Ask HN: What's Your Side Project?
It's really motivating to hear about what people are working on in the late hours at night or the wee hours of the morning.
So HN, what are you all working on outside of your day jobs?
An open Ask HN community consultation from 2019 where @max0563 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.
Community Debate Themes:
Hundreds of active indie hackers contributed case studies, pricing heuristics, and pitfalls to avoid when moonlighting on side projects.
CATEGORY Ask HN Roundtables →
HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 4 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 12 comments
DevDucky, AI tool that helps engineers fully understand the company's code and product. just finished and launched the landing page. www.devducky.com I am really having fun working on this, combining my love for NLP and software engineer.
For a while it was the Multics CPU emulator/simulator. After we got Multics to boot it was no fun anymore :-)
todo3d.app - a 3D ToDo 'list'.
Currently trying to get it working on touch screens.