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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by holler »

buf wrote: post #178
holler wrote: post #170

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Very cool, how long did it take from idea to working v1? Anything you'd do differently in terms of getting it to PMF faster, tech choices, or lessons learned?

I already had a different side project with 300k users so it was incredibly easy to find PMF fast because I just emailed them. Tech choices: I never reinvent the wheel. I just take working pieces from other work that I've done and glue it together. Anything custom, I'll read how others do it. Lessons: I probably should've chosen a different market. If I had targeted companies and taught their employees professional e…

> But I don't mind, this is still fun.

Read your blog, hopefully you aren't telling yourself that right before you fire yourself! In seriousness thanks for the insightful reply. I agree w/tech choices, I'm always thinking about reusability as I piece together my own projects.

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Post by pyrrhotech »

RyanShook wrote: post #319
pyrrhotech wrote: post #278

Monetizing the algotrading models I've built over the last 2+ years: https://grizzlybulls.com I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual returns with much lower volatility than the overall market. My starting capital was small (500k) so in addition to growing with my own capital, I'm now providing the signals (3 free, 4 premium). 105 total members, MRR is curren…

Just curious, why sell your model if it's working so well for you?

I've thought about this a lot, and to answer 100% honestly, I'm not sure I always will, but for now:

1. These are not HFT models. They trade once every 2-4 weeks on average. They scale to billions in capital, so selling them does not inhibit my own returns. 2. There's a lot of demand. Part of the reason I decided to launch is I had some friends IRL begging me to let them use my models as well. Seeking Alpha has over 15M MAU and hundreds of thousands of premium subscribers, and in my opinion this service provides more direct value and wastes less of your time with noise. 3. All the money I make from this goes back into my own bot and compounds. Sure the $1400/month doesn't add up to much right now, but 1000+ premium subscribers one day would make a huge difference to me financially. 4. I believe we are at a precipice with passive investing, and the next bear market which could be right around the corner will dishearten a lot of folks. The more money investing smartly in the market at a reasonable fee makes the markets and overall economy less fragile. More automated smart investing saves society the drag of lots of suits on wall street mostly playing a big marketing game without producing much alpha or liquidity or any other measurable benefit in contrast.

Also, on a lighter note, running a business is just a lot of fun. I love seeing people use my product and get value from it.

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Post by 0x008 »

sergei_ws wrote: post #233

I'm working on http://talevideo.com - The easiest way to create a video of your SaaS or website. It's not subscription, but got about 300$ in revenue from January. Talevideo - is a desktop application where you can create video directly from website, without screen recording. And animate any element on page, like fadeIn and etc. Example result of video/gif at my github: https://github.com/ssleptsov Example_2 video di…

Great job! Any hints what technologies you are using?

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Post by axg11 »

specialist wrote: post #83
cushychicken wrote: post #58

I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December. It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips. Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com

Cool. I predict (hope) specialized jobs boards will become more the norm.

This is an interesting thesis. How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards?

Today, HR teams usually post jobs on LinkedIn and perhaps one or two more platforms. A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.

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Post by blutack »

msadowski wrote: post #47
blutack wrote: post #13

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Which is a good read if anyone is interested in robotics/ros/drone stuff

It depends what you are interested in. My latest find from this week is the Introduction to Autonomous Robots open source book: https://github.com/Introduction-to-Autonomous-Robots/Introdu... . If you were looking for news then sUASnews is great for some catching up on drones. For robotics I often find articles on IEEE Spectrum and The Robot Report interesting.

Sorry I meant I'm a subscriber and it's a great newsletter!

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Post by ryangilbert »

boeingUH60 wrote: post #326
ryangilbert wrote: post #248

I am currently making >$1,000 per month with sponsorships for my twice-weekly newsletter https://www.workspaces.xyz/ Workspaces brings you inside the workspaces of entrepreneurs, designers, developers, etc. Currently a mix of inbound and outbound work to gather the sponsors for each edition.

May I ask how you get sponsors? I have a newsletter/blog with reasonable traffic (>100k page views per month) but can’t seem to find any direct advertisers..

Definitely!

I recently added a "call for sponsors" blurb in the intro of one of my newsletters once I felt I hit a level of subscribers where it made sense. I immediately had a few readers reply with interest that ultimately led to my first few sponsors.

From there, I did some cold outreach via Twitter DMs and email. My newsletter is very workspace item/tools centered so I put thought into what sort of sponsors made sense there and it led to the next batch. Think: companies who would organically be featured by a guest anyway... show them the value.

I'm pretty transparent with the growth/numbers on Twitter as well so I think that helps when doing the Twitter outreach for sponsors. They are easily able to look back at the Twitter engagement if they don't already know what Workspaces is.

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Post by FernandoMax »

Graffur wrote: post #254
konschubert wrote: post #10

I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... It syncs with Google Calendar. To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings . If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

This is awesome. I would 100% buy a battery operated version

100% I agree. Makes non-sense the eInk (low consumption) but power cord.

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Post by DantesKite »

buf wrote: post #322
DantesKite wrote: post #315

Earlier quoted context omitted.

On your website you say you were pardoned out of a felony conviction. What was it for?

Assault w/Deadly Weapon - took 15 years to get it pardoned and expunged. The hardest battle I've fought in my life. It makes startups look easy. I'll write more about it one day, but I don't want to screw it up.

Looking forward to it. Subscribed to your newsletter because I thought your essay about money being the most important thing in life was right.

It really can solve or at least, begin to solve, every problem in an individual's life.

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Post by truculent »

montenegrohugo wrote: post #87

I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since my background is in AI, I made my own. → https://www.namy.ai It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from…

This is fantastic! If I may be crass, how does this make money? Just through referral links?

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Post by sergei_ws »

0x008 wrote: post #333
sergei_ws wrote: post #233

I'm working on http://talevideo.com - The easiest way to create a video of your SaaS or website. It's not subscription, but got about 300$ in revenue from January. Talevideo - is a desktop application where you can create video directly from website, without screen recording. And animate any element on page, like fadeIn and etc. Example result of video/gif at my github: https://github.com/ssleptsov Example_2 video di…

Great job! Any hints what technologies you are using?

Thanks! Yea, sure.

It's Electronjs with vue3/typescript, threejs, tailwind2 and konvajs for timeliner(because canvas render much faster then html update, so it's keep high FPS on edit mode). And vitejs for tooling.

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