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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by joshxyz »

leros wrote: post #170
alexellisuk wrote: post #3

I started an OSS project to enable me and my team to receive webhooks at a big co where Ngrok was banned and so was SSH. It works over an HTTP proxy using websockets. One of the requirements I had was for 1st class container support - so it could be run inside a K8s pod and support LoadBalancers for TCP traffic as well as HTTPS. The OSS project was very popular, but drew very little sponsorship. I then pivoted to a c…

Can you share the product? I'm curious.

Just google "github inlets"

Project is honeslty cool, we really liked it except the limits of inlets free tier compared to inlets pro tier.

In our use case going for zerotier / tailscale made more sense.

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Post by doopy1 »

artdigital wrote: post #95

I stake and lend cryptocurrency (stablecoins and blue-chip coins) on lending protocols and exchanges, and am at around $500 a week. Not really a side-project per-se, but I do quite a bit of calculation on ROI, where to move what share of my funds to, and occasional yield-farming strategies so it does take a up a good bit of time The goal is to have that stable enough so that I can quit and focus on my actual side pro…

How much are you staking to get that kind of return?

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Post by anonu »

insaider wrote: post #163

I make $3-5k a month from my golf betting algorithm website: https://www.golfforecast.co.uk About half of the income is from algorithm profits and half from subscription fees. Feedback/questions appreciated!

Is this very UK specific? In that golf betting is bigger in UK than USA?

Interesting that you trade your own predictions. That's a good sign.

When did you start this? There were companies like numberfire in the US that did this for American football and baseball.

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Post by soheilpro »

girthbrooks wrote: post #204
soheilpro wrote: post #100

I have three: https://pikaso.me which lets people post their tweets on Instagram https://postsheet.com for sending emails / SMS from data in Google Sheets or Airtable https://volt.fm for viewing Spotify stats and discovering new music

pikaso is a fantastic product, well done.

Thanks!

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Post by codeisawesome »

leros wrote: post #170
alexellisuk wrote: post #3

I started an OSS project to enable me and my team to receive webhooks at a big co where Ngrok was banned and so was SSH. It works over an HTTP proxy using websockets. One of the requirements I had was for 1st class container support - so it could be run inside a K8s pod and support LoadBalancers for TCP traffic as well as HTTPS. The OSS project was very popular, but drew very little sponsorship. I then pivoted to a c…

Can you share the product? I'm curious.

This one I think https://github.com/inlets/inlets-operator

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Post by rcstank »

tomkat0789 wrote: post #182
chevman wrote: post #166

I work in a large corporate/enterprise company doing marketing/tech work. Started dabbling in freelance consulting/paid interviews and found I can easily get in the $500-$1,000/hr range. So, been doing a few sessions a month and earning a couple thousand in extra cash. Not bad and met some interesting folks/companies in the process!

Your day job is OK with this? I forgot what I signed, but I believe my contract has a clause that says they own all the technical output of my brain. Did you tell your manager you have a side hustle? I've been thinking of something similar if I can build a sufficiently relevant specialty knowledge.

Many places are fine with it as long as you don’t let your side gig interfere.

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Post by geocrasher »

ohashi wrote: post #186

It is my old startup but it's been somewhat of a side project as the revenue has gone down and consulting and other projects have grown. But I do web hosting reviews based on what people say on Twitter using sentiment analysis. It avoids the problem of fake reviews by using massive amounts of data. https://ReviewSignal.com

Hey there. Been in hosting since 1999. I've worked at two of the companies on your first page and know people at/from several others on your first page. In fact I was at one of them until this month. Hello from the other side!

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Post by gaoshan »

chevman wrote: post #166

I work in a large corporate/enterprise company doing marketing/tech work. Started dabbling in freelance consulting/paid interviews and found I can easily get in the $500-$1,000/hr range. So, been doing a few sessions a month and earning a couple thousand in extra cash. Not bad and met some interesting folks/companies in the process!

What do you mean "paid interviews"? I do a lot of interviews for the companies I work for and this intrigues me.

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Post by dave333 »

LordEthano wrote: post #211
dave333 wrote: post #164

I run a string of free sudoku sites that have earned around $1000/month from advertising and donations since 2005: https://fiendishsudoku.com https://samurai-sudoku.com https://sudokuprintables.org https://sudokuhints.com https://extremesudoku.info https://sudukopuzzles.org https://easysudoku.org

You're the Match Group of free sudoku sites

sad, but I had to google what Match Group is :-(
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