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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

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alexgotoi wrote: post #4

I’ve been running a job board for remote Human Resources roles since 2019. In 2022 I started generating some revenue by referring traffic to large job aggregators on a cost per click model. I still do everything manually from curating the jobs to daily uploads but it has become a good routine for me. You can see it here: https://www.hrjobsremote.com/ It now grosses around 1,000$ per month on average. Money left after…

How do you find jobs to post? Mostly from the same sources or from everywhere? How long until you got 100 visits per day? How many jobs do you add per day? Why not build more in adjacent industries?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

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Post by alexgotoi »

xcubic wrote: post #11
alexgotoi wrote: post #4

I’ve been running a job board for remote Human Resources roles since 2019. In 2022 I started generating some revenue by referring traffic to large job aggregators on a cost per click model. I still do everything manually from curating the jobs to daily uploads but it has become a good routine for me. You can see it here: https://www.hrjobsremote.com/ It now grosses around 1,000$ per month on average. Money left after…

How do you find jobs to post? Mostly from the same sources or from everywhere? How long until you got 100 visits per day? How many jobs do you add per day? Why not build more in adjacent industries?

The jobs come about 70% from the feeds with the paying parters. I pull about 20k jobs their feed, then run my script to select about 100 relevant jobs. The other 30% I get them manually from Linkedin, Indeed, etc. I have alerts on all big sites with some deep filtering.

It took about 2 months to get a constant 100/day average visits, but I had ~5000 connections on Linkedin in the HR space (I work in HR Tech). I also got to 2000 newsletter subs in about 2 months.

My advantage was that I was already active in the HR community, I would need another “me” to build in more industries.

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