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Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by asdffdsa »

capableweb wrote: post #26
hugoroussel wrote: post #19

GPT Gmail and GPT Workspace, using GPT in the google docs, slides, sheets and auto responder for Gmail. https://workspace.google.com/u/0/marketplace/app/gpt_for_gma... https://workspace.google.com/u/0/marketplace/app/gpt_for_doc... https://gpt.space The best part is not even about the money but about having a lot of users, democratising GPT and saving a lot of human hours everyday!

When did you launch? Seems like very good revenue if you launched recently and already reached 2000/month considering the low price and high cost of the OpenAI API. Edit: Your T&C says it was written in 2019, you can't possibly been running the project since then right? https://gpt.space/terms-of-service

Don't trust any numbers here blindly sir.

Without verification you don't know if any of them are marking $2k+

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by vapidness_is »

Davertron wrote: post #116
vapidness_is wrote: post #17

I run Afterplay ( https://afterplay.io ). It's a game emulation platform where you bring your own games. It took 18 months from first line of code to 2K. It's now my full time job :)

This looks super awesome! I just tried it in Chrome however, and after a minute of playing the game it just drops me back to the game library screen. Love the idea though!

That's strange. I'm sorry about that. Did it happen more than once? Did you hit the backspace key? I will investigate :)

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by vapidness_is »

vyper91 wrote: post #87
vapidness_is wrote: post #17

I run Afterplay ( https://afterplay.io ). It's a game emulation platform where you bring your own games. It took 18 months from first line of code to 2K. It's now my full time job :)

this is such an awesome idea, i can't wait to check this out!

Thank you. It's still very much a work in progress :)

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by rlyshw »

trapexit wrote: post #55

I run small outsourced IT systems for SMBs. Web scrapers, reporting, stuff like that. Baisically private bespoke SaaS. About $10k/mo gross revenue and takes a few hours of work a week (unless there’s a downtime event that needs fixing). A lot of upfront work to build some of these systems though. Got to $2k/mo in the first month of doing this. I don’t recommend working (as a solo operator) with clients who have budge…

I’ve thought about doing this, but a few reservations came up when I considered getting started with a family friend. I just pictured a contracted ”IT MANAGER” getting rabbit holed into some time-sink extreme;

1. Dedicated operational IT admin: Dealing with repetitive tasks+requests, like managing customer’s Microsoft environment and on-site infrastructure.. Owning physical and AD infra doesn’t sound like a part-time job.

For e.g; a/v and physical IT asks; like conference room operation maintenance and support, Desktop workstation triage (have you tried turning the monitor on?). The dreaded “can you set up the printer?”…

And what if the customer sets me up as their site’s dedicated AD domain admin? Resulting in repetitive requests for user/access management CRUD operations. And/or micromanagement of tedious things like email and mailing lists…

Or

2. Dedicated software developer, website or business workflows.

Building a website and getting micromanaged or overburdened. (“can you change the logo to blue?” “Can you redesign the whole home page?”)

Or, get pulled deep into providing a business-critical software workflow or application. Fielding sales/exec requests, interpreting their business requirements, and then building AND delivering (for e.g a customer management system) is not a part time job…

How do you operate to keep the scope limited? What steps help buffer yourself from a slippery slope of full-time services?

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by keiferski »

dffdsa432 wrote: post #117
keiferski wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of the best things about meeting people in person is that no one is rude enough to make this kind of comment to your face. Unfortunately the internet removes that barrier.

Your comment is confusing rudeness with your ignorance of how foreigners feel about food in their host countries vs at home. His comment is not any different than what my Indian and Chinese friends say.

No, you are missing the point. Saying the OP’s comment, as stated, is just rude and socially inappropriate. In person, it would come off as being standoffish, nitpicky, and hostile. It’s not a good way to make friends and influence people.

This doesn’t exist online, where it’s acceptable to post “drive by” snarky putdowns that add nothing to the conversation and don’t actually address the issue at hand - in this case, the difficulty of sourcing ingredients.

A constructive comment would have asked about the difficulty of sourcing obscure ingredients and how the founder deals with that.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by rubymamis »

havblue wrote: post #61
rubymamis wrote: post #4

I'm the founder of the open-source and cross-platform note-taking app https://www.get-notes.com (written in Qt C++). I earn about $2000 a month from ads on the landing page (organic SEO), but very soon plan to add a subscription for pro features (while people could still compile it from source and get the full experience without paying, if they wish). I started the project 8 years ago to create a slick looking note-t…

What are your opinions about QT? Do you use the open source version or the paid version? (I like it myself but mostly because I like their wysiwyg and the debugger support is intuitive relative to other ides)

Overall, I love Qt. I started studying QML 2 weeks ago to implement a Kanban view based on the underlined Markdown styled todo items in the text editor, and it's been really great so far. Property bindings, signals & slots, integration with C++, it all makes so much sense, much more than other declarative languages/frameworks (looking at you, React) imo.

Qt has been around for years, the documentation is extensive and the community is large and supportive. With QML I faced many problems, especially half-assed examples/documentation, Qt Creator's intellisense doesn't work well with QML sometimes, etc... But the tradeoff is worth it. I'm getting things done in a much faster pace with QML.

A problem that is common both in Qt and other cross-platform frameworks is that you end up writing some custom code for each operating system to make the look and feel more native. But I think it's getting better with awesome open-source projects taking care of beautiful native window decorations[1].

[1] https://github.com/wangwenx190/framelesshelper

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by rubymamis »

mkl wrote: post #111
rubymamis wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Even more awesome features and improvements are coming soon (: We're on Github here btw: https://github.com/nuttyartist/notes

Do you plan to add syncing of notes between devices?

The main goal is to support working with arbitrary folder (currently, we store notes in a local databse), so it will be easier to sync using your existing cloud provider (eg, Dropbox, etc..)

But maybe in the future will create our own paid syncing service, is that something you'll want?

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by jermaustin1 »

I'm a little early, but this month, my side project SHOULD hit $2k, all signs point that way. Back in March, I decided to get serious with my CNC, and started designing things, dozens and dozens of things. Eventually I settled on something that felt like it had potential: Rolling trays and vape holders.

I get the wood from my grandpa's mill. I use both redcedar and pine, but I'm currently experimenting with oak (much slower wood to CNC and it is much more expensive as well).

I made a couple for family and friends, they thought they looked great and said I should be selling them. So at the end of February this year, I reopened my Etsy from when the pandemic first shuttered me inside my house, and listed my vape holders first. After a week, I had a few sales, and then I added my first rolling tray. By mid march, I had already racked up 20-ish sales before I told my Facebook friends about it (which is a shitty feeling - selling to people who probably get hit up by MLMs from all the other highschool people you wish you could forget), but that secured 7 more sales, and they started to snowball after that. I'm currently just under $1000 in revenue for the month of April, and everyone on the Etsy forums are saying this is the slowest time of the year for them (Easter + Tax Season), so fingers crossed after Monday, everything just starts picking up steam.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by Davertron »

vapidness_is wrote: post #122
Davertron wrote: post #116

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This looks super awesome! I just tried it in Chrome however, and after a minute of playing the game it just drops me back to the game library screen. Love the idea though!

That's strange. I'm sorry about that. Did it happen more than once? Did you hit the backspace key? I will investigate :)

Yeah, it was happening on Super Mario Kart. I just tried Super Mario RPG and didn't have any issues. Let me know if I can get you more info or help with a repro.
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