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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 zenolove »

dubme1 wrote: post #338

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…

Hey! Would you consider trialing some help, even part-time initially, and pro-bono, to see how it goes? As a developer since childhood, and product manager for most of my career, with (I dare say) some out-of-the-box, simplicity, "cheap is best" professional deviation, and sex-positivity in my personal and artistic life, maybe there's something we can get together on? Give me a shout! zenojevski at gmail dot com, or https slash slash zeno dot love. At the very least we can have some fun and maybe keep writing :D Zeno

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

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Post by ddon »

hotdogsalesman wrote: post #350

kitecourier.com - the end-to-end certified mail platform that makes sending legal notices as easy as sending email. Revenue 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.

https://www.kitecourier.com/pricing is returning 404 page

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

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Post by prettyblocks »

tikotus wrote: post #120

https://cluesbysam.com I started making a daily logic puzzle called Clues by Sam in May and it's been stadily growing since. The number one thing people were asking for was more puzzles, so I started selling puzzle packs instead of monetizing with ads. The reception has been great, and the revenue has been enough for me to decline some consulting gigs and instead focus on improving the game.

Are the puzzles generated algorithmically or manually?

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

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Post by aiisjustanif »

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

What did you not like about stripe?

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

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Post by rkomorn »

tikotus wrote: post #270
tikotus wrote: post #120

https://cluesbysam.com I started making a daily logic puzzle called Clues by Sam in May and it's been stadily growing since. The number one thing people were asking for was more puzzles, so I started selling puzzle packs instead of monetizing with ads. The reception has been great, and the revenue has been enough for me to decline some consulting gigs and instead focus on improving the game.

Oh, and perhaps worth mentioning that today's puzzle is not very representative of a regular puzzle, as usually the grid is filled with different professions and not reindeers!

Is it representative of the regular difficulty because if so it... doesn't bode well for me.

The concept is really cool though. I like it!

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

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Post by soared »

trubalca wrote: post #8

I sell laser cut decorative maps TheMapsGuy.com

Really cool! Huge fan of maps - it looks like there is some amount of processing, so you have that automated or are you manually editing details? Also any advice on someone just getting into engraving?

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

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Post by buggy7 »

laurentiurad wrote: post #247
mft_ wrote: post #243

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Well-meaning feedback: on the front page, there's a pricing section lower down, which only mentions credits and doesn't give a price ; the click-though goes to a login screen. I found this so instantly frustrating that I rage-closed the page and came here to moan! Reading the comments, I don't believe you're looking to implement a dark pattern and not show the price, but that's what seems to be happening currently. N…

thanks a lot! Will update on the main page so it matches with the actual pricing tiers. LE: done :D

Hey, I was looking to try this out but I was getting a 404 on the signup page. Just a heads up.

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

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Post by infecto »

laurentiurad wrote: post #346
infecto wrote: post #330

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Question was about financials. The service is not only limited to q forms, obviously. Historical data or government trades are not available there. So you want me to share with the Internet all my data sources just to prove you it's not a scam? 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.

Again no disrespect, it’s blunt honesty. I am not promoting anything. I live in the US and work at the intersection of finance and software. Your site has quite literally zero details on it. It’s a bunch of fluff on the landing page. Why would anyone signup without any information about what they are signing up for. Your response to a question about sourcing it’s odd. You only mention 10qs which you built a scraper for but the docs you linked to don’t really have much in the way of 10q data. Some surface metadata but none of the guts of a 10q. Most of the data you linked to is market data that you would have to be sourcing through a third party. It’s just an odd response for someone like me who works in the industry that you mention 10q but none of the data is really what I would consider 10q data.

Wish you luck but don’t take honest opinions from someone who buys significant amounts of financial data as someone trying to promote a service. Just linking someone I would consider a competitor to yours in the Edgar space.

The question is about financials and nothing you linked to is about financials.

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Post by skwee357 »

brandon272 wrote: post #337
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.

It's a very tough market. Before I started I found a handful of services, and saw some services appear after I started.

I focus on SEO mainly. Most users come from search engines and LLMs. Some users are returning customers.

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Post by skwee357 »

IanCal wrote: post #185
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…

Thanks for making a service where people can pay for a thing to happen, rather than an account and subscription and … I often get frustrated at how hard it can be to give someone money to perform a service I want them to do and they want to be paid to do.

Thank you very much. I try to focus on making usable software without enshittifying them.
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