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

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

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Post by cercatrova »

nati0n wrote: post #161
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.

Dug a little into your background, read some of your posts. Appreciate the different perspective with "Choose Money First." I think a piece of that will stick with me forever now, just because it hit a little different. So I guess just.. thanks for the thoughts.

Link?

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

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Post by nyellin »

If anyone has a devops/Kubernetes related project that isn't making money but has decent traffic/users, please consider messaging me!

We (http://robusta.dev) are interested in sponsoring open source projects and popular Kubernetes bloggers to raise awareness about what we do. It's a rare win-win. We're mostly open source and extremely flexible if you have any special requirements.

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

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Post by vittor1o »

I've launched a couple months ago https://linkz.ai

Linkz.ai is hyperlink auto-previews that keep visitors on your website. It's heavily inspired by Wikipedia & Google Docs link preview popups with special extras. For example, when you click on a YouTube hyperlink, it does not take you to Youtube website, instead it opens lightbox with Youtube video on your website. All with just one line of code.

$500+/m in a first month

Demo page: https://linkz-ai.webflow.io

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

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Post by endomorphism »

rozenmd wrote: post #156

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 a…

What was your motivation for building it? As you said, there's a lot of competition, did you anticipate that it would be difficult to differentiate?

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

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Post by maxencecornet »

My side project https://playtoearn.one/ is not making $500/month yet, but it's getting there: a tiny bit more than $400 for this month

It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying niche

I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner

There are so many play-to-earn games popping up at the same time that projects are fighting for visibility, which playtoearn.one can bring

So now, I've hired a designer to make a great looking UI and I'm getting motivated to turn this side project into something more than this

EDIT: Traffic for the past month:

https://simpleanalytics.com/playtoearn.one?period=month&coun...

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

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Post by HEHENE »

My side project currently grosses close to $1,400 per month through Patreon.

I run a modded Grand Theft Auto: V roleplaying server with around 1,500 members (around 300 really dedicated MAU.) If you're not familiar with GTA RP, it tries to emulate real life as closely as possible while still recognizing that GTA is an arcade game. Players live lives as if they were real people, buying cars and houses, holding jobs, opening businesses, receiving medical treatment, being arrested, etc.

I've spent around three years working on the gamemode and spend, on average, 30-60 hours per week on it. It's really a pure passion project. Players support the project through Patreon in exchange for priority queue access (when the server is full, players are held in a queue until a slot opens up for them), custom license plates on their vehicles, custom phone numbers, and other cosmetic perks.

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

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Post by rozenmd »

endomorphism wrote: post #194
rozenmd wrote: post #156

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 a…

What was your motivation for building it? As you said, there's a lot of competition, did you anticipate that it would be difficult to differentiate?

I didn't see any competitors in the space solving the problem the way I would solve it (good UX + a focus on developer-experience), I wanted an uptime monitor that didn't piss me off with my own freelance clients, and I figured if there was room for a 200th competitor, chances are there would be room for a 201st.

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

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Post by davidatbu »

montenegrohugo wrote: post #87

I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since my background is in AI, I made my own. → https://www.namy.ai It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from…

Have you thought about deploying the ML model on the edge, using something like TensorflowJS or ONNX-runtime?

Haven't done it myself (looking into it right now!), but my impression is that model quantization (and possibly prunning) can give you a palatable model size that doesn't affect performance too much.

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

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Post by henning »

bradwood wrote: post #163
chillel wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

how much does that make you?

Getting rekt mostly?

I have unrealized losses on the collateral shares in the current market correction, but that makes my call options tank like rocks and helps me get them to a satisfactory level for buying to close much faster.
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