Ask HN: What is your holiday side project?
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2017 where @antoineMoPa convened hundreds of developers and bootstrappers to share real experiences, hard numbers, and tactics.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Participants share raw revenue figures, churn rates, and stack decisions that corporate PR never publishes.
Recurring answers reveal that distribution, not coding skill, is almost universally the rate-limiting step in developer businesses.
Practical recommendations on bookkeeping, payment gateways (Stripe vs Paddle), and freelance-to-product transitions.
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Hundreds of active indie hackers contributed case studies, pricing heuristics, and pitfalls to avoid when moonlighting on side projects.
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HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 4 points
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Same as always, Fogbeam Labs stuff. At this very moment specifically, I'm working on our enterprise search product. But I'm also allocating some time over the holiday break to focus on some automated abductive inference stuff that I've been working with.
This isn’t holiday-specific, but over the next week I’ll be knocking out more features that are currently missing from my VR web browser app for iOS and Android: https://www.viewport.org