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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

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Post by Rendello »

cpursley wrote: post #178
nspeller wrote: post #116

I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives. It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos. I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that i…

This is really cool, wishing you the best of luck!

It's been paying his rent for 8 years, I think fortune's on his side ;) The landing page got me too and I signed up

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Post by seanconaty »

Soupy wrote: post #117

I run https://pastmaps.com as a lil' solo bootstrapped labor of love. Think Google Maps, but for OLD maps. It has 185K+ fully georeferenced high-res maps covering all of America, as well as satellite, LiDAR, and 3D layers to enable exploration through space and time. History is cool yo. And apparently lucrative - it currently makes ~$5000/mo and is slowly but surely growing through word of mouth

I love this site. I love browsing David Rumsey's map collection and I know that they have a georeferenceing feature, but I haven't used it.

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Post by bengold14 »

mettamage wrote: post #311
bengold14 wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks for asking! I also used photofeeler and found the way it rated me 1-10 fairly harmful to my mental health. RankPic has users rank your photos best to worst, so it's just against yourself. Additionally it allows users to get more mileage out of each test, when you can do 2-6 photos instead of just one at a time. Anecdotally I've also heard it is a more fun experience for the rankers.

That answer is very inspiring, thanks :) Are you up for a digital coffee? If so, my email is in my profile. While I haven't been an entrepreneur, I did some side projects. Would be fun to chat about it.

Thanks! Emailed :)

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Post by martyz »

Soupy wrote: post #117

I run https://pastmaps.com as a lil' solo bootstrapped labor of love. Think Google Maps, but for OLD maps. It has 185K+ fully georeferenced high-res maps covering all of America, as well as satellite, LiDAR, and 3D layers to enable exploration through space and time. History is cool yo. And apparently lucrative - it currently makes ~$5000/mo and is slowly but surely growing through word of mouth

This is such an awesome app - great work!

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Post by gordalina »

I've built a SMS to Slack which enables two-way SMS messaging from your Slack channels.

I had an annoying use case where when trying to login to a shared work account, the 2FA code was being sent to a colleague's phone number. Now being able to receive that code in Slack solved the problem.

Customers now use it for their own customer support. End users really like SMS as a messaging platform, nobody wants to send an email or talk to a chatbot.

It uses Elixir, Fly, GCP, Stripe, and a couple carriers.

https://smstoslack.com

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Post by stpn »

I built a personal finance app (https://tender.run) in the style of mailbox (swiping, keyboard shortcut, inbox-based workflow for reviewing transactions).

It's built on the automerge CRDT and sqlite running in the browser, which has been really fun to work with. I'd like to keep going, though honestly I've struggled with the marketing side (growth has been slow) and it's a pretty competitive space.

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Post by VectorLock »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #226

I don‘t know if I should really say it, but here I go. You can order certain pills that are meant for men for like 50c a piece online from India and sell them for 10€ a piece face to face to normies. Handing out a few freebies ALWAYS leads to the guys becoming frequent future customers. Because those damn pills, while not considered addictive, make things so, so much better. And not every country already has easy, ch…

Off-label Viagra or something else?

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Post by pstorm »

protocolture wrote: post #320

The gist I get from this thread is that if you have something on the cards you should just commit to it? How much is just survivorship bias? I have like 4-5 side hustles being worked on at any one time, but I rarely ship for various reasons. Lots of people in this thread seem to have just gone and done it without thinking. How often does that pay off?

Less than 10% of my projects ever made anything. Check out indiehackers.com - tons of old posts of people starting things, but the domain is dead when you click through.

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Post by algoghostf »

I created this course about Data Integration around 2 years back following delivering some complex integrations https://www.udemy.com/course/data-integration-guide/?couponC... (Link with coupon code) It brings around 300€/month, and is very much appreciated by professionals despite it not being very conventional. The reason to put it was to share some lessons learned in such projects I also published a book on Amazon (with some more detailed content) and it sells handful (sometimes more) copies every month.

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Post by johnjungles »

I built https://check.supply with a friend - it’s an iOS app that is like a cash app experience for mailing a check.

Old school landlords, paying gardeners, or other people still only accepting checks. We use plaid to connect your account, then press send, then track the printing, mailing and delivery of the check.

Only iOS App here:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/check-supply/id6475490646

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