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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 greenie_beans »

fm2606 wrote: post #245
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?

I think it does. How did you get your farmer network set up? Reminds me of https://www.vidaliaonions.com/ . The guy who started that bought the domain before he knew what he was going to do with it.

I copied him. His HN post from 2019 is what planted the seed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132

I'm from Mississippi and know some small farmers but none of the big sweet potato producers. "Mississippi Sweet Potatoes" coming from the "Sweet Potato Capital of the World" has always been a strong branding in my head growing up, just being near the influence of that. It's not hard to get their wholesale but I wanted to have some orders before finding a partner.

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Post by e12e »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #208
munificent wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't mean this in a critical way to you but, man, this makes me so sad to think about. Models making money from lonely people so desperate for a connection that they pay to chat with someone and then they don't even end up chatting with a human at all.

It's not really that sad. Young guys with a bit of disposable income could do a lot worse than subscribing to someone's onlyfans and chatting with a bot. I don't charge subscribers directly and don't do any pay-per-message scheme, it's free for the user (provided they're subscribed to my client's page). The conversations aren't even overtly sexual in nature, mostly just guys sending "hey hope you're having a good day…

> The conversations aren't even overtly sexual in nature, mostly just guys sending "hey hope you're having a good day" during work hours.

I actually think that's worse.

Ed: but props to you for filling a technology niche.

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Post by acrooks »

cccybernetic wrote: post #71

I built a web app that extracts data from documents, like PDFs, Word, etc. I've seen people say "GPT wrapper", but it consistently outperforms similar tools in the space. My main customer is a private equity fund that randomly reached out. I didn't know much at all about fintech, but it works and gets the job done. I don't have a proper marketing site yet since I've been focused on building the app, but it's coming s…

I'm interested, can you email me (address in profile)

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Post by upcoming-sesame »

rolandpeelen wrote: post #223

I made https://konfig.xyz/ after making about 6500 images for a product configurator. Instead of using images, we use 3d models. Initially quite simple and for use with relatively flat scenes (ie - no tree like structure for options / scenes) but grown over time to sort of support those too. The main use case are fixed-in-size products that can be customize-able. So colours and materials, but also swapping one object…

Very cool, since there's no pricing, what's the ballpark cost of some of the demos on the website?

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Post by jpcom »

Suppafly wrote: post #271
ThePowerOfFuet wrote: post #243

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I find it disturbing how many people allow apps to access their location 24/7.

>I find it disturbing how many people allow apps to access their location 24/7. Why? It doesn't effect you at all.

Maybe he's a healthcare CEO
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