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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#321
Cold call training aka 'exposure therapy'

https://coldcallgym.com

Just a call a number and practice a cold call with a bot. People seemed to like it when I built it so I made a free and paid tier. Getting like 3-5 new users per day without really doing anything.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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post #184

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The friction to try it out is already really low, I like that! But it could be even lower if instead of an image the interactive version is served right on the landing page. Great project!

Yes, Dani the designer involved in the project, keeps saying that. There are two things that stops me from doing that: * It would make the landing page a bit heavier * I would need to synchronize deployments somehow But I guess I should do that sooner rather than later. Thanks!

Just my two cents, but:

- In terms of data, this is nothing compared to any site serving a bunch of images. The compute would differ, but loading speed shouldn't be an issue if you can render the HTML first, and hydrate it after page load. This static HTML would then also serve as fallback when Javascript is disabled.

- For a quick demo, I doubt you will lose people by embedding an older version. Serving a version of a few months ago seems like 80% of the work, with 20% of the effort, in terms of deployment.

Anyhow, nice to see government funds put to a good cause!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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post #283

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I’m seeing a lot of AI tells in the cover art (like for War of the Worlds) and book descriptions. Didn’t see any discussion of where the narration comes from on the site. Are all your audiobooks restorations of classic readings? Do you hire narrators to record new ones? Or is there AI involved there too?

All the audio is by real humans but I definitely use AI help on the descriptions and images, as graphic design and copywriting are not areas I’m competent in, and as a side gig currently I only have so much time. A good chunk of the initial audio has been curated and re-engineered/enhanced from librivox, however I’m also working with voice actors to produce originals. For instance I just release A Christmas Carol whi…

Thanks, this is good to hear!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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post #92

https://fivethreeone.app/ a weightlifting app for 5/3/1 has been earning me ~$1000 a month for over two years now. I'm actively working on a successor that allows you to create your own custom workout programs using formulas: https://vis.fitness

This app is not available for your device I have a Pixel 6 Pro. That's not thaat old.

Let me check why that is.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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https://fivethreeone.app/ a weightlifting app for 5/3/1 has been earning me ~$1000 a month for over two years now. I'm actively working on a successor that allows you to create your own custom workout programs using formulas: https://vis.fitness

Nice! I used to use it when doing BBB 5/3/1. Sadly I stalled and got depressed. Recently started GZCLP after getting sad at how bad I started to look with no activity My one complaint was that there weren’t more sophisticated training regiments. I didn’t work 5/2 weeks so I just went to the gym every other day and I just clicked whatever in the app when working out, while I would prefer to track my days. Otherwise so…

Supporting more sophisticated training regiments is exactly what I’m trying to achieve with Vis. Would love your feedback on it if you got any (email in profile)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#326

My wife runs https://www.saviament.com/ , an open-access educational website in Catalan. She also sells printable content following the same style as the website, which has exploded in popularity this year and has become a decent source of income.

Molt bé!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#327

I run a dead-simple, one-time, online fax service called JustFax Online[0]. While I don't have a recurring revenue as I operate one one-time payment, for the past months I have been consistently grossing over €500/mo. This also brings tears to my eyes, as I remember[1] browsing these threads and being amazed (still am) by all the people who make side projects and make money from them, and at the same time thinking th…

doesn't look like stripe, do you use stripe as a payment provider ? or something else.

i am in the middle of a project using stripe and looking for alternatives

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#328

I put sponsor information on my open source project, and it has been giving me $600/mo in the past few months. There are only a few thousand stars on GitHub, but it's already the most popular tool in a paticular niche area.

What are the reasons to use a throw away account and neither mention the product nor the niche area?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

#330

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What's your source and/or quality of the financial data? How much do you cover? What data fields do you provide?

I fetch those from 10-Q forms through an internal scraper I built. The response is quite big, you can check it out here: https://www.quantiq.live/docs

Honestly looks like a scam and your description of it makes it even sound more like one. Most of those fields you return in that docs page have nothing to do with k or qs and are equity pricing data you are buying from another third party.

Not a knock just being honest as it looks like you just don’t know so maybe this helps. Here is an example of a real company that scrapes k/q docs.

https://sec-api.io/docs

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