[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in ...
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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 - Show and
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Previously asked on 2020 -
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167
Author : deadcoder0904
Score : 367 points
Date : 2022-01-19 15:49 UTC (7 hours ago)
| oleksii88 wrote:
| Working on https://folge.me - desktop app for creating step by
| step tutorials and guides. Unlike modern SaaS businesses I
| decided to charge one time price, which makes revenue very
| unpredictable, but usually keeping around 400-500 USD per month
| robtherobber wrote:
| Although I see the benefits of SaaS, I very much like this
| model.
| sergei_ws wrote:
| I'm working on http://talevideo.com - The easiest way to create a
| video of your SaaS or website. It's not subscription, but got
| about 300$ 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 :-)
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