I run a college wrestling website, http://www.wrestlestats.com. I'm right at about the break-even point with the site through the ads I have on the site, but hopefully it will get better. Trying to find some people willing to donate/invest so I can get my new version of the site completed.
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?
#22Discussion from the last time this question was asked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11214497
And the time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508528
And the time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884552
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#23I run AdsXposed ( https://adsxposed.com ) on the side. It's a project that scrapes online ads (specifically popups and redirects) and provides intelligence on them. Which publishers they popped on, which countries, to which devices, etc. It brings in pretty reasonable $$$.
Congratulations on your success. Curious who is purchasing that kind of info, though..
It's actually super valuable to the affiliates/advertisers purchasing popups. They can look at the competition and get a head start on what works.
It's pulling in low 5 figures/month with very little advertising, so there's definitely a demand for it.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#24Discussion from the last time this question was asked: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11214497 And the time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9508528 And the time before that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6884552
Upvoting for visibility. Not because the question has been asked to death, but because reading those threads are so damn fun.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#25I run AdsXposed ( https://adsxposed.com ) on the side. It's a project that scrapes online ads (specifically popups and redirects) and provides intelligence on them. Which publishers they popped on, which countries, to which devices, etc. It brings in pretty reasonable $$$.
Would you mind explaining what this does? I am vaguely aware of "advertising networks" but really don't get it enough to grok what you are doing. How do you know what device an ad appeared on unless the ad is somehow pulling a monitoring .gif from your servers etc? (That's a bit 90s I know)
We scrape hundreds of thousands of publishers who we know run the popup/redirect ads, with IP's from 100 + countries, spoofing hundreds of different mobile devices / orientations / etc. There's a little more magic to it than just those things, but that's the principle.
We see what popups appear, and then record this info and show it in the tool.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
Congratulations on your success. Curious who is purchasing that kind of info, though..
It's actually super valuable to the affiliates/advertisers purchasing popups. They can look at the competition and get a head start on what works. It's pulling in low 5 figures/month with very little advertising, so there's definitely a demand for it.
Smart. In that context, I can see the value. If I was going to create an ad campaign or something, I would want to start with a base that I knew was working.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#27I run AdsXposed ( https://adsxposed.com ) on the side. It's a project that scrapes online ads (specifically popups and redirects) and provides intelligence on them. Which publishers they popped on, which countries, to which devices, etc. It brings in pretty reasonable $$$.
Interesting. I can see how that kind of data is valuable to advertisers. Have you thought about ways to get value from the data about spam ads? The ones that target mobile devices are especially bad these days.
Well, we essentially just sell the data to affiliates, who then get value out of it.
They either copy what their competition is doing, or expand / work on it and use it as a starting point.
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#30How about RF hardware?
I make user-friendly RF analog electronics:
http://www.ebay.com/sch/iseeabluewhale/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1...