Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

• BlueRetro

  34 448 8.9 C

  Multiplayer Bluetooth controllers adapter for retro video game consoles

  I got my BlueRetro [1] project which is and universal BT controller adapter for retro console.

  I'm making a pretty bad job monetizing this TBH. I originally wanted to sell the HW myself but turn out that with real job + young family with the little energy and time left I can't do more than "here's the code".

  Turn out a few makers pick it up and are nice enough to give me a cut on their sales. Adding user donation I maybe made 2K out of it this year, not much but better than nothing I guess.

  I wrote a retrospective about the last three year working in this if you like more detail [2]

  [1] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro

  [2] https://github.com/darthcloud/BlueRetro/discussions/289

• Pulumi

  71 13,264 9.9 Go

  Pulumi - Universal Infrastructure as Code. Your Cloud, Your Language, Your Way 🚀

  

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• DeepMenu

  2 0 10.0 Swift

• PDFEncrypt

  1 27 0.0 C#

  A C# application to encrypt existing PDF documents

  I built PDFEncrypt (https://pdfencrypt.net) a couple years ago based on a very simple need from a client: to encrypt PDF files via a native Windows app, for free. I have been amazed at the number of visitors (4000/mo), emails, downloads, and donations the project has received. I released it as open source software, and I'm now working on V2 (almost done!) which is a complete rewrite based on user requests, as well as a bunch of new features. This has been a very fun side project and good practice coding in C#.

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