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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
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#12My cofounder and I launched Kbee ( https://kbee.app ) in 2021 as a way to turn Google Drive Folders into hosted, searchable wikis. We're doing ~$2k/month and run it as a side project
Do you have a blog or a write up explaining how you went about doing this ?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
At least $500 would pay for my mortgage almost just as well as when I got it.
$500/month doesn't even pay property taxes anymore, sadly.
It would for me! :-D
But only because Oregon has a nice law that makes it so the assessed value for a house for property tax calculation purposes can't rise more than 3% per year. My house is estimated to be worth $550K, but I'm being taxed as if it's only $250K.
Which is nice for a homeowner as you're totally screwed by the rising housing market, but it makes new housing harder to sell since your tax will start where it needs to be, whereas buying an existing home keeps your tax low.
Also causes problems when areas gentrify, but the city isn't collecting enough tax to make improvements that are expected by the residents.
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#16During my previous job, when we were migrating to Kubernetes I couldn’t really find a GUI app that I liked, and most importantly, that could connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. We had 6 clusters and having to switch context constantly was annoying I ended up building one [1] to use myself, shared with a few people and they loved it. I asked if they’d pay for it and to my surprise, a lot of people said yes. I…
This is awesome. Not using k8s in my current role, but when I was, that would have made my life a whole lot easier.
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#17I run https://pinkpigeon.co.uk
Just about at $500 per month in recurring hosting fees.
It's a CMS which publishes static sites to Cloudflare workers sites.
I've not done any marketing, it's all word of mouth and took 3 years to get to this point.
Gonna keep growing it slowly on the side.
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#18I have a serious question to those making money and I am hoping to learn here. How did you acquire customers? We have a startup going on for 3.5 months but it is incredibly hard to acquire customers. People don't respond to email or LinkedIn. We have not tried SEO and Ads yet.
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#19discussed 2 weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935714
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#20My cofounder and I launched Kbee ( https://kbee.app ) in 2021 as a way to turn Google Drive Folders into hosted, searchable wikis. We're doing ~$2k/month and run it as a side project
Where do you find customers for this?