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huydotnet commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
tecleandor · 3 days ago
Just a small comment, as I don't know if you're planning to wrap up or keep maintaining the product...

I can't find the pricing of the product on the site, I only find that I get '10 free credits', but I don't know how much a credit is and what can I do with it.

Home page says it's one credit per diagram, but then the docs say it's a certain amount of credits per modification (that could be correct or not, I guess...)

I usually skip if I can't find the price, but it could also happen that people create the trial account, spends quickly the credits, then they find the price and it doesn't fit them. Of course, there's always people coming just for the free credits.

I don't know if this is helpful to you or not, but I hope so :)

huydotnet · 3 days ago
Thank you so much, that is a fair point! It's part of a series of mistakes I made, the product started out as a free to try and only showed the pricing after the user used up all their credits (I didn't even have a landing page back then). I'll update the landing page to make this clear!
huydotnet commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
KellyCriterion · 3 days ago
how do you deal with continuous Google-degrading-risk?

I stopped a site lately i ran for 10 years, because Google changed the ranking so often over the years, finally traffic drowned nearly completely like 1k visitors per month, it was so frustrating so I just stopped the webserver after so many years.

huydotnet · 3 days ago
I think the sustainable way is to put more and more backlinks out there, more blog posts, etc. I actually suffered from it too.
huydotnet commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
ycombinete · 3 days ago
What do you think led to the fall off?
huydotnet · 3 days ago
Many reasons: 1) lack of marketing, 2) I stopped working on it for a while, 3) because of #2, the app lacks new features to attract users.

Another one but turned out it was never really a big deal: some chatbots from frontier AI labs started to support those niche features (people still coming to my app for the flexibility of using multiple AI models).

I think the biggest problem was #2, life kept pulling me the other way.

huydotnet commented on Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell    · Posted by u/cvbox
huydotnet · 3 days ago
I started my project in 2023 and posted here, made 20k that year. The traffic has been slowly decreasing during 2024, and last October, I was officially entering losing territory, where the cost of running it exceeded the total earnings (mostly due to free trials).

It's been a good journey. Thank you so much to whoever keeps running this thread!

huydotnet commented on Rats Play DOOM   ratsplaydoom.com/... · Posted by u/ano-ther
huydotnet · 9 days ago
While everyone training AI, this man train a rat. Are you gonna release the open weights (or the rat)?

Great project btw!

huydotnet commented on Teaching an LLM a Niche Diagraming Language   huy.rocks/everyday/12-01-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
robot-wrangler · 17 days ago
Big thank you to author and OP. This is exactly the kind of homebrew recipe post I've been waiting for. I knew it had to be basically cookbook by now but really simple examples like this with no fluff are surprisingly hard to find. (Anyone got others?)

I've been thinking about similar experiments with some obscure esolang for a long time, so more detail on total time/cost would be nice. Also.. if it's correct that this size model is about the right minimal choice for starting such efforts.. what are the next steps if you wanted to shrink it to only specialize in the target? Should you go for distillation or ablation?

huydotnet · 17 days ago
Hey, I'm the author of the post. Thank you so much for the kind feedback!

Speaking about total time/cost, this experiment cost me just $1.01 for 2h30 on a rental GPU. But the actual successful run was less than 10 minutes for both phases. The rest of the time I was spending fixing the code, tuning the params, train, and retrain. It took me about 6 hours to build and clean the two datasets, though.

For the next step, I'm thinking of improving the model accuracy, maybe with RL, but I would not go about shrinking the model size any lower. Prior to this, I've tried a lot of different model sizes on different kinds of tasks, from 135M to 4B. I'm not sure I like the performance of these small models for code generation :D

huydotnet commented on 4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign   koi.ai/blog/4-million-bro... · Posted by u/janpio
technion · 19 days ago
Its more about the likely target audience: i can scan the whole enterprise and activate blocks with those ids.
huydotnet · 19 days ago
That's my first thought, but it would still be helpful to have a list of names, since many people has switched browsers many times in the past, or used many different devices personally.
huydotnet commented on Paged Out   pagedout.institute... · Posted by u/varjag
huydotnet · 19 days ago
It's freaking awesome to see AI models (handwriting OCR) being distributed by printed out on a magazine page.
huydotnet commented on 4.3M Browsers Infected: Inside ShadyPanda's 7-Year Malware Campaign   koi.ai/blog/4-million-bro... · Posted by u/janpio
huydotnet · 19 days ago
I came to the article hoping to see the list of affected extensions, so I can check if I ever installed any of them. All I get was a list of extension ID at the very bottom of the post. Is this some sort of security practice to not promoting malicious packages or something?
huydotnet commented on Kodak ran a nuclear device in its basement for decades   popularmechanics.com/scie... · Posted by u/cainxinth
huydotnet · a month ago
Disappointing, for a second I thought I have found a solution to power my 8x5090 homelab.

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