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Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by geuis »

Jake232 wrote: post #6

I run AdsXposed ( https://adsxposed.com ) on the side. It's a project that scrapes online ads (specifically popups and redirects) and provides intelligence on them. Which publishers they popped on, which countries, to which devices, etc. It brings in pretty reasonable $$$.

Interesting. I can see how that kind of data is valuable to advertisers. Have you thought about ways to get value from the data about spam ads? The ones that target mobile devices are especially bad these days.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

Jake232 wrote: post #6

I run AdsXposed ( https://adsxposed.com ) on the side. It's a project that scrapes online ads (specifically popups and redirects) and provides intelligence on them. Which publishers they popped on, which countries, to which devices, etc. It brings in pretty reasonable $$$.

Would you mind explaining what this does? I am vaguely aware of "advertising networks" but really don't get it enough to grok what you are doing.

How do you know what device an ad appeared on unless the ad is somehow pulling a monitoring .gif from your servers etc? (That's a bit 90s I know)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by nerdy »

My wife is making high 4 figures a month (record was 13k+) selling educational PDFs on a 3rd party website.

Anything is possible if there's a demand and you market to that audience. Differentiating "cool" from real demand is the hard part. That said, she makes me feel completely inadequate with her side project ;)

Money isn't everything. How sustainable your business is, your required level of commitment on an ongoing basis, and how happy you are doing what you do are also very important.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by TheHideout »

I write retro indie videogames and averaged 1k/mo for the first year and a half after my last release [1]. That dies off pretty quickly if you don't constantly promote though. I have a couple new games launching later this year, one of which is by contract - a 7th guest style puzzle game, and another Action RPG. I've been supplementing my gamedev income with WooCommerce clients, such as [2]. These are purely side projects outside my normal day job as an aerospace engineer.

[1] http://www.TheHideoutGames.com [2] http://shop.bikestripper.com

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by nettulfsen »

I do 2-4 k a month on adult oriented webcam sites. Running on autopilot updating every 60 sec. Have a normal job and nobody really knows about this side project..... no work required just paying for hosting and domains. My big secret, my family would kill me if they saw the sites.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by mountaineer22 »

TheHideout wrote: post #16

I write retro indie videogames and averaged 1k/mo for the first year and a half after my last release [1]. That dies off pretty quickly if you don't constantly promote though. I have a couple new games launching later this year, one of which is by contract - a 7th guest style puzzle game, and another Action RPG. I've been supplementing my gamedev income with WooCommerce clients, such as [2]. These are purely side pro…

7th Guest is excellent.
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