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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 jasondigitized »

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…

What was the original side project that had 300k users?

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

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Post by thrwy_ywrht »

ahmed_ds wrote: post #347
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.

Haha thank you for the nice memory! I've been running the site for 8 years, it's crazy that it's been that long

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

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Post by astroalex »

yumaikas wrote: post #305
astroalex wrote: post #158

I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically generated posters of my art: https://spacefiller.space/prints This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.

These are a amazing pieces of computational art! Might I ask what you built it with?

Thank you! They're made with Java-based Processing (https://processing.org/), although I have a new JavaScript/WebGL version in the works.

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

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Post by MisterSandman »

Melatonic wrote: post #122
UncleOxidant wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What tax changes?

Previously companies like eBay, Venmo, Paypal, etc were not required to officially report transfers to the IRS. A few years ago they changed that rule where if you appear to be making more than $20,000 dollars in a year period then they send forms to the IRS directly. If it is only for personal use (like say you are sending money via Venmo to a roomate) there is no tax to pay. But for actual sales you would be. This…

I agree with your point of it being a hassle, but I never understood the huge outcry about this. If I work part-time at Burger King and make $10,000/year, I would pay taxes on that. Why should the IRS not be taxing side-hustles that make 10k/year?

The argument of them not taxing the rich is sad, but also irrelevant; they didn't add a new tax on side-hustles, just re-inforced an existing one. You technically should've been paying this anyway.

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

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Post by astroalex »

idiotsecant wrote: post #294
astroalex wrote: post #158

I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically generated posters of my art: https://spacefiller.space/prints This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.

If you want to restart with someone to do the grunt work let me know :P

If you're serious, send me an email at alexmiller@spacefiller.space! I would honestly love to hire someone to do a bit of grunt work.

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

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Post by ade5hmukh »

jimaek wrote: post #221

https://anycasted.io/ A niche product, I gather data about anycasted IP addresses and sell the database. No idea how to market it but it makes more than $500/month

naice! curious about the customers/target audience though?

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

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Post by barcoder »

rozenmd wrote: post #156

I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/ I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it. Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime a…

I admire you diligence with cutting down features to hit the self imposed deadline.

I've been ferociously learning game dev and have allowed myself unlimited time to jump down rabbit holes. Now that I'm actually building a game I need to remind myself to just build it with what I know.

It's an interesting switch in mind set. Still learning obviously, only now I'm pulling together knowledge buried deep within rather than from tutorials.

I'll keep in mind scope and remember your inspiring diligence next time I'm tempted to peek in a rabbit hole.

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

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Post by XCSme »

I make between $500 and $2000 per month with UXWizz[0], a self-hosted analytics platform that I have been working on for around 9 years.

Hopefully I can grow it more this year as all the Google Analytics related news should make more people consider self-hosting their analytics. I stopped providing any cloud-hosted version and focus purely on self-hosting.

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com

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