Ask HN: What is your side project for 2018?
I just started learning Developing application and I am looking for passive income ideas. I'm actively looking for income sources and my skills. I just launched https://www.cmyport.com/ as a side project and adding new feature soon. I am learning php/mysql and looking for suggestions.
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- A platform, where students and researchers can publish their notes: https://physicsnotes.org/
If it's simple enough, I don't bother Googling for a solution, I build it for them. Exactly as they request. Nothing more, nothing less.
Check us out if interested: recesslabs.com
For me, my last side project was a crypto-related joke site (sendcryptopeopletulips.com).
I think the next one will also be a humor + tech project. I'm really interested to explore tech as a medium for comedy.
Obviously a lot of CSS work to do, however with some better SEO and animations, it could be a useful tool with affiliate possibilities. This isn't an area I know much about/care for, however.
And of course my open-source webhook server project: https://github.com/adnanh/webhook
It also adds the concurrency control feature so you don't have to worry if you want only one instance of the script running, or want to kill the currently running one, or run them in parallel etc...
Another feature would be generic trigger rules where you can use values from payload to see if the script should be run at all (i.e. push to the feature branch, but you want to run the script on merges to master...).
As a developer, all of this might sound easy to implement, but whatever you make, you also have to maintain... And as you know, the business requirements tend to change quite often and you'll get to a point where you have to generalize your custom CGI scripts, and you end up spending more time maintaining infrastructure than doing development on the actual product.
Webhook on other hand is pretty much a CGI server with a few handy features :-)
Website: https://learn-anything.xyz
Code: https://github.com/learn-anything/learn-anything
Currently trying to move to a new design and format.
It infers inspirations for queried movies using their reviews: http://cinetrii.com?i=tt5580390
Besides I'm going to read a lot, and finally understand Haskell.
As for the programming stuff: write a book about databases, and write some Postgres patches for fun.
Some ideas:
Poker variant - quite hard but thought of a way to do it without a trusted oracle.
Hodl contract - forces you to hold for X months
Simple asset price contract where 2 parties bet each way. Requires an oracle.
Sports betting. Oracle.
Reputation coin - prove your general rep by aggregating HN, SO, Reddit etc. scores. Oracle.
The usual lottery
A "ponzi"
Let me know if you want to get in touch and I'll stick an email in my profile. Would like someone to bounce ideas and help each other if stuck.
https://cryptoprophet.co/
http://cookarr.com
- Nulis - a tree text editor for writers
https://nulis.io/
I have built a beta that was very well received, now it's time to clean up the code(rewriting it from scratch), add some cool features, and follow the roadmap to complete v1.0.
- Helix - a habit tracking app
https://helix.startuplab.io
Designed this app mostly for myself, but I think it turned out great, has a lot of potential, and users seem to love it. My goal here is also to complete all the functionality I've set out to complete with my roadmap and reach a solid v1.0.
- Startup Lab - blog
https://startuplab.io/blog
I want to seriously pick up the pace and quality of my blogging. I want to finally develop a sustainable daily writing habit, and make some successful posts.
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If I succeed, I will have two awesome SaaS projects to sell, and a great traction channel(articles + medium publications + reddit) to promote them.
I've estimated that I will need 40k total visitors(or 9 months of 150 daily visitors) to reach my goal of $1k MRR
(40k visitors * ~5% retention * ~10% conversion to paying customers = 200 paying users. 200 users * $5/mo = $1k/mo).
If I successfully accomplish my plan - I will finally achieve my dream and become a successful startup founder.
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As a bonus, I would love to find a good voiceover actor and produce YouTube videos out of my articles(or learn to speak better and do voiceover myself); and I would also experiment with engineering as marketing(I have 3 smaller projects I could promote and use as a traction channel).
I'd use this, looking forward to a V1.
Nulis seems very interesting. I just played with it a bit. I certainly like your approach on creating an outline.
I'm also working on an app for writers: https://mediatag.io. It is more general for all creatives and filmmakers, but I wrote a use case for screenwriters: https://mediatag.io/use_cases/filmmaking/screenwriting
Also going to create some free example applications for hopefully teaching more advanced native concept on Android to any who want.