Chess variant mobile game funded by donations
Built a single-player chess variant app without ads or in-app purchases, supported mostly by donations.
At a glance
Estimated by a classifier that read the source. The bar shows how sure it was.
- Category
- Software and apps92% surex
- Earns from
- Sponsors and donations94% surex
- Startup cost (estimate)
- $1k to $10kLow confidence35% surex
- Time it takes (estimate)
- Hands-off85% surex
- Where
- Online98% surex
- Coding
- Needs coding99% surex
Source
Hacker NewsComment by zulban in “Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea?”, December 11, 2022
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