Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell These threads always pique my interest, and it's great to hear how people are innovating to make some extra income. Please share your new projects for 2018! |
Ask HN: Those starting new side projects in 2018 – Show and tell These threads always pique my interest, and it's great to hear how people are innovating to make some extra income. Please share your new projects for 2018! |
I'll be launching my mvp in the next month or two I hope!
https://travelalpacamybags.com
Been working on it on and off for about 6 months with my wife (I'm behind the tech, she's doing the trip planning/social media stuff). We're looking to officially launch within the next few weeks. We're starting out in the 2 person vacation niche, but looking to expand to other trip sizes and also to trips outside of the US later this year after launch. This will be my first B2C business, so excited for a little change of pace.
At the same time it looks very cookie cutter "2017 white diagonal popping colors". If that makes sense.
Still A+
- UI development in Javascript, using either custom React components or React-wrapped .qml components. You can use almost all of your beloved front-end library (react-redux, redux, redux-obserable, lodash etc.)
- Hot reload support! So no more `build/rebuild` in QtCreator (you still need to rebuild for C++ native components)
- Supports JS tools out of the box (React DevTools, Redux DevTools...)
- Use any programming languages to develop backend as long as it has binding with Qt (ie go-qml[2], qml-rust[3] etc.)
[1]: https://github.com/longseespace/react-qml
I started this in December 2017 as a side project but given its success it has now turned into almost a full-time job.
I guess this is unlimited the way my data plan is unlimited: with rate capping?
Turnaround is 1 to 3 working days depending on complexity of the landing page. So you can expect 7 to 20 landing pages per month. If you want to complete a full website with the same design guidelines that might be done quicker (for example if you want a Home, Pricing, About us page, this will be done much quicker than doing 3 different homepages). We also often have clients requesting us to work on separate design styles in parallel (they can decide to pick the landing page they love the most).
Here is a work in progress we're currently doing for a popular SaaS (like Buffer) so you can gauge the quality of our work: https://invis.io/ZXF811CP2
We also did a little bit of content marketing (Reddit, Indiehackers) which resulted in ~$2k MRR. We should normally hit $10k MRR and will launch a v2 of the site pretty site (right now it is just a landing page that I created in 5 hours to launch ASAP & let the market decide if our productized service was worth it!)
Next steps are to finish the plan for the mvp and then continue messing around. I also need to figure out the best input device for while in the gym and being quite sweaty; something wireless and somewhat rugged.
https://dzone.com/articles/virtually-cycling-the-alps-with-a...
I ended up using the ant+ dongle and connected straight to my laptop. Using the GPL code from GoldenCheetah for the handshakes -
https://code.google.com/archive/p/routeviewer-antplus-bike-c...
It was a nice project but refresh rates were too slow - i should have built trainerroad!
I keep thinking about doing the same with rasp pi and retropi, then use hr, or speed to control a game. but dont have time at the moment
Appreciate any feedback :)
Launched it a few days ago and already made me a few bucks.
https://callmeprivate.com - great for entrepreneurs, startups, and businesses; masks your real phone number behind a virtual number with incoming and outgoing call functionality.
https://textmeprivate.com - same as above, but SMS-virtual numbers only.
I've since built a feature so you can now use the same virtual number on both services.
Since release about a month ago, I've had over 50 signups, about 5 paying customers, and a company in China just recently contacted me and wanted to purchase numbers from Text Me Private in bulk, in order to receive confirmations from various websites, but were unable to do purchase numbers, as I hadn't taken into consideration that when I released these products into the wild, that they would make it all the way to China in just a month. China doesn't use the traditional credit card system. So I've agreed to build it in if they could give me a few days to do so.
Never know.... something you create could end up around the world... and more importantly, could be very valuable to a company in another country.
- [0] https://roadtoreact.com
- [1] https://bri.im
NOTE: the website was "heavily inspired by" (copied from) ZeroNet.io - I built the whole thing in 2 days, didn't have time to make my own.
The aim is to have it making some money, but I'd really appreciate any feedback on the copy, pitching, etc. Copy is NOT my strong point (though I'm learning).
Any feedback is welcome, but I'd primarily appreciate the following: - Framing/Pitching of the product - Copy - Product/idea itself - Should I continue developing it before I get email addresses?
Going to rework the landing page a bit to make it more benefit/monitoring oriented, I don’t think ‘testing’ is compelling enough as a keyword.
- Want My Body Back (wantmybodyback.com - not released yet) Nutrition and exercise tracking app, with motivational resources and social features, for people who want to get in shape and have a healthy lifestyle.
- Doer's Camp (doerscamp.com - not released yet) Personal development app. Habit tracking, goal tracking, quantified self tools, with motivational resources and social features.
logmyproperties.com - Empty atm. Going to be some kind of simple property management tool, to help me manage my rental property, track expenses and create reports for taxes.
I want to expand to also include interviews with developers who have made tools and libraries FOR React Native.
If you're interested in doing an interview, I'd be happy to talk to you.
I've put it online a few days ago but didn't do any 'launch' yet and I don't have the payment process implemented yet so feel free to use it for free until I get that done.
Later in 2018, I want to extend this to a custom t-shirts app.
Keepshelf is the note keeping/organizing app I've always wanted. Take notes with ease and copy/move into folders through a fast and convenient UI, instantly synced and accessible on all devises.
There's some demos which for instance will do class prediction (cat vs dog), but who needs that? I would love to see stuff like colorization working in a static webpage, at decent speeds (under 5 sec for a big image). It should also be easy enough that my mother could use it.
Anyone able to advise on the easier way to run it off solar power?
Automating support and marketing campaigns for multiple social media channels using easy to setup bots
Current stack: React, Express, Mongo. And we'll be happy for any feedback or subscriptions.
Currently iOS only: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/tormento/id1291133449
Still iterating copy of the website & interacting with new customers.
We are growth & maintenance as a service for app owners.