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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 skwee357 »

Fiveplus wrote: post #212
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…

This is the coolest thing I've seen on this thread. Single purpose and a very nice, crystal clear homepage.

Thank you! I appreciate the feedback!

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

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Post by skwee357 »

zandert wrote: post #155
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…

That's super cool, how do you run it? Are you using some other service under the hood, and just abstract their annoying pricing model?

Yes, I use another service + add a ton of stuff on top related to reliability, payments, and file formats. However, I have toyed with the idea of implementing my own fax sending. Maybe when I will be able to live off my side projects, I will explore this idea further.

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

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Post by skwee357 »

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

It's Stripe, and I'm happy with them. 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 tikotus »

prettyblocks wrote: post #353
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?

It's a mix of things. For example, there's an algorithm that ensures all valid deductions are allowed (I'm not smart enough to ensure all of them manually!). But a good amount of manual work goes into each daily puzzle.

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

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Post by laurentiurad »

buggy7 wrote: post #357
laurentiurad wrote: post #247

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Thanks for that! I just checked and it seems to be working. Can you maybe try again?

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

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Post by daverathmanner »

and-not-drew wrote: post #37

I've got 2 that are kind of intermingled. Each averages a little over $500/mo on their own though. Sportsbook API ( https://sportsbookapi.com/ ) - A single API to get odds data from a number of US Sportsbooks Odds Assist Pro ( http://pro.oddsassist.com/ ) - An odds scanner tool that shows both current odds and things like arbitrage, plus ev, middles. This actually started as just a UI for me to quickly do sanity chec…

Awesome sites!

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

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Post by laurentiurad »

infecto wrote: post #358
laurentiurad wrote: post #346

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 f…

No disrespect but still accuse someone of a scam, right?

I specified clearly in the description of this service that I deliver financials, historical or congress/senate trades. I think it's obvious for someone working in finance that the last two cannot be fetched from quarter or annual forms. Things like revenue, eps, ebitda, pre/post earning moves (those use last, open prices too), are strongly-related to 10Q though.

I really don't care whether you like the landing page or not. I have two B2B clients for this API and 0% churn so far, which is the best metric I need to track right now. I will stop responding to this thread since I don't think it's productive for any of us.

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

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Post by josefresco »

rozenmd wrote: post #114

I run OnlineOrNot - https://OnlineOrNot.com It started as just an uptime checker for websites, eventually I added support for APIs and cron jobs, and automated status pages (you may have seen this one yesterday: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/ ) I started it in 2021, I give it two hours a day before work every workday, and I cut scope on most features to ensure they're shippable in two hours. Then I iterate. It w…

This interests me because I recently started building my own monitoring service but stopped because of the existing / entrenched competitors. While it was fun to build the PoC I got to a point where it was becoming "work" and I questioned the ROI. How did you decide to persevere despite this?

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

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Post by rogutkuba »

I run a couple projects, only one makes money at the moment:

SFX Engine: https://sfxengine.com/ - ~1.2k MRR

I launched another two and hoping to get these scaled up as well

Sparkpod.ai: https://sparkpod.ai/ - $20 MRR

Disstrack AI: https://aidisstrackgenerator.com/ - $0 MRR

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

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Post by TCSoft »

https://www.condoally.com/ and https://www.hoaally.org/ - Simple yet powerful tools for running small/self-managed HOAs.

The site is 15 years old now and pretty solid. I dreamed much more for it, but I still can't figure out the marketing.

The front-end is open-source: https://github.com/CommunityAlly/CommunityAllyWebApp

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