Show HN: A Directory of 500 HN Side Projects (hnsideprojects.com)

15 points by gwintrob 1y ago ↗ HN

I loved this recent "Show and Tell" thread about side projects posted on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373343

It inspired me to build a mini directory that aggregates over 500 side projects posted to HN since 2017. You can filter by year, category, or revenue level.

Thank you Cursor + Next.js for making this insanely fun to build. Hopefully you discover hidden gems or find inspiration in what the HN community is creating. Happy browsing!

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hyperjeff 1y ago ↗

Very nice! though sometimes the recurring revenue figures seem to be questionable (one in particular that raised $250k on Kickstarter, where that's listed as its yearly income, but is it?).

Also, does that iOS book series really make $100M/year? Supposing that's right, it's extremely anamolous, and contributes the lion's share to the front page's total revenue figure of $11.75M/month. Perhaps best to keep that data point out? Not sure who could call that level of income a side project.

Side note: The website only shows 10 projects per category with no mechanism to see more.

gwintrob 1y ago ↗

Thanks. AI tools helped me pull this together in just a couple hours so there are some rough edges.

I used gpt-4o structured outputs to get the revenue numbers. That's some good feedback I can use to make the data extraction work better! I'll add some pagination as well.

dansult 1y ago ↗

How do you see all the entries? Each option only shows ten items with no way to load more.

mfiro 1y ago ↗

That's awesome! Would it be possible to include the business owner's comments for each listing to make them searchable?