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Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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I don't know if that counts, but I see it as a tech side project. Last year I've built for my gf, a custom D2C (direct to client) ecommerce webapp [0] for her handmade products. Then I started looking into PPC, tracking, social advertisement & marketing etc.. Now we are profitable avg ~8k / month only on retail. [0] https://yuma.gr

This is great. Curious, have you scaled the "making" operation, as in have you hired people to make products, or does your gf still make all the products?

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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We AirBnB the spare bedroom in our basement and it brings in about $2k/month.

I've thought about doing this from time to time. We have a horse farm and a "tiny home" type building out in the back, with a port-a-potty and views of horses and the sunrise could probably make a few thousand a month on AirBnB and pay for itself pretty quickly.

But then we'd have to deal with people :-(

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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post #141

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A filter for elevators would be super-helpful. I tried [1] but it seems broken. after applying a filter i get a 404 (only fitler was bedroom size): https://homestra.com/houses-for-sale/?amount-of-bedrooms=2 On the note of filtering, why do you not have upper bounds on bedrooms/bathrooms? it seems like filtering for a 2 bedroom isn't possible because "2+" would give me a ton i am not interested in

Ohh that is interesting, how did you end up on that page, it should be https://homestra.com/list/houses-for-sale/?amount-of-bedroom... might have an old link somewhere :( Ill add the elevator filter, thanks for your input!

followed your map link, changed the filter and hit `apply`. can reproduce it now too

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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post #97
post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In many places (most places), it would be hard for 2k/month be your full income.

(?) That's higher than min wage (post taxes) in most western countries, for most small saas/web projects/apps with small operating costs that's plenty

Not many people would be able to give up their day job for a saas that has a revenue of slightly more than minimum wage.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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I've build BlueRetro [1] an universal Bluetooth controller adapter for nearly all pre-USB gaming console. I made a gross income of around 3K a month last year out of Royalties on the soft for each device sold. It's Apache 2.0 software so people can do whatever they want. I started making money when I decided to list on the GitHub README the list of manufacturers/makers that where sponsoring the project. (Only one per…

does this work with steamlink? I have bought all these different supposed "PS3" controllers but BT doesn't connect!

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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post #297

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Interesting that people voluntarily pay. Write-up of bloggers doing the "buy me a coffee" button suggested to me that nobody pays like that. I guess software is a bit more tangible than a blog post even if both have value.

One difference I can see is the "buy me a coffee" button isn't a "these are the people who bought me a coffee" list. I imagine most of these sponsors (from their perspective) are paying for advertising.

Ah good point

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#327

I've build BlueRetro [1] an universal Bluetooth controller adapter for nearly all pre-USB gaming console. I made a gross income of around 3K a month last year out of Royalties on the soft for each device sold. It's Apache 2.0 software so people can do whatever they want. I started making money when I decided to list on the GitHub README the list of manufacturers/makers that where sponsoring the project. (Only one per…

What controllers you would recommend for retro games with a great d-pad and buttons? I can't find anything that's even remotely close to native controllers especially for Super NES.

https://www.8bitdo.com/pro2/ The ps2 and the SNES had a baby and it is a marvelous baby. (They sell them at Best Buy as well)

It has: Turbo key function for SNES games, Vibration, Macros, Pressure-sensitive triggers, Multi-system support (there is a switch on the bottom that changes the signal from windows to Mac to Linux mode and so on), And it just werks.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#328

I built Newsy. It's a tool that automatically generates content-aggregators. I focus on people who have domain names that are unused. https://www.newsy.co

Not sure having a service that generates spammy websites is a good thing.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#329
I run an iOS app on the side thats at ~$2500 MRR. It lets you generate music playlists from a prompt, like "make me a playlist for music to listen to while coding". I launched in January and it took 2 weeks to get the first $2k in revenue.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/playlistai-playlist-maker/id16...

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#330

I run an iOS app on the side thats at ~$2500 MRR. It lets you generate music playlists from a prompt, like "make me a playlist for music to listen to while coding". I launched in January and it took 2 weeks to get the first $2k in revenue. https://apps.apple.com/us/app/playlistai-playlist-maker/id16...

How did you market the app? Or did people just find it in the App Store?
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