see this making any money but the process of
| going from idea to reality has taught us a LOT.
| adamcharnock wrote:
| The ISP I started: https://gardunha.net/en/
|
| Currently looses money and causes me stress, but it is pretty
| cool.
| joouha wrote:
| I'm working on a TUI Jupyter Notebook editor, euporie, which
| allows you to run and edit Jupyter Notebooks in the terminal:
|
| https://github.com/joouha/euporie
|
| It's useful for editing and running notebooks on remote servers
| over SSH, or inside containers where setting up port forwarding
| is not possible or too difficult, or if you just like working in
| the terminal.
|
| It's open-source, and I have no idea how I would go about
| monetizing it!
|
| I've spent a lot of time recently working on euporie's HTML
| renderer, which I'm planning on using to make a new terminal web-
| browser.
| michaelmior wrote:
| This is incredibly cool. Unfortunately, I don't think it's
| something I would pay for. But the bit I tried out seems great!
| I like to live in the terminal and this seems like a nice way
| to keep doing so :)
| l-portet wrote:
| Impressive. I started working on a similar project, it's a
| NodeJS debug environment embedding a console, a debugger, and
| network & performance analysis tools. A bit like the browser
| dev tools but in the terminal.
|
| Hope mine will reach the same maturity someday!
| jkingsman wrote:
| Nobody.live: https://nobody.live/
|
| Filterable interface for finding streamers with zero (or one, for
| StreamLabs etc.) viewers. Surprisingly intimate, in my opinion.
|
| I run it at (little) cost but got some solid coverage:
| https://www.pcgamer.com/this-website-only-shows-you-twitch-s....
| davely wrote:
| This is just so wholesome. I love it. And that's gotta be a
| cool thing for someone to randomly get a viewer. I know when I
| randomly stream (only when I play MSFS...), it's really cool to
| get even one viewer! (It's usually zero)
|
| It reminds me of a similar site for YouTube awhile back that
| would show you videos with zero views[1].
|
| [1] http://www.petittube.com/
| sandermvanvliet wrote:
| RoadCaptain: https://roadcaptain.nl/
|
| It's an add-on to Zwift that lets you create your own custom
| routes and not be limited to the fixed ones offered by Zwift.
|
| I've been working on this for a little over a year and I've had
| some good reactions from folks using it.
|
| Even so, apart from one person sponsoring me on GitHub with a
| one-off that's it money wise. I've been toying with the idea of a
| paid version but no clue if that's even worthwhile to do.
| ReflectedImage wrote:
| League of Legends Build Generator: https://www.lolsolved.gg It's
| generic algorithm based.
| itake wrote:
| Mastodon for Business: https://calmguava.com
|
| I am helping businesses manage their online identity on the
| Mastodon network. I literally started on this project 3 weeks ago
| and am still refining the marketing strategy.
| ChrisKingWebDev wrote:
| My pandemic project is VanWalks. It's a walking tour app of
| Vancouver. There are currently 5 routes around the downtown area.
| Working on a freemium model, Chinatown and Coal Harbour are free,
| the rest are in app purchases.
|
| Available in both app stores and the site is vanwalks.ca
|
| I'm currently working on making a web version of the app because
| my sales model is in a very grey area as to what Apple allows in
| their store. I want to be prepared in case Apple takes my app
| down.
|
| I'm working with the BC Entertainment Hall of Fame to provide a
| free walking tour of the Star Walk on Granville Street. I'm also
| working with the Vancouver Police Museum to digitize the walking
| tours that they offer and have them in the app as part of your
| admission to the museum. Those will both be launched this spring.
| patchorang wrote:
| I just made this drum machine the other day to learn some modern
| webdev stuff. - https://beatmaker.adammenz.com/
| NotYourLawyer wrote:
| I have a wildly unprofitable side hustle as a cattle rancher.
| Whatever, it's fun.
| redconnors wrote:
| [dead]
| chedoku wrote:
| Chedoku Puzzles: https://www.chedoku.com If you like chess, you
| may like this too :)
| rsanek wrote:
| Spotify + Anki is an app that helps you learn to recognize songs
| directly within the Anki flashcard program. It's based upon an
| integration with your personal Spotify account, and uses your
| followed artists to generate Anki cards. The card itself triggers
| playback of a given song (at a random location) on your device
| and asks you to recall the artist.
|
| There's a demo video on the homepage: https://www.zdone.co/
| aczerepinski wrote:
| I've made roughly -$400 so far from my jazz sticker business,
| https://www.jazzstickers.com. Not trying to make money, only to
| roughly break even and make more of my ideas happen.
| zadjii wrote:
| This isn't public yet, and almost feels like the kind of thing
| I'll never ship.
|
| I've been working for a while now on the idea of a card / board
| game. The concept was bouncing around in my head for a while, and
| I started taking a lot more notes on the idea after my second kid
| was born (4mos ago). All of a sudden, I had a lot of time to sit
| quietly in a dark room with my laptop (and help the kiddo get to
| sleep). I eventually came up with a list of ~200 cards for the
| game, about 4 different decks, all stored in a big-ol spreadsheet
| I'd been editing on my phone (as I pace to get him to sleep).
|
| But eventually with the idea, I kind of got it as far as I could
| with my mind's eye, and had to start actually playtesting. That
| would be practically impossible for me. There just isn't the time
| in my life right now to set up a small board game, play through
| it, take notes, and iterate on the balance.
|
| So what did I do? I took that spreadsheet, dumped it to JSON,
| wrote a script to convert the JSON to placeholder .pngs of each
| card, and then built a dummy webapp with a canvas to simulate a
| virtual tabletop. Yes, I could have used TTS or something
| similar, but I felt the inner loop of changing the stats for
| cards, re-exporting them, then removing them and re-adding them
| wouldn't scale well.
|
| This has ended up working great! I've been able to play through
| my game 20+ times now, all with a sleeping baby in my arms. I
| don't need to worry about leaving the game out on the table (for
| the 2 year old to find) - it's all just saved on my laptop. I
| don't need to futz with re-printing cards any time I want to
| change things, I just edit the "database" and reload.
|
| I finally feel happy enough with the balance to show friends and
| family, which I thought would be a pipe dream just 3 months ago.
| captn3m0 wrote:
| For playtesting, this might be helpful:
| https://boardgamelab.app/
| Cardinal7167 wrote:
| Funny, I did almost the exact same thing for a MTG app I've
| been working on, and similarly also started messing with the
| idea of using the same software to soft launch my own rtcg. I
| would be very interested to see how you did yours.
| zadjii wrote:
| Honestly, I would almost rather _not_ share the code, because
| it's Bad. Like, I just have one big <canvas> element and
| redraw all the entities (cards, tokens, etc) anytime there's
| input. It's got terrible performance for being what it is.
|
| I'd kinda rather that no one in their right mind copy what I
| did.
| ssgodderidge wrote:
| * slowly chants in the background *
|
| ship-it-ship-it-ship-it-ship-it!
| zadjii wrote:
| <3
|
| Maybe I'll make a writeup and post it to HN. That's the least
| I could do haha
| thrtythreeforty wrote:
| You should post a screenshot of this!
|
| I'm also impressed you're able to edit while dealing with a
| fussy baby; I find it impossible to be productive on a
| smartphone, and my son wouldn't go to sleep if I was standing
| at my workstation (keyboard noises and the screen are too
| interesting).
| zadjii wrote:
| It's a very careful balance haha. I mostly just do
| spreadsheet updates on my phone at this point. I've got a
| very delicately balanced laptop next to the rocking chair, so
| I basically use a pillow to support the baby in one arm, and
| work with the other.
|
| It's been an _incredibly_ slow process, as you might imagine
| :p
| sophrocyne wrote:
| Stumbled on someone's workflow for creating AI cards/tabletop
| materials using stable diffusion:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsTQY3VMJ78
|
| Might be interesting to you for playtesting when you want to
| show to others! Good luck on the game - I'm a big
| tabletop/board game nerd, so would love to play it once you get
| the game ready!
| zadjii wrote:
| Holy GOD that's way better than anything I have. I'm
| definitely gonna follow that, thanks for the link.
|
| Ultimately, I'd want to have the art _not_ AI generated, but
| for the sake of prototyping, I could care less :)
| myspeed wrote:
| https://mingleview.com Free meeting software (10$ per month for
| servers. No paid users.
|
| https://myspeed.ai Gives speed & signal quality of wifi/mobile.
| 30$ monthly on servers. No revenue so far
|
| https://zerofilterselfies.com Patented AI based Android app to
| take quick selfies. No paid users. No ad revenue.
| packetlost wrote:
| I have 2 projects that I'm looking to eventually adapt into a
| database backend that's API compatible with RocksDB (with
| enhancements!). The first of which is a Extendible Hashing
| Implementation in Rust (it was my first attempt at Rust, so it's
| kinda messy): https://github.com/chiefnoah/MehDB
|
| It achieves very promising performance (~1m writes/s, ~5m
| reads/s) for u64 sized types, which will eventually be an offset
| into a log. The core c oncept here is that it's O(1) for all
| inserts and queries with bounded database reads. The performance
| characteristics are not favorable for small datasets, but very
| favorable for large ones. However I _have_ to use hash digests as
| pseudokeys for values, which will always have the potential for
| collisions. To get around this, I plan to use 128b or larger
| (256b) hash sizes. Right now it 's just u64 for simplicity.
|
| The other is a similar concept using modified B+Trees that have
| subtrees for all writes to a record:
| https://github.com/chiefnoah/hist-prototype
|
| This one is implemented in Python for fast iteration, as I
| realized I wasn't happy with how fast I could iterate with Rust.
| This one is, IMO, a more complete approach towards full
| historical query-capable systems. I'm slowly chipping away at it,
| though I haven't had progress lately. I spend no real money to
| host them, just the code, though I'm certain I've shortened the
| life of my NVMe drives due to writing and rewriting large files
| for testing.
|
| My ultimate goal with these is to build a general purpose KV
| store that can query the entire state of the system at a given
| point in time (either timestamp, or a TX increment) for the
| purposes of enhancing graph databases for temporal analysis.
| sovok wrote:
| https://font2png.com to create PNGs from icon fonts like Font
| Awesome. SVGs are usually the way to go, but sometimes you need a
| PNG. A previous tool that did the same went away, so I built my
| own.
|
| Also https://frt.rip, a whoopie cushion with spatial audio,
| because I had the domain lying around.
|
| Both don't make money, but they also have no users besides myself
| so they can run on my cheap server for free basically.
| sberens wrote:
| I'm not really trying to make money on it, but nevertheless I'm
| losing ~$55/mo running https://www.dailycodeforces.com.
|
| It's kind of ridiculous that's what it costs just to run a
| service that sends a daily email to its users.
|
| The price breakdown is $20/mo for sendgrid, $15/mo for hosted
| postgres, and $20/mo for vercel pro so my cron job doesn't time
| out (pro gives upgrades you from 10 seconds of execution time to
| 60 seconds).
| lrobinovitch wrote:
| https://thermalmodel.com/
|
| A web tool for simple thermal analysis/modeling. Connect nodes
| together, classify as conductive/convective/radiative, set their
| thermal properties and plot their temperatures and heat transfer
| over time.
|
| Free and open source.
| bovem wrote:
| My blog: https://www.bovem.in/, I've started/restarted (used to
| write on medium before: https://bovem.medium.com/) recently.
| mikkelpaulson wrote:
| initiative.sh[0], a web-based text interface for creative D&D
| play. After a promising response on HN[1], I had hoped that I
| might be able to monetize the project, but traffic has since
| crashed to almost nothing. I would say that after six months of
| full-time development it is about halfway to being complete as a
| freemium product, so instead I've opted to open-source it.[2]
|
| It turns out that the challenge with launching a freemium product
| is that you need something that's both useful as a free tool
| while _also_ having a compelling value-add for paid users. That
| 's a lot for one person to build. I don't think I'll be aiming
| for that monetization strategy with future projects.
|
| I have to confess that I'm (barely) missing the qualifying income
| bracket - some kind soul is supporting me for $5/mo on
| buymeacoffee.[3]
|
| [0] https://initiative.sh/
|
| [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29106581
|
| [2] https://github.com/initiative-sh/initiative.sh/
|
| [3] https://www.buymeacoffee.com/initiative
| DeltaCoast wrote:
| Nice work! Saw your previous post about jumping to doing your
| own thing full time in 2021, kudos on shipping.
| mikkelpaulson wrote:
| Thanks, I appreciate the support.
| mattbee wrote:
| https://guestrevenue.com/ - an tool to integrate Airbnb bookings
| into Xero for short let owners who want really precise accounts.
| Built for myself, turned into a multi-tenant app because in 2019
| it would definitely make me rich.
|
| I have one user called Todd. He seems lovely but I don't have the
| heart to charge him because then he'd expect it to work. Everyone
| else has bounced off because they are weak. Actually I might have
| more users who just never got in touch; I haven't checked, but
| I'm pretty sure it can't be abused for Bitcoin mining. Maybe Todd
| is just the strongest of them - he doesn't mind downloading CSVs
| and trimming off the rows that cause mysterious 500 errors. It's
| a test of character. Maybe it is being used for Bitcoin mining
| and works anyway?
|
| I maintain it because it's a lot less painful than typing 300
| bookings a year manually, but a lot more painful than if someone
| else would just do it for me. It's probably not a business, but
| if you disagree you can have it for PS100,000 - a high multiple
| you say - but you can't put a price on potential.
| collingreen wrote:
| :D this is great
| binarymax wrote:
| I launched one of my games http://anagramica.com in 2013, and has
| negative revenue and zero maintenance requirements. It's on an
| ancient cloud instance. It has an active API that powers several
| other games (probably more than I'm aware of!). It's so old that
| it predates free SSL certs like letsencrypt, and I don't care
| enough to spend the time on wiring it up.
|
| I'm also hesitant to post it here because I don't want it to go
| down if it gets too much traffic!
| notpushkin wrote:
| I'm making a PaaS thingy / Docker Swarm GUI called Lunni. It
| helps startups, small businesses, and self-hosting enthusiasts
| deploy and manage apps on their own server: https://lunni.dev/
|
| I've done a Show HN last month [1], but it didn't get any
| traction (well, apart from 4 upvotes!). Perhaps because I didn't
| really capture what the project is about. I've reached out to
| dang and he gave some really valuable feedback (thank you!) and
| encouraged me to try again, but I'm still overthinking stuff :')
|
| I've also got an email from Rishi with Pioneer [2], saying I've
| got a fast track to their accelerator program. I'm still looking
| into that but I've tried their Tournament thing and got some nice
| and encouraging feedback from other founders.
|
| Overall, I'm not sure where this project gets me but even if we
| don't get any revenue at all, the experience of working on a
| passion project full-time is really nice.
|
| [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34068557
|
| [2]: https://pioneer.app/
| dhruvsanchety13 wrote:
| www.pagesxyz.com
|
| A database of 70000 startups sortable and searchable by
| investors, valuation, funding amounts, funding dates etc.
| MattDemers wrote:
| I've launched a Substack about two topics, and I currently have
| no paid subscribers, but a sick URL. https://mattd.substack.com
|
| I have two sections:
|
| "Linked" is about our relationship with the Internet. I found
| that I wanted to do more writing about Internet culture that's
| fallen out of favour (forums, gaming clans) and also how people
| are using the Internet to enable their dreams (Twitch, "wanting
| to be an Influencer") and the psychology behind that.
| https://mattd.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-mmr-i-want-self-est...
|
| "Ranked" is about competitive psychology, self-esteem, and people
| who play multiplayer video games to make a number (their skill
| rating) go up or down. This includes chess, and my own
| experiences trying to be more comfortable "learning by losing." A
| pretty apt headline is "I don't want MMR, I want self-esteem."
| https://mattd.substack.com/p/i-dont-want-mmr-i-want-self-est...
|
| If those are things that interest you, I'm going to be publishing
| 1-2 times a week, as well as other stuff (thoughts on media,
| manga, anime, TV, etc) in a third "everything else" section.
|
| I've been blogging for over 10 years, but I've always resisted
| centralization, and that's kind of hurt my ability to grow. After
| running Patreons, multiple blogs and other venues, this is my
| attempt to go "Okay Matt, everything's in one place, stop adding
| so much overhead when all you need to be doing is _writing._
|
| Even posting on this thread is really difficult for me in terms
| of getting over the self-promotion hump, but I'm hoping I can
| learn and grow as a person as I do it.
| rbanffy wrote:
| https://github.com/rbanffy/3270font
|
| Being distributed with Debian and downstreams, 11 years old, with
| 1.5K stars and 60+ forks is, by far, my most popular open source
| thing. My biggest shame is that it's not software, but a font
| that mimics the look of IBM's 3278-2 terminals.
|
| And, of course, it's the font I use for terminals on all my
| machines.
| bit_nomad wrote:
| MyWallAI: https://mywallai.com
|
| Premise: Interior design tool that helps decorate your walls,
| like how a space in the living room wall would look if it had a
| floating shelf, wallpaper, mirrors, etc
|
| Working on improving the renders and experimenting with custom
| models for better results
| kept3k wrote:
| 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 :)
| jwl49 wrote:
| eachrecipe.com
|
| You guessed it, another recipe indexer. This is less of a side
| project and more of just something I did for fun and to learn
| rails and some other technologies.
| phototheory wrote:
| https://www.chive.dev/
|
| A cross-platform desktop app that allows you to play local audio
| files, organize them into playlists, and apply equalizer
| filters/change speed.
|
| Still in alpha, working on some final features before I "truly"
| ship it
| wiradikusuma wrote:
| Momenial https://momenial.com -- a mobile app for creating
| certificates for webinar attendees.
|
| Currently making $0/mo. I'm actually building this app as a "case
| study" for my upcoming book, an _opinionated_ guide to building
| mobile apps, from ideation, dev, ops, and marketing. I 've been
| blessed with working at various company sizes and wearing
| multiple hats: founder of two failed startups, VP Eng at a telco
| and a large retail conglomerate, and now CTO of a medium-sized
| fintech.
|
| The book won't promote microservice, Kubernetes or anything
| Google-level. It's a modern-but-practical guide "for the rest of
| us". If this sounds interesting, please create an account in
| Momenial--I will send updates about the book there (because it
| doesn't have a landing page).
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Strong concept. One of my clients does CE training and I
| currently have to create new PDF certificates whenever they
| create a new course or move info a new state. Have you thought
| about casting this as a simple API and charging devs like me
| for it? I would just pass along the cost to the client, maybe
| with a bit of a markup. Or maybe even better (for you), I'd
| instruct the client to bank $10 at a time with you (recharge
| their account) and maybe that would allow me to generate 100
| certs (or whatever makes sense here) before they have to
| recharge and deposit more.
| hbroek wrote:
| I developed and run Wordrow+ a word puzzle game in HTML5. A mix
| between Wordle and Tetris. So far costed me money on app
| developer licenses and buying an Android phone to test the
| Android version (in progress)
|
| https://wordrow.fun.
| securingsincity wrote:
| https://molasses.app
|
| Feature flags as a service. People use it but not necessarily
| making money right now
| ArcaneMoose wrote:
| Really simple hobby project I built at one point:
| https://hotkeyplayer.com/
|
| Map Spotify playlists to hotkeys so you can quickly launch them -
| intended use was for my D&D games - being able to quickly switch
| the mood from exploring a cave to being ambushed! :)
| flexer2 wrote:
| NoraSector: https://app.norasector.com/ -- real-time
| police/fire/EMS scanner for the Seattle area. Uses custom SDR
| software that can capture entire radio systems and streams with
| sub-second latency to clients, along with recordings.
|
| For all sorts of reasons I decided not to monetize it. I've had
| some inquiries to use it for newsrooms and in certain states that
| have laws that require radio traffic be published online. I
| explored some of that but could never come to agreement on a
| price that would be worth my time to support. I also considered
| monetizing with ads and having a premium membership, but it's a
| little too niche and expanding to more regions requires more
| investment than I'm willing to make.
|
| King County is migrating to a new digital system in the near
| future, and if they encrypt everything then it's dead in the
| water anyway.
|
| Costs me about $200/mo in hosting fees to run, plus about $1400
| for the machine/SDR that captures the radio traffic. I use it
| myself and don't mind sharing it with the handful of people who
| listen to it. If/when the access is cut off, I'll shut it down.
| acidx wrote:
| Lwan: https://lwan.ws
|
| Been working on this for exactly 11 years today! It's just a
| webserver on the outside but it has become an umbrella for
| experimentation.
| rojobuffalo wrote:
| https://ryanblakeley.net/dogs - I train dogs part-time. I
| specialize in fixing extreme behavior problems, but I also do
| advanced training for dogs that are already well-behaved.
|
| I account it as less than breakeven because I do a lot of free
| sessions and give away equipment. I did not have a web page or a
| donation link setup for a long time. If I had someone video-
| taping sessions I think it would do a lot to showcase how I work,
| and how consistently I get results. But it seems hard to justify
| asking someone to spend time on that when there's so little
| revenue.
| ultra_nick wrote:
| We're building a general purpose AI Tutor chrome extension to
| make learning easier for everyone. It's like a ChatGPT that
| remembers what it taught you the previous semester. The dream is
| that students will be able graduate earlier because our AI
| integrated multiple courses for them. Our first prototype will be
| out by February.
|
| https://conceptionary.app/
|
| Follow us on LinkedIn if you'd like to get an update when we
| launch. https://www.linkedin.com/mwlite/company/conceptionary
| breadchris wrote:
| Cook Wherever: https://cookwherever.com/
|
| Cooking is hard. I want to cook more but I am usually too hungry
| to focus. I am building a site to help you with all stages of
| cooking, not just showing you ingredients and directions.
|
| I have also realized the knowledge I have amassed for the "why"
| of cooking helps me cook without needing recipes mostly. I use
| ML/NLP to extract entities from ingredients and directions so
| contextual information can be provided to someone who is curious
| (ex. "you preheat your oven because ...")
|
| I really like content creators, but following videos while
| cooking is a no-go for my attention span. I'm working on it, but
| directions will work as time stamps into a video for a recipe.
|
| [1] https://github.com/cookwherever/cookwherever
| bilater wrote:
| Wordle Race: https://wordlerace.vercel.app/
|
| Just built this to get more familiar with Real Time tech (Use
| Supabase under the hood). In this version you and your opponent
| race to get the word while being able to see each others moves!
| This way you can use each others words to gain advantage. :)
|
| Would love for you all to try and appreciate any feedback. You
| can just create a room and invite anyone you want to play
| against.
|
| I have a lot more (unprofitable sigh) side projects I keep at:
| https://www.hackyexperiments.com/
| skytrue wrote:
| https://www.twitch.tv/watchmeforever - AI-generated (aside from
| the artwork) parody of '90s sitcoms, running forever (24/7/365).
|
| We worked on this w/ a very small team for the past four years,
| in-between our day jobs. When started, OpenAI didn't have an API,
| and Stable Diffusion definitely wasn't a thing, so we had to come
| up with novel methods to thread cohesive content together. Most
| of the "creative" details e.g., laugh track, dialogue, frequency
| of dialogue, camera shots, and so on, are all tunable on a per
| scene basis.
|
| We're in sort of a holding pattern right now -- no clear path to
| monetization for the project, and it hasn't garnered enough
| attention for us to probably get funding based on the technology
| backbone. Hope you enjoy it! Labor of love. :)
|
| (posted this in the similar thread yesterday but I'll take any
| exposure I can get...!)
| 1270018080 wrote:
| This is very unsettling to watch (a compliment)
| gigaflop wrote:
| I couldn't figure out how to link the comment, but it was at
| least 9 months ago I said this, and _someone was already
| working on it_?? SUPER cool!
|
| I feel like AI/ML and some pre-rigged models could be used to
| build a web-hosted sitcom. It would take a lot of technical
| work, and a lot of writing chops to make it watchable, but it
| could be done.
|
| Look at Space Ghost: Coast to Coast, a show that was made by
| reusing old animations. If someone writes a script (use humans
| for now), then the AI/ML can stitch together the animation.
|
| Once there's a corpus of material, start letting the AI
| determine plot points, and have humans vet and write it. Over
| time, let the AI take more and more control over the direction
| of the show, making sure to introduce new characters or events
| as needed.
| skytrue wrote:
| I think you rightfully pointed out the "watchable" criteria.
| This is where we got to with 4 years of working on-and-off on
| it. The hard part is continuing to iterate over the structure
| to make it passable as a sitcom. The easy part is actually
| the language model stuff... we have an OpenAI integration, I
| just don't keep it on because it's a lot of $$$. We have lots
| of ideas about how to expand the show's structure, but it's
| mostly backend work that we simply don't have the resources
| to finish right now.
|
| Luckily, our "goal" with this project was for it be
| nonsensical (hence the parody part), but I'd love to spin off
| a new show that focused on making it watchable for hours at a
| time. Our system is extensible enough that it wouldn't be
| hard to pop in new art assets and have a brand-new show in a
| month or two.
| gigaflop wrote:
| How do you generate your dialogue? Is it tuned as
| "conversation between characters", or was the model fed
| sitcom scripts?
| skytrue wrote:
| It was trained on sitcom scripts, and we feed the
| response back to the model as input to create an
| artificial sense of context.
| devrob wrote:
| This is hilarious! cool idea!
| nchudleigh wrote:
| https://superstrong.app
|
| Heavily inspired by other weightlifting trackers such as Strong
| and Hevy and can import your history from those apps.
|
| Includes a heatmap (similar to the github commit one) that shows
| your weekly history.
| https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_banners/2888157513/1674607291/...
|
| Its a mobile first PWA so you can install and get a very native
| feel, but also use on your desktop.
|
| Going to be adding sync with google sheets soon as well to allow
| for complex weekly programming (e.g. adjust weights based on last
| logged workout for a given template)
| hacker-brews wrote:
| Hacker Brews Coffee: https://hackerbrews.com
|
| I haven't put much at all into self-promotion or advertisement so
| it's mostly been a pet-project but 2023 will be a better year!
|
| Edit: 15% off for any HN-ers interested, use code HN15
| kidshenlong wrote:
| I absolutely love this. Roasting and serving my own coffee
| beans has been a dream of mine for many years.
|
| What does your setup look like? Are you roasting on a something
| super small?
| hacker-brews wrote:
| Thank you! I'm not self-roasting (not by choice), but working
| with a roaster to help with roasting and logistics. I got the
| idea from actually wanting to self-roast when I heard of a
| friend using a shared roasting space in San Diego to source
| green beans and do his own roasting without the upfront cost
| of buying equipment. Unfortunately nothing like that exists
| in my area of Tennessee but having a private relationship
| with a family owned roaster is the next best thing.
|
| I went through a few iterations of trying roasters and let me
| tell you, some were downright _bad_. I 'm happy to have found
| a partner that I actually enjoy the product of, even if it
| means slimmer margins.
| xythobuz wrote:
| https://www.xythobuz.de
|
| I don't have anything fancy to show, so here's a link to my
| personal website with all my projects.
| mindcrime wrote:
| This should be a regular feature on HN, somewhat akin to "Who's
| hiring?" and "Who wants to be hired?". Maybe not on a monthly
| basis, but it would be cool to see periodically on _some_
| cadence.
|
| There's a lot I could say on this topic, but TBH, I don't want to
| go into most of it in detail Right Now for various reasons. The
| main reason being simply that the side project stuff I might want
| to call attention to is largely not in the state where I'd want
| people looking at it right this minute. And the reasons for that,
| in turn, are manifold...
|
| The good news is, progress is being made, and I should have some
| projects ready to put "out there" kinda soon'ish. Yay for being
| vague, I know. But I've learned to be leery of making hard
| promises on stuff like this. So much shit happens that you can't
| control. See above about "manifold reasons".
|
| Anyway, we're not making any money yet... in fact, we've been
| losing money since day one, but thankfully the amount lost is
| relatively small since our expenses are small. Nothing that I
| can't just pay out of my $DAYJOB salary.
|
| All of that notwithstanding, if you want a somewhat outdated view
| of what I've been working on for a while, see:
|
| http://fogbeam.github.io/
|
| https://www.fogbeam.com/
|
| If things go well, this year will see lots of improvements to the
| underlying projects, videos, blog entries, and tutorials
| explaining how to use everything, and entirely new stuff not
| shown at the above links - as well as finally having everything
| available in SaaS form.
|
| Sadly my backlog of "ideas to implement" remains far larger than
| my bandwidth for implementing stuff, so FSM only knows if/when
| some of the stuff I want to do will ever see the light of day.
|
| NOTE: the "demo" links you may find if you click through the
| above links are offline at the moment. I'm in the middle of a big
| infrastructure migration / automation effort; moving a lot of
| stuff from Linode and "other" to OVH, consolidating DNS at Route
| 53, automating deployments with Ansible, etc. And one thing that
| hasn't been done yet is to bring up the new demo server(s).
| catuscubitus wrote:
| https://hbit.app
|
| I made this app to inspire people to habitually and spontaneously
| exercise and to be physically active as an integral part of life.
| You can use the app solo to discover and share new exercises. And
| you can use it with friends, family and colleagues to challenge
| each other and to battle it out in combat mode (competitions of
| who does more repetitions).
|
| Availability: Android and iOS
|
| Price: Currently free
|
| Cost to me: Time and effort to build, adjust and update the app.
|
| Why do it?
|
| Exercise and physical activity have a very positive impact on my
| life, especially mentally. I think that a lot of people tend to
| look at exercise as something that primarily benefits their looks
| though and hence as something they should be doing, without
| seeing much (if any) joy in it.
|
| Personally, I have no exercise goals, I don't schedule time to
| exercise, I don't look at exercise as something that I dread or
| have to do and I eat what I want and as much as I want. For me,
| the most important benefits of exercise and physical activity are
| that being physically active makes me feel good and that it
| clears my thinking. Physical fitness is merely a nice bonus that
| comes with it.
|
| So the aim of the Hbit project is to sway people's perception
| from exercise as a dreadful chore to exercise as playful fun.
| evtaylor wrote:
| Dollero - https://dollero.app/
|
| Dollero is a personal budgeting web app which doesn't store any
| of your budgeting data in the cloud. Instead your budget data is
| stored locally in your browser with IndexedDB and is synced peer
| to peer with your other devices using WebRTC. It's currently is
| free and makes no money although I would like to eventually
| charge a small monthly fee for syncing your budget between
| devices.
| nullfish wrote:
| 3D dice rolling with friends https://dddice.com
|
| Have some ideas on monetization in the future but for now it's
| just fun
| theappsecguy wrote:
| This is dope! Whats the tech stack behind it if you don't mind
| me asking?
| nullfish wrote:
| Thank you :)
|
| Laravel, MySQL (Planetscale), Redis. Hosted on fly.io
|
| Total monthly expenses is somewhere near $30/mo which is less
| than I've paid for personal hosting at times.
| code_Whisperer wrote:
| Very cool!
| nayuki wrote:
| My works over the years are accumulated on https://www.nayuki.io/
| . Lately I finished writing a new PNG library (
| https://www.nayuki.io/page/png-library ), and now I'm revamping a
| DEFLATE library ( https://www.nayuki.io/page/deflate-library-java
| ).
| lucasfcosta wrote:
| Ergomake: www.ergomake.dev
|
| Every time you open a pull-request, we give you a link to a
| preview environment.
|
| Think Vercel previews, but for everything.
|
| The setup takes a few seconds because we simply pick up a docker-
| compose file from your GitHub repo -- if it runs on your machine,
| it will run on Ergomake.
|
| We've got a working product, and we're now implementing billing
| and setting up free trials.
|
| If anyone is interested in chatting, I'd be happy to talk through
| what we do at lucas.costa at getergomake dot com (or fill out the
| form on the website -- no sales person will email you, it'll be
| me, an engineer, I promise).
| anthony88 wrote:
| Well, I started my project, a file manager in Java named Ant
| Commander, in 2003. It was a shareware. It never sold.
|
| Still didn't give up the project, as I use it every day. So last
| year I decided for a big refactoring (Ant Commander Pro) and to
| specialize it for developers.
|
| The beta is for free but then I'll be charging again.
|
| https://www.antcommander.com/
| MitchJohn wrote:
| https://conservationhub.nz/ - Very likely not applicable to
| anyone here because it's a very specific target market but I've
| been working on a platform that helps conservation groups in New
| Zealand record field data and work with local volunteers.
|
| A lot of conservation groups in New Zealand have a similar
| problem where they need to record their data on-site for bird
| monitoring, trapping, etc to get funding. Some went and built
| their own apps to achieve this, but I noticed the groups that did
| ending up spending tens of thousands building essentially the
| same thing with minor differences in the data captured. For a
| while I helped groups get set up on a low budget with existing
| tools but none were really customizable or intuitive enough for
| volunteers recording their data and admins managing that, so we
| ended up creating a web/mobile app for it instead.
| alexanderson wrote:
| https://thoriumsim.com
|
| A multiplayer spaceship bridge simulator game, where your crew
| each takes a different position on a futuristic spaceship,
| explore space, meet aliens, complete missions, and hopefully keep
| your ship in one piece!
|
| If you've ever played Artemis, Empty Epsilon, Starship Horizons,
| Star Trek: Bridge Crew, heck even SpaceTeam, this is in the same
| genre. It's pretty much Space DnD, with the option to have a Game
| Master role.
|
| Still under development, but by the time its done it'll have a 3D
| universe simulation, crew and ship systems simulation,
| interactive controls for a whole bridge of friends, and an
| interactive mission designer.
|
| I've got a handful of donations coming in through OpenCollective,
| but I just about break even with my hosting and Apple Developer
| program costs.
| ssgodderidge wrote:
| Glad you're still working on this, Alex! Keep it going
| daniel-cussen wrote:
| [dead]
| nzoschke wrote:
| JukeLab
|
| https://www.getjukelab.com/
|
| Free iOS, Android, web app that lets you build a DIY jukebox for
| a party.
|
| Curate a playlist of up to 100 records, and let your friends
| browse and queue their favorite songs.
|
| Total passion project. Mostly used for parties and events I host.
| But available for other music and retro experience nerds.
| mindwork wrote:
| I had the same idea for a startup. Never moved on it though. On
| a hackathon investor told me that it would be a mess to break
| in to music licensing for different companies
| singlemalt wrote:
| ShareClinic: https://www.share.clinic
|
| A pandemic project that was supposed to help people post better
| links on social media. Meaning if you post links to content that
| you are providing on e.g. Zoom, it doesn't populate your listing
| with the open graph images and text from https://zoom.us, but you
| can decide how you want to decorate your post with some relevant
| imagery and description.
| tendaikon wrote:
| [dead]
| connor11528 wrote:
| Employbl: https://www.employbl.com/ kinda embarrassing we're not
| making any money from it. Hopefully that'll change this year
| kashnote wrote:
| https://cubedesk.io - the chess.com of Rubik's cubes
|
| I started this as a side project about two years ago and now it
| has about 1k daily active users. Users time themselves solving
| the Rubik's cube, practice on the trainer, and 1v1 others.
|
| Technically, it's generating some money from the Pro feature, but
| not enough to run the servers. So I pay out of pocket every
| month. It has a lot of fans and supporters so I'd never shut it
| down, but it'd be nice to at least break even.
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| Browser Routr is my way of getting some sites to auto open in
| another browser: https://paulrrogers.com/products/browser-routr
| masukomi wrote:
| i gotta ask. Why didn't you just use Choosy or one of the many
| other apps that do this?
| paulryanrogers wrote:
| I tried many before building my own. None auto opened with a
| regular, left click on a link within a browser. They required
| right-click and picking from a prompt or clicks from outside
| the browser.
|
| Also wanted same app and config on Windows and MacOS.
| logicboard wrote:
| https://logicboard.com - a collaborative code editor, more like <
| $0/mo considering no revenue + AWS expenses :)
|
| I call it a side-project turned in to side-expense
| gnaman wrote:
| Watchflix: https://watchflix.group
|
| I made this extension to watch stuff together with my girlfriend
| during the pandemic. All the other extensions had a lot of flaws,
| didn't work with Prime and Disney+ Hotstar, so I decided to build
| one for my own use. I moved to the same city as my partner, so I
| don't have any use for it anymore. Few people still use this
| daily, so I'll probably let it run on my VPS as long as I can.
| tech234a wrote:
| You might be able to eliminate the VPS by making it P2P using
| something like PeerJS [1]. PeerJS provides a free shared
| connection broker server.
|
| [1]: https://peerjs.com/
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| PoachMe.Dev: https://www.poachme.dev/#/devLand?reqCode=HNGOBRRR
|
| Premise: Recruiters spam left and right, so we decided to create
| a website just so they could get a familiar calendar-like
| interface but asked them to pay for your time. As soon as we
| exposed the external version with the URL, we decided to make an
| automated template ("Great. Please book a slot on my calendar and
| we can chat more about this. You'll receive my resume upon
| confirmation of the booking. https://bk.poachme.dev/Lazaro").
| After that we ended up creating a virtual business card service
| so that could easily create a web presence without going through
| a different service (https://bk.poachme.dev/kBMf).
|
| Availability: Web
|
| Price: $0
|
| Cost: Nearly nothing, it just sits with my other hosted services.
|
| Why do it? Honestly, asking someone to pay for your time is the
| easiest way to see who values your time. The cost to send a
| single spam message to thousands of developers is nearly zero and
| it takes time to sort through the messages to see if there's
| anything good. I have had experiences going from blackmail all
| the way to people disclosing the actual salary for the position
| without any money exchanging hands which proves that when your
| time has value it's suddenly possible for the pay bracket for a
| position to appear.
| MattDemers wrote:
| Some feedback (not sure if this is on purpose):
|
| I'm using Brave, and I couldn't right-click to "Suggest a
| Strong Password" in your signup field. I've never had that
| happen with any other site before. No adblock or Shields up.
|
| Also I can't seem to confirm my membership.
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| Weird, I have never seen that dropdown option but I was able
| to do it (but I also sometimes get a "Suggest Password"
| option).
|
| We're mostly developer focused so that email/password signup
| is really for non-github users. I'll check it out.
| MattDemers wrote:
| Mm, okay. I tried signing up (I'm a marketing/community
| guy) and didn't use the Github sign-up. When I click the
| verification email link it just hangs on your logo.
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| That's no bueno but we are getting the HN hug of death.
|
| I see your account is created and ready to roll.
| devrob wrote:
| Reminds me of 21 Co's Earn Product RE pay for answering message
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| Goes to show nothing is truly unique in this world.
|
| We mostly just got fed up with spending hours on interviews
| where recruiters showed up late or just ghosted only to
| realize nothing materialized.
| PUSH_AX wrote:
| I really like this idea, where I'm from recruiters are the
| absolute worst.. Being that this is your app can you disclose
| that the model works? Like are people making some money with
| this? I'd hate to take this line and get no bites, or worse
| alienate myself from the opportunities.
|
| Edit: I just remembered the title of the thread :), I guess
| not?
| WrtCdEvrydy wrote:
| > get no bites, or worse alienate myself from the
| opportunities.
|
| Each person can do it however they see fit. I tend to use it
| as a way to get the critical info needed (company name,
| salary, remote or not). Recruiters who send me messages with
| enough info don't get a link from me. If you're still
| reluctant to give me enough info to make a decision can book
| at $100/hr, and about 5% of those book.
|
| It's up to you, if you're getting shitty recruiters, send me
| them the link.
| dennis_jeeves1 wrote:
| Great idea, you must pursue it. I too get a lot of recruiter
| spam. The idea should be extended to companies who take up
| several hours of your time to interview only to reject you.
| Life is short.
| gcampos wrote:
| How many users do you have right now?
|
| Last year I created a prototype of something very similar, the
| key difference was that the idea was to auto pre screen
| recruiters instead of ask for pay.
| [deleted]
| waingake wrote:
| https://truckm.app
|
| Find local food trucks. Now to convince food truck owners to use
| it ...
| zknill wrote:
| I made https://packagemap.co to help me visualise the class,
| method, and type usages in the codebases I work on.
|
| It comes with a parser you run on your machine which generates a
| graph of your code. On the site you can use the filter syntax to
| dig into the code.
|
| I find it hard to understand how code fits together in the
| traditional file-tree viewer that you get in GitHub or IDE, so
| the tool helps a lot in code review or exploring code.
|
| I've made $0 from it. But I suspect that's because no one really
| knows how it works or how to use it.
| seangransee wrote:
| Everyone Draw: https://everyonedraw.com
|
| I created a little experiment a few years ago to see what would
| happen if anyone in the world could draw pixel by pixel on an
| infinite, shared canvas.
|
| It has attracted a small community of fans who use it to relax
| and practice their drawing skills. The community has spawned some
| breathtaking pieces of collaborative art, including a world
| map[1], a galaxy[2], and a magic forest[3].
|
| There have been a few donations, but not nearly enough to cover
| all my costs. I'm fine running it at a loss while I have a job.
| This summer I plan to take some time off from full-time
| employment to travel the world, at which point I'll try to
| monetize this project to cover my travel expenses.
|
| [1] https://everyonedraw.com/1/-2564/-759
|
| [2] https://everyonedraw.com/2/9339/-7770
|
| [3] https://everyonedraw.com/1/40117/-40
| davely wrote:
| This is awesome! I love these sorts of creative community
| projects. Have you had to deal with trolls at all and how have
| you managed that?
| seangransee wrote:
| Oh, absolutely. The initial launch was a disaster because I
| had no way of dealing with trolls. I've learned a lot since
| then, and built a bunch of tools that moderators can use to
| clean up the damage caused by trolls.
| benstrumental wrote:
| Can you share more about what you learned about moderation?
| seangransee wrote:
| I learned how crucial moderation is for a community site
| like this. I originally hoped that the "good" users would
| overpower the trolls and create a self-sustaining
| community without any deliberate moderation. I was very
| wrong. I knew there were some people on the internet who
| like drawing penises and swastikas, but I totally
| underestimated the volume of these people.
|
| I also learned the importance of bringing on additional
| help. I naively thought I could do everything myself (and
| I still like flying solo on the development side), but
| bringing on a volunteer to help moderate the site and
| manage the community has been incredibly helpful.
| nasmorn wrote:
| You can sell loot boxes that contain different colors. Also
| sell finishing coats by the pixel. Once applied and dried
| (moderation) the underlying pixels can no longer removed.
| Thorentis wrote:
| Isn't this a copy of Reddit's April fools /r/pixel game?
| insane_dreamer wrote:
| Love it!
| jas- wrote:
| Kruptein: https://github.com/jas-/kruptein
|
| A node.js module which implements a standard API for symmetric
| encryption and does so by providing the requisite key derivation
| from a supplied secret, strong key and cipher selections,
| performs validate then decrypt of cipher text while supporting
| most language character sets and ASN.1 encoding ensuring
| compatibility with most if not all database engines.
|
| Used best practices documentation and am currently using famous
| cryptographers throughout history to name each release.
|
| Example: v3.0.4 Etienne Bazeries - He is best known for
| developing the "Bazeries Cylinder", and is described as "one of
| the greatest natural cryptanalysts the science has seen".
| ColeShepherd wrote:
| Interactive music theory lessons & exercises:
| https://falsetto.app/
|
| I tried to monetize the website a while ago but failed, and I
| realized it sucked the fun out of the project so I open-sourced
| it instead: https://github.com/ColeDeanShepherd/Falsetto
| grANDr wrote:
| https://mymood.today
|
| I don't make money from it. I was curios about how People around
| the world are feeling?! So I built that minimal website:
| mymood.today
| kpopdances wrote:
| [dead]
| tdjsnelling wrote:
| https://edalerts.app/
|
| A companion tool for the space sim game Elite Dangerous --
| useless to anyone that doesn't play the game. I have had a couple
| of donations from kind users.
| moomoo11 wrote:
| working on a project management software ._.
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