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Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
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#142NewsBlur - http://www.newsblur.com - a visual RSS feed reader with intelligence. I have a few hundred paying users and a few thousands free users. I develop it almost entirely on the train, which I'm on for almost an hour and a half everyday. It's a ton of work and is profitable in the sense that the hundreds of dollars a month in server costs are just a bit more than covered by the premium users. But otherwise, it d…
Awesome UI on that website. Also, your dog.
Yeah, Shiloh pulls her weight.
Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
#143I am building a learning system to feed me only content that is relevant to me. I blogged here. http://saranyan.com/post/7946363708/consuming-content-the-ri...
How would you distinguish your approach from, say, StumbleUpon?
Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
#144Ok, so as far as non-client work goes: The first iPhone app I ever made was a very simple Shopify app for seeing your orders and checking inventory. I dropped the ball on keeping it up to date because of client work and Shopify ended up buying a competitor to make into the official (free) app, but at its peak it made about $2000/month and up until I pulled it from the App Store a few weeks ago it was making around $3…
We're building some apps for Shopify too - what was the name of your app? Which app did Shopify purchase? As a side question - what has your experience with Shopify been as an app developer?
Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
#145Ok, so as far as non-client work goes: The first iPhone app I ever made was a very simple Shopify app for seeing your orders and checking inventory. I dropped the ball on keeping it up to date because of client work and Shopify ended up buying a competitor to make into the official (free) app, but at its peak it made about $2000/month and up until I pulled it from the App Store a few weeks ago it was making around $3…
We're building some apps for Shopify too - what was the name of your app? Which app did Shopify purchase? As a side question - what has your experience with Shopify been as an app developer?
It was called Shopkeeper, and I don't remember the name of the app they purchased but it was subscription-based (this was long before the in-app subscriptions) and supported more than just Shopify.
Developing for Shopify was great. Their API is good to work with, and they're very developer-friendly in general.
Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
#146I started Stormpulse purely as a fun hobby project in late 2004. Incorporated in 2007. Can't share revenue numbers, but this year we should be profitable with a team of 5.
I enjoyed reading about Stormpulse in the Hacker Monthly: Startup Stories. Congrats on the hard earned success!
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
#147My most profitable side project is actually my newest - http://bugmuncher.com - it's been live about a week and I'm already quite profitable. Admittedly it's a very low overhead project (costs around $30 / month to run), but so far it's looking good. I think the reason it's doing better than anything else I've launched is because its my first one that isn't entirely ad supported. My advice to anyone looking to launch…
Neat. Remind me of the feedback integration on Google+ -- is this where you got your inspiration?
Love it...
Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
#148My most profitable side project is actually my newest - http://bugmuncher.com - it's been live about a week and I'm already quite profitable. Admittedly it's a very low overhead project (costs around $30 / month to run), but so far it's looking good. I think the reason it's doing better than anything else I've launched is because its my first one that isn't entirely ad supported. My advice to anyone looking to launch…
Neat. Remind me of the feedback integration on Google+ -- is this where you got your inspiration? Love it...
Thanks for the kind words. If I'm honest I think 'inspiration' may be playing it down a little, I pretty much just ripped off the Google + feedback tool :)
As soon as I saw the G+ tool I knew it was something people would want on their website. I also knew I wouldn't be the only person doing this, which is why I went for a really lean approach, and managed to go from idea to first customers in 2 and half weeks.
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#149My current hobby is writing simple cardgames in javascript. Currently I have Hearts - http://www.hearts-cardgame.com , Idiot/Shithead http://www.shithead-cardgame.com and Crazy Eights http://crazyeights-cardgame.com .
Am getting my first payout from Google Adsense this month, about 120 $. Which isn't much, but they're pure client side games, require no maintenance or anything so I'll just keep getting a small check every month :)
Re: Ask HN: What has been your most profitable side/weekend project to date?
#150Apart 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.
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