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

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Where did you get the initial traffic?

https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/1j1e6q/i_made_a_single... got some initial traffic, and then it grew steadily for a while (although it seems to have reached a plateau this year).

Ah this is cool. I'm thinking about making a passive income sim game for the web. Didn't think of it as a monetizable thing but your experience is changing my mind.

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

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Can you give an example or two of such overestimation, and how low the bar might be sometimes, so as to encourage people more?

If you haven't heard, patio11 is the original creator of Bingo Card Creator [1], which is both an excellent example for your purposes, and as a bonus he's helpfully shared many useful lessons from it on his blog [2]. [1] https://www.bingocardcreator.com/ [2] http://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

Bingo Card Creator is a great example to patio11 answer. I'll never expect someone to pay for it, but we know it worked great for him.

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

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How did you get that up and running? A friend of mine started this label therhinestonecompany.bigcartel.com as a side project and I joined a year ago. We had (and still do) a lot of interest but we both became busy. But I'm tempted to pick it up again only because I feel it would do well with proper execution. I've been a silent Hacker News reader the past year or so (I'm a journalist turned coder) but your post grab…

I've been meaning to write a blog post about it... We use Shopify with a printing and fulfillment service: http://theprintful.com It's been a decent amount of work, to be honest.

Interesting - will check it out. Thanks.

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

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You never said net or profit. My side project is now making over $1,000 in revenue. Soon it will actually be profitable. It's an apparel company for women who like to: hunt, fish, and be outdoors. VERY random for a vegetarian software develop, from Portland. https://henoutdoors.com

How can you make any money at this? Printful is expensive and you offer free shipping on orders. Say one of your women's shirts runs 22.99. Printful charges 16 for the shirt and 5 for shipping, so you're only making 1.99 on that order. You're going to have to sell a whole lotta shirts! Are you planning on doing away with the free shipping at some point to increase your net or are you doing this for fun?

I only ask because I was considering using printful for our online shirt sales so that I wouldn't have to do much but they ate up all the profits. If you have the cash to pay upfront, screenprinting is the way to go.

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

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Created http://encycolorpedia.com a few years ago, kind of neglected it until recently (it's looking very dated), a version implemented in Rust is 90% complete - cheaper to run (more beer money, thanks Rust team!) & more features than the node.js implementation it will hopefully replace in the coming weeks.

> a version implemented in Rust is 90% complete - cheaper to run Is it cheaper to run because of Rust? Why is it so? Could you please explain, don't know anything about Rust though.

Nodejs's strength is that you can write code quickly and it handles IO well. The drawback for nodejs (and similar languages like python, php, ruby) is that they are incredibly slow, especially for CPU bound work like calculations. People use the slower language because it's simply easier and faster to be productive in some categories of projects.

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

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Feem ( http://www.feem.io ) is making over $1K/month online; and I'm from Cameroon, Africa. Feem is a great cross-platform way to share files within your LAN.

Awesome product! and I am more than happy and inspired that you are from Africa

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

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Digital magazine company. I have thousands of subscribers that pay me $2 / month. I pay royalties to content providers. I work about 10 hours a month on the project.

Did you negotiate royalties with individual content providers at the beginning, or find the content through a marketplace of some kind?

I'm wondering how you can find good content cheap enough to be profitable at $2/month.

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