Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by buf » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:40 PM UTC

jckahn wrote: post #147

buf wrote: post #139

I make about $50k/mo on https://www.closingcredits.com I found that most teaching platforms for voice actors out there are run by a bunch of celebrities who are pushing edutainment, not education. So I wanted to make something specific for voice actors. I will try to branch it out to other creators later.

Wow, congrats on the success! Is this a solo project for you, or are you working with a team?

Just me, but I do revshare with the instructors and I have a support staff on contract to handle tickets.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by cushychicken » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:40 PM UTC

specialist wrote: post #83

cushychicken wrote: post #58

I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December. It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips. Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com

Cool. I predict (hope) specialized jobs boards will become more the norm.

It's a thesis I'm banking on myself.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by jliptzin » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:42 PM UTC

konschubert wrote: post #10

I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... It syncs with Google Calendar. To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings . If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

Awesome

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by porsager » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

I created an enhanced multilingual T9 keyboard[1][2] for iOS in 2014 to play around with Swift. It's been doing 600$ on average since then, still going strong. Still use it everyday myself and can't live without it [1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typenine-ultimate-t9-style-k... [2] https://medium.com/porsager/a-better-iphone-typing-experienc...

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by adamcao » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:43 PM UTC

I started making Power-Ups (add-ons/plugins) for Trello in July last year: https://www.tinypowerups.com

It just hit $500/month on Monday and it seems to be increasing by $100 in MRR per week.

I'm only charging $1 per user per month for unlimited access to all of my Power-Ups. I'm thinking about increasing this price to $2 or $3 next month (existing customers get to keep the $1 price tag).

Some of the Power-Ups I offer:

- File Manager: lets you search through and bulk download files on a board.

- Board Chat: adds a simple chatroom to your Trello board

- External Share: creates a link and snapshot of a Trello board that you can send to clients so they don't need to sign up for Trello to see the board.

- Office File Viewer: lets you preview .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files directly in Trello

- Card Approvals: adds a "approve" and "decline" section to a Trello card

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by rozenmd » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:44 PM UTC

I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/

I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it.

Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime and correctness, support for checking JavaScript apps, and more.

My trick for launching into 200 competitors providing the "same" service and still getting customers?

- I work two hours a day, every weekday on OnlineOrNot, and no other side projects. I've had this streak going for about nine months now.

- I focus particularly on features that solve my customer's pain (and I ask my customers what that pain is)

- I'm ruthlessly iterative. If I can't get a feature done in two hours, I figure out how to cut scope down to a two hour block, and ship that. Then iterate on it.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by konschubert » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:47 PM UTC

Lucasoato wrote: post #111

konschubert wrote: post #10

I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... It syncs with Google Calendar. To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings . If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

If it was available, I'd buy it right now! :)

If you sign up here I will let you know :)

https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by astroalex » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:48 PM UTC

I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically generated posters of my art: https://spacefiller.space/prints

This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by d33k4y » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:49 PM UTC

Does it count as a side project if I have been in grad school full time while I proposed and developed this application?: Environmental flow monitoring application: https://dkhydrotech.com/entry/11/. I wish I could share more info / visuals but alas.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by kouteiheika » Wed, Jan 19, 2022, 6:49 PM UTC

jjice wrote: post #129

kouteiheika wrote: post #35

I'm running a website for people learning Japanese and currently making ~$590/month from Patreon donations: https://jpdb.io/ This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working publicly for the past year. Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959

Looks fantastic, and I especially love the simple tech stack. How do you handle updates out of curiosity? scp and rerun?

Yep. Copy the executable (plus another file which is a big blob containing the dictionary, examples, etc.), and then just do `systemctl restart`.

There's nothing extra running on the server; no reverse proxy (the app itself automatically fetches/renews the HTTPS cert), no database, nothing. Just the app, the SSH server and the default system services.