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Ask HN: Share your ideas for a side project

by poushkar on 4/21/22, 7:51 AM with 12 comments

Hi HN, I would like to implement a service or a info product that can bring a couple of $ a month to donate to a charity, but I am out of ideas. Do you have anything in mind that you don't have time to work on yourself? Thank you.

  • by warrenm on 4/21/22, 2:38 PM

    If all you want is to donate a couple bucks a month to a charity, just donate a couple bucks a month to the charity

  • by danskeren on 4/21/22, 12:28 PM

    I'm working on a non-profit search engine (https://ask.moe) where the plan is to donate 80% of the profits to charities chosen by our users. Google have approved my AdSense account but for some reason then they disable the ads whenever I turn on revenue share (but they're fine with showing ads if I turn it off.. I don't quite understand the logic behind this behavior).

    The plan is to provide a general-purpose search engine powered by Google, and then build our own category-specific search engines which will yield much better results thanks to filters.

    It's currently written in Vue.js but I'm planning to rewrite it in React/Next.js + TailwindCSS. I would love to team up with people on HN if anybody is interested.

  • by jamil7 on 4/21/22, 9:08 AM

    Maybe building a consumer app for iOS/Android - you can pick a pretty standard idea or look through the list of popular apps and implement something similar with IAP. You won't make a living doing this without serious investment in marketing, sales and product but you can probably bring in a little bit of $ per month. I guess I would question the efficiency of this based on your hourly rate and how long you'd spend building this versus just donating money or time directly to charity.

  • by d--b on 4/22/22, 3:20 AM

    You could also help a charity build an app they need and save them thousands of dollars.

    Or build a website that matches charities with benevolent developers. Oh wait that exists:

    https://www.donatecode.com

  • by schwartzworld on 4/21/22, 10:35 AM

    I want an Android app that does this: samples my location data at a regular interval (that I define) and posts it to an URL (that I also define). I run a lot and would prefer to track my own runs vs having my data live on RunKeeeper or wherever.

  • by FunnyFence on 4/22/22, 11:32 PM

    Building our family's Farmhouse into got a farm 2 table homestead where houseless* women are supplied various resources opportunities around health and career management. $ would daily rates.

  • by MattTepp on 4/21/22, 12:10 PM

    A Netflix clone, hosted locally on your network.

  • by mvind on 4/21/22, 9:03 AM

    Todo list?