Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by kek918 » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 11:01 PM UTC

dpeper wrote: post #29

http://www.ipv6buddy.com/ A keypad for IPv6 addresses :-)

Wow. I thought it was a joke but reading the docs and even your workarounds for keyboard layout issues for Mac/Linux/Windows does make it seem real, or else why put in so much effort.

The website girls are hilarious in a ridiculous kind of way.

Very original project :)

How can you even afford manufacturing? I'm guessing the market for these little utility-keyboards aren't really big. And most factories require a certain minimum order quantity.

This'll be a fun gift for our network engineer next christmas :)

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by kek918 » Tue, Jan 31, 2017, 11:16 PM UTC

tmaly wrote: post #121

cdiamand wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I actually launched my side project on indiehackers - http://www.oppsdaily.com - a newsletter filled with software opportunities. I posted some of the traffic stats here http://www.oppsdaily.com/blog

I just signed up for versioning newsletter, all I did was pit in my email and I got a quick confirmation. I also signed up for oppsdaily, but the verification with MailChimp was quite difficult. I had to select pictures with grass, then select images with house numbers, then select new images with house numbers. You might want to consider using a different provider.

This is Googles captcha system and its used by a bunch of services. It has nothing to do with Mailchimp (except that they use reCAPTCHA) so changing mailing list provider for this might not be a wise idea.

With that said, I much rather prefer this new reCAPTCHA compared to their old version with hardly any readable characters.

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by chad_strategic » Wed, Feb 01, 2017, 8:52 PM UTC

I don't make as much money as I would like, I think it's partly because I need some help on the growth hacking side. (I'm looking for some one that might be interested in growth hacking)

But I created http://Bestoftheinternets.com/Deals which using the amazon API looks for significant price changes in products to help consumers find deals on amazon products.

Revenue slowly coming along, but for me as a programmer I got a reason to teach myself some server side nodejs. Eventually I would like to roll it over to angular 2 so I can get some angular 2 experience and hopefully make some money!