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

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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 konschubert »

joshu wrote: post #301
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

does this connect directly to google or is there a proxy?

It goes through a proxy that handles the authentication towards Google.

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

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Post by vxNsr »

kylecordes wrote: post #306
searchableguy wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's pretty cool. Love to see a hardware project. What's the profit margin like? E-ink displays are expensive. That price point seems not enough to generate decent income.

I read somewhere that the e-ink expense is because the company which controls the intellectual property chooses to make it a low volume, high cost product. Not that it is inherently expensive, and I am surprised they don't try the opposite strategy, make it cheap and everywhere.

I was under the impression that standard black/white e-ink is no longer patent encumbered, could totally be wrong tho

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

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

buttscicles wrote: post #24

We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with. https://oku.club Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe

I like the design, but what's would you like to improve over Goodreads?

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

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Post by dqv »

jdlshore wrote: post #168

My JavaScript screencast, letscodejavascript.com, made over $10K net profit per month at its peak. It costs $25/month for unlimited access to over 600 videos. I stopped producing videos in April 2018, but the site is still up, and still gets occasional new subscribers. (There's been an influx lately, in fact, and I have no idea why. Maybe because I have a new book out.) It's still netting more than $500/month, althou…

Do people ask for support? What I mean is like "x package isn't working" or "I'm having trouble setting this up on my machine", do you help them troubleshoot? Or is it just the videos.

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

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

nice_scott wrote: post #229

I built an iOS sex tracking app, Nice. https://nicetracker.app/ There were no sex tracking apps on the App Store that weren't focused the menstrual cycle, so I built my own. It now includes cool features such as syncing across iCloud devices, location recording, STD/STI tests, and most importantly, stats!

The real question.... are you having more sex since it was released?

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

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Post by MisterSandman »

dawiddr wrote: post #224

I've been making $500-1000/month on an iOS app for work time tracking – https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flexishift-work-hours-pay/id11... When I started the project, the category seemed quite crowded already, but I couldn't find anything good for tracking my hours in a flextime arrangement. I had no iOS experience at that time (I was a C++ developer) and now I do iOS development as my full-time job too.

How long ago did you start this project?

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

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Post by ahmed_ds »

thrwy_ywrht wrote: post #18

I made a background noise website and app https://asoftmurmur.com There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer than I'm comfortable with

This is a pleasant surprise. I remember using your app ages ago. I want to say at least 7 years ago when I believe you launched your website first on reddit. My memory is a bit hazy.

I really liked your app. We had a construction project going on for the longest time and I would mix up your rain, storm, sea and the singing bowl sound everything together and blast it on my soundbox!!

Thank you.

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

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Post by funksta »

Made around $1500 in a month from https://hyperpaper.me/

It's a customized dayplanner pdf for large eInk devices like the reMarkable 2. I built it for myself initially but realized I could provide a customized build for other folks. There's still a small amount of manual work to generate them, but I should be able to automate it end-to-end soon.

I don't expect it to make much at all over the next 10 months, but I'm already excited about other things I'm planning to add for the 2023 version

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

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Post by ahmed_ds »

Not a product or something exciting, it is a service. I run a VA firm (tbh I work as the VA) and I kinda almost make $500/month. https://www.ITNAdigital.com

Trying to scale up the business to cater to data and software businesses. But working in real estate industry for a while now.

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

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Post by arilotter »

I made a p2p NFT trading webapp that's totally free & open-source over the course of a month or so of evenings and weekends, and I've received a couple thousand $ in various cryptos as donations from my in-site donation link.

https://vaportrade.net/

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