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

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

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I run https://uimovement.com/ and it makes just over $1,000 a month from sponsorships and ads most months. The majority of that is from sponsorships for the weekly newsletter, which has almost 13,000 subscribers now. Currently doing cust dev and what not to see if there are income opportunities that don't involve ads.

How did you get those sponsors?

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

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I am but I don't know how long it will continue! My side project is: "How to Make an RPG" ( http://howtomakeanrpg.com/ ) which I released in June. It's a collection of code samples, art and digital book that shows the reader how to make an old-school, Japanese-style RPG. So, it's super niche! I wrote a little about my process here: https://medium.com/@DanSchuller/my-first-side-project-part-1... There was supposed to…

That's really cool. I wonder if you could make some money by doing actual in-person classes. It obviously wouldn't scale as well as a book you write once and release, but you might be able to charge a lot more for in-person education.

This is a good idea, and then potentially classes can be recorded and that would be another product (or special tier). I think this applies equally to other similar products.

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

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I created Meteor Toys, available at http://meteor.toys It's been very good to me, but also trending down as people seem to be diversifying from Meteor. Certainly not what I expected when I got into it. The story for it is a simple one: I solved some of the annoyances during development for myself with by making a devtool, and then open sourced it. The reaction was very positive and encouraging. Between the opportunit…

Website background becomes black as soon as I scroll down, making all the text unreadable and the entire site unusable. Chrome 53.0.2785.143 on OS-X 10.11.6

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

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I made http://feeder.co, a Chrome extension to simulate Firefox's RSS live bookmarks back in 2010. Now it has 500,000 active installs on Chrome and our cloud hosted service is netting around 1500 USD each month after costs (1700 subscriptions).

Me and my twin brother have had it as a passive income thingie for years. After a failed attempt at selling it (SaaS metrics are NOT easy) we met a guy who saw some potential and we're finalizing paperwork with our lawyer to create a Swedish limited company right now with him as co-founder. We will try to take the plunge and get it running as a full time company within a couple of years!

Achieving a lifestyle passive income project is surprisingly hard...

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

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I have a project making $200/month, 100% passively (I just renew the domain every couple of years). But I think it would be so dumb to just tell what it is here. Why would you invite more competition to your niche?

Then why even make this comment?

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

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I've launched Sentopia (https://www.sentopia.net) as a side project and it is still easily making over 1K with just 2 medium sized clients but it is not passive income, requires some maintenance & customer support but still very much worth it.

This year we're launching new features and a simple API: (https://sentopia.net/apidoc/)

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

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I built my side project "Documentation Hub for Developers" DocsApp.io (https://www.docsapp.io/). I spent 1 year+ to build it. Current revenue around $800 per month. Now I still spending night time and weekends to enhance it. HTTPS for custom domain powered by LetsEncrypt is on roadmap.

The project started because there is always need for documentation for software projects (in my career), and a lot companies are not used to have one. At the same time, I want to learn Scala so I pick up Play! framework to play and build real world app.

Happy to answer any questions!

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

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https://basketball-gm.com/ is a basketball management sim video game (sorta like football manager), and it makes more than that from ads.

This is brilliant. May I ask you a question? I assume you are not using real team names or real players. If you are using real names, how do you handle the licenses? Sorry, not a baseball enthusiast hence could not figure if your team / player names are real.

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

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I saw the previous post as well. I know how it feels having a good idea is not easy. Even people say talk to people and find pain points in their work is easier said than done. I guess it's partly because we are used to these pain points for a long period of time we don't feel it as a pain point anymore or even though we have a good idea it's not easy to build it as we need lot of capital to do so. Also even if we ha…

> Like the chrome extension I'm hacking together on weekends which allows people to search for restaurants around them. I have no idea how I can monetize it Have you considered paid promotion by restaurants to be at the top of the list?

Mmm nice idea. I'm wasn't thinking whether restaurants would be willing to pay for something like that. Maybe I should give more thought to it. At the moment I am pulling data from public apis. Maybe I should think more about making a db of my own :)
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