[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in ... ___________________________________________________________________ Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 - Show and tell Previously asked on 2020 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167 Author : deadcoder0904 Score : 367 points Date : 2022-01-19 15:49 UTC (7 hours ago) | oleksii88 wrote: | Working on https://folge.me - desktop app for creating step by | step tutorials and guides. Unlike modern SaaS businesses I | decided to charge one time price, which makes revenue very | unpredictable, but usually keeping around 400-500 USD per month | robtherobber wrote: | Although I see the benefits of SaaS, I very much like this | model. | sergei_ws wrote: | I'm working on http://talevideo.com - The easiest way to create a | video of your SaaS or website. It's not subscription, but got | about 300$ in revenue from January. | | Talevideo - is a desktop application where you can create video | directly from website, without screen recording. And animate any | element on page, like fadeIn and etc. | | Example result of video/gif at my github: | https://github.com/ssleptsov | | Example_2 video directly from reddit website: | https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/ra7inj/app_to_... | challenger-derp wrote: | Looks cool! | sergei_ws wrote: | Thank you so much! | 0x008 wrote: | Great job! Any hints what technologies you are using? | sergei_ws wrote: | Thanks! Yea, sure. | | It's Electronjs with vue3/typescript, threejs, tailwind2 and | konvajs for timeliner(because canvas render much faster then | html update, so it's keep high FPS on edit mode). And vitejs | for tooling. | consultantrhys wrote: | I run getrhys.com | | I productized myself and made myself on-demand (easily available) | to struggling SaaS businesses. | | Currently doing $5K+ per month for working one day a week doing | short 30 min calls with clients. | porsager wrote: | I created an enhanced multilingual T9 keyboard[1][2] for iOS in | 2014 to play around with Swift. It's been doing 600$ on average | since then, still going strong. Still use it everyday myself and | can't live without it [1] | https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typenine-ultimate-t9-style-k... | [2] https://medium.com/porsager/a-better-iphone-typing- | experienc... | syngrog66 wrote: | beware of copycats, folks. this post can be a trap for the | gullible | adamcao wrote: | I started making Power-Ups (add-ons/plugins) for Trello in July | last year: https://www.tinypowerups.com | | It just hit $500/month on Monday and it seems to be increasing by | $100 in MRR per week. | | I'm only charging $1 per user per month for unlimited access to | all of my Power-Ups. I'm thinking about increasing this price to | $2 or $3 next month (existing customers get to keep the $1 price | tag). | | Some of the Power-Ups I offer: | | - File Manager: lets you search through and bulk download files | on a board. | | - Board Chat: adds a simple chatroom to your Trello board | | - External Share: creates a link and snapshot of a Trello board | that you can send to clients so they don't need to sign up for | Trello to see the board. | | - Office File Viewer: lets you preview .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx | files directly in Trello | | - Card Approvals: adds a "approve" and "decline" section to a | Trello card | nyellin wrote: | If anyone has a devops/Kubernetes related project that _isn 't_ | making money but has decent traffic/users, please consider | messaging me! | | We (http://robusta.dev) are interested in sponsoring open source | projects and popular Kubernetes bloggers to raise awareness about | what we do. It's a rare win-win. We're mostly open source and | extremely flexible if you have any special requirements. | ghostbrainalpha wrote: | I make a little under $500 selling sunglasses for Dogs and Cats. | vittor1o wrote: | I've launched a couple months ago https://linkz.ai | | Linkz.ai is hyperlink auto-previews that keep visitors on your | website. It's heavily inspired by Wikipedia & Google Docs link | preview popups with special extras. For example, when you click | on a YouTube hyperlink, it does not take you to Youtube website, | instead it opens lightbox with Youtube video on your website. All | with just one line of code. | | $500+/m in a first month | | Demo page: https://linkz-ai.webflow.io | vasilakisfil wrote: | this is really good idea, how comes not many | sites/companies/people use it? | vittor1o wrote: | I've just started this product late last year; the response | has exceeded my expectations.. give it a few more months for | sites/companies/people to adopt :) | idreyn wrote: | This has some neat use cases but I dearly hope it doesn't | become the norm... | vittor1o wrote: | Can you elaborate a bit? | | Technically rich link previews save visitors from the tab- | overload. | idreyn wrote: | The rich previews on hover are great. I was referring to | the "Immersive Previews", and for the things demoed on your | landing page like short forms and Youtube videos, they're a | nice experience. I worry about a world where every "sticky" | web platform gets caught in an iterated prisoner's dilemma | and all decide it's in their best interest to do this. In | this world, whenever I want to click a link off of | Instagram or Twitter or NYT I end up in an "Immersive | Preview" iframe of the site I expected to navigate to. | Google AMP everywhere. | | I would _love_ a world where this kind of thing is closer | to a first-class feature of the web -- thinking of Xanadu- | style transclusions or even Google's abandoned(?) <portal> | element. I would love deep-linking from | Github->Jira->Github in the same tab, and this points the | way towards that. But if there are a dozen implementations | of it floating around, and users have no control or warning | over when a link behaves this way, it's just another way to | wrest control of the browsing experience away from them. | | Please be mindful about how you advertise this, is what I'm | saying. | asadlionpk wrote: | how do you get your users? | vittor1o wrote: | A few channels right now: | | - Participating in the web dev communities | | - "Powered by Linkz.ai" footer in the Link preview popups | | - Campaigns on Product Hunt, Reddit & similar | | - Soon: Affiliate, LTD, targeted ads for Webflow/Squarespace | ecosystems | sambroner wrote: | Super interesting, I added this (albeit way less pretty) to my | personal site and generally got poor reviews. That being said, | I'm really enthusiastic about the idea. | | Example here: https://blog-545pd1vjp-sambroner.vercel.app/ | vittor1o wrote: | Try adding Linkz.ai previews on your blog posts, and get | another round of feedback :) | dools wrote: | I have 2: | | BenkoBot is like wayscript but with a focus on making Trello | automations (although you can use it for generic HTTP API | interaction): | | https://app.benkobot.com/ | | And BenkoPhone is the only virtual mobile number outside of North | America that does voice, TXT and pictures: | | https://www.benkophone.com/ | codegeek wrote: | https://cronhub.io (a project I just took over). Makes about | 1k/month for now. | andreygrehov wrote: | This is cool. What's the story behind taking the project over? | josephd79 wrote: | I use to follow the original creator of this app. Nice to see | its still around. | dirtyhand wrote: | Stock market and crypto currency bot for Slack and Discord | https://beeper.fyi/ | davidsawyer wrote: | How does this make money? I don't see any pricing info on the | site. | elliottcarlson wrote: | How are you earning revenue on this? Don't see any pricing or | signup requirements | par wrote: | I built Meta Meme, an iPhone meme making app. It nets approx | $3-5k monthly. https://metameme.app/ | typon wrote: | A really good app and generally adding positivity to the world | :) | montenegrohugo wrote: | I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I | didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since | my background is in AI, I made my own. | | - https://www.namy.ai | | It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users | daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very | lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and | that's where the traffic is coming from. | | It's not yet at $500/mo, but it's getting close. Server costs are | significant though, since running an AI model is a bit expensive. | | Ideas and feedback are welcome. | [deleted] | coder543 wrote: | "Only show available" doesn't seem to work except on the | homepage... but I think it's because the homepage is the only | place where any domains are actually marked as already being | registered. (when _most_ of the suggested domains on search | results seem to be registered already, based on a quick | sampling.) | | On the same line of thought, it would be awesome (but probably | difficult/expensive) if you could show the price of each domain | directly in the results. | | Otherwise, it seems like a neat tool! | montenegrohugo wrote: | You guys are overloading the domain checking API :( | | Good problem to have I suppose ^^ | ramoz wrote: | Love it. Explainability would be a nice feature. I.e word | definitions, origins, etc. | davidatbu wrote: | cheriot wrote: | Looks really cool. The first two results I clicked on where | registered a long time ago, though. | | https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma... | | https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma... | montenegrohugo wrote: | Thanks! Yeah, I did NOT expect HN's traffic. It's overloading | the domain checking API and making it fail | thom wrote: | I'm getting a lot of false positives but this has already | generated some great ideas! | montenegrohugo wrote: | I'm sorry! I didn't expect the HN hug of death. About 200 | concurrent people right now, so the domain check API is | failing :( | cploonker wrote: | Works surprisingly well. | montenegrohugo wrote: | Thanks! Was a fun project to do. I have a bunch of ideas to | make it better, but I decided to let it rest for a bit and | focus on other stuff. Might put in a bit more effort if it | keeps getting the interest it's getting now! | adamddev1 wrote: | That is fantastic, I wish I knew about it earlier. I used | another popular name-finding site (can't remember what it was) | but it wasn't nearly as intelligent and the results were not | that good. It also would be great to check for the availability | of the name in Twitter/YouTube/etc. | truculent wrote: | This is fantastic! If I may be crass, how does this make money? | Just through referral links? | montenegrohugo wrote: | Not crass, I like sharing! We're all here to learn from each | other. | | The monetization model is just referral links to Namecheap, | where I get a 10% commission. I want to make that a bit more | elegant (especially for people with uBlock Origin, which it | doesn't track), and also add a few other referrals (logo | makers and maybe hosting). | | Couldn't think of other ways to monetize this without making | it obnoxious (I hate ads, and making it pay-to-use also seems | restrictive to me). If you have any ideas, I'd be open to | hear them! | hooande wrote: | great site, well made. congrats | rozenmd wrote: | I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively | building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/ | | I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if | static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's | offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and | shipped it. | | Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, | support for checking APIs for both uptime and correctness, | support for checking JavaScript apps, and more. | | My trick for launching into 200 competitors providing the "same" | service and still getting customers? | | - I work two hours a day, every weekday on OnlineOrNot, and no | other side projects. I've had this streak going for about nine | months now. | | - I focus particularly on features that solve my customer's pain | (and I ask my customers what that pain is) | | - I'm ruthlessly iterative. If I can't get a feature done in two | hours, I figure out how to cut scope down to a two hour block, | and ship that. Then iterate on it. | vram22 wrote: | endomorphism wrote: | What was your motivation for building it? As you said, there's | a lot of competition, did you anticipate that it would be | difficult to differentiate? | rozenmd wrote: | I didn't see any competitors in the space solving the problem | the way I would solve it (good UX + a focus on developer- | experience), I wanted an uptime monitor that didn't piss me | off with my own freelance clients, and I figured if there was | room for a 200th competitor, chances are there would be room | for a 201st. | endomorphism wrote: | That's great, thanks! | quickthrower2 wrote: | Nice. I am also interested in the consulting -> discover | problem -> saas route. I reckon your customers really are | buying for their existing trust in you. | wkimeria wrote: | Ok, this is really cool! (I also love the ruthlessly iterative | mindset) | barcoder wrote: | I admire you diligence with cutting down features to hit the | self imposed deadline. | | I've been ferociously learning game dev and have allowed myself | unlimited time to jump down rabbit holes. Now that I'm actually | building a game I need to remind myself to just build it with | what I know. | | It's an interesting switch in mind set. Still learning | obviously, only now I'm pulling together knowledge buried deep | within rather than from tutorials. | | I'll keep in mind scope and remember your inspiring diligence | next time I'm tempted to peek in a rabbit hole. | nahtnam wrote: | Do you use any tools like Linear, Notion, and/or Github | Projects to keep track and organize new features? | rozenmd wrote: | I've tried a few tools, the only one I kept using habitually | was Trello. | robmerki wrote: | I wrote a book about adult ADHD last year & make ~$500/mo from it | between Amazon, Audible, & Gumroad: https://adhdpro.xyz/ | | Recorded the audiobook myself too. | jason_riddle wrote: | The site looks very polished! What did you use to build it? | | Also, what did you use to write your book? And how long did it | take to write? | robmerki wrote: | Thanks! I built it with Gatsby + TailwindCSS. Sent a lot of | time tinkering & editing copy over and over. | | I wrote it with Microsoft Word. I initially tried a few | different apps but all of the organizational tools they | provided got in the way. I broke most conventions and just | wrote the book straight from start to finish, and re-read it | countless times until I felt satisfied. Then I sent it to a | ton of friends who helped me edit. A professional editor | would've been a better idea, but I didn't really have the | money for that at the time. | metadaemon wrote: | Do you by chance sell the audiobook outside of the Audible pro | subscription? | throwaway74657 wrote: | motyar wrote: | https://bruzu.com | | API to generate images on the fly. | | Sample https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN3 | skurtcastle wrote: | I wont use bruzu till you're one billion MRR. haha jus jokes. | I've been following Bruzu since the start. Great product, great | dev who is open minded for feedback, etc. | motyar wrote: | So small small world. Thanks | conqrr wrote: | I've been thinking of building something similar in the past. | Did you use Imagemagick or similar for the backend or is it AI | based? | johneth wrote: | Very nice. Noticed a small typo - the footer link to Pinterest | is misspelled. | motyar wrote: | Thanks, Fixed. | cinntaile wrote: | > I am a developer, Do I need this API? No, if you can build | your own rendering system with all these features and able to | make it run this fast. You don't need this API. | | Your FAQ is great hahaha! | motyar wrote: | Yes, every developer thinks the same about almost every | API/service, that they could build it over weekend. | brimble wrote: | Building it is one thing. It's not even uncommon for people | to be _right_ about that part. | | It's the maintenance, support, training, operations, and | documentation that will kill you, if you think you can | "just" write some service and then move on to other tasks. | jjice wrote: | I like how you addressed this in the FAQ, because this is | such a classic take by some users of HN. It's fine if you | don't want to use it, but a lot of people would love to. | Nice product by the way. | IceWreck wrote: | And in some cases, they probably can. But reliability, | scalability and most importantly quality is harder. | ASalazarMX wrote: | For the curious like me: | | Q: I am a developer, Do I need this API? | | A: No, if you can build your own rendering system with all | these features and able to make it run this fast. You don't | need this API. | zerop wrote: | Can this be done in Pure JS solution within browser? Why need | backend? | dahfizz wrote: | An API allows you to create images from things that are not | browsers. | goshx wrote: | The product is an "API to generate images on the fly". How | would you create an API with no backend? | zerop wrote: | Not the API, I meant this functionality of rendering text | on image, can this be done in JS only? | udbhavs wrote: | One barrier is if you load an image from a source that | doesn't allow CORS the canvas becomes "tainted" and | exports are blocked (https://developer.mozilla.org/en- | US/docs/Web/HTML/CORS_enabl...) | motyar wrote: | Yes its way easier in browser on front-end. | | But you need API for the things that happens off browser. | Like if you want to create images inside your code. | harperlee wrote: | It can be done, but this is already done, so you can just | pay with money instead of dev time. | karqt wrote: | Sure it can, and I'd say it's much cheaper to do it in JS | than using API (with quite small quota, even for paid | plans) | dudus wrote: | Yes but then you can't post it to social media as easily. | Unless you export it as an image from JavaScript. | | This is good for social media managers that want to | automate a lot of account posts. | finnx wrote: | Yes, HTML5 Canvas. ctx.drawImage() ctx.fillText() | eximius wrote: | https://hoppy.network Hosted WireGuard as a Service with static | IP assignment. | asaddhamani wrote: | What's your server location? | jonkratz wrote: | My side project, FormTester 365 https://www.formtester365.com has | been doing a little over $700/mo now. Many customers are agencies | who want to be alerted if a client's web forms stop working. | | It tests website forms daily (currently as a Gravity Forms plugin | add on) and confirms that they were successfully submitted. I'm | working to add support for general web forms in the next few | months. Feel free to send me an email if you're interested in | being notified when that feature rolls out -- jon (at) | creativeculturemedia.com | sarora27 wrote: | We launched this last year: https://kbee.app | | Kbee turns a Google Drive folder into a searchable wiki for you | and your team. We're currently doing ~$1500/month in MRR | 0x4a42 wrote: | What is MRR? | sippndipp wrote: | We're doing an newsletter dedicated for Android developers: | | https://androidweekly.net/ | | - it was four years without making any money | | - with ~100k subs it's generating money | | - everything grew organically | maxencecornet wrote: | My side project https://playtoearn.one/ is not making $500/month | yet, but it's getting there: a tiny bit more than $400 for this | month | | It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying | niche | | I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to | nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ | for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner | | There are so many play-to-earn games popping up at the same time | that projects are fighting for visibility, which playtoearn.one | can bring | | So now, I've hired a designer to make a great looking UI and I'm | getting motivated to turn this side project into something more | than this | | EDIT: Traffic for the past month: | | https://simpleanalytics.com/playtoearn.one?period=month&coun... | pyrrhotech wrote: | Monetizing the algotrading models I've built over the last 2+ | years: https://grizzlybulls.com | | I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, | 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual returns with much lower | volatility than the overall market. My starting capital was small | (500k) so in addition to growing with my own capital, I'm now | providing the signals (3 free, 4 premium). | | 105 total members, MRR is currently $1397/month, just launched | exactly 1 month ago today. Still in the google sandbox so I'm not | seeing much organic traffic. We have a small community on reddit, | rest of users from social media, Seeking Alpha and Stock Twits. | RyanShook wrote: | Just curious, why sell your model if it's working so well for | you? | pyrrhotech wrote: | I've thought about this a lot, and to answer 100% honestly, | I'm not sure I always will, but for now: | | 1. These are not HFT models. They trade once every 2-4 weeks | on average. They scale to billions in capital, so selling | them does not inhibit my own returns. 2. There's a lot of | demand. Part of the reason I decided to launch is I had some | friends IRL begging me to let them use my models as well. | Seeking Alpha has over 15M MAU and hundreds of thousands of | premium subscribers, and in my opinion this service provides | more direct value and wastes less of your time with noise. 3. | All the money I make from this goes back into my own bot and | compounds. Sure the $1400/month doesn't add up to much right | now, but 1000+ premium subscribers one day would make a huge | difference to me financially. 4. I believe we are at a | precipice with passive investing, and the next bear market | which could be right around the corner will dishearten a lot | of folks. The more money investing smartly in the market at a | reasonable fee makes the markets and overall economy less | fragile. More automated smart investing saves society the | drag of lots of suits on wall street mostly playing a big | marketing game without producing much alpha or liquidity or | any other measurable benefit in contrast. | | Also, on a lighter note, running a business is just a lot of | fun. I love seeing people use my product and get value from | it. | bmitc wrote: | Who would you describe as your target audience? For | example, would someone with some software and mathematics | skills but limited financial knowledge (but growing | interest) be able to turn the signals into a trading | system? | waterside81 wrote: | Personalized kid's e-books http://www.littleheroes.com | | Web + app store purchases | | Up for sale if anyone's interested | consultantrhys wrote: | I run getrhys.com | | I productized myself and operate as an on-demand marketing | consultant for SaaS businesses. | | Currently do $5K+ per month working one day a week taking short | 30 minute calls with my clients. | HEHENE wrote: | My side project currently grosses close to $1,400 per month | through Patreon. | | I run a modded Grand Theft Auto: V roleplaying server with around | 1,500 members (around 300 really dedicated MAU.) If you're not | familiar with GTA RP, it tries to emulate real life as closely as | possible while still recognizing that GTA is an arcade game. | Players live lives as if they were real people, buying cars and | houses, holding jobs, opening businesses, receiving medical | treatment, being arrested, etc. | | I've spent around three years working on the gamemode and spend, | on average, 30-60 hours per week on it. It's really a pure | passion project. Players support the project through Patreon in | exchange for priority queue access (when the server is full, | players are held in a queue until a slot opens up for them), | custom license plates on their vehicles, custom phone numbers, | and other cosmetic perks. | mrbad101 wrote: | My son plays FiveM almost exclusively when he is on the | computer gaming. He has been enamored with it for years now. As | a parent who is also a gamer, I can't help but chuckle when I | hear the conversations going on between everyone. Although it | is not my cup of tea now, when I was that age, I would have | killed to have such a world available for me to engage with. | | Thank you for such a killer "side" project! | HEHENE wrote: | The conversations can be interesting to put it mildly. When I | get the chance to play, I mainly play a police officer and it | has caused more than one moment of confusion when I didn't | realize my partner had taken a work call and their co-workers | could hear me barking out "lawful orders" from the other | room. | | Roleplaying games are really great for exercising your social | skills and creative expression though, that's for sure. | swyx wrote: | you should rebrand your server as a Metaverse and sell it to | Microsoft for 1.4 million | Arubis wrote: | I mean, yes, you're being flippant, but this is _not a bad | idea_ | krat0sprakhar wrote: | Wow, this sounds really interesting. As someone who used to be | an avid GTA V player, I can imagine how much fun this can be. | Do you have any videos on the mod and/or on the playing | experience? | HEHENE wrote: | FiveM is the most popular platform for this type of modding, | and is the one I use. nopixel is the most popular server on | the platform and usually a good place to start getting a feel | for what's possible on a modded GTA server. | | If you check out https://nopixel.hasroot.com/, they maintain | a list of all Twitch streamers currently streaming nopixel. | | nb: I have no affiliation with nopixel. | Drblessing wrote: | This is so cool! In my free time I love watching GTA RP, | especially NoPixel. | heneryville wrote: | I've made about 50 Amazon Alexa skills. The most popular 5 earn | rewards: https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills- | kit/gr... | | At first it was around $2500 per month, but has slowly ramped | down over the past 4 years to about $900 per month. Totally | passive income at this point. | jacobrussell wrote: | Do you mind sharing what some of them do? | heneryville wrote: | Sure. Some of my most successful are: | | Bark Like a Dog -- https://www.amazon.com/Iguana-ASD-Bark- | Like-Dog/dp/B07C1BKWK... | | Truth or Dare -- https://www.amazon.com/Mitchell-Harris- | Truth-or-Dare/dp/B073... | | The Song that Never Ends -- https://www.amazon.com/The-Song- | That-Never-Ends | | and my personal favorite, but doesn't make much is Rap Battle | -- https://www.amazon.com/Mitchell-Harris-Rap- | Battle/dp/B0742JQ... | mmmmkay wrote: | konschubert wrote: | I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible- | computers.com/products/invisible-cale... | | It syncs with Google Calendar. | | To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in _revenue_ not | _earnings_. | | If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. | | EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be | notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: | https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9 | jliptzin wrote: | Awesome | Lucasoato wrote: | If it was available, I'd buy it right now! :) | konschubert wrote: | If you sign up here I will let you know :) | | https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9 | financetechbro wrote: | Looks like your form is restricted to org members only | konschubert wrote: | Whoops, is it fixed now? | judge2020 wrote: | Yes. | drodil wrote: | I made one too with inkplate. The software is open sourced. | More details here: https://link.medium.com/DeyY5FlcXmb | challenger-derp wrote: | I like how minimalistic it looks. Families might want a larger | sized one to hang somewhere prominent in their home hah. | konschubert wrote: | Yea, I keep eying bigger displays but they are $$$$$ | zzixp wrote: | Oh man I love this! Definitely keeping my eye on it. Any chance | at Outlook integration? | konschubert wrote: | I can say it's in the backlog, but I can't say if and when. | joshu wrote: | does this connect directly to google or is there a proxy? | konschubert wrote: | It goes through a proxy that handles the authentication | towards Google. | abider wrote: | have you thoughts about offering this as software service for | something like the Remarkable? | konschubert wrote: | I haven't thought about it, no. Not sure if that would be a | good spot to be in, as a business. | [deleted] | moralestapia wrote: | Hi man, beautiful product, if this were an external monitor, or | at least a website kiosk, I would buy it in a heartbeat. :D | davidsawyer wrote: | Nice!! How big are those displays, and if you don't mind | sharing, how much do those displays cost from your supplier? | Last time I checked, e-paper displays were pretty pricey on | their own. | konschubert wrote: | The display is 7.5 inches, from Waveshare. I pay retail. | dionidium wrote: | Just a heads up: my company blocks this site as malware | kylecordes wrote: | I wonder if there is a service that (somehow) detects your | site has been flagged in various categories by big company | firewalls, and alerts you. Wild guess: whatever system feeds | into the lists that get blocked in this way probably has a | lot of false positives. | konschubert wrote: | shop.invisible-computers.com? | | Any idea what could be causing this? I am at a loss. | MattSayar wrote: | I have an extension called FakeSpot that I use to detect | fake Amazon reviews. To my surprise, it flagged your site | as well with the following note: "Please research the | seller because: * Limited Internet presence * Website is | missing common professional website attributes * Limited | Internet presence and history" | | It doesn't expand on any of those points, that's all it | says. | zknicker wrote: | Wild guess, but perhaps it's the - (dash)? | Graffur wrote: | This is awesome. I would 100% buy a battery operated version | FernandoMax wrote: | 100% I agree. Makes non-sense the eInk (low consumption) but | power cord. | andi999 wrote: | I agree, very cool. Here what I do not like so much: | | a) the wood frame seems to be too large (probably there is a | technical reason for this), but still. Not much too large | though, just maybe 25%? | | b) the wood (at least from the pictures) looks cheap (plywood?) | konschubert wrote: | It's multiplex. The device in the last picture has plywood | but it's an older version. | | Multiplex is actually nice since it's cross laminated and | thus retains its shape. I experimented with solid wood and it | started arching after a few weeks. | jacobmarble wrote: | Very cool product! | rPlayer6554 wrote: | very cool! I absolutely want one. | servercobra wrote: | Oh my gosh, I love this. I even love the name. My fiance and I | were even talking about how we wanted to move the house towards | more "invisible technology" (magic mirrors, things like this, | maybe the Frame TV if we get a good deal and figure out a good | spot for it, etc) | evanlivingston wrote: | Recheck the frame tv. I wanted one until I realized it's just | a thin tv thats motion activated to stay on/turn on and show | a static image. | RussianCow wrote: | Wow, this is great! I was actually just thinking about hacking | something like this together on my own, but $200 seems really | reasonable for a pre-built product, and it looks much nicer | than it would if I built it! :) Any plans to support non-Google | calendar accounts? | konschubert wrote: | I would like to support other formats, caldev, outlook etc. I | am limited by time and money, not imagination :D | tych0 wrote: | This is pretty cool, though it would be nice if it worked with | caldav instead of just google calendar :) | konschubert wrote: | I think so too :D | | It's definitely something I am having in the backlog, but I | cannot promise if and when it will be implemented. | VectorLock wrote: | I wanted to let you know that I find your approach to | future features refreshing, in contrast to the typical | over-promising you typically see. | vram22 wrote: | searchableguy wrote: | That's pretty cool. Love to see a hardware project. | | What's the profit margin like? | | E-ink displays are expensive. That price point seems not enough | to generate decent income. | kylecordes wrote: | I read somewhere that the e-ink expense is because the | company which controls the intellectual property chooses to | make it a low volume, high cost product. Not that it is | inherently expensive, and I am surprised they don't try the | opposite strategy, make it cheap and everywhere. | axg11 wrote: | Would love a link/source for this if you have one. | vxNsr wrote: | I was under the impression that standard black/white e-ink | is no longer patent encumbered, could totally be wrong tho | hyperbovine wrote: | > E-ink displays are expensive. | | I was curious... from what I can find online the wholesale | price of an e-ink display is not that much cheaper (if any) | than buying an equivalently sized Kindle. What is the | viability of a business model that involves rooting a Kindle, | loading whatever calendar display software you need, and | shipping it inside a pretty wooden frame? | timmaah wrote: | Previously from 26 days ago: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095 | | That said, this seems to be the extent of my marketing desire. | | I screen scrape campground registration websites and alert you | when someone cancels on a date you want to go camping. Fabulously | successful. Now back to my day-job. | | https://wanderinglabs.com | Arubis wrote: | This feels like a good balance to me--you're giving people a | heads-up that there's an open block that they can book, without | doing the "value add" of blocking it off and then scalping the | slot. More power to you. | dana_janssen wrote: | We built https://tadum.app, an online meeting agenda that rolls | forward incomplete agenda items to the next agenda. This ends up | creating a low effort paper trail, saves on meeting prep time, | and keeps agendas consistently formatted/organized. It's intended | for recurring weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings--we built it | based on how we run meetings with our clients and are happy to | see other teams jump in and have success with it. | thrwy_ywrht wrote: | I made a background noise website and app | | https://asoftmurmur.com | | There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life | commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer | than I'm comfortable with | ahmed_ds wrote: | This is a pleasant surprise. I remember using your app ages | ago. I want to say at least 7 years ago when I believe you | launched your website first on reddit. My memory is a bit hazy. | | I really liked your app. We had a construction project going on | for the longest time and I would mix up your rain, storm, sea | and the singing bowl sound everything together and blast it on | my soundbox!! | | Thank you. | thrwy_ywrht wrote: | Haha thank you for the nice memory! I've been running the | site for 8 years, it's crazy that it's been that long | abetusk wrote: | Do you mind going into where your main revenue stream comes | from and how it breaks down? Is it mostly apple users? Google | play? Do you get any revenue from the website itself? | thrwy_ywrht wrote: | The basic model is people pay for access to more sounds. For | the last few years this bas been separate transactions on the | ios app, android app and for the web version. Ideally I'd | move to a single subscription-based account that worked | across all devices for extra sounds. | | Revenue breakdown is roughly equal between android, ios and | web, somewhat surprisingly. Android converts worse but has | higher user numbers. Web converts much worse, but converts at | a higher price (justified by the fact that | hosting/maintaining the web stuff take a lot more time and | money) | abetusk wrote: | Thanks, that's pretty interesting to hear! | | Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction | enough to get to $500/month? | thrwy_ywrht wrote: | > Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction | enough to get to $500/month? | | Pure dumb luck. I made the site to scratch my own itch | many years ago, and then it took off because there were | few similar sites at the time (that let you mix together | different sounds). Only promotion I did was mention the | site on reddit a few times. Users were prepared to | tolerate a lot of rough edges at first. | | There has been zero advertising. The site gets a regular | influx of new users because it's been featured on a | number of discover-interesting-website portals (the | modern versions of StumbleUpon). This happened with no | input from me. I assume it's a good match for these kinds | of portals because it's immediately usable without any | kind of instruction, signup etc. | | I only made the decision to monetize after a long period | of the site getting lots and lots of organic traffic with | no input from me. | gateless wrote: | I'm curious about how much work goes into recording high- | quality, looping sounds like this? | thrwy_ywrht wrote: | > I'm curious about how much work goes into recording high- | quality, looping sounds like this? | | When I started the site, I mainly used CC0 licensed sounds | others had recorded. | | Then I started recording my own sounds. How much work it is | is very situational - if you regularly find yourself in an | environment which has the sound you want to record, and not | many other sounds around, then it's pretty trivial. For | example, you want to record rain in the forest, and you | regularly walk in a forest where it rains and there aren't | many other noise sources (e.g. other people, planes overhead, | singing birds, etc). The actual recording itself doesn't take | much work, because I shoot for a level of sound quality that | will satisfy 80%-90% of people, rather than a real | "audiophile" quality level. | | On the other hand, if you want to record something that only | happens occasionally and with lots of other noise sources | nearby, it can be a ton of work. For example, you want to | record the sound of thunder, but you only get occasional | storms, you live in a city with lots of other background | noise, and it usually rains when it storms and you want rain | on the recording. In that scenario, you might have to travel | far and burn a ton of time trying to get the right conditions | for recording. | juancampa wrote: | I've been using it for hours and hours for the past few years. | Thank you! | 2pir wrote: | I use this all the time, and I tell everyone else to as well. | shepherdjerred wrote: | I used your app constantly before I picked up Sonos speakers | and had to restort to Spotify playlists! | voiprodrigo wrote: | Amazing, didn't know this existed. This plus my NC headphones, | bliss. Enjoying it while I type this. Thank you!! | michaelbuckbee wrote: | Just wanted to say how much I enjoy the site. | notamy wrote: | I use this constantly, oh my gods. Thank you so much for making | it!! <3 | BorisTheBrave wrote: | I sell an game development tool on the Unity Asset store. Since | the peak died down, it's now somewhat under $500/mo, but still | does well in occasional sales. | StayTrue wrote: | I make visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding and I'm | making >$500 profit but not enough to live on. My site is | https://www.islandix.com | udfalkso wrote: | My brother started Podcast Notes in 2015. I help out on the tech | side. We now have a growing community of Premium Members, 35k | Twitter Followers, 25k email subscribers. | | https://podcastnotes.org | akudha wrote: | There is a typo in the URL :) | udfalkso wrote: | Thx, fixed! | funksta wrote: | Made around $1500 in a month from https://hyperpaper.me/ | | It's a customized dayplanner pdf for large eInk devices like the | reMarkable 2. I built it for myself initially but realized I | could provide a customized build for other folks. There's still a | small amount of manual work to generate them, but I should be | able to automate it end-to-end soon. | | I don't expect it to make much at all over the next 10 months, | but I'm already excited about other things I'm planning to add | for the 2023 version | kareemm wrote: | I make https://www.savio.io. | | We help SaaS CS and Product teams use product feedback from | Intercom, Zendesk, Hubspot, Help Scout, etc to understand and | build what customers are asking for. | qnk wrote: | I've been working on Newsletterss, a newsletter reader for web, | iOS and Android. I'm making about $2k/m with about 30% of that | going to ads and infrastructure costs. | | You can check it out at https://newsletterss.com | jason_zig wrote: | I build products to help improve my main e-commerce businesses so | I think this counts as a side-hustle. The latest (earliest stage | one is): | | https://www.zigpoll.com | | "Bite sized" polling software as a service that I use for post | purchase surveys, contact us forms, and email campaigns when I | want feedback on what to do next. Most customers are currently | through our Shopify App but have a few SaaS businesses that | integrated it independently. | scarecrowbob wrote: | I play music in bars. Or busk an accordion. Fun times. Definitely | not passive income, but it's work I like. | midiguy wrote: | Hey fellow accordion busker! I find my busking income has | diminished vastly with age, despite my skill rising. Everyone | wants to toss a coin at the 10 year old playing decent | accordion. Not so much the 30 year old playing good accordion. | vorpalhex wrote: | I realize you can't exactly do exit interviews but have you | tried talking to "users"? | scarecrowbob wrote: | Well, I'm 43.... | | Not to say that this is your issue, but I find it helps if I | dress up a lot. | | I have nice, embroidered pearl snaps, custom cowboy boots, | fancy hats, and a couple nice vests. | | That is to say, it's pretty easy for folks to confuse me with | panhandlers. I have no problem with folks panhandling, but my | tips are way better if I look like a performer. | anonymouse008 wrote: | Are you using Venmo for tips? I used to have an itch for | digital tip jars, but never figured out the right set of | features to really drive adoption... | | This was well before Patreon, and PayPal was pretty much the | only API game in town. Since then, I've felt like Venmo handles | 9/10ths of the live performance problem (unleash the | appreciation (money) locked in digital form). | scarecrowbob wrote: | TBH, I am not super on point about that-- on some level I | still rationalize busking as a mode of practice where I don't | have to annoy the neighbors in my apartment. | | I should probably look into that... it seems like a | reasonable idea. | | I will say, the one time that someone asked me directly about | it, when I told them I didn't have venmo they gave me a $100 | bill. Not to say that will ever be repeated. | 650REDHAIR wrote: | I never have cash on me and when I see a QR code I usually | give 2-5x more than I would if I was carrying cash on me | because it feels weird to "drop in" $1-4 on Venmo and I guilt | myself into more. | | Anyway, accordion OP you should get a QR code for tips :) | anonymouse008 wrote: | Yup ^ that was also the idea. Unlock so much more value for | the performer | nakodari wrote: | https://jumpshare.com | | Visual communication tool with screen recording, screenshots and | GIFs for macOS and Windows. Fully native apps without using | Electron. I started Jumpshare as a side project many years ago | and turned it into a full-time job. | kouteiheika wrote: | I'm running a website for people learning Japanese and currently | making ~$590/month from Patreon donations: https://jpdb.io/ | | This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working | publicly for the past year. | | Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959 | jjice wrote: | Looks fantastic, and I especially love the simple tech stack. | How do you handle updates out of curiosity? scp and rerun? | kouteiheika wrote: | Yep. Copy the executable (plus another file which is a big | blob containing the dictionary, examples, etc.), and then | just do `systemctl restart`. | | There's nothing extra running on the server; no reverse proxy | (the app itself automatically fetches/renews the HTTPS cert), | no database, nothing. Just the app, the SSH server and the | default system services. | mzmoen wrote: | This is quite cool. One suggestion would be to have the | pronunciation listed in addition to the kanji and audio (at | least when I searched I didn't see it, so the only way to learn | to pronounce is to use audio). Do you know of something similar | for Chinese by any chance? | kouteiheika wrote: | > One suggestion would be to have the pronunciation listed in | addition to the kanji and audio (at least when I searched I | didn't see it, so the only way to learn to pronounce is to | use audio). | | Sorry, I'm a little confused? The pronunciation _is_ listed | for every word; that 's the hiragana next/on top of the | words. (: | | > Do you know of something similar for Chinese by any chance? | | Alas, I do not. Maybe I'll make something like that in, like, | 20 years if I'll ever be able to make a living off of this. | (: | asdf3243245q wrote: | Wow, that looks great! | | My main complaint is that I haven't known about this until now. | I frequently search for Japanese resources and specifically did | searches to find pre-made decks of Japanese content from | Japanese language media, but never encountered your site. | | Thank you for the effort to revamp the Heisig kanji keywords - | makes me wish I didn't already learn it the RTK way. The way to | teach new kanji by introducing the enclosed primitives first is | smart - it's a good compromise between "primitive first" and | "usage first" approaches. | kouteiheika wrote: | Thanks! | | Yeah, it's still pretty much a very niche resource that many | people do not know about. (: | | Indeed, Heisig's keywords can be janky. Mine are not perfect, | but in general they should be better than Heisig's. Well, at | least for most of the really common kanji; I still need to | change/improve the keywords for some of the more rare kanji | and tweak a few more common ones. (As you can imagine doing | that manually for a few thousand characters is a lot of work, | so it has been slow going.) | cmeacham98 wrote: | Hi, if you're still around: | | jpdb looks really cool, but will it work for somebody who is a | complete beginner? | | I want to learn Japanese, and intend to commit time to doing so | sometime in the upcoming 2-3 months. However, right now, I'm | literally at zero. | | Is there somewhere else I should go to learn things like basic | grammar and sentence structure first, or will jpdb help with | that sort of thing too? | kouteiheika wrote: | A complete beginner? Nope. Well, at least not yet! | | Eventually I _do_ want to make it a one-stop-shop which will | teach you _everything_ and take you from a complete beginner | to someone who can immerse in native media as soon as | possible. We 're not there yet, and the site works best if | you're _at least_ an advanced beginner. The bare minimum | requirement is that you know hiragana and katakana already. | | Your best bet would be to start with a textbook of some kind | and/or some actual lessons with real teachers to learn the | basics. The more of a beginner you are the more the human | touch helps; the more advanced you are the more you can | depend on apps. | wodenokoto wrote: | Thumbs up for revising the keywords of remembering the kanji. | | I don't follow his book but I do refer to it when studying and | sometimes his keywords really can be far out. If I remember | correctly he never clarifies if the kanji for "can" is "can do" | or "can of soup". | NTARelix wrote: | Upon initial login I'm definitely impressed by the interface, | the existing content, and the potential to finally brush up on | my Japanese. | | I ended up linking to my Google account, but I spent a long | while trying to "sign up" with my email only to be given an | message about failing to meet the password requirements (no | mention of character limit and no special characters allowed). | At first I thought I just needed to adjust my password | generator to get a valid password (usually 64 chars with alpha- | numerics and special characters), but even the simplest | passwords failed with the same error message. | kouteiheika wrote: | > I ended up linking to my Google account, but I spent a long | while trying to "sign up" with my email only to be given an | message about failing to meet the password requirements (no | mention of character limit and no special characters | allowed). | | This is strange; I don't really have any special password | requirements. What's the _exact_ error message you were | getting? The only requirements are that it 's at least 6 | characters long and different than your username, and in each | case it should tell you exactly what's wrong. | astroalex wrote: | I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically | generated posters of my art: https://spacefiller.space/prints | | This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales | so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, | hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters. | nati0n wrote: | Curious what the rough process is to generate art | algorithmically... I've heard of ML that attempts to generate | art based on its training pool. What concepts does this sort of | art use? | astroalex wrote: | Thanks for your question! I began writing a technical | explanation of the art here: | https://notes.spacefiller.space/living-wall/ | | It's a very early draft, but hopefully provides a glimpse | into the techniques I use. | | (tl;dr: it's way more low-tech than ML generated art.) | yumaikas wrote: | These are a amazing pieces of computational art! | | Might I ask what you built it with? | astroalex wrote: | Thank you! They're made with Java-based Processing | (https://processing.org/), although I have a new | JavaScript/WebGL version in the works. | idiotsecant wrote: | If you want to restart with someone to do the grunt work let me | know :P | astroalex wrote: | If you're serious, send me an email at | alexmiller@spacefiller.space! I would honestly love to hire | someone to do a bit of grunt work. | ahmed_ds wrote: | Not a product or something exciting, it is a service. I run a VA | firm (tbh I work as the VA) and I kinda almost make $500/month. | https://www.ITNAdigital.com | | Trying to scale up the business to cater to data and software | businesses. But working in real estate industry for a while now. | nunez wrote: | I made two LinkedIn courses. One has paid off its royalties; the | other is on its way there. Should be >$500/month combined soon! | | I'm also working on an app that allows you to set a universal | status across multiple platforms. I use it to automate my Slack | statuses from my TripIt trips, but I want to add integrations for | Google Calendar and WhatsApp. It's really rough right now but my | future intent is to find a way to monetize it when it's cleaner. | bmitc wrote: | What does it mean that one has "paid off its royalties"? Do you | have any description or advice for the general process for | teaching a LinkedIn course? | arilotter wrote: | I made a p2p NFT trading webapp that's totally free & open-source | over the course of a month or so of evenings and weekends, and | I've received a couple thousand $ in various cryptos as donations | from my in-site donation link. | | https://vaportrade.net/ | davidkuennen wrote: | I'm working on an event based stock portfolio/investment tracker. | Currently at 10k MRR. | | https://stockevents.app | | Edit: Just noticed this thread was merged/resubmerged? Now I have | a duplicate answer here. :-/ | throwawayffffas wrote: | How do you monetize? Ads? Subscriptions? | klohto wrote: | IAP | davidkuennen wrote: | Yearly subscription. Some users asked me to make it free and | serve ads, but I refused. I wanted to make it ad free with | regards to privacy. | crazypython wrote: | AI that explains code, at a high business logic level. I | originally designed it while working on a complex physics system | for a game engine, and needed to understand it myself and also | explain it to non-technical people. Try it on your own code: | https://denigma.app | henning wrote: | I sell covered calls on Robinhood. | chillel wrote: | how much does that make you? | bradwood wrote: | Getting rekt mostly? | henning wrote: | I have unrealized losses on the collateral shares in the | current market correction, but that makes my call options | tank like rocks and helps me get them to a satisfactory | level for buying to close much faster. | showbufire wrote: | one of us :) | henning wrote: | #thetagang | perakojotgenije wrote: | sshreach.me - a Zero-Configuration, remote-controlled, secure | tunnels to your computers. | | https://sshreach.me/ | ryanyl wrote: | Working on a few projects, but the ones that actually took off | and make money are: | | Commotion (https://commotion.page), Forms + Mail Merge for Notion | | Reslant (https://reslant.com), Discussion Boards for Customer | Feedback | ryangilbert wrote: | I am currently making >$1,000 per month with sponsorships for my | twice-weekly newsletter https://www.workspaces.xyz/ | | Workspaces brings you inside the workspaces of entrepreneurs, | designers, developers, etc. | | Currently a mix of inbound and outbound work to gather the | sponsors for each edition. | boeingUH60 wrote: | May I ask how you get sponsors? I have a newsletter/blog with | reasonable traffic (>100k page views per month) but can't seem | to find any direct advertisers.. | ryangilbert wrote: | Definitely! | | I recently added a "call for sponsors" blurb in the intro of | one of my newsletters once I felt I hit a level of | subscribers where it made sense. I immediately had a few | readers reply with interest that ultimately led to my first | few sponsors. | | From there, I did some cold outreach via Twitter DMs and | email. My newsletter is very workspace item/tools centered so | I put thought into what sort of sponsors made sense there and | it led to the next batch. Think: companies who would | organically be featured by a guest anyway... show them the | value. | | I'm pretty transparent with the growth/numbers on Twitter as | well so I think that helps when doing the Twitter outreach | for sponsors. They are easily able to look back at the | Twitter engagement if they don't already know what Workspaces | is. | buf wrote: | I make about $50k/mo on https://www.closingcredits.com | | I found that most teaching platforms for voice actors out there | are run by a bunch of celebrities who are pushing edutainment, | not education. | | So I wanted to make something specific for voice actors. I will | try to branch it out to other creators later. | holler wrote: | Very cool, how long did it take from idea to working v1? | Anything you'd do differently in terms of getting it to PMF | faster, tech choices, or lessons learned? | buf wrote: | I already had a different side project with 300k users so it | was incredibly easy to find PMF fast because I just emailed | them. | | Tech choices: I never reinvent the wheel. I just take working | pieces from other work that I've done and glue it together. | Anything custom, I'll read how others do it. | | Lessons: I probably should've chosen a different market. If I | had targeted companies and taught their employees | professional education rather than poor amateur voice acting | hobbyist, I'd probably be making $20M ARR. But I don't mind, | this is still fun. | holler wrote: | > But I don't mind, this is still fun. | | Read your blog, hopefully you aren't telling yourself that | right before you fire yourself! In seriousness thanks for | the insightful reply. I agree w/tech choices, I'm always | thinking about reusability as I piece together my own | projects. | jasondigitized wrote: | What was the original side project that had 300k users? | DantesKite wrote: | On your website you say you were pardoned out of a felony | conviction. What was it for? | buf wrote: | Assault w/Deadly Weapon - took 15 years to get it pardoned | and expunged. The hardest battle I've fought in my life. It | makes startups look easy. I'll write more about it one day, | but I don't want to screw it up. | DantesKite wrote: | Looking forward to it. Subscribed to your newsletter | because I thought your essay about money being the most | important thing in life was right. | | It really can solve or at least, begin to solve, every | problem in an individual's life. | nati0n wrote: | Dug a little into your background, read some of your posts. | Appreciate the different perspective with "Choose Money First." | I think a piece of that will stick with me forever now, just | because it hit a little different. So I guess just.. thanks for | the thoughts. | cercatrova wrote: | Link? | BadCookie wrote: | Here's the specific article: | https://siliconvict.com/choose-money-first | buf wrote: | https://www.siliconvict.com | buf wrote: | Thank you! In person I'm a bag of laughs, but on text I | really come off as aloof, so it feels good to read that | someone was impacted by something I wrote. | | I've got so much more that I'm afraid to publish. Might have | to reconsider. | RustyConsul wrote: | Your writing style is entertaining and inspiring. | | i'd love to read more of your work so i say do it! if not, | rhoades.lorenzo@gmail.com and i promise not to share them | ;) | jckahn wrote: | Wow, congrats on the success! Is this a solo project for you, | or are you working with a team? | buf wrote: | Just me, but I do revshare with the instructors and I have a | support staff on contract to handle tickets. | Chinjut wrote: | You make $600k a year from a side project? | buf wrote: | Technically I don't work currently, so I'm not sure if this | is a side project. | | I was the founding engineer and Head of Eng at Reforge the | past 4+ years while I was building Closing Credits. I left in | August 2021. So, it was a side project for nearly 5 years. | | If I have 3 side projects and no full time job at this exact | moment, where do I stand? I'll delete my post if I'm | violating the side project rule. | erosenbe0 wrote: | I think you're being accurate but maybe also quote the | numbers from August when you still had a full-time gig. | friendly_chap wrote: | Did you not sign away the IP while you were there? If so by | this comment you implicate yourself. | buf wrote: | +1 That's a great point to make for people who are | building side projects. Make sure you list your side | projects in an exception in the IP clauses of your | employment contract, like I did. | chainwax wrote: | The discussion around this thread got my attention, and you've | gotten a fan. Looking forward to reading through your blog | posts. | buf wrote: | Thank you. :) | c_ma_gee wrote: | My wife always compained that there was no suitable time tracking | app for breastfeeding our little baby. Within three weeks I | developed a simple app with proposals from her which fits her | needs. After a few weeks using it we were suddenly overwhelmed | with inquiries from our friends searching for such an app as | well.. Within another week, I made it ready for the AppStore and | the PlayStore and now it does around 400 EUR a month :-) | | https://www.stillapp.de - although the page is in german the app | is translated into english as well. | AussieWog93 wrote: | Any reason you haven't translated the page into English? Sounds | like you've got a popular app! | c_ma_gee wrote: | Just didn't find the time to do it :-) But you are right - I | should do it! | AussieWog93 wrote: | Haha, I'm in the same boat. Have needed to set up a VAT | number in the UK for almost a year, still haven't done it! | c_ma_gee wrote: | Your comment was a good reminder: I just translated the | page into english as well :-) - Thank you for your | comment! | d33k4y wrote: | Does it count as a side project if I have been in grad school | full time while I proposed and developed this application?: | Environmental flow monitoring application: | https://dkhydrotech.com/entry/11/. I wish I could share more info | / visuals but alas. | niftylettuce wrote: | Forward Email - Email Forwarding Service | | We're the only service that respects your privacy and never | stores your emails. | | https://forwardemail.net | kerryritter wrote: | i <3 forwardemail. thank you for building this! | daibo wrote: | Not really a side project, but I haven't quit my job for it so.. | | I'm building a Search as a Service like Algolia. Currently | earning $700 a month from an early customer. Anvere.net | elikoga wrote: | CORS apparently breaks the site for me | brandnamehq wrote: | qecez wrote: | I'm trying to dispel the myth that all good dotcoms are already | taken and/or unaffordable with https://zlipa.com | | It's passive income in the sense that I add new brands in the | weekend and mostly doing this for fun. | dionidium wrote: | This looks really cool! Nice job. | Fermat963 wrote: | Twitter Archive Eraser https://delete.tweets.app/, allows users | to reliably delete old tweets. | | Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully | passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app | for the past 1.5 years or so. | 2bitencryption wrote: | Wow, this is kind of the ultimate side project for passive | income. | | It does one thing, that people need, and does it well, for a | fair price. I assume it requires minimal maintenance, except to | keep up with Twitter's API (honestly I don't know if this | requires much work, I guess it depends on how much the API | fluctuates). | pbowyer wrote: | Nice work, this looks like something I need. | camgas wrote: | I retrofit old phone-based intercoms with software-only solution: | https://www.DropBy.io | | a bit above $500/month ARR, stable and sticky. Started a few | years ago, now have 2 other partners. | FlyingAvatar wrote: | Your pricing page seems to have no prices on it and your sign | up page doesn't load for me. | camgas wrote: | We removed pricing, one reseller wanted that out. But good | point, I think we should add it again and be transparent | since his business is good but not good enough to do so. | | What happened when you git Sign up? | | Thanks a bunch for the feedback! | camgas wrote: | Added pricing back, thanks again for the feedback! | antonhag wrote: | I built https://blunders.io, a profiling tool for JVM | applications. I think that I have a decent product but I'm not a | great salesman :) | joelrunyon wrote: | 15 minute mobility routines - https://movewellapp.com | | Basically - everyone has a foam roller. No one knows how to use | it. Pick a routine based on what your goals are (working out, | recovery, general low back pain) and we show you the movements to | guide you through a routine in 15 minutes or less. | noja wrote: | I like this, but I am reluctant to start paying for it without | a trial. There are a few non-pro workouts, but could you | consider a day pass or three day trial? | DanHulton wrote: | I make Nodewood: https://nodewood.com/ | | It's a SaaS starter kit/boilerplate written in Node.js and Vue 3. | Made almost _exactly_ $500/month last year. Would have/should | have made more with proper marketing, but I've been doing | probably too much engineering instead. The next release should be | the one to take it out of "beta" (honestly, an arbitrarily-chosen | label, especially compared to some competitors with fewer | features/work put into them), and then it'll be a bit easier to | work with some potential partners who would prefer to promote | non-beta software. | kalev wrote: | Offtopic: funny to see the first five or so links I followed were | all marketing websites made with TailwindUI. It's a bit like a | decade ago when all websites looked like a Bootstrap website. | shtack wrote: | I've run http://olodolo.com (it mostly runs itself) since 2018, | which lets people buy things on AliExpress using crypto. I often | describe it as the only non-scam crypto website :) | | It's badly in need of fixes and updates, but I still do about | $1500-2000 in sales and $300-400 in profit monthly. | goatherders wrote: | I'm not an engineer outside of the occasional WP site, but that's | enough. Cold email is my bag and I'm a good (and proficient) | writer. In October I started cold emailing internet, marketing, | and SW companies asking if they needed any help with their blogs. | In the intervening months I've added 7 clients that pay, on | average, $700/month for various help with content. MOst of it is | blog posts but I also do press releases, eBooks, etc. | bojanvidanovic wrote: | I run a nerdy product discovery website: https://devandgear.com | dutchbrit wrote: | Correction, previously asked 26 days ago: | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095 | | Obviously still nice to see what people have built who missed the | last post! | Jack5500 wrote: | [snip] | 2pir wrote: | Be honest, were you inspired by Drawful? | mgz wrote: | I built an app to control what my kids watch on Youtube: | https://kidstv.family Makes $1500/month | ghostbrainalpha wrote: | How long did it take you to build this? Do you do any | advertising? | squaregrouper wrote: | im an embedded software developer, and would love to get a side | hustle going. does anyone on here do embedded development | freelance? are there any embedded developers that have a side | hustle going, that wouldnt mind sharing what they do? | zh3 wrote: | Really common to do it in spare time as an intro to doing it as | a consultant. Esp. if you have electronics skills it's not hard | to find work. As a "side hustle" though, it's generally about | selling a hardware product, a tool, or your skills (SkillaaS). | | Embedded is a broad term though, say a bit more about your | experience and interests and maybe someone will pop up with | pointers. | chasd00 wrote: | I know the guy (well know online) who made these altimeters for | the rocketry hobby. | | https://flightsketch.com/store/catalog/flightsketch-mini_1/ | | he went from idea to prototype in 6 months i think. Pretty | amazing if you ask me. | | Edit: oh i was just looking at the images scroll by and saw a | screenshot. I did a rework of the mobile app for him, i totally | forgot about that. (i used ionic) | thedangler wrote: | I have a side business that does payment processing. I clear an | extra $2k-$3k a month. Currently looking for outside sales reps | while I develop open source payment options that aren't available | yet. If you are a developer, good at sales, or want to try it, | let me know. | jasondigitized wrote: | Do you have a link? | careersaas wrote: | We have built a remote job search | https://app.careersaas.com/portal that scrapes and indexes more | than 2 million jobs. Currently offering sponsored listings - lets | a user define a location for their job and whomever is searching | near that geocode will see the result, according to their job | experience, etc. | AwkwardPanda wrote: | Built Shopping Saga: | | Real-time Online Shopping Deals by Product Category | Thoughtful | Gifts for Every Occasion, Recipient, Category | | Gifts: | | 1. Daily-updated gift products catalog 2. Direct Amazon and Etsy | product links for gifts and deals 3. Browse and filter by price, | category, recipient, occasion, popularity | | Shopping Deals: | | 1. Grab online shopping deals as soon as they are available 2. | Category-wise segregation of deals 3. Deals updated half-hourly | | Initially, it was only web and android, but now I have released | iOS app as well. | | Android: | https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeak... | | iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604578567#?platform=iphone | | The web version was pretty basic, so I've taken it down | currently. Learning Vue JS to enhance the frontend/UI. | | The apps have pretty clean UI. | ChrisArchitect wrote: | 800+ comments recently | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095 | qrohlf wrote: | I run a design asset generator based on my open source library, | Trianglify: | | https://trianglify.io/ | | It currently does about $500/mo from a combination of asset | purchases and ethical (Carbon Ads) non-tracking advertising. | enraged_camel wrote: | I previously posted about PriceTable (https://pricetable.io), | where I'm the cofounder: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855726 | | Since then we've gotten up to $3,500/mo. and will be hiring our | first salesperson soon. Exciting and nerve-racking at the same | time! (If you know anyone, please have them reach out to me at | ege@pricetable.io) | brandonhorst wrote: | I wrote and maintain Lacona, a Mac productivity App | (https://lacona.app). The majority of my revenue comes from being | a part of the Setapp subscription service. | Melatonic wrote: | I used to have a decent side hustle making this much money but | the tax changes this year have de-incentivized my work ethic | UncleOxidant wrote: | What tax changes? | Melatonic wrote: | Previously companies like eBay, Venmo, Paypal, etc were not | required to officially report transfers to the IRS. A few | years ago they changed that rule where if you appear to be | making more than $20,000 dollars in a year period then they | send forms to the IRS directly. If it is only for personal | use (like say you are sending money via Venmo to a roomate) | there is no tax to pay. But for actual sales you would be. | | This year they lowered that $20,000 to $600. So anyone who | receives more than $600 in one calendar year will trigger | Venmo/Paypal or whoever to send the IRS the proper tax forms. | If it is for personal use of course you are still not | required to pay any tax. | | As far as I know none of the loopholes for taxing the uber | rich have been changed so this is really just going along | with the IRS' current policy of increasing revenue from small | time outfits vs going after the bigger fish (who can often | afford to hire expensive accountants and lawyers to fight the | IRS) | | I am not against paying taxes but having to wrangle the info | from a bunch of different sources and then also deal with | manually adjusting for other factors just makes this whole | thing a huge pain. | MisterSandman wrote: | I agree with your point of it being a hassle, but I never | understood the huge outcry about this. If I work part-time | at Burger King and make $10,000/year, I would pay taxes on | that. Why should the IRS not be taxing side-hustles that | make 10k/year? | | The argument of them not taxing the rich is sad, but also | irrelevant; they didn't add a new tax on side-hustles, just | re-inforced an existing one. You technically should've been | paying this anyway. | Melatonic wrote: | $10,000 would still be reasonable - the point is $600 | really is not. | anilshanbhag wrote: | I run Dictanote (https://dictanote.co) and Voice In | (https://dictanote.co/voicein/) | | Dictanote is a note-taking app with built-in voice-to-text | integration. Writers use it to write their books, students use it | to take notes, etc. Dictanote automatically syncs your notes to | the cloud and makes them available on all your devices. | | Voice In is a chrome extension that lets you use dictation to | type on any website in Chrome. Use it to type emails in Gmail, | enter data into Teladoc, write blogs in WordPress, etc. Think of | it like budget Dragon Dictation. | | Currently makes about $7000/m net - somewhere between a full-time | job and a hobby project. Figuring out how to grow it. | jasondigitized wrote: | What does your stack look like? Curious how you don't go broke | while offering a free plan. | combyn8tor wrote: | I make around $500 per month running a gaming VPN service - | https://www.aussievpn.com.au | | I initially built it to route PUBG players in Australia (myself | included!) onto the fastest links to overseas servers as the | Australian servers did not have enough players. It was strung | together with OpenVPN and a Discord bot as I never expected more | than around 20 people would use it... mostly figured it would be | me and my squad mates. Within three months I had around 350 users | by word of mouth paying $5 per month. Most of my users came from | established competitors as my service was a lot simpler to use. | The user numbers died down over the following year mostly due to | competitors offering an aggressive referral system and I was | focused on other projects. | | Last year I decided to expand to other games and regions. I | rebuilt it as a standalone Electron based Windows app using a | kernel network driver that can route individual Windows apps | through my WireGuard VPN servers. I built everything except the | network driver which was done by a Windows networking specialist | - https://ntkernel.com | | I currently support PUBG, DOTA 2, iRacing, Apex Legends, Rocket | League, Final Fantasy XIV, Super People in Australia/New Zealand | and PUBG and Rocket League in North America. | | The service is stable and relatively scalable so this year I'm | hoping to focus on the marketing in between other projects. Part | of that will probably include a name change as I figure it | doesn't make a lot of sense to people outside Australia | x13pixels wrote: | RemedyBG, a from-scratch Windows debugger. | https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg | justsocrateasin wrote: | I have a fondness of writing summary articles on to cap off a big | work project (for instance, completing a database migration). A | few of them get 'traction', but mainly I like the challenge of | eloquently describing my problem/solution and giving myself a | zitgeist of work I've done. It's satisfying. | | Recently, I had an old colleague of mine reach out and ask if I | had the time to be a part-time contractor/advisor for his tech | consulting start-up, since their client needed to do a database | migration. He had remembered me because of the articles I wrote. | It's a nice bit of money on the side ($500-$2.5k a month | depending on how much I work) and I'm always learning something | new. | jimaek wrote: | https://anycasted.io/ | | A niche product, I gather data about anycasted IP addresses and | sell the database. No idea how to market it but it makes more | than $500/month | ade5hmukh wrote: | naice! curious about the customers/target audience though? | buttscicles wrote: | We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're | building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to | replace Goodreads with. | | https://oku.club | | Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe | ghostbrainalpha wrote: | I like the design, but what's would you like to improve over | Goodreads? | snarkypixel wrote: | Looks neat. Why do you think oku will replace goodreads? | shepherdjerred wrote: | Do you provide a way to export data in case the site closes | down? I don't use any app/site to track what books I read, but | I see that it could be interesting. | buttscicles wrote: | We do but it's not fully automated just yet, it'd involve | sending us an email. | | Similar story with csv imports, it's half supported but not | in the UI yet. | agacera wrote: | That is pretty landing page! | | Just read that the meaning of oku [1] is 1) private, intimate, | and deep; 2) exalted and sacred; and, 3) profound and recondite | | anyway, your brazilian users will find this funny since oku has | the same sound of "o cu" that literally means "the butt hole". | | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku_(theory)#:~:text=3%20Boun | d.... | DarkCrusader2 wrote: | What is the source for book data? I was recently looking for a | TMDB equivalent for books but couldn't find a good one. There | is OpenLibrary but they don't have covers and only do dumps | once a month. | cushychicken wrote: | I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of | $500 in revenue in December. | | It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of | electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs | and logic design for chips. | | Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. | fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com | 1thrasher wrote: | How do you generate revenue if you only aggregate jobs or post | them for free? | cushychicken wrote: | By selling Featured Posts, which get prime real estate on the | site for 30 days, and a blast out to our mailing list. | rthomas6 wrote: | Please add Huntsville, AL to your board. I'm an FPGA engineer | currently working there, and there are a lot of us, at a lot of | companies. | [deleted] | handzhiev wrote: | Looks cool, I love this kind of niche projects. How do you / | did you drive traffic and job postings to it? | cushychicken wrote: | Indexing hiring companies' job sites, and providing helpful | comments to people who are seeking jobs in the sector | (primarily on Reddit). More on that here: | | https://cushychicken.github.io/grow-your-mailing-list-by- | bei... | | We're seeing a steady and growing trickle of organic traffic, | too. | specialist wrote: | Cool. I predict (hope) specialized jobs boards will become more | the norm. | axg11 wrote: | This is an interesting thesis. How would | HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where | there are many specialized and actively used job boards? | | Today, HR teams usually post jobs on LinkedIn and perhaps one | or two more platforms. A world of fragmented job boards would | be difficult to navigate for non-specialists. | cushychicken wrote: | It's a thesis I'm banking on myself. | dheera wrote: | I do a lot of landscape astrophotography which involves a TON of | signal processing to get rid of various sources of noise. | | https://instagram.com/dheeranet | | People ask to buy prints from time to time. Not quite $500/month | just yet but getting there. | | Then there's this web-based function plotter I made in 2007: | | http://fooplot.com/ | | It once made upto $900/month but since then, mobile apps have | gotten better, and today it makes about $100-150/month in ad | revenue. | Melatonic wrote: | I have seen your astro work for awhile now and it is awesome - | had no idea you could reliably make anything close to that | money wise. Sounds like I need to actually take my processing a | bit more seriously and actually create the new site I have been | meaning to work on. | | Personally I am going to probably focus less on getting the | perfect processing (generally I just do a few stacks for noise | and sometimes combine with a star tracker) and more on getting | to unique locations most people do not have the skills to get | to. That is more my personal preference though given I really | enjoy backpacking and mountaineering already. | | Have you ever messed around with the automated pano heads? I | was recently looking at buying a used gigapan (one of the | smallest ones) given that mirrorless cameras are so much | lighter now. Shooting stacks + a manual pano head can get a bit | tedious when you are already far out into the backcountry and | tired and just want to relax. I believe Daniel Stein uses them | and his work is pretty spectacular! | | What I really want though is something that is both a star | tracker AND can automate the panos themselves. As far as I know | that does not exist and one basically has to put something like | a gigapan on top of a star tracker and of course make sure that | its all capable of controlling the camera itself. | | edit: Now that I think about it you might even be able to make | a decent side hustle providing a "processing as a service" type | thing to other astrophotographers | dheera wrote: | I haven't played with automated pano heads, but I made a DIY | scanning digital back for a 4x5: | | https://dheera.net/projects/4x5/ | | My original intention for this is gigapixel images, but I ran | into some issues cancelling the CRA correction that the Pi HQ | cam does, and also, my newly bought Sony A7R4 can shoot 240 | MP shots with pixel shift so it's suddenly less interesting | again since it's already within an order of magnitude of a | gigapixel, and if I got a shift adapter mount and shot with a | medium format lens I could probably easily exceed a gigapixel | with the A7R4. I might try to shoot 4x5 film some time | though. | outcoldman wrote: | https://loshadki.app, between $800 to $2000 a month. Year ago | decided to learn macos development. Made 4 apps, two of them make | the most OpenIn and ShellHistory. | pbnjay wrote: | Things have tapered off quite a bit since 2021, but it's still | over the threshold: https://virtualpostersession.org | | It's a platform for virtual scientific and research-oriented | poster session hosting. Pretty simple but desperately needed when | all the conferences were cancelled! | dawiddr wrote: | I've been making $500-1000/month on an iOS app for work time | tracking - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flexishift-work-hours- | pay/id11... | | When I started the project, the category seemed quite crowded | already, but I couldn't find anything good for tracking my hours | in a flextime arrangement. I had no iOS experience at that time | (I was a C++ developer) and now I do iOS development as my full- | time job too. | MisterSandman wrote: | How long ago did you start this project? | TheJoeMan wrote: | I went super niche with an iOS vehicle counting board for civil | engineers to conduct intersection studies, | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/traffic-count-tmc/id1553635289 | | I never did any advertising and it was gaining traction, but | lately plateaued at a handful of downloads / day. Not sure where | would be a good place to spread the word haha. | ronyfadel wrote: | I'm making ~$4k a month, from a small macOS and iOS app | portfolio: | | - macOS apps: https://fadel.io/ | | - iOS apps: https://apple.co/3fqcWfO | TrueGeek wrote: | I bought Batteries For Mac when my mouse died without warning. | It's funny how much a simple little widget actually helps out. | ronyfadel wrote: | Thank you for being a fan of Batteries! :) | strzibny wrote: | I wrote an ebook on web application deployment. It does over | $1000/month, but obviously it's not recurring revenue. | | https://deploymentfromscratch.com/ | | I did a SHOW HN awhile ago which sold 100+ copies in a single | day: | | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540808 | MailNerd wrote: | I built an email forwarding service - not for your own domains, a | lot of those exist already - instead you can choose an email at | any of our 150+ domains and we forward it to your existing | account, no migration required. You can even send from this | address with many providers. | | https://www.mailbox.my | nice_scott wrote: | I built an iOS sex tracking app, Nice. | | https://nicetracker.app/ | | There were no sex tracking apps on the App Store that weren't | focused the menstrual cycle, so I built my own. It now includes | cool features such as syncing across iCloud devices, location | recording, STD/STI tests, and most importantly, stats! | xvector wrote: | Wait, people have enough sex with enough different people to | make this worthwhile? Damn, I'm missing out. | ronyfadel wrote: | I thought it was cute, then saw the number of reviews which | blew my mind! Is monthly revenue as low (<$5k) as SensorTower | suggests? | nice_scott wrote: | On average it brings in about 3k monthly, and then it always | doubles for the month of January. I suspect people set new | years goals/resolutions to have more sex. | ghostbrainalpha wrote: | The real question.... are you having more sex since it was | released? | nice_scott wrote: | funny enough, yeah! My wife loves trying to keep up a high | score and keep the 'longest streak' stat going. | data4lyfe wrote: | Originally a side project two years ago, now I'm full time on it: | https://www.interviewquery.com/ | | We help data scientists land jobs by being the Leetcode for data | science. | traverseda wrote: | I just sell this calendar puzzle online: | https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1012906584/wooden-calendar-p... | hansy wrote: | Web comic newsletter: https://funnies.page | | Full disclosure - $500+/month in revenue, but not profit. The | majority (95%) goes to the creators I work with. | andkon wrote: | Oh man, you gotta charge more! This is insanely cheap. The | average substack charges $5 a month, and you usually get an | email a week at best. | hansy wrote: | Ha I appreciate the thought, but it's hard to compare novel | writing from thought leaders to funny images. I wish I could | charge more, but I don't think the value is quite there yet. | Maybe if I was strict about exclusive content (which I don't | want to be; I like giving artists flexibility on where/how | they distribute their work), I could get away with charging | higher as well. | agentdrtran wrote: | Wow, you only take about 2%? (assuming 3% for processing?) | hansy wrote: | Yup that's about right. I don't mind though; I view this | project as a labor of love. | tr3ntg wrote: | I'm building a journaling app for couples (iOS): | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/twig-journal-for-couples/id145... | | I originally made it for my long distance girlfriend (now wife) | and myself. It averages $450 - $550 monthly. | matthall28 wrote: | A tiny API for embedding weather forecasts as an image: | https://weatherembed.com/ | | Makes around $500/month from various subscriptions through | RapidAPI. Built on a whim during the pandemic. Uses Google Cloud | Run + NodeJS. | xd1936 wrote: | Excellent idea! | nonrecursive wrote: | https://jobs.braveclojure.com/ - a Clojure job board! Usually #1 | search result for "clojure jobs" | XCSme wrote: | I make between $500 and $2000 per month with UXWizz[0], a self- | hosted analytics platform that I have been working on for around | 9 years. | | Hopefully I can grow it more this year as all the Google | Analytics related news should make more people consider self- | hosting their analytics. I stopped providing any cloud-hosted | version and focus purely on self-hosting. | | [0]: https://www.uxwizz.com | yakshaving_jgt wrote: | I run a B2B lead generation SaaS for the UK market. | | It provides up-to-date data from Companies House, but also allows | you to sort and filter businesses by: | | - where they are located | | - when they registered | | - what SIC (standard industrial classification) code they use | | - their operational status | | - their accounts category | | Businesses typically use this to find new businesses to try and | market/sell their services to. | | It's written in Haskell and Elm, and it's been running for about | five years now. Several businesses have been happily paying to | use the service every month. | | https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/ | | If you'd like to sell your services to UK businesses then do | write to me; I'd love to hear from you :) | Nilef wrote: | That's really interesting - Do you do all the letter-sending | yourself or outsource that? | yakshaving_jgt wrote: | Thank you, I'm glad you think so! | | I don't handle the fulfilment myself. I wrote a software | integration that connects NewBusinessMonitor with a direct | mail company in the UK. They have special machines that can | print, envelope, and send all the letters automatically, at | large scale. The letters are printed in colour (on rather | nice quality paper), trimmed by guillotine (for full-bleed | printing), folded in half and inserted into a windowed | envelope, before being dispatched 2nd class, usually the | following business day. | | I typically don't need to manually intervene in any part of | the process; I just try and do hand-holding with people when | I onboard them, because I think good business is about | building relationships with people, and many (most?) of my | users specialise in areas outside of computing. | Nilef wrote: | Very handy! I had visions of you sitting licking envelopes | shut every night lol | | Are you making $500/month, or I'm guessing a little more | than that? | akudha wrote: | I wonder if it is possible to do this in other countries? I am | not aware of any API or data downloads for the U.S that is | available on a daily basis. | usgroup wrote: | You know it's illegal to use CH data for direct marketing | right? | yakshaving_jgt wrote: | To the best of my understanding, that is not true. It is | illegal to directly market to consumers without their prior | consent. It is not illegal to market to businesses, though it | _is_ illegal to send marketing communication that is | misleading, and it is not permitted to send direct mail to | businesses who have indicated they wish to not receive | marketing communication through the Mail Preference Service. | | Do you have a source to support your perspective? | askhn000 wrote: | I sell repackaged open source software on AWS Marketplace and | Azure Marketplace and offer support as part of the monthly | software cost. | | It's the same software but the Azure offer sells a lot better. | Monthly income is about $1000 from both. | | Very few support requests come in, so it feels like mostly | passive income. All I have to do is answer the occasional ticket | and keep the images up to date. | cooldrcool3 wrote: | Thats awesome! Do you just rebrand the opensource software? | mjaques wrote: | A friend and I made a repository for high-quality, affordable | language learning flashcards around a year ago. | | https://deckmill.com | | Made using a mix of ML (translation and TTS) and human | translators. | hobo_mark wrote: | Cool, but I can't seem to find the pricing anywhere? Edit: | there it is, I must have gone blind. | Ostrogodsky wrote: | Get access to all our decks for just EUR14.99. All our | content for one low price - buy it and it's yours forever. | Forget trivial badges, locked levels and guilt-tripping owls, | and say hello to actual language skills. | yboris wrote: | I created _Video Hub App_ - browse, search, and organize your | videos - "like YouTube for videos on your computer". | | It's a commercial project / _charityware_ that is turning 4 years | old next month. I sell it for $5 per copy and give $3.50 to a | _cost-effective_ charity. If you go to the blog you 'll see the | history of sales. As of now I donated almost $13,000 to charity | thanks to this project. It's averaging around 100 sales per month | for over a year now. | | https://videohubapp.com/en/ | | Also open source MIT: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App | charles_f wrote: | Selling perpetual licenses for software that runs on your | machine?! How quaint! | disqard wrote: | I recently purchased VHA -- thank you so much for making this! | Ruthalas wrote: | Offering perpetual licenses is a huge plus in my book, and | often drives my purchasing decision. Thank you. | pranjal_soni wrote: | This is literally gold | msadowski wrote: | I run a robotics newsletter: https://weeklyrobotics.com/ | blutack wrote: | Which is a good read if anyone is interested in | robotics/ros/drone stuff | msadowski wrote: | It depends what you are interested in. My latest find from | this week is the Introduction to Autonomous Robots open | source book: https://github.com/Introduction-to-Autonomous- | Robots/Introdu.... | | If you were looking for news then sUASnews is great for some | catching up on drones. For robotics I often find articles on | IEEE Spectrum and The Robot Report interesting. | blutack wrote: | Sorry I meant I'm a subscriber and it's a great newsletter! | lormayna wrote: | How do you promote a newsletter to become profitable? I have a | newsletter, but it's not getting traction. | msadowski wrote: | I've been rubbing it for over 3 years now and I'm approaching | 3k e-mail subscribers. I feature it quite a lot on LinkedIn | and Twitter and sometimes I would share some issues on | /r/robotics or HN. | | So far the best way I've found for growing subscribers is | trading shoutouts with other newsletters but I didn't | experiment much with paid ads. | anon1094 wrote: | My side business, Freelancer's Handbook, currently does about | $10,700 ARR. | | I've documented many of the stats here: | https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrN9ya-t7Vr42T-wL9q1-HX6... | | It's a blog, community, and newsletter focused on useful and | practical content for remote freelancers. | | I'm looking to pass over the mantle to someone passionate about | the freelance space and have been passively searching for a | buyer. Contact information in the Google Doc above. | jdlshore wrote: | My JavaScript screencast, letscodejavascript.com, made over $10K | net profit per month at its peak. It costs $25/month for | unlimited access to over 600 videos. | | I stopped producing videos in April 2018, but the site is still | up, and still gets occasional new subscribers. (There's been an | influx lately, in fact, and I have no idea why. Maybe because I | have a new book out.) It's still netting more than $500/month, | although not by a lot. But it requires nearly zero effort from | me, so I'm happy with it. | | _Edit:_ To clarify, it wasn 't a side project when I was | producing the videos. But now it's passive income. | dqv wrote: | Do people ask for support? What I mean is like "x package isn't | working" or "I'm having trouble setting this up on my machine", | do you help them troubleshoot? Or is it just the videos. | daneeveritt wrote: | I've been making a pretty consistent amount off my open-source | side-project Pterodactyl through company sponsorships. | | https://pterodactyl.io | rooster212 wrote: | I recently got Pterodactyl setup on my home server and I just | wanted to say that it's an incredible project and it works | great. I run various game servers on a whim and it's been easy | to spin them up. Many thanks for your hard work. | puregram wrote: | This feeling when only I make zero profit projects without | success :-) ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-01-19 23:01 UTC)