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Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by redtriumph »

mogulchris wrote: post #114

I have 2 projects right now, combined doing over $500+/mo :) They are pretty different target market wise/price point and that has been pretty cool to see the differences in marketing/churn/adoption/etc... 1. Mogul - Privacy focused Personal CRM ( https://mogulnetworking.com/ ) (~$650/mo, ~6 years old) 2. Ellie - A better day planner ( https://ellieplanner.com/ ) (~$160/mo, ~1 year old) Honestly no game plan, I just…

I read about Mogul. It solves some of my problems related to keeping in touch with friends. During Covid, I got into more VC calls with friends to stay in touch. Once Covid lockdowns ended, I wanted a system that would remind me of touch basing with XYZ friend, based on last sync up date.

Over several years, my image as a good friend has tarnished since I didn't keep my side of bargain in enforcing good relationships. With older age, it's bit harder to make new friends. The least I can do is, reinforce older ones.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by nwienert »

Tamagui is now making 2,500 a month purely from GitHub Sponsors.

Pretty amazing. It’s fully OSS, just developed by me. Somewhat non-replicable as it’s just been a passion project in some for or another for 7 years now, reborn several times.

For the moment Sponsors don’t really get much, but there’s some in development features that will make that much more valuable. Goal is to double it at least this year!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by j1elo »

tomdekan wrote: post #113

I make >€1K / month with https://amazing.photos I generate amazing profile photos for users using dream booth and a custom stable diffusion model. Our quality of output is the best that I’ve seen compared to competitors. My secret to much higher quality: I rank images, and then only show the best images. All other competitors that I’ve seen dump all the images to the user. Instead, my process means that the output im…

Don't you get "How much does it cost?" as a Frequently Asked Question? :-)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by lolinder »

sphuff wrote: post #72
radicalriddler wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Unless you're wanting people to save the images on the landing page, please optimize the images. WebP and only as big as they need to be rendered. If I go to a service designed around images and it's taking 5 seconds on a SOLID fiber connection to fully download, it doesn't give me confidence that I'm going to get a fast experience in the rest of your site (even if it's not directly related).

It’s a great point. I had been using BunnyCDN to optimize the images/serve as webp, but there are a few on the model preview page that I definitely need to shrink further. Thanks for the feedback!

I'd double check the main landing page—the very first image on the main landing page loaded very slowly for me.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by _bqdo »

I run [link redacted] as a web based saas.

It is a relatively lightweight web app that tracks food in your pantry. It gives you an estimate on how long you could survive on it. It is intended as a tool for preppers but also works for anyone with OCD about their pantry contents.

Business has picked some this last year. I'm working on expanding the product data, general usability, and some actual marketing.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by leonhard »

monero-xmr wrote: post #90

I make far more than $500 per month in cryptocurrency staking and various types of lending pools. For the curious it’s like a hobby that can make you a lot of money.

Can you elaborate? Which currencies and how do the lending pools work?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by chown »

I was pretty depressed at work a while ago and to take my mind off of the negative energy, I made a desktop app for provisioning bring your own servers, creating sites, and deploying web apps. It was free.

Fast forward a few years and a coworker joined me and we made a cloud version of it. It is doing ok but yet pay for two of us full time. However, we looooove working on it and helping customers esp. with their deployment issues. It is seriously more fun than our jobs that pay handsomely.

https://cleavr.io

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by Xixi »

https://tomotcha.com/ — a Japanese tea subscription service. Although we had to suspend our activities for the better part of 2022, we've been able to resume in January 2023.

Logistic is brutal in what is starting to look like a post globalization world: shipping fees are through the roof, delays are long, regulation (especially in the EU) is ever more stringent. COVID-19 pretty much killed bemmu's Candy Japan (https://www.candyjapan.com), and EU regulation just killed Candysan (https://candysan.com): they threw in the towel one week ago.

And yet we keep going... gross margin is around $800~$1000 per month.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by mlboss »

I released https://aipaintr.com based on the open source stable diffusion model. The webapp allows users to train custom dreambooth model and generate images using it.

Dreambooth is a powerful algorithm which can generate images of any concept you train it on. Users use it to generate images of person, e-commerce products, different artistic styles etc.

It has two main parts: 1. Webapp for individuals 2. API for other app developers https://app.aipaintr.com/api/v1/docs/

Its been 4 months since launch and it has gotten low 10s of thousand in revenue. Competition is fierce. Lot of apps launched in this domain.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by j1elo »

joshmn wrote: post #116
j1elo wrote: post #115

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ok I HAVE to ask: why the poor woman's face on the FAQ's background photo is being attacked by an octopus?

No reason other than to get people talking.

I swear I read the FAQ and the last question was "Are you real? Sometimes. I mean, yes.". I chuckled at that one and it was the end of the page!? Or ir wasn't? OP if you just added it please tell me :) (nah, just partly joking, I'm sincerely confused though)
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