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Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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https://statusgator.com StatusGator aggregates the public service status pages for all the cloud services you use. You can get automatic notifications when services go down and up, and you can query the service status from things like Slack. It makes about $1,000 month right now.

This is pretty neat, and I'm surprised I haven't seen it on HN earlier.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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I screen scrape camping reservations and send out notifications when a campsite becomes available. http://reserve.wanderinglabs.com/ Currently working on integrating the new CA reserve website. It is a shit show.

Awesome tool. But I wish your site monitored Zion NP. One of the busiest parks in the US. I can never score a campsite, and the first-come ones fill up by 7am.

It does. You will want to search for "Watchman Campground"

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~$500+ per month making custom-designed handbags; not just sewing bags, mind you, but one-offs for individuals : word-of-mouth, facebook, friends, etc. Can't afford to advertise, couldn't handle the demand without hiring, don't want it to get too big.

I'm curious what they look like. Is there a place online I could see your work?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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https://workroll.com - started in June, turns over $2k a month. Built whilst automating my own freelance sales work flow and figured others could make use of it too. It saves me about a week a month from doing my own lead generation. Been trying to get funding but had no luck. Too early.

Also started a blog to help freelancers grow: https://medium.com/workroll

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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DonaldTrumpDogPoopBags.com pulls in about $500 in revenue per day after some FB ad tuning. I acquired the site from a client when he decided to shut it down. It's moreorless break even until his earn-out is complete after a few hundred more orders. Fortunately running the site break-even supports main business, and e-commerce fulfillment company (MonthlyBoxer.com)

You should branch out into other personalities. I imagine getting the artwork done is quick and can be swapped easily. That way you can attach yourself to the next fad and roll with relevant FB ads.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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https://article.rocks Started it in 2014 or 2015 and just keep rebuilding it every 3-6 months. Its a curation of news and articles that I personally like. Its a mix of scraping, automated curation, rough sentiment analysis, randomness. I built it for my commute, eventually giving it its own domain. Its no longer hitting that per month since I intentionally scaled back the custom ads that earned referral fees. Its jus…

For me it's just a single photo. http://imgur.com/a/lHASw Is there more to it?

Sorry, should have said; I only tested on mobile. Swipe/drag to go between stories.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Awesome tool. But I wish your site monitored Zion NP. One of the busiest parks in the US. I can never score a campsite, and the first-come ones fill up by 7am.

It does. You will want to search for "Watchman Campground"

Just throwing this out that you should definitely include the park name in the search. I would have never thought of that. I just checked recreation.gov API and it has all that info there. Moreover, if a park has multiple campsites you could include all monitoring in that search.

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Three years in, Cronitor.io is finally paying both of our (SFBA) mortgages. My co-founder August did a great write up for IndieHackers if you're interested in learning more.

Well done! Here's the IndieHackers link for those interested: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor
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