Been over 2 years since the last time this question was posed and there were a lot of interesting replies the first time around. I'd like to see what people are up to in 2022.
Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
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Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#2I don’t understand the “but you’d not talk about them” part.
Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#3I don’t understand the “but you’d not talk about them” part.
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Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#4I don’t understand the “but you’d not talk about them” part.
Look at the original post I linked.
Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#5Not exactly what you're looking for, but to help populate the thread, in the mid 00s I had a big chunk of accidental income that I didn't want to talk about at the time, but can now.
I put Adsense on my blog early on and I'd make maybe $10-20 a day with no shenanigans. I wrote a post recommending a route planner I'd found (pre Google Maps). A month later my income jumped to $100-200 a day and it turned out to be due to the route planner post being #1 or #2 for the route planner's name! I assume people were clicking on my blog post, then clicking on to the real site via the ad. This state of affairs lasted for several months until the algo improved and put the real site on top for good. I can't remember the exact total but I had a good $20-40k out of it and it paid for my wedding.
Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#6I don’t understand the “but you’d not talk about them” part.
Look at the original post I linked.
Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#7Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23438930 (As a link)
Thanks! I didn't realize it wouldn't auto format as a link when I posted it, sorry about that.
No problems. Text in a submission does not get auto-formatted as a link. See: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc
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#10I don’t understand the “but you’d not talk about them” part.
Segments exist that have few competitors and high margins.
If you're an incumbent, you'd rather not call attention to your segment which might be inviting new competitors and lower margins.