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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by wutwutwat »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #226

I don‘t know if I should really say it, but here I go. You can order certain pills that are meant for men for like 50c a piece online from India and sell them for 10€ a piece face to face to normies. Handing out a few freebies ALWAYS leads to the guys becoming frequent future customers. Because those damn pills, while not considered addictive, make things so, so much better. And not every country already has easy, ch…

How many guns do you own to protect your territory and vitamin empire, and ensure the riches gained aren't taken by anyone? Do you have vitamin groupies? Do you recruit vitamin runners to distribute the small quantities and take most of the risk? Do you move vitamins by the kilo?

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Post by kethinov »

AtticusTheGreat wrote: post #140

https://SerpentineGame.com brings in close to that with advertisements and premium subscriptions. It is a clone of a game called Tangleword that is itself a clone of Boggle. I originally wrote it in 2008 and am currently re-writing it from scratch because the technology stack is so old and cumbersome to maintain.

What ad platforms do you like and dislike?

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Post by aardvarkk »

tikotus wrote: post #19

I'm making a physical product with my wife: an illustrated narrative puzzle magazine. It's similar to escape games, but it's more story driven and easy to do in short sessions and at your own pace. It started with my wife making the first magazine pretty much by herself. Since then we've made more magazines together and the business is slowly growing. We're selling them mainly on our custom lightweight online store.…

Such a cool idea. Just bought a set for my sister and her family! Thanks for making this!

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Post by xz18r »

palsecam wrote: post #124

https://FreeSolitaire.win brings around $500/mo in advertising revenue. It’s a Klondike Solitaire PWA (progressive web application). I started making it in 2016 and I’ve been slowly iterating on it over time. It has stayed minimal & lightweight, on purpose. No framework, no cruft, no obtrusive ads. Fun fact: because it’s so lightweight, it was included in 2020 in Moya ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=n…

This is neat! First off, the app itself is really nicely diesigned, props. Before the Moya thing, how did you lure people to your site? I assume there are literally hundreds of places where you can play Solitaire in the browser like this?

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Post by brundolf »

thdxr wrote: post #73

we sell coffee from the terminal ssh terminal.shop will do 6 figures in revenue the first year - not bad for a side thing!

This is wild. Using SSH like a web browser, wonderful concept

Edit: Oh wow, and people don't even have to make an account because their SSH user is their account!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by greenie_beans »

brundolf wrote: post #230
greenie_beans wrote: post #196

I just launched a website for buying organic Mississippi sweet potatoes online: https://sweetclay.net . I've made $910 in revenue in the first three weeks. Does that count?

Sounds lovely! Just fyi I tried clicking the link, and my work laptop flagged it as "malware". I'm not sure why, but thought I would let you know

thank you for the heads up!!! hmmm...

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Post by pbhjpbhj »

joshstrange wrote: post #152
pbhjpbhj wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Festival-goers can just pay for their food direct as well? Sorry, I don't understand your offering at all and the questions just sort of keep coming! I see you combine payments, but I'm struggling to see the real-terms benefit over a tap-payment (card, watch or phone)? For a food stand, it would seem, not taking the money directly is a relatively large potential liability. Is the point to enforce a contract between v…

Happy to answer! > Festival-goers can just pay for their food direct as well? In a word? Data. Festivals normally charge vendors a percentage of sales to be at the festival and they need a way to track sales. "Trust me bro" doesn't quite work since restaurants/vendors will lie or shave their sales numbers so they pay out less. One festival told me about a time they had a vendor steal another vendor's tickets they had…

Omg, thank you for such open and clear answers. My inquisition-organ is replete with such satisfying answers!

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Post by lbhdc »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #203
lbhdc wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you describe your GPU setup? I have been super interested to get some coloc space, but have a ton of questions.

Nothing fancy, just bought a motherboard from SM, and a 4U case. I have a couple of boxes with 6 NVIDIA 3080s and recently upgraded to a used super micro with 8 A100s Colocation wise, you pretty much buy the space, show up with the server and rack it yourself into a locked cabinet, not much else

That is sick, I wanna build out something of a similar size (sans gpus). How much does colocation cost in your area?

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Post by akudha »

lucas03 wrote: post #17

I made dividend tracking website. I am a backend engineer, so the UI is simple bootstrap and I focus on having data I find valuable. I've been working on it since I finished University, so it's like 7 years, and current MRR at $740 isn't great, but at least I don't have to pay for hosting (and financial data sources are expensive). I believe that spare money should be invested in stocks, so I like that I work on some…

What service do you use to get financial data?

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Post by palsecam »

xz18r wrote: post #234
palsecam wrote: post #124

https://FreeSolitaire.win brings around $500/mo in advertising revenue. It’s a Klondike Solitaire PWA (progressive web application). I started making it in 2016 and I’ve been slowly iterating on it over time. It has stayed minimal & lightweight, on purpose. No framework, no cruft, no obtrusive ads. Fun fact: because it’s so lightweight, it was included in 2020 in Moya ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=n…

This is neat! First off, the app itself is really nicely diesigned, props. Before the Moya thing, how did you lure people to your site? I assume there are literally hundreds of places where you can play Solitaire in the browser like this?

Thanks!

Wrt attracting visitors: Word of mouth, mainly. Posted it on Reddit back then, things like that. It grew organically from that. And, although it’s far from being on top results on SERP (search engine result pages), some people do find it that way. But yes, the Moya thing was a big boost!

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