Thank you for deliberately not cooperating with Satan!
One can but try, but it feels like that's getting harder and harder to do these days...
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PinkPigeon commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell · Posted by u/cvbox
> It's mostly about having low-JS, good SEO, easy access to information, which can be managed by very inexperienced users
Nice!
I shared in the parent thread about my tool which spell checks sites, it found a few small issues: https://www.spl.ing/report-card?website=pinkpigeon.co.uk&uui...
This is a brilliant tool, thank you very much for showing me. Bookmarked.
PinkPigeon commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell · Posted by u/cvbox
The “Lea Hill Holiday Cottages” link is broken!
Thank you for pointing that out, fixed!
PinkPigeon commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell · Posted by u/cvbox
https://pinkpigeon.co.uk
Who'd have thought that a CMS could still make money in 2024, but this one is around £500 a month.
It obviously doesn't pay the bills or the mortgage, but it works. All my clients are word of mouth, I do not advertise at all (a combination of costs and insanely opaque / fractured advertising models by Facebook and co...I don't have time to get a phd in your ad platform to see if any of my money is actually doing anything)
I build it originally because I was fed up with Wordpress / Squarespace / Weebly / Wix, because all of their interfaces are slow and don't work on mobile.
This CMS is fast and works on mobile.
It's also pretty cheap nowadays, as I've not been raising prices like everyone else.
It won't do super-flashy websites. It's mostly about having low-JS, good SEO, easy access to information, which can be managed by very inexperienced users (I live rurally and we have a fair few pensioners as clients, they all get along with the system very well).
There are just about a billion things I want to do with it, but it never made enough money to become my full-time job, so it mostly just sits there and does its job.
PinkPigeon commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell · Posted by u/program247365
I run https://pinkpigeon.co.uk
Just about at $500 per month in recurring hosting fees.
It's a CMS which publishes static sites to Cloudflare workers sites.
I've not done any marketing, it's all word of mouth and took 3 years to get to this point.
Gonna keep growing it slowly on the side.
We have one of these locally, but it's called a community shed, to not exclude women arbitrarily. At the same time, I still think it's mostly used by men, as it's quite focused around woodworking etc.
They were one of the first businesses to use my CMS for one of their websites, so they hold a special place in my heart :)
PinkPigeon commented on Will low and no code tools ever truly disrupt tech development? stackoverflow.blog/2022/0... · Posted by u/daemond
I've recently been building a business directory using Bubble.io.
It took me about half a day to do tutorials and another half day playing around just to learn the platform.
After that, I was able to build this business directory, including Stripe payment integration, some reasonably advanced Google Maps and search / categorisation functionality.
Building the same thing from scratch would have taken me two weeks or so.
I am saying this as someone whose main job is providing a CMS, so I am familiar with having to create a simple enough interface for non-technical users to use my CMS.
Hats off to Bubble.io for achieving such a usable interface for being able to knock up an app this quickly.
At the same time it is clear that some actions which would be painfully simple to perform in code take a lot of clever thinking and hacks to convince bubble.io to do it.
It also won't scale and if it breaks for no reason, it'll be nearly impossible to fix it.
If it doesn't provide a certain bit of functionality, you have to add your own CSS / JS and that's where it becomes clear that my extensive knowledge in web development contributed to my ability to use this no-code tool a lot.
Ultimately, I think a no-code tool can be a great way to enable programmers to build things quickly, but I think the ability to think like a programmer is still worth learning.
I'd be surprised if these tools could replace anyone building complex applications in the near future.
PinkPigeon commented on Starlink's current problem is capacity jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/caution
I'm on the original, round dish, not the rectangular new one. I wonder whether this can be done on the round dish, as that one used even more power.
PinkPigeon commented on Starlink's current problem is capacity jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/caution
I think their biggest issue is the mechanical engineering of the dishes. They use non-standard mounts, and (despite using bog-standard outdoor/riser-rated cat 5e cable) non-standard ethernet connectors.
For people replacing an existing internet connection with starlink, the cost of swapping out the existing (perfectly good) cable and antenna mount dwarfs the retail (and even manufacturing) cost of the dish.
Also, they don't document the electrical requirements for the ethernet cable, so people end up guessing, forcing it to turn on the on-board heater, then checking for voltage droop.
Even oversubscribed, they're better than most rural ISP options though.
I agree that the starlink customer support people are extremely overworked. In my experience, they're also completely incompetent.
The "impossible to update out of date firmware" issue is ridiculous, especially since they specifically market the RV service for use cases where you buy the dish and then pause the service for the 11.5 months of the year when you're not using your RV.
Do you happen to know anyone who managed to figure out what the electrical requirements for the cable are? We tried mounting the antenna outside and connecting the cable via an external box to the inside (using cat 6 cable), but Starlink immediately started complaining about a 'bad connection', which went away when we routed the cable to the power brick unimpeded. But it would really be much neater if we could use our own house's ethernet wiring. But evidently Starlink doesn't like it.
I love getting in after 1,000 comments, let's do this:
Built with my own site-builder and advertising my own site-builder!
Turns out nobody registers for a free account or just signs up. All my business comes from building websites for people and word of mouth.
I optimised the thing for speed of building websites above all else, which helps, seeing as I'm a one-person operation.