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Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

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post #111

Apart from contract work, there's currently only one. It's called Snippets ( http://www.snippets.eu ). It replaces the caps lock key with note taking functionality. Although I wouldn't call it profitable, still trying to figure out how to get traction.

Change to "The easy way to take notes".

Pay someone to do some copy writing.

Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

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post #130

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I'd like do do something similar for landscaping inspiration. Any advice?

I have to say honestly that I think I just got lucky. I had a site with decent PR that I pushed/linked towards the interior design site and it gave it a good start. From there, it's been Google traffic and AdSense/Text-Link-Ads. Nothing I've done has been particularly smart - the site is ugly, it's rarely updated, the categories were picked on a whim, etc.

Where would I find content for the site?

Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

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I did some stuff one afternoon about 4-5 years ago and it continues to pay my mortgage ever since. It's the goose that lays the golden egg and under no circumstances do I mess with it.

Any chance you'd share what it was?

Bank robbery?

Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

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Cool, what kind of games/how much did they bring in?

Over $100k so far (after google fees, but before taxes and expenses) I don't like publishing which games they are because there's already a lot of competition in their genres, no reason to extend it. However, for each, I was actually one of the first few of their kind when the market was just getting rolling with paid apps.

Awesome success. Do you need to frequently publish new games to keep your revenue up? For games, do you find that customers expect updates for bug fixes? Or are the games mostly "fire and forget", the code never to be touched again?

Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

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post #29

I did some stuff one afternoon about 4-5 years ago and it continues to pay my mortgage ever since. It's the goose that lays the golden egg and under no circumstances do I mess with it.

Could toy share some insights if it's a payed product (like basecamp) or the users are the product (profits from advertising)?

Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

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post #130

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have to say honestly that I think I just got lucky. I had a site with decent PR that I pushed/linked towards the interior design site and it gave it a good start. From there, it's been Google traffic and AdSense/Text-Link-Ads. Nothing I've done has been particularly smart - the site is ugly, it's rarely updated, the categories were picked on a whim, etc.

Where would I find content for the site?

I've emailed you.

Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?

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post #111

Apart from contract work, there's currently only one. It's called Snippets ( http://www.snippets.eu ). It replaces the caps lock key with note taking functionality. Although I wouldn't call it profitable, still trying to figure out how to get traction.

Change to "The easy way to take notes". Pay someone to do some copy writing.

Thanks for the tip. I'll take a look into it.
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