http://www.shipadick.com - no joke. They sell themselves.
Ha. Gotta love sh*t like this. Hilarious
Probably most sales from college kids
Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#162Have 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.
promoting it is the hard part. You also have to beware of the bargain basement shoppers that will vampire you
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#163My blog at http://erica.biz makes more than $1,000/mo in advertising and affiliate commissions. I built the blog after I bootstrapped and sold my first tech company. I talk a lot about growing your business/startup, and especially about all the failures I had while building my businesses. It became popular (1.2 million unique visitors last year alone.) I've now been blogging there for just over 6 years. Today I'm mor…
but that 24k month - was it affiliate? product launch?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#164I make quite a bit more than $1k a month from Duet - http://duetapp.com It's a project management app for freelancers and small businesses. Hopefully one day soon it will be more than a side project.
This app looks amazing! I'm doing something similar but in a much different vertical - if it makes sense I'd love to talk to you about UI !
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#165I make quite a bit more than $1k a month from Duet - http://duetapp.com It's a project management app for freelancers and small businesses. Hopefully one day soon it will be more than a side project.
did you do the UI or was it based on an admin template?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#166I make quite a bit more than $1k a month from Duet - http://duetapp.com It's a project management app for freelancers and small businesses. Hopefully one day soon it will be more than a side project.
This app looks amazing! I'm doing something similar but in a much different vertical - if it makes sense I'd love to talk to you about UI !
Thanks! Feel free to shoot me an email from the contact page if you would like to talk.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#167Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#168http://pizzacodes.com My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.
Great idea! Quick heads up, the SERP doesn't seem to load in IE9 (I know, I know...it's all they offer at work). All I see under the ad is "ding...)", so possibly some CSS rendering oddity going on. Email is in my profile if you want, shoot me a note and I can send over a screengrab.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#169http://pizzacodes.com My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.
Great idea! Quick heads up, the SERP doesn't seem to load in IE9 (I know, I know...it's all they offer at work). All I see under the ad is "ding...)", so possibly some CSS rendering oddity going on. Email is in my profile if you want, shoot me a note and I can send over a screengrab.
Thanks for reaching out to me! I just replied to your email with more details, but this is fixed now - I was incorrectly placing the 'doctype' after some javascript, causing IE9 to fall back to 'quirks mode', which seems to disable css and js. Since js is used to load the results, the results never loaded.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
do you make money from the restaurants advertising directly or adsense etc?
Direct only. Our competition is tripadvisor, it a david and goliath situation, even though we specialize in just one area for one thing. My friend owns a similar site in a much larger demographic and makes a lot more, but be advised.. this works mainly because of salesmanship and ranking well, the per month hours are now very minimal (5-10).
So, do you call the hotels/restaurants and try to sell banners/ads?