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, c…
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
#342I 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…
TIL you can still buy fax machines!
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#343https://jacobdoescode.com/technicalc
One time payment, no subscriptions or IAPs
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#344https://canine.sh - makes it dead simple to turn your Kubernetes environment into a Heroku like PaaS. Mainly used in organizations with developers who want to deploy to a corporate Kubernetes environment, but don’t want to deal with the complexities. It’s fully open source so we’re covered by sponsors, the largest being Portainer $5k+ / m from sponsorships. Makes it possible to keep the cloud offering totally free.
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#345https://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
What is your revenue split, tip vs non tips? I've always wondered if putting a tip button on a free app could generate significant income.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#346Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fetch those from 10-Q forms through an internal scraper I built. The response is quite big, you can check it out here: https://www.quantiq.live/docs
Honestly looks like a scam and your description of it makes it even sound more like one. Most of those fields you return in that docs page have nothing to do with k or qs and are equity pricing data you are buying from another third party. Not a knock just being honest as it looks like you just don’t know so maybe this helps. Here is an example of a real company that scrapes k/q docs. https://sec-api.io/docs
You seem to be trying to promote a service and throw weird accusations that the service looks like a scam without even trying it, which is shameful tbh.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#347I’m still selling Computer Engineering for Babies. And I just launched a new book called Simple Machines Made Simple on Kickstarter a month or two ago. Both books are basically just simple interactive demos for kids and adults. https://hackylabs.com
[1] https://www.amazon.com/dp/1548489778 [2] https://arthur-johnston.com/hacker_writes_a_childrens_book/
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#348I 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, c…
Have you considered hiring someone to reduce the load of repetitive tasks?
I am currently rewriting the user role and permission system with the goal of introducing a moderator role in the future that has limited, moderator-only access rights. At the moment, there are only admin and regular user roles.
Even with this in place I am unsure where to advertise for an NSFW content moderator position.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#349I 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…
I love that it doesn’t need an account and is a simple straightforward service, as if I was paying to use an actual fax machine somewhere. I wish nearly every service online was built this way.
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#350Revenue is very spiky. Some months ~$10k, some ~$100.
Inspired by this Patrick McKenzie thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833
Certified mail is weirdly powerful leverage. I decided to productize that.