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A comment on Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side projects you are working on?.

Re:Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side proje... by sjs382 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @09:48AM (#10457920)
In my day job, I'm a full-stack developer at an ad agency.

Side Projects:

Early next week, I'm going to be releasing an Android word game.

Revenue-producing side-projects: https://SendToMyCloud.com & https://PrivateForms.com

Other side projects: http://artpacks.org, http://aboutbrowser.com & http://norefer.link

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Re:Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side proje... by dhca78 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:10AM (#10458066)
Your revenue-producing side-projects are strangely inspiring. If you don't mind me asking, how do you market them?
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Re:Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side proje... by sjs382 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:14AM (#10458087)
Mostly, I don't.

In the beginning (for each) I found a few people asking on forums for software that solves the exact problem that these products solved, and then posted the software as a solution.

Since the first few weeks, I haven't done any marketing at all—everything comes in via search, or referral traffic.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side proje... by dhca78 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:16AM (#10458099)
That's cool! Thank you for sharing.
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Re:Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side proje... by itl12 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @10:46AM (#10458278)
What stack do you use for your projects?
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Re:Ask HN: What is your job role and what are the side proje... by sjs382 on Tuesday October 27, 2015 @11:16AM (#10458488)
It varies a bit from project to project, but I usually start with a custom PHP MVC framework: GluePHP for routing, Savant3 for templates, and PHP-ActiveRecord as an ORM. I'm definitely someone who prefers to work with small, understandable modules with very limited scopes/responsibilities.

I've recently considered polishing up the most-used bits and packaging it as a proper framework, but I probably need a kick in the ass (or even just a hint of interest) to do so. :)

Artpacks.org strays from the framework a bit by using Backbone.js for the front-end. So does the game that I'm working on.

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