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meliason Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

I run Loopz Gift Cards (https://www.loopz.io). First line of code in 2012, pivoted in 2016, launched in 2019 and took about a year and half to get to $2k/month. At $18k atm. Switched to full-time a year ago.

meliason Stripe raises $600M at nearly $36B valuation

Are there any plans to allow for integration with 3rd party gift card platforms on the Stripe Checkout?

meliason OpenDUNE – An open-source recreation of the game Dune II

Check out Satellite Reign. I found it a very fun game that considers itself the spiritual successor to Syndicate.

meliason Apple joins the NFC party, providing iOS developers the ability to read NFC tags

I've been waiting for Apple to open up their NFC hardware too. I'm working on a closed loop payment app (https://www.loopz.io) that uses NFC and Apple's lockdown has been frustrating since the first question I get when showing the app is; does it work on iOS? This is the first step in them allowing access to the NFC chip hopefully. The chip in iPhone 6 and 7 supports writing to tags (which I need for my app) but it's not exposed through the API's at the moment. Android has allowed this since Gingerbread.