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Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#141

Wrote a guide that summarizes the science of building muscle: https://julian.com/learn/muscle/intro . It made a few thousand in Amazon referral fees after being at the top of HN, Product Hunt, and Designer News for 4 days. As these traffic spikes wear off, I expect it to continue at at least $1k/mo. To maximize referral fees, I use this clever service called A-fwd, which geo-redirects visitors to their appropriate Am…

what are the safest unnatural ways to gain muscle mass?

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#142

Wrote a guide that summarizes the science of building muscle: https://julian.com/learn/muscle/intro . It made a few thousand in Amazon referral fees after being at the top of HN, Product Hunt, and Designer News for 4 days. As these traffic spikes wear off, I expect it to continue at at least $1k/mo. To maximize referral fees, I use this clever service called A-fwd, which geo-redirects visitors to their appropriate Am…

what are the safest unnatural ways to gain muscle mass?

I'm not qualified to answer that. I neither experimented nor researched such methods. Sites like T-Nation and Bayesian Bodybuilding might have some quality advice on this. I think there were also some relevant guests on Tim Ferriss' podcast that you can look up.

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#143

Wrote a guide that summarizes the science of building muscle: https://julian.com/learn/muscle/intro . It made a few thousand in Amazon referral fees after being at the top of HN, Product Hunt, and Designer News for 4 days. As these traffic spikes wear off, I expect it to continue at at least $1k/mo. To maximize referral fees, I use this clever service called A-fwd, which geo-redirects visitors to their appropriate Am…

I saw that HN post, it is a very impressive piece of work btw. It also seems like a good fit for the HN / entrepreneur space. Was this intentional? IE did you plan it this way before starting the guide, or was it a marketing plan you figured out after it was already done?

Thank you!

I chose the subject independent of the audience — despite knowing how to distribute to the tech audience.

I can't write something I'm not passionate about or don't want to learn myself.

But I was fortunate that this topic appeals to many in the tech space — or at least a scientific approach to this topic does. I am an engineer myself, so I'm naturally writing for a likeminded audience.

Ultimately, almost anything can hit the front page of HN. This is a smart, considerate, and curious crowd. Good content tends to make its way to the top regardless of the niche/market.

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#144

I created Meteor Toys, available at http://meteor.toys It's been very good to me, but also trending down as people seem to be diversifying from Meteor. Certainly not what I expected when I got into it. The story for it is a simple one: I solved some of the annoyances during development for myself with by making a devtool, and then open sourced it. The reaction was very positive and encouraging. Between the opportunit…

This is what I'm seeing on Linux/Ubuntu in Chrome Version 53.0.2785.143 (64-bit) (including incognito mode): http://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/1689878/3854f0ab61741...

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#145

I created Meteor Toys, available at http://meteor.toys It's been very good to me, but also trending down as people seem to be diversifying from Meteor. Certainly not what I expected when I got into it. The story for it is a simple one: I solved some of the annoyances during development for myself with by making a devtool, and then open sourced it. The reaction was very positive and encouraging. Between the opportunit…

This is what I'm seeing on Linux/Ubuntu in Chrome Version 53.0.2785.143 (64-bit) (including incognito mode): http://www.awesomescreenshot.com/image/1689878/3854f0ab61741...

Here's an error I'm seeing: Uncaught ReferenceError: Mousetrap is not defined. Not sure if that would have any bearing.

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#146

Wrote a guide that summarizes the science of building muscle: https://julian.com/learn/muscle/intro . It made a few thousand in Amazon referral fees after being at the top of HN, Product Hunt, and Designer News for 4 days. As these traffic spikes wear off, I expect it to continue at at least $1k/mo. To maximize referral fees, I use this clever service called A-fwd, which geo-redirects visitors to their appropriate Am…

Thanks mate you responded. Somehow I could not find this post earlier.

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#147

Wrote a guide that summarizes the science of building muscle: https://julian.com/learn/muscle/intro . It made a few thousand in Amazon referral fees after being at the top of HN, Product Hunt, and Designer News for 4 days. As these traffic spikes wear off, I expect it to continue at at least $1k/mo. To maximize referral fees, I use this clever service called A-fwd, which geo-redirects visitors to their appropriate Am…

This is the best resource I've ever seen, thank you for doing this. The training videos are great.
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