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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

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Post by strongpigeon »

dumfries wrote: post #280
strongpigeon wrote: post #11

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 is a perfect example of taking a simple idea and elevating it/ executing it well. Well done! As someone that has used 531 for a while, I thought an app like this would not add much value. I mean, we can all track our progress in a spreadsheet. But I must say that it looks great. This stuff is inspiring to see..

Thank you! I created it literally because I thought updating spreadsheets on my phone was too clunky. And yeah having the rest timer with notification was useful to keep the pace.

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

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Post by huhtenberg »

rsanek wrote: post #288
huhtenberg wrote: post #262

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A bit of unsolicited advice - * Focus on Windows users. Windows desktop share is 10x that of Mac and nowadays Windows users pay almost as willingly as Mac ones. * Charge several times more. * Redo the website. In particular get rid of 3D slant and on-hover animations, put larger high-res screenshots, explain each of them well (and not in gray on gray text), put up "Windows / Mac / Linux" in bold friendly and highly-v…

Woudln't OP be able to tell what the platform split is just based on his internal download metrics?

With Mac screenshots on the site they won't tell much. Plus the point is that it's worth to actively cater to Windows users even if you don't have many at the moment.

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

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Post by eprahsys »

Rizu wrote: post #327
skwee357 wrote: post #145

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

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

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Post by callamdelaney »

simonsarris wrote: post #279

I made https://meetinghouse.cc as a way for twitter people to put themselves on a map and write a bio, and what they're looking for. It's a way to find and be found, if you want to see who's interesting nearby for friends, dating, new parents meeting new parents, etc. Pins cost $12, there are 474 pins placed so far. This keeps the quality high (there are no spam pins, only real people) but will fundamentally limit th…

I keep zooming but the profile pictures never get bigger!

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

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Post by jspizziri »

megabless123 wrote: post #310
jspizziri wrote: post #277

https://soundreads.io/ An audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain. I do everything from building the app to the audio engineering. One thing I'm especially proud of is the restoration I did on the "War of the Worlds" 1938 Radio broadcast. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I've made it temporarily free to listen to [1] in case anyone is curious. You should compare…

You should surface the library of content to public visitors. I would be more likely to convert if I knew that you had the content I wanted.

I just updated the home page (main nav & body content) to add a "Browse All Books" button that takes you into the app to view the current titles. Appreciate the feedback.

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Post by anarticle »

miller_joe wrote: post #290
martylamb wrote: post #275

https://martiansoftware.com/chatkeeper/ I built ChatKeeper because I wanted to treat my ChatGPT history like a local knowledge base, with local-first access to my data. It’s a command-line tool (GUI in progress) that takes a full ChatGPT .zip export and syncs it with local Markdown files. You can move and rename them freely and they will stay in sync on future runs. It pairs well with tools like Obsidian and lets you…

I’ve been looking for something like this for Claude

I've started using this: https://github.com/jhlee0409/claude-code-history-viewer

so far so good...

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

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Post by brandon272 »

skwee357 wrote: post #145

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…

How do people find your service? It seems like there are a million "send a fax" online services out there so it would be difficult to get in front of potential customers.

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Post by dubme1 »

I run https://aliveai.app a large uncensored (i.e. adult) AI image and video generator.

It started as a small side project but slowly grew every month and recently exploded to well over 50k USD revenue per month. It's fun to have a large community of paying users but honestly I never thought out of all my side projects this one will make it.

I am still a one man show managing everything from development, marketing, customer support and content moderation. If I am honest the money is nice but I am severely burnt out and not sure if I can or want to do this much longer. It is a 24/7 job and I miss the days where I can just sit down and code a nice feature that people will like. Also looking at NSFW content all day kind of messes with your mental health.

I had some discussions of potential buyers but selling something for less than its monthly revenue seems crazy so I am still here trying to do my best and waiting for the right exit.

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

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Post by jspizziri »

jspizziri wrote: post #277

https://soundreads.io/ An audiobook streaming service that focuses on timeless classic works in the public domain. I do everything from building the app to the audio engineering. One thing I'm especially proud of is the restoration I did on the "War of the Worlds" 1938 Radio broadcast. I'm really happy with how it turned out. I've made it temporarily free to listen to [1] in case anyone is curious. You should compare…

Since there's been a reasonable amount of traffic due to this comment, I thought I'd leave a 50% coupon ($11.75 for yr one) for HN folks in case anyone is interested:

http://app.soundreads.io/purchase/annual?prefilled_promo_cod...

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

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Post by 1_over_epsilon »

agotterer wrote: post #78

A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe menu. The food is served family style and is authentic to the region we are hosting. We typically host the dinners on a Tues or Wed when the restaurants in our region aren’t too busy and could use the extra business. Since 2023 we’ve been to 4…

This is awesome, how did you get the word out and market/advertise?
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