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

Re:Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd no... by fusspawn on Thursday June 16, 2022 @09:26AM (#31765789)

I funded life over the pandemic selling bots for MMO's. Made way more than I expected. Enough it became a full time job for a while. Died down a little after people started returning to work after Covid.

But still makes a decent passive income.

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Re:Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd no... by DeathArrow on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:42AM (#31766626)

Nice. What MMO did you target and what languages / frameworks did you use?

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Re:Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd no... by healsdata on Thursday June 16, 2022 @10:34AM (#31766539)

Wow. This is something I'd love to hear/read more about. I always assumed the bar would be high in that area given the anti-cheat software in play.

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Re:Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd no... by ladberg on Thursday June 16, 2022 @11:53AM (#31767483)

Not OP but I used to make bots for MMOs for personal use (never sold them). I used Sikuli to write Python scripts to repeat automated tasks for me to basically grind 24/7. Sikuli was pretty great because it makes it easy to do image recognition on the screen and click on specific buttons.

I could have my bots play minigames as long as I could write a basic AI to do it based on the the objects on screen. It also won't flag any anti-cheat software because it doesn't hook into the game at all, just watches the screen and emulates a mouse+keyboard.

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