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Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by cicloid »

pxue wrote: post #71
joshmn wrote: post #3

During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book. Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or…

Mexicos overall internet presence is literally stuck in the early 2000s. Most business' official website are a Facebook page. In a country of 150M people and growing expat presence, there is a TON of opportunities for software businesses to enter the market. For example: Riviera Maya has no MLS style real estate tracker/listing platform. The entire real estate industry operates on word of mouth, WhatsApp and Facebook…

Whatsapp, Facebook, even Twitter are free in most Mexican Carriers.

That is what not having proper net neutrality is in Mexico.

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Post by fbdab103 »

unity1001 wrote: post #23
joshmn wrote: post #3

During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book. Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or…

> I get to say I am a co-owner in a Mexican horse ranc You must get business cards made and start distributing them to friends and family whenever you get the chance. Not for marketing - to brag and to be able to be mildly annoying.

We must work with the same people. I work with a guy who would devote dozens/hundreds of hours to this project just for the business card opportunities.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by Aeolun »

j1elo wrote: post #123
tomdekan wrote: post #113

I make >€1K / month with https://amazing.photos I generate amazing profile photos for users using dream booth and a custom stable diffusion model. Our quality of output is the best that I’ve seen compared to competitors. My secret to much higher quality: I rank images, and then only show the best images. All other competitors that I’ve seen dump all the images to the user. Instead, my process means that the output im…

Don't you get " How much does it cost? " as a Frequently Asked Question? :-)

I concur. How much does it cost? From the page I get the impression it’s free, but then you write it earns you money, so that can’t be true.

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Post by itake »

unsupp0rted wrote: post #139
itake wrote: post #7

I had 3 sources of side income last year. 1/ Started a niche dating app in 2017. Revenue ranges form 700-1,100/mo. Hosting is about $50/mo. 2/ Bought a house and rent our spare rooms for $3,100/mo. 3/ Contracting projects for a small dev shop earned $3-10k/mo (depending on how many hours I worked).

I'm considering buying a niche dating site right now (it's in my own niche, so I understand it fairly well). If I buy it, I'm wondering how to grow it though. How do you solve the chicken-egg problem?

All the mainstream 'successful' apps uses advertising on other social media networks + Apple and Google Ads. They quickly ask / require money to be paid when you join to cover the acquisition costs as part of the on-boarding flow.

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Post by nimchimpsky »

tehsauce wrote: post #108

Shortly after stable diffusion was released, I realized that an enormous number of non-ML people were suddenly interested in using an ML model. However, APIs are insanely expensive and not very developer friendly, and running it yourself required pretty fancy hardware. The goal was to make the technology absolutely as accessible as possible. So I launched https://computerender.com with the simplest API possible - jus…

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Post by robofanatic »

andyish wrote: post #68

I built https://team-today.com in a lock down as a way for my remote team to see when people are on holiday, going to site, or wfh. Since then it’s grown to include other features like desk booking and PTO approvals. But at it’s all been built around the core concept of seeing when your colleagues are working and where they’re planning on working from.

Great job! How did you convince users to trust an unknown site to store their personal data? This is one the things holding me back from implementing my side project ideas. I personally know that I won’t misuse users data but how do I really convince users.

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Post by sideproject »

I'm continuing with my project Newsy

https://newsy.co

A modern take on domain parking. I have ~50 un-used domains. I wanted to make some good use out of them instead of just parking them. So I built Newsy to convert them into automated content aggregators.

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Post by pstorm »

chown wrote: post #127

I was pretty depressed at work a while ago and to take my mind off of the negative energy, I made a desktop app for provisioning bring your own servers, creating sites, and deploying web apps. It was free. Fast forward a few years and a coworker joined me and we made a cloud version of it. It is doing ok but yet pay for two of us full time. However, we looooove working on it and helping customers esp. with their depl…

Really cool. I'll check this out for my next project. Also, I chuckled at the giant button that says "Click this gigantic button to experience how Cleavr..." :)

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Post by j_4 »

spicyusername wrote: post #157
j_4 wrote: post #145

My tiny game has been bringing in at least $5k a month since I released on mobile, it's fully passive now. https://j4nw.com/pawnbarian I feel doubly blessed that it worked out with no ads or micropayment sinks of any sort, just a demo and a single $5 purchase.

What stack / engine did you use to develop it?

Unity.
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