Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

131–140 of 252 posts

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

#131

Post by jonandersense »

notjackson wrote: post #107
jonandersense wrote: post #93

I've been working on my app Leap Second, it generates somewhere around 1-3k per month. https://www.leapsecond.co I created the app after using 1 Second Everyday crashed on me and deleted a few years videos. The app stores everything in the Photos app which made it very fast and easy to develop (a weekend). Now I spend a few hours a month mostly improving the UI and doing bug fixes as I find them. Initial traction was…

Very nice app, awesome concept UI/UX. Very well done, congratz on your current success.

Thanks for the kind words!

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

#132

Post by feralmoan »

I don't do side projects or open source any more and run some bots for cryptocurrency trading instead. The bots continue to grow their positions and has been several times more lucrative than anything else I've tried to monetize at a fraction of the effort

¯\_(シ)_/¯ I guess it still counts

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

#133

Post by 02thoeva »

Went full time on our side project, https://emailoctopus.com, last year when we hit the $5k a month mark. We'd been working on it for 3 years and had some steady growth - contracted a few days a week alongside until I could afford to go full time.

In hindsight should have done it sooner, a year on we've grown so much more by taking it seriously as a business. We value our time more and as such charge more, yet growth has only accelerated.

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

#134

Post by karjaluoto »

timmaah wrote: post #6

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.

Interesting—we’re doing something similar with https://www.campnab.com

Currently available in B.C., Ontario, and Washington State. Now adding national parks in Canada.

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

#136

Post by nexus2045 »

eljamon wrote: post #76

I made ~$4000 last month by arbitraging crypto currencies on 3 markets. I use a bot to do the work for me, but I monitor it very closely and I spend a lot of optimizing the old code. I don't have much money on the exchanges because I don't trust them but I could make much more if I wanted to risk more.

Impressive, how did you get started doing this?

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

#138

Post by buf »

RikNieu wrote: post #135
buf wrote: post #9

Looking for a voice actor, look no further than https://www.castingcall.club Strong network effect so far, about 65k users

This is pretty interesting! Why/how did you get it started?

I'm an amateur voice actor and felt like I knew my audience pretty well.

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

#139

Post by ehben83 »

Xixi wrote: post #84

Two side projects: Tomotcha and Requires.io. Tomotcha ( https://tomotcha.com ) is a Japanese green tea subscription service (inspired by Bemmu's Candy Japan). Requires.io ( https://requires.io ) is a spin-off from a now defunct Continuous Integration service to track python dependencies. As a software engineer Tomotcha is more challenging to work on, as it doesn't involve much tech at all: it's all about logistic, cu…

Are you on touteslesbox.fr yet ? If not, it's a great place to acquire qualified leads.

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

#140

Post by thisisit »

donutdan4114 wrote: post #17

I launched an app for Shopify about a year ago called Custom Fields: https://customfields.bonify.io Currently it's making about $5,000 / month. It's been a very interesting process dealing with building the app, marketing it, and dealing with support. The app is $19/mo for regular Shopify stores, and we have about 700+ total customers (only some are paying). We get A LOT of support requests for misc things and have b…

I think 3rd party providers are underrated when it comes to building side income streams.
Post reply on HN