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Transcribe your aunts post cards with Gemini 3 Pro

https://leserli.ch/ocr/
1•nielstron•3m ago•0 comments

.72% Variance Lance

1•mav5431•4m ago•0 comments

ReKindle – web-based operating system designed specifically for E-ink devices

https://rekindle.ink
1•JSLegendDev•6m ago•0 comments

Encrypt It

https://encryptitalready.org/
1•u1hcw9nx•6m ago•1 comments

NextMatch – 5-minute video speed dating to reduce ghosting

https://nextmatchdating.netlify.app/
1•Halinani8•7m ago•1 comments

Personalizing esketamine treatment in TRD and TRBD

https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyt.2025.1736114
1•PaulHoule•8m ago•0 comments

SpaceKit.xyz – a browser‑native VM for decentralized compute

https://spacekit.xyz
1•astorrivera•9m ago•1 comments

NotebookLM: The AI that only learns from you

https://byandrev.dev/en/blog/what-is-notebooklm
1•byandrev•9m ago•1 comments

Show HN: An open-source starter kit for developing with Postgres and ClickHouse

https://github.com/ClickHouse/postgres-clickhouse-stack
1•saisrirampur•10m ago•0 comments

Game Boy Advance d-pad capacitor measurements

https://gekkio.fi/blog/2026/game-boy-advance-d-pad-capacitor-measurements/
1•todsacerdoti•10m ago•0 comments

South Korean crypto firm accidentally sends $44B in bitcoins to users

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/crypto-firm-accidentally-sends-44-billion-bitcoins-use...
2•layer8•11m ago•0 comments

Apache Poison Fountain

https://gist.github.com/jwakely/a511a5cab5eb36d088ecd1659fcee1d5
1•atomic128•13m ago•2 comments

Web.whatsapp.com appears to be having issues syncing and sending messages

http://web.whatsapp.com
1•sabujp•13m ago•2 comments

Google in Your Terminal

https://gogcli.sh/
1•johlo•14m ago•0 comments

Shannon: Claude Code for Pen Testing: #1 on Github today

https://github.com/KeygraphHQ/shannon
1•hendler•15m ago•0 comments

Anthropic: Latest Claude model finds more than 500 vulnerabilities

https://www.scworld.com/news/anthropic-latest-claude-model-finds-more-than-500-vulnerabilities
2•Bender•19m ago•0 comments

Brooklyn cemetery plans human composting option, stirring interest and debate

https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/brooklyn-green-wood-cemetery-human-composting/
1•geox•19m ago•0 comments

Why the 'Strivers' Are Right

https://greyenlightenment.com/2026/02/03/the-strivers-were-right-all-along/
1•paulpauper•21m ago•0 comments

Brain Dumps as a Literary Form

https://davegriffith.substack.com/p/brain-dumps-as-a-literary-form
1•gmays•21m ago•0 comments

Agentic Coding and the Problem of Oracles

https://epkconsulting.substack.com/p/agentic-coding-and-the-problem-of
1•qingsworkshop•22m ago•0 comments

Malicious packages for dYdX cryptocurrency exchange empties user wallets

https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/02/malicious-packages-for-dydx-cryptocurrency-exchange-empt...
1•Bender•22m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a <400ms latency voice agent that runs on a 4gb vram GTX 1650"

https://github.com/pheonix-delta/axiom-voice-agent
1•shubham-coder•23m ago•0 comments

Penisgate erupts at Olympics; scandal exposes risks of bulking your bulge

https://arstechnica.com/health/2026/02/penisgate-erupts-at-olympics-scandal-exposes-risks-of-bulk...
4•Bender•23m ago•0 comments

Arcan Explained: A browser for different webs

https://arcan-fe.com/2026/01/26/arcan-explained-a-browser-for-different-webs/
1•fanf2•25m ago•0 comments

What did we learn from the AI Village in 2025?

https://theaidigest.org/village/blog/what-we-learned-2025
1•mrkO99•25m ago•0 comments

An open replacement for the IBM 3174 Establishment Controller

https://github.com/lowobservable/oec
1•bri3d•27m ago•0 comments

The P in PGP isn't for pain: encrypting emails in the browser

https://ckardaris.github.io/blog/2026/02/07/encrypted-email.html
2•ckardaris•30m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Mirror Parliament where users vote on top of politicians and draft laws

https://github.com/fokdelafons/lustra
1•fokdelafons•30m ago•1 comments

Ask HN: Opus 4.6 ignoring instructions, how to use 4.5 in Claude Code instead?

1•Chance-Device•32m ago•0 comments

We Mourn Our Craft

https://nolanlawson.com/2026/02/07/we-mourn-our-craft/
2•ColinWright•34m ago•0 comments
Open in hackernews

Making $1M from my personal projects

https://www.alexwest.co/book-one
55•chameleon_zeon•8mo ago

Comments

philjackson•8mo ago
I feel like I'm being mocked for having a widescreen monitor.
ahofmann•8mo ago
I'm on phone and it is also pretty unpleasant to read.
morkalork•8mo ago
Scroll scroll scroll yeah fuck this
slug•8mo ago
nah, just rotate your monitor 90 degrees (or 270).
albedoa•8mo ago
It's just really bad CSS. On smaller screens, the container has a max-width of 540px and a left- and right-margin of 15% each lol. So we get to enjoy our 22px monospace Inconsolata within 378px of horizontal space.
jt_b•8mo ago
document.querySelector(".my-auto").setAttribute("style", "text-align: left;");

I'm actually having fun reading it after applying that.

hinkley•8mo ago
Daring fireball is almost as bad.
porphyra•8mo ago
It's a CSS bug since the column gets narrower the wider your screen gets lol. The culprit is the 15% padding in the inline style applied to this div:

   <div class="container my-auto" style="color: white; padding-left: 15%; padding-right: 15%; text-align: left;">
layer8•8mo ago
Obviously you’re supposed to pivot it to portrait orientation.
em3rgent0rdr•8mo ago
"alexwest.com" more like "alexsouth.com"
mreome•8mo ago
This comment lead to what I believe is my first laugh-out-loud reaction to maximizing a window.
paxys•8mo ago
The only way to make money from personal projects is to sell a book/course teaching people how to make money from personal projects.
jsnell•8mo ago
This doesn't appear to be about a book for sale? It's just this old blog post formatted in various ebook formats for download. (And, I guess, with future plans to do the same for other blog posts in their archive.)
paxys•8mo ago
Point still stands. They have made ~$0 from personal projects and are now trying to monetize their "journey" with a clickbait title and an ebook.
jsnell•8mo ago
Oh, the "$1M" title is obviously totally detached from the contents of the post (I mean, I assume it is totally detached from the contents, it's not like this was even worth skimming through). Given it covers 2018-2020, I wouldn't want to say for certain they didn't make $1M in aggregate over the next 5 years though.

But no, I don't think the point stands, because they are not selling an ebook or anything else. The pattern you identified exists, but I don't think this matches the pattern.

echelon•8mo ago
That's not true at all.

I put an early GenAI side project up, someone convinced me to monetize, and boom - $700k ARR in almost no time.

I'm not sure it's possible now with so little effort given how full the space is, but if you're in the right time and place with the right solution, there are tons of people that will pay you.

Same story as always: create value, solve a problem, make something people want.

philjackson•8mo ago
Willing to name the service?
xnx•8mo ago
> $700k ARR

Projected, or has it been operating for a year?

phyzix5761•8mo ago
You have 2000+ recurring paying customers using your fakeyou website?
echelon•8mo ago
Yeah! It held at that revenue for over a year, but that was several years ago. Then the market filled out. I stopped working on it (and listening to customers) to pursue other things.

I'm about to open source our desktop AI VFX compositing and animation tools:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tAAiiKteM-U

https://getartcraft.com/ (github and download links are not live yet)

I'm an engineer and a filmmaker. I'm really into video generation, but controllability and consistency are critical. I've been working on staging, blocking, and animation tools to control how various commercial and open source models behave.

I just didn't have a passion for TTS and voice conversion.

The Uberduck folks were my closest competitors for a while and they were YC funded. I think Suno and Udio sunk their product roadmap for music tools and they pivoted to something else. Maybe voice agents? They're cool folks.

Now Weights.gg is leading the "TTS for teens / consumers" space. There are dozens of startups in the voice conversion for music production space. This used to be an easy ramp to revenue, but the market is saturated.

phyzix5761•8mo ago
Very cool. Thanks for sharing
DamnInteresting•8mo ago
One ought not underestimate the cumulative effects of time. Multiple long-running projects with modest income can be surprisingly lucrative.
outcoldman•8mo ago
Not true. There are stories. Sublime Text is one of them. I am sure author of that project made good chunk of money. It used to be the most popular text editor for a while (based on StackOverlow).

I personally have another example. Own MM B2B.

paxys•8mo ago
There are also stories of people starting trillion dollar businesses from their garage. Yes you can technically do that. The chances of you actually doing it are ~0.
outcoldman•8mo ago
I believe the OP was talking about the personal projects. Not startups or people who want to make a trillion dollar businesses. I believe there is different mentality behind those.
eGQjxkKF6fif•8mo ago
I couldn't even skim it and get a tldr, my brain just 'nopes'

Cool on making $1M though, I'm guessing through selling books

lilcrise•8mo ago
Considering most people with work and kids don't have extensive free time, wouldn't it be more practical if lengthy information was frequently condensed into accessible 1-2 page summaries?
artursapek•8mo ago
what the fuck is this formatting lol
lilcrise•8mo ago
Summary of Alex West - Book One: Year 1

In his first year after finishing A-levels (at age 18), Alex West felt lost and unenthusiastic about the traditional university path. A pivotal moment came when he read "Rich Dad Poor Dad," which ignited his desire for financial independence and entrepreneurship.

He began his entrepreneurial journey with eBay arbitrage.

Initially, he sold personal belongings. He then discovered the concept of buying items cheaply and reselling them for a profit. His first successful arbitrage venture involved PS3 controllers, buying them in bulk or from less optimized listings and reselling them individually. This process taught him the fundamentals of e-commerce: sourcing products, creating listings, photography, packaging, shipping, customer service, and dealing with issues like returns and scams. He reinvested his profits, expanding his product range to include items like GoPro accessories. By the end of this first year, he had managed to make approximately £10,000 in profit. Key takeaways from Year 1 for Alex were the importance of taking action, learning by doing, gaining practical business skills (even on a small scale), and the empowering realization that he could forge his own path outside of conventional routes. This foundational year built his confidence and provided him with tangible business experience.

TrackerFF•8mo ago
TL;DR he made A LOT of products, most which failed, then succeeded with https://cyberleads.com/

At least that's what I'm getting from the blog.

throwawayffffas•8mo ago
My guy, tell your model to not spew emojis everywhere it's unbearable.
tapete•8mo ago
Indeed. The whole "post" is so cringe-inducing it is unbearable.