I’ve been running Bear Blog for a few years. It’s a privacy focused, super fast blogging platform, and is making well over $500/mo. It’s also a really fun tool to build and use, with a tight community.
Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#12I’ve been running Bear Blog for a few years. It’s a privacy focused, super fast blogging platform, and is making well over $500/mo. It’s also a really fun tool to build and use, with a tight community. https://bearblog.dev
Your url?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#13I’ve been running Bear Blog for a few years. It’s a privacy focused, super fast blogging platform, and is making well over $500/mo. It’s also a really fun tool to build and use, with a tight community. https://bearblog.dev
There seems to be no mention of cost/pricing anywhere. Perhaps it's visible once signed up, as I presume it's not free if it's making money.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#14I’ve been running Bear Blog for a few years. It’s a privacy focused, super fast blogging platform, and is making well over $500/mo. It’s also a really fun tool to build and use, with a tight community. https://bearblog.dev
It's just so damn fast and simple! And no GDPR banners and newsletter prompts! How do you make money? I can't see any pricing page.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#15I started a travel inspired bakery with my partner in the bay area - https://kayabakerysf.com/ We do popups once a week alongside our day jobs. It's been a long journey and we would like to open a storefront at some point. The bakery makes well over $500/month, but not quite enough to sustain ourselves full time yet. It's a great way for me to learn about design and marketing as well.
Speaking of design, your website asks me to sign up for a newsletter before I can see the page. It's missing an X button where I'd typically look for it.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#16I work as head of ML & Innovation at my day job. On the side, as a technical consultant, I help teams to ship products with ML under the hood. I live in Vienna, so that makes it convenient for evening calls with USA/Canada, where my three clients operate. Usually this involves weekly 30min calls with the teams to show them shortcuts, working recipes and save time by avoiding pitfalls. Mostly around ChatGPT/Local LLMs…
Is it possible for someone who has no knowledge of ML (but can code) to get into this space? Where would one start?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#17These threads, along with the related recurring Show HN solo-founder success stories often seem to either be some form of newsletter/social publication, or analytics platform. I wonder if that's just the natural limit of what teams of 1 can feasibly accomplish, but I do wish there was some more variety in what people were successful with.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#18Out of all the side projects I’ve tried, the one that’s been the most lucrative consistently is buying boring index funds. I kinda wish I just doubled down on the boring route sooner .
Same.
Even if you try and get creative the stock market is most easily mastered with boring index funds.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#19I work as head of ML & Innovation at my day job. On the side, as a technical consultant, I help teams to ship products with ML under the hood. I live in Vienna, so that makes it convenient for evening calls with USA/Canada, where my three clients operate. Usually this involves weekly 30min calls with the teams to show them shortcuts, working recipes and save time by avoiding pitfalls. Mostly around ChatGPT/Local LLMs…
What did you do before 2023 as a technical consultant?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#20My MMR was on 538 EUR at the end of 2023. I am building not that visually pleasing, but hopefully a useful dividend portfolio tracker - digrin.com. I wrote a small summary here - https://lucas03.com/digrin-com-in-2023/