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sideprojecton Ask HN: How many unused domain names do you have?

I have about 50 and have the same problem. So I scratched my itch.

Hope you find it useful. Let me know if you have any questions. We are still in beta.

sideprojecton Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

SideProjectors has been a long and continuing project that I work on.

https://www.sideprojectors.com

It's a marketplace for people to sell & buy their side projects. It started as a hackathon project and morphed itself into a community of its own.

sideprojecton Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?

Newsy is my current project. I have quite a few un-used idle domains, which I have been meaning to develop for quite some time but never had time for.

I wanted to quickly create a site that worked well, runs on its own, content-driven and few other features that I wanted in it (e.g. membership, automated newsletters, ability to sell domain or get leads) - imagine a Reddit-like content aggregator site. So I created Newsy.

https://newsy.co

We're currently in beta so lots of bug fixing. Here's a few sites that run on Newsy.

https://www.heystartup.com https://www.faithfulnews.com

sideprojecton Facebook PHP Source Code from August 2007

Is this Mark Z's code? Wonder why he didn't use a framework and went with pure PHP.

sideprojecton Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

Here's an example for one of my idle domains.

https://www.heystartup.com/#/

sideprojecton Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

Did it work? :)

sideprojecton Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

Yep! That's the idea! :) Via RSS feeds + keywords.

sideprojecton Ask HN: What interesting problems are you working on?

I’m working on Newsy.

https://www.newsy.co

I have quite a few domain names that I have purchased over the years that I am not doing anything with at the moment.

I wanted minimal amount of work to make a good use out of these domains.

So I built Newsy. It turns your idle domain into a news aggregator.

I’m nearly there. You can sign up and I’ll invite you to check it out!

sideprojecton Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?

Apologies - we only need to get user account info (to get the twitter username). Will go and remove those permissions now - we had this Twitter integration set up ~3 years ago and didn't review it - No excuses! :) Sorry for scaring you (and other users of course).

sideprojecton Ask HN: Which is the most successful one-person business you heard of in 2019?

I run SideProjectors, which generates some profit. But my reason for posting is for anyone who wants to take-over someone's side project, then have a look at some of the projects posted - https://www.sideprojectors.com - You don't need to start from zero. :)

sideprojecton Ask HN: We are shutting down our startup, I get our code. What now?

Another option for you is to submit it on SideProjectors to find someone who wants to buy (disclaimer : I run SideProjectors). https://www.sideprojectors.com

sideprojecton Kill Sticky Headers (2013)

It took me awhile to realize how bad sticky divs are for my users. Justification of using sticky elements was that they were always visible. But why? Because they are frequently accessed elements? Scrolling to top doesn't take much of effort. They might be frequently accessed, but they were also not that hard to access.

It hit me hard, when I saw my user's screen which was relatively small and my sidebar and header were both sticky, leaving only a small area to display the main content.

I've now gone back to mostly non-sticky elements. It's refreshing. Not seeing those "frequently accessed" elements isn't much of an issue. I don't think I ever complained about popular websites not having its header sticky.

Letting users focus on the main content has been by far the most beneficial thing from my perspective.

sideprojecton Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)

Happy for you to post it on sideprojectors.com and see what happens?

sideprojecton Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)

Hm. Thanks for reporting it. Could you send me a screenshot by any chance? Can't replicate it on my end (hello@sideprojectors.com)

sideprojecton Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)

For anyone interested in perhaps purchasing a side project to pursue your very own SaaS, take a look at a project that I've been running on the side - SideProjectors

https://www.sideprojectors.com

Lot of interests in the past few years around "indie makers" and "life style businesses" and "side hustles" have attracted quite a few interesting projects to be posted on my site. It's been cool to see these projects being exchanged.

sideprojecton Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses?

I run SideProjectors (https://www.sideprojectors.com) - a market place for indie entrepreneurs to buy and sell their online businesses, projects etc.

I created it in 2014, neglected it for awhile, and it was running on its own. It started to form a little community around it, so I finally got myself motivated to re-design this year.

It never made any money up until quite recently through some affiliate marketing channels, so it's not huge, but it covers the operating cost, which is very small.

For those who are looking to get into running your own little projects, come and have a look around. If you want to sell your projects and move on, then well, I'm happy to host your project for sale! :)

sideprojecton Show HN: Tailwind.run – An Online Playground for Tailwind CSS

Been really productive using Tailwind myself. Recently re-launched my SideProjectors site (https://www.sideprojectors.com) and was able to get my CSS developed very fast. I have most of Tailwind classes in my head now, so I hardly look up their site for references. Being able to quickly edit the UI without much thinking is very refreshing.

sideprojecton A PhD state of mind (2018)

We used to call it Permanent Head Damage - it certainly rings true many times during the course.

sideprojecton List of Machine Learning/Deep Learning Conferences in 2019

Plug: for those who might be interested in any ML jargons https://www.dataplot.co

sideprojecton Hackernoon: how to make a HN clone in under a minute without writing any code

HelloBox is another one - https://www.hellobox.co - that helps you create community sites.

sideprojecton Ask HN: Best Self Hosted Comment System?

HelloBox is another alternative

https://www.hellobox.co

sideprojecton Introduction to Differential Equations (2008)

Does anyone know websites or resources which explains how Diff Eq is used in Computer Science? I know it's used in a variety of areas in CS, but I really like to see or read well-explained tutorials or articles. e.g. what's finding area got to do with the topics in CS? what does 'area' correspond to?

sideprojecton Show HN: Sublime Merge – A Git client from the makers of Sublime Text

What! You guys are based in Sydney?!?!? Never knew that. Great to see my favourite tool being built in my city! :)

sideprojecton We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)

Thanks! Would love to hear your feedback on it!

sideprojecton Lobste.rs

I'll be honest. It was my silly mistake - not HN. Though HN hug of death would've been better. :)

sideprojecton Lobste.rs

Arrggg! Sorry about that. It's up now. :)

sideprojecton Lobste.rs

Love lobsters. :) I run and manage a tool similar to Lobsters (not open source).

https://www.hellobox.co

Originally started as "Build your own HN-clone".

sideprojecton We Don’t Run Cron Jobs (2016)

A little tangential, but I recently created a small tool called "tsk" (pronounced same as task)

https://www.tsk.io

I'm calling it a "speed-dial for your APIs". I used to have a VPS that would run out of memory, so easiest way to resolve this was to restart the server. But even that was annoying, so I created a button that would call the API to restart the box. Now I just have to click the button whenever I want to reboot.

Something similar to CRON, I'm currently building a feature in tsk to schedule the tasks.