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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

#301

https://postalagent.com is my side project that lets you building mailing lists and send postcards online https://checkanyvin.com is a slightly older project that lets you run vehicle history reports cheaper than other services

PostgalAgent seems cheap, 0.72$ per card? Maybe I am wrong, I would've thought it might cost more!

Where do you get the data from? census.gov?

BTW, the demo link seems broken - https://checkanyvin.com/free-report/sample/1N4DL01AXYC165358

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

#302
https://produktly.com/ - a suite of tools to improve onboarding, product adoption, and retention. Things like product tours, checklists, feedback widgets, changelogs etc. that help you proactively guide your users, listen to their feedback, and communicate progress and upcoming features.

All manageable without any coding (after the initial copy-paste script integration), so e.g. product managers or customer success can build and add these from the web dashboard.

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

#303
I have made https://mytestament.io/

To describe it: “Ever wondered what happens to all our digital memories, important information, and personal messages when we're gone? That's exactly the challenge I wanted to solve. MyTestament.io lets you securely store and designate digital inheritances - from heartfelt messages to important account information - to be shared with loved ones when the time comes.”

It’s just been released, so technically it’s not yet made $500 , but the projections so far are for about that amount the first month.

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

#304
I began creating art a few years ago which is beginning to ramp up: https://matthew.bajor.art/

In April of this year my fabrication business switched from side to primary and I traded Jenkins infra (https://cicd.life) for small manufacturing: https://bostondigitalfab.com

I’ll would prefer to never go back, but I do miss some aspects of the old job.

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

#307
post #301

https://postalagent.com is my side project that lets you building mailing lists and send postcards online https://checkanyvin.com is a slightly older project that lets you run vehicle history reports cheaper than other services

PostgalAgent seems cheap, 0.72$ per card? Maybe I am wrong, I would've thought it might cost more! Where do you get the data from? census.gov? BTW, the demo link seems broken - https://checkanyvin.com/free-report/sample/1N4DL01AXYC165358

The data comes from a few different sources, like MelissaData.

Thanks for noticing the broken link, I fixed it

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

#308

Thanksgiving last year, after GPT-4 was released, I realized large language models were finally good enough to bring my idea to life: an AI book generator. Over the holiday weekend, I built the prototype for https://instabooks.ai , to allow anyone to instantly generate 200+ page books on any topic. I sell them in pdf, epub and print form and they take about 30 minutes to complete. Since launch, over 10,000 books have…

This sounds cool, but why? Why would anyone generate a book ?

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

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post #308

Thanksgiving last year, after GPT-4 was released, I realized large language models were finally good enough to bring my idea to life: an AI book generator. Over the holiday weekend, I built the prototype for https://instabooks.ai , to allow anyone to instantly generate 200+ page books on any topic. I sell them in pdf, epub and print form and they take about 30 minutes to complete. Since launch, over 10,000 books have…

This sounds cool, but why? Why would anyone generate a book ?

Think of it as deep diving into a topic that you want to know everything about. For example quantum computing, you can generate a book that goes in depth in yesterday’s quantum chip announcement (https://instabooks.ai/products/df1ae367-e0c1-b749-9898-2744b...). Or if you’re preparing for a job interview and need to brush up on your knowledge in that specific field (https://instabooks.ai/products/041ced4c-efed-92e4-7ae6-9ad2b...)

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

#310
I started designing and building websites for locally-owned small businesses in my town, and have grown it to 45+ clients with a current MRR around $11k. I still work full-time and have built an awesome team over the years!

https://flxwebsites.com

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