I built an agentic marketplace where people create agents which get a cut of the task price if their agents take part in doing something in the chain.
Making more than $500 but it is a side project.
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#262I’m building Sink It for Reddit (https://gosinkit.com), a Safari/Chrome/Firefox/Edge extension to make Reddit usable on the web. It’s similar to RES (Reddit enhancement suite) but supports all of Reddit’s designs and is being actively developed with around 300k users, mainly on the Apple platforms.
It was built during the Reddit API shenanigans last year and is making four figures a month. 99% of the app’s feature are free with the money coming from a premium (dark mode etc) for old Reddit and donations.
Have a few high five figure/low six figure acquisition offers already but I’m afraid it’ll be turned into malware so haven’t gone through with it.
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#263Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Once they are signed up, getting it right 100% of the time is impossible, so I also step in on the "support" side and help solve issues, provide proposed solutions to challenges, etc. Maybe I'm reaching here, but as a guess, are you able to offer your partner's services out the cut you take to smooth over issues? I'm just thinking that you have fantastic incentives to do stuff like that (prioritize long-term money)…
I think I am following your question but can you clarify if what you mean is if: I take a portion of the proceeds to send customers gifts, take them out to dinners, etc to ensure the relationship remains strong? If so, then not really. Usually these clients just want smooth problem free services. I am working with him on holiday gifting ideas but that's really the extent of it. I also incur some expenses such as mark…
No, I meant if you need to discount or give them service gratis to smooth over an unhappy customer.
In a former life I was a support drone. Days were full of us taking calls from abusive a-holes who just wanted to get over on someone and also people who had legitimate grievances and deserved relief. We typically weren't empowered to do anything about either of them.
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#264I develop a modular media center compatible with Stremio addons for Apple platforms. It's called [Vidi](https://vidi.plomo.se/).
I've done zero marketing and have a few thousand users from organic growth alone since August. It's a one-time purchase type of deal and I'm overwhelmed by positive feedback.
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#265http://profileoptimizer.org/
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#266Earlier quoted context omitted.
Just a few weeks ago I was on a trip through back roads of NC and VA and saw a bunch of historical markers and wondered how to do something with them. And now I know. My thinking was to stop and get a gps coordinate and then what? How do I get them all across the states? And that is about how far my thinking got before a SQUIRREL ran through my brain. Glad to see some of my thoughts aren't to far out there. Now just…
Start small, get the GPS co-ords of those markers, and create your visualisations, etc. Then share them with family/friends Then they'll start collecting marker co-ords for you THEN worry about how to get strangers involved (using/submitting/etc) Facebook started with a single University...
Great point. Thanks for sharing.
I admit I get the cart before the horse.
I'm not looking for life changing money, but it would be nice to actually be able to submit a $500 mrr project here on HN.
These are my favorite threads
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#267Still running https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years and 60k+ subscribers. It has been hard to put a lot of focus on it the past couple years, but been finally getting some time to spend on some improvements there. Income here has always been simple sponsors which I'm very grateful for.
This is one of the few newsletters that are worth reading so thanks for your service for all these years. BTW, 15 years is really impressive!
Thanks for the kind words and being a subscriber!
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#268I made PortDroid, an Android Port Scanner and networking toolkit back in 2014 because I was learning programming and was curious to what was possible. I mainly wrote it for myself and I've done no marketing so have been quite surprised how popular it has become (~800k downloads). It's been a consistent passion project for me now over the years and I love getting feedback and suggestions from people using it. It'll ne…
Wow... happy to see portdroid :) Had used your app for debugging an android app that I built some 6-7 years ago
It sure has a way of making you feel old right? Thanks for using PortDroid :)
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Congrats! Time to update the © years? It may look abandoned to the newbies.
Also, maybe update the "recent issue" to be more recent than 2021! Just subscribed though; I'm looking forward to receiving it wherever I read my emails.
Yeah, redoing this site is on my list.
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#270I laser cut wall art and sell over Facebook marketplace. Making $2000-5000/month. I have a website, but most sales are done over FB and customers pick up at my house. I either purchase designs on Etsy, pay a designer to create dxf file or do it myself (if it's easy). To be honest, I don't like the position I'm in with this. It makes too much to give up, but not enough to be a "real thing". Plus, I'm still trading tim…
What laser setup are you using?
Thunder Nova 51. It's a big, fairly expensive laser, but it's owned by a makerspace I'm part of.