Gumroad - http://gumroad.com/ - right now I'm trying to turn it from a million dollar business (current valuation) to a billion dollar one. :)
I remember when you first posted this :) Good to hear it's still going!
Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
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#102I started Stormpulse purely as a fun hobby project in late 2004. Incorporated in 2007. Can't share revenue numbers, but this year we should be profitable with a team of 5.
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#103I wrote a WordPress plugin in about 4 hours to run a website listing web hosting company reviews. Simple affiliate stuff. The plugin was generic, it would add star ratings to WordPress comments and display average ratings for the post and such. I used the plugin to run my own site, then also built it a little site to sell to anyone else that wanted it. In 18 months it sold over $200,000 in licenses before I sold righ…
I'm interested to know the plug-in and if you have any plug-in ideas. Thanks you.
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#104Earlier quoted context omitted.
Very neat idea. How do you generate the preview image?
Thanks! It's currently a third party screenshot service, but as I've had a lot of interest and good feedback, I'm now looking into setting up my own in-house screenshot system.
I wrote my own custom screenshot service. I have no idea how to monetize it but you can check out a demo here: http://yoursitemakesmebarf.com
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#105Made a wireless stumbler for iOS in about two days that sold a bit over $100k total. Admittedly, I spent probably another day in random debugging for version 3-ish of it (just went walkabout in Chicago with a debug build, logging AP details when it had bad behavior). And then ungodly amounts of time answering e-mails and on the phone with the iOS app review team, but that was long after the "weekend project" phase.
It's a shame these type of apps are now against the app store TOS. I'd be interesting to hear your experience of what happened to yours.
I had to dig about on Installous to find one, what was yours called?
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#106Cupcake Wrapper Creator. Stats over the first five months:
26,358 Pageviews
4,837 Unique Visitors
235 Trial Users
20 Paying Customers
$283 in Receipts
Over 4000 Designs Created
Over 7,000 PDFs Downloaded
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#107I started DNSimple ( https://dnsimple.com/ ) a year ago and it's doing pretty well. It's a side project but I put a lot into it, so it's really like a second job. I currently put all of the money back into it rather than paying myself, so profitable might be pushing it.
DNSimple is a side project? I would never have guessed; it's such an awesome service. Keep up the good work!
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#108NewsBlur - http://www.newsblur.com - a visual RSS feed reader with intelligence. I have a few hundred paying users and a few thousands free users. I develop it almost entirely on the train, which I'm on for almost an hour and a half everyday. It's a ton of work and is profitable in the sense that the hundreds of dollars a month in server costs are just a bit more than covered by the premium users. But otherwise, it d…
Very cool UI. May I ask what laptop you use for coding on the train? I spend ~2 hrs on the train everyday and have been trying to figure out what would be a good laptop to code on. I realize personal preferences play a role, but it seems like large laptop is a hassle to hold, and a small one is difficult to code on because of the smaller screen space.
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#109Gumroad - http://gumroad.com/ - right now I'm trying to turn it from a million dollar business (current valuation) to a billion dollar one. :)
Would this work, or can it work with UK transactions in UK £ Sterling?
I absolutely love the idea and would like to integrate something like it into a project I'm working on.
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#110I've got a site collating interior design photos for inspiration. Makes about US$2k+/mo fairly passively from ads. I would spend maybe 10 minutes on it every six or so months.
I'd like do do something similar for landscaping inspiration. Any advice?