Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by jxi » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 1:16 PM UTC

chaddeshon wrote: post #97

http://www.brombone.com It's a service that solves SEO for javascript driven websites. For the most part, Google can't crawl sites that manipulate the DOM using javascript (AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, etc). The solution is to use a headless browser to make html snapshots for all your pages and serve those to Google instead of the page that requires javascript. This turns out to be a bit of a pain in practice. S…

Cool, what's your average monthly income?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by welly » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 1:19 PM UTC

ashishb wrote: post #61

Personal blog: http://ashishb.net/ Makes money from adsense. No where close to 1K/month but growing towards that.

I bet you're making no where close to 1k. There's no ads.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by tonixx » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 1:22 PM UTC

http://iOSapps.com and http://Vineos.net bring me about $1,000 per month. My aim is to make $3,000 per month by the end of next year

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by felipesabino » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 1:45 PM UTC

welly wrote: post #142

ashishb wrote: post #61

Personal blog: http://ashishb.net/ Makes money from adsense. No where close to 1K/month but growing towards that.

I bet you're making no where close to 1k. There's no ads.

found the ad, it's waaaay down the footer

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by cyakimov » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 1:59 PM UTC

zeeg wrote: post #3

getsentry.com - saas

We use Sentry @ crowdsourcedtesting.com and now we can't live without it.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by chuckouellet » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 2:19 PM UTC

https://snipcart.com

It is a shopping cart service developed for developers and web design agencies.

This is the a side project we have with the team @ spektrummedia.com.

We are up and running since last August, we won the site of the day on Awwwards.com back in August and then we have a lot of traffic and we are getting new customers everyday.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by santa_boy » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 3:02 PM UTC

heldervasc wrote: post #107

In my spare time i make more than $1,000/mo designing and building Android Native Applications for companies and businesses. Is hard to balance your time between your day-day job and your personal projects but i think is possible with a good management of time.

Cool. How do you find clients? Its one of the biggest challenges I have to deal with.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by santa_boy » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 3:12 PM UTC

ashishb wrote: post #61

Personal blog: http://ashishb.net/ Makes money from adsense. No where close to 1K/month but growing towards that.

How much traffic do you get? Is there a place to understand the earnings correlation of traffic and earnings through google ads?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by the_watcher » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 3:43 PM UTC

Have you thought about some kind of drop shipping business? Find a vendor, make a store on Shopify/Volusion/BigCommerce, whatever. A lot of items can have 50%+ margins while still staying within range of competitors.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by stevenp » Fri, Dec 13, 2013, 4:32 PM UTC

My mobile app, Routesy (http://routesy.com), falls into this category through a combination of sales of the paid version and advertising in the free version. It was one of the first 500 apps in the App Store when it launched in 2008 and has been pretty consistent in its earnings ever since then.