Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

Post by Lordarminius » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 1:34 AM UTC

matthewmueller wrote: post #14

https://standupjack.com is a side project I started earlier this year on my own. It's making more than $1k/mo now :-)

Post by sgc » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 4:02 AM UTC

johndandison wrote: post #91

sgc wrote: post #25

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I liked the idea of getlivead.com and went to the pricing page. 149 for what time period? Hard to sign up like that. For most people, that is way too much for a tool that only does one niche thing. The thing is, everyone could use that one niche thing every once in a while. You should have a casuals tier with limited use/time for people who have some stuff to sell because they are moving or whatever. Bigger clients c…

Thanks for the feedback. If you're interested in some of the thought pattern I can give you an abbreviated history. Also, if you're interested I can give you a code to sign up for free. We started to service attorneys only, but as a clearing house of sorts. Attorney signs up, registers practices and regions, and when a user sends a message in that region/practice, all subscribed attorneys are notified and chat begins…

Post by brianbreslin » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 4:52 AM UTC

rsoto wrote: post #104

Here in Mexico, you get an XML for your invoices, which you must keep in order to be tax deductable. However, it gets messy very quickly, as it must have your Tax ID, it has to exist in the tax office's database and then you must keep it for 5 year. It is a chore. I run http://www.boxfactura.com , an email service for your digital invoices. It has been quite a journey because everyone I speak to has some kind of trou…

Post by jackgolding » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 6:05 AM UTC

williamle8300 wrote: post #170

I started a (strictly e-book) publishing company. We publish public domain titles on Amazon, and Apple's iBookstore. GooglePlay has gone by the wayside just like all of their "cool projects." We don't just copy-pasta public domain titles. We actually go through it, and create a really nice table of contents, include flourishing images to chapter headings, link any footnotes, and re-typeset so there's pleasant vertica…

Post by homarp » Mon, Oct 10, 2016, 12:45 PM UTC

criddell wrote: post #19

verbify wrote: post #6

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> Like the chrome extension I'm hacking together on weekends which allows people to search for restaurants around them. I have no idea how I can monetize it Have you considered paid promotion by restaurants to be at the top of the list?

As a user, I don't think I would want the contents of the list influenced by the restaurants. I would look into something like the OpenTable affiliate program.