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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by guico on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:04PM (#42379391)
Just launched Story Treasure a way to create illustrated children's books, motivated by the fact that I'm a portuguese dad raising two bilingual girls in Germany... very hard to find portuguese books around here!

https://www.storytreasure.ai/

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by m3nu on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @01:26PM (#42379661)
German speaker in Portugal. :-)

That's awesome. Just did one.

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by guico on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @04:38AM (#42386257)
haha, it's the ultimate uno reverse card. Did it work? There are some known issues with German titles on the Cover page, sorry if you've encountered that. I'm trying to improve it.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by gcanyon on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @12:43AM (#42385131)
How do you monetize?
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by guico on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @04:37AM (#42386249)
I have a margin on the credits for the models. So it's a credit model and I sell them for more than I buy them.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by sunsetonsaturn on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @06:10AM (#42386705)
Can you provide some figures, in terms of profitability? How much did it cost to put together, what are the monthly costs to keep it afloat?

I write a book and give it away for free on https://book.railean.net, but it wouldn't hurt to turn it into a revenue stream.

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by rsanek on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:03AM (#42387314)
This is impressive. I'm working in an adjacent space and one thing that has been a challenge is character consistency -- having characters in AI-generated art appear reasonably similar across different image generations. Your implementation looks to do a solid job -- any learnings that you're willing to share?