Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by streptomycin on Sunday October 09, 2016 @08:49AM (#12670966)

https://basketball-gm.com/ is a basketball management sim video game (sorta like football manager), and it makes more than that from ads.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by deepaksurti on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:31AM (#12671109)

This is brilliant. May I ask you a question? I assume you are not using real team names or real players. If you are using real names, how do you handle the licenses? Sorry, not a baseball enthusiast hence could not figure if your team / player names are real.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by streptomycin on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:51AM (#12671165)

Yeah, that's the reason I don't use real players :)

A lot of similar games simply ignore the law and pray they don't get sued (or that the publicity from a lawsuit would actually be good).

But I do have support for uploading custom leagues, and people have made them with various real leagues like the NBA https://github.com/alexnoob/BasketBall-GM-Rosters/releases/t... and the Philippine Basketball Association http://www.mediafire.com/file/1e8cq2l3rrndln5/PBA-GM-2016.tx...

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by CoryG89 on Sunday October 09, 2016 @10:40AM (#12671380)

This seems like a good idea. Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names.

I had previously mulled over trying to make a fantasy sports site using bitcoin, but since I am based in the US, the gambling laws are too prohibitive, even just using bitcoin.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by noir_lord on Sunday October 09, 2016 @12:39PM (#12671943)

> Surely you can't be sued for user generated content which uses licensed team/player names.

Probably not but I think they might be able to send a DMCA notice.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by mattbroekhuis on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:00AM (#12671003)

Very cool. Where do you get your stats from?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by streptomycin on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:08AM (#12671033)

Thanks! I wrote a basketball simulation engine, it does a play-by-play sim of every game.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by truth_sentinell on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:20AM (#12671081)

In what language?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by calahad on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:42AM (#12671146)

javascript

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by streptomycin on Sunday October 09, 2016 @09:52AM (#12671170)

Specifically: https://github.com/dumbmatter/basketball-gm

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by j8m88 on Wednesday October 12, 2016 @12:11AM (#12690377)

Cool little game you got there. Do you have this on iOS or Android?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by streptomycin on Thursday October 13, 2016 @10:14PM (#12705733)

No, but it runs in Firefox and Chrome on Android, and it'll run on iOS too once Apple releases a good version of Safari or allows competent browser devs to publish better browsers :)

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by taphangum on Friday October 14, 2016 @12:51PM (#12709358)

Where did you get the initial traffic?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by streptomycin on Sunday October 16, 2016 @12:16PM (#12719293)

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1j1e6q/i_made_a_single... got some initial traffic, and then it grew steadily for a while (although it seems to have reached a plateau this year).

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by taphangum on Sunday October 16, 2016 @05:02PM (#12720933)

Ah this is cool. I'm thinking about making a passive income sim game for the web. Didn't think of it as a monetizable thing but your experience is changing my mind.

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