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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by krasin »

tomkat0789 wrote: post #182
chevman wrote: post #166

I work in a large corporate/enterprise company doing marketing/tech work. Started dabbling in freelance consulting/paid interviews and found I can easily get in the $500-$1,000/hr range. So, been doing a few sessions a month and earning a couple thousand in extra cash. Not bad and met some interesting folks/companies in the process!

Your day job is OK with this? I forgot what I signed, but I believe my contract has a clause that says they own all the technical output of my brain. Did you tell your manager you have a side hustle? I've been thinking of something similar if I can build a sufficiently relevant specialty knowledge.

It depends on the place you live, but in California there's a law that explicitly allows side hustles aka moonlighting: https://www.mossbollinger.com/my-employer-prohibits-me-from-... (conditions and restrictions apply, as usual)

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Post by iimblack »

TheJoeMan wrote: post #41
vegesm wrote: post #10

I have an android app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.algeo.alge... ). It brings in right around $500 a month. It is fun to develop, especially that I can dabble into frontend and UI design which is quite far away from what I'm doing daily. Interestingly, it used to bring in much more but the heydays of apps are over.

I also have an app. It’s interesting I read here on HN about how it would be nice for companies to not sell private data to 3rd parties. I don’t collect data, yet it seems most people aren’t willing to pay even a few $ for software. On the other hand, the Ti-89 still selling for >$100.

Calculator is allowed and almost required in school. Phones aren’t.

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Post by ohashi »

geocrasher wrote: post #227
ohashi wrote: post #186

It is my old startup but it's been somewhat of a side project as the revenue has gone down and consulting and other projects have grown. But I do web hosting reviews based on what people say on Twitter using sentiment analysis. It avoids the problem of fake reviews by using massive amounts of data. https://ReviewSignal.com

Hey there. Been in hosting since 1999. I've worked at two of the companies on your first page and know people at/from several others on your first page. In fact I was at one of them until this month. Hello from the other side!

hey, where did you go now? Care to offer any opinion about reviews in the space?

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Post by to1y »

sneilan1 wrote: post #252
anonu wrote: post #219

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Technical analysis is snake oil. Don't believe in it.

You have finance and quant in your profile bio. Is quantitative finance not a form of technical analysis?

The difference is quantitative finance uses mathematical models where-as when 'technical analysis' is talked about in the (youtube)stock market it generally refers to opening up mspaint and using the line draw tool to 'find patterns.'

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Post by joshuamcginnis »

chana_masala wrote: post #84
joshuamcginnis wrote: post #15

I'm a SWE turned diy biologist and among the services I offer is bioprospecting for biotech startups. My most recent client hired me to gather soil samples from different biomes and running assays from my home lab to determine if there are any enzyme-producing organisms of interest.

Do you blog about the business aspect of your work? Which I think is amazing. I'm a SWE and have long had a hobbyist interest in biology.

Glad to hear of your interest in bio! I haven't delve much into the business side, but that is something I'm planning to get into on my YouTube channel and Instagram (both are under EverymanBio).

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Post by joshuamcginnis »

x86_64Ubuntu wrote: post #21
joshuamcginnis wrote: post #15

I'm a SWE turned diy biologist and among the services I offer is bioprospecting for biotech startups. My most recent client hired me to gather soil samples from different biomes and running assays from my home lab to determine if there are any enzyme-producing organisms of interest.

Do you have an automation process? I've always been curious about how much of the bio-worlds testing could be automated.

I'm doing a small enough volume that automation isn't quite needed yet. The process is basically creating a soil dilution, culturing some special media broth and then plating samples the next day. If this small experiment shows promise, there's talk of implementing something like Opentrons.

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Post by maclockard »

czue wrote: post #289

I have two! An app for making wedding place cards that does about $1000/mo https://www.placecard.me/ A boilerplate for making SaaS apps with Python/Django that does $5k/month (highly variable) https://www.saaspegasus.com/ I also have a third that does around $150/mo. It's an app that adds analytics to GroupMe which is a WhatsApp alternative. https://chatstats.co/ I keep complete revenue and effort data here if you're…

How much time do you spend a month on marketing for placecard?

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Post by asdev »

pigcat wrote: post #113

I run an e-commerce store as a side-hustle: https://drinkyourdailywater.com/ We sell glass water jugs targeted at desk workers, to help remind you to drink enough water. I created it because I wasn't drinking enough water. Running paid ads has been very hit or miss, and I don't have a knack for the marketing. But word-of-mouth has been good for us and we get the odd corporate sale here or there.

how did you get your first customers?

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Post by jcims »

timmaah wrote: post #181

My side project of screen scraping campground websites and alerting people of availabilities has taken off to the point of making more a month than the day job. https://wanderinglabs.com/

Congrats! This was a problem i had no idea existed until i wanted to rent an rv for a trip last year. The whole space is a mess. Definitely bookmarking for future reference.
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