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Hey HN,

I’ve been thinking a lot about this lately and wanted to ask — how do you monetize your personal code if it doesn’t really fit into a classic product or SaaS model?

For example:

* I have a trained ML model that solves a niche task really well — but turning it into a full-blown app seems like overkill.

* I’ve written a CLI tool that processes log files better than anything else I’ve found, but it’s too specialized to justify making a company out of it.

* I built a few small

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https://github.com/OmniSVG/OmniSVG

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https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-04-12/trump-exempts-phones-

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https://v4.zod.dev/v4

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https://arktype.io/