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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

#171
https://learninpublic.org - i did a livestream with stripe about it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-UxzCtpB74

its 3 years old and still making 2-3k a month but i've gone from happy to guilty - i havent had any time to make updates to the book but i really want to and every single month that goes by that I don't I lose credibility. I'll still do it but its so hard to go back to something when I have a day job and my interests keep shifting.

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

#172
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I keep running into this in the US in large cities. Really well regarded restaurants or music venues do everything through FB and insta. I don't have either of those apps, and I don't remember my passwords from a decade ago. Isn't there a service somewhere, where you give someone some pictures of your food, and restaurant, and you get a container and credentials for a webpage that handles reservations, takes pickup o…

Because Facebook is simple. Any one can update it, and it doesn't go down, and it doesn't cost anything. I've many times seen web presences fail for small organizations, when the only person that understands the web set up leaves. With Facebook, that doesn't happen. I'm sure there are services such as you describe, and probably many restaurants use them, and it's not obvious. But Facebook is the default.

No, because facebook is free and they are cozy with the mexican government and this allows them to operate in a country without net neutrality. Therefore facebook, whatsapp and instagram are included for free in most if not all cellphone plans and pay per month options.

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

#173

I'm making https://simplescraper.io - a no-code web scraping tool. Saved up, quit my job and went all in...on a todo app. Needless to say that idea didn't go far, but it taught me how to code. When I was close to broke I pivoted to this product and finally gained traction and now it's doing well enough to be my main source of income. I'm kind of following the "1000 true fans" ethos that pops up here occasionally. The…

Cool. Will try it out. Can I ask you a question?

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

#174

https://www.arbeitnow.com - a job board for Germany. It's been up for two years this January and it keeps me going! Revenue and traffic fluctuate a lot, does not really matter to me as long as people keep finding jobs through it so I'll keep working on it as long as I can.

Nice. Did you code it yourself?

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

#175
post #41

https://extensionpay.com — A really simple way for browser extension developers to take payments in their extensions. I made it to use in my own extensions since it's a pain in the butt to take payments in browser extensions. It has an open source library that works across all browsers and allows for one-time or subscription payments. Since 2021 developers have made over $125k with ExtensionPay which makes me happy :…

So cool!

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

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post #85
post #80

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While we're both here, it's not exactly clear to me what that whole thing means and does. Arguably i'm not too clued up in SD models and what they are and why would I want them. Might be a good idea to explain this or if explanation exists make it more prominent to hook ignorant people like me. :-)

Great point. I might need an entirely separate landing page for the artist/general audience vs the prosumer type landing page that currently exists. (If you’re interested, the gist is that custom models allow for completely distinct “styles” as well as unique characters. For example, if you wanted to generate art in the style of Monet, you could train a custom model in that style)

I was interested. Thanks!

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

#178

I have 2 projects right now, combined doing over $500+/mo :) They are pretty different target market wise/price point and that has been pretty cool to see the differences in marketing/churn/adoption/etc... 1. Mogul - Privacy focused Personal CRM ( https://mogulnetworking.com/ ) (~$650/mo, ~6 years old) 2. Ellie - A better day planner ( https://ellieplanner.com/ ) (~$160/mo, ~1 year old) Honestly no game plan, I just…

Do (or did) you struggle with two products in very different areas? I think like most folks here I have ideas for products in very different niches and part of the analysis paralysis for me is deciding which one is "best" to start with.

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

#179
post #169

I started a tech blog as a side project 5 years ago. Now it's making $3,000-5,000 a month. It currently has around 600 articles. Display ads make the bulk of the income. Affiliate links are a distant second.

That's great to hear. Link?

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

#180
Curiosity question for those answering here. How many unique visitors a month do you have to get your income? I am working on monetizing via a site that is growing in terms of visitors, and wonder what scale I will need to reach to start having things make sense.
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