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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 rozenmd »

I'm coming up on three years of running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) in 3ish weeks.

In short, I wrote about React from my own perspective for a year (despite thousands out there doing the same thing), made money, and got inspired to do the same thing with an uptime monitoring tool (200th alternative to pingdom when I released it).

I turned a tool I used for convincing contracting clients to not cheap out on hosting into a proper product, 2 hours a day at a time, and kept adding features since.

Here's how I got my first 10 customers: https://onlineornot.com/how-to-get-your-first-ten-customers

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

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Post by thyrox »

Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic.

I think to make it more worthwhile people posting here please write a little about your tech stack, why you made it, what are your struggles, and tips for other founders, etc.

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

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Post by taylorfinley »

thyrox wrote: post #32

Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic. I think to make it more worthwhile people posting here please write a little about your tech stack, why you made it, what are your struggles, and tips for other founders, etc.

I love these threads fwiw and will come back to them from time to time to read about what others are doing

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

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Post by hsuduebc2 »

thyrox wrote: post #32

Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic. I think to make it more worthwhile people posting here please write a little about your tech stack, why you made it, what are your struggles, and tips for other founders, etc.

I do. It is always interesting for me to see what people come with.

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

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Post by hackan »

thyrox wrote: post #32

Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic. I think to make it more worthwhile people posting here please write a little about your tech stack, why you made it, what are your struggles, and tips for other founders, etc.

Getting traffic, and getting to know the project, is the value produced by this threads.

You may either be a potential client, or an entrepreneur looking towards tips or inspiration on things to do/how to do them.

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

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Post by domlebo70 »

jmhmd wrote: post #29

I started and run https://pacsbin.com , a radiology teaching file/research platform. I’m a radiologist and started this as a resident while unsatisfied with all existing options. It has been really gratifying to work on a niche problem for which a lot of my colleagues need a solution, and has helped me learn a ton about the tech and standards that underpin my profession.

This is great. I run a very very similar platform. How are your prices so cheap? 120$ for 500 studies a year?

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

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Post by koolba »

kebsup wrote: post #21

https://gifmemes.io/ Made 240 USD in December. About 9k visitors and 27k page views tracked through plausible. Spent maybe 5 hours working on the codebase in 2023, which makes a solid ((240 * 12) / 10) = 288 USD / hour. All of the money are from the watermark removal sales (10 USD). A lot of people say I could be making much more with some subscription model, but so far I'm resisting. (And the codebase is a mess :D )

This thing is awesome. I’m going to be using this near daily.

For bandwidth cost reasons I’m guessing you don’t support live linking right?

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

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Post by hsuduebc2 »

gardenhedge wrote: post #20
sarora27 wrote: post #7

My cofounder and I launched Kbee ( https://kbee.app ) in 2021 as a way to turn Google Drive Folders into hosted, searchable wikis. We're doing ~$2k/month and run it as a side project

Where do you find customers for this?

I'm curious too.

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

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Post by taylorfinley »

pclmulqdq wrote: post #6

This isn't so much a side project as a project that I tried to bootstrap and then never turned off, but as of December/January, I have made a little more than $500/month selling cloud true random number generators. I have not touched the code in a very long time, and today it is pretty much just a website and a listing on the AWS store, but it somehow made a few cents. I'm still nowhere near wanting to quit my "day j…

This is super neat, and looks way easier to set up than a lava lamp wall.
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