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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by pico303 »

ipaddr wrote: post #295
nspeller wrote: post #116

I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives. It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos. I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that i…

After seeing your landing page I finally understand what a landing page should be.

Another plus for your landing page. It’s amazing how many landing pages vomit features the developer is excited about but never explain why I need their product.

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Post by atlgator »

erics32 wrote: post #375

I was laid off at the start of 2024 and built https://interviewsolver.com which is an AI copilot for helping you with your leetcode interviews. Doing about 6k/month, though the space is becoming fairly crowded.

Wow, incredible. I recently interviewed (as hiring manager) for 3 separate positions of varying seniority. Cheating is rampant now. I'd say at least 80% were using ChatGPT to lookup answers. One candidate had a 3rd party operate ChatGPT for her.

Do you support Codility?

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Post by WillAdams »

h317 wrote: post #217

I was tired of coming home after networking events and shift through pile of business cards, so I made an app to just scan cards and export them to csv. Pretty much just for fun app for myself, friends, and friends of friends, but other people started using it too. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/krane-build-relationships/id67...

Have you ever looked at previous apps in that space? Esp. Simson Garfinkel's sbook?

https://simson.net/ref/sbook5/

which was _way_ ahead of the whole "AI" thing... Still regretting not keeping a copy of the Windows binary...

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Post by saomcomrad56 »

Soupy wrote: post #117

I run https://pastmaps.com as a lil' solo bootstrapped labor of love. Think Google Maps, but for OLD maps. It has 185K+ fully georeferenced high-res maps covering all of America, as well as satellite, LiDAR, and 3D layers to enable exploration through space and time. History is cool yo. And apparently lucrative - it currently makes ~$5000/mo and is slowly but surely growing through word of mouth

Do you have any old maps for Panama? Perhaps the canal zone?

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Post by true_pk »

https://blymp.ca is about $600/mo with two clients.

Building an MVP took two weeks, and getting the first paying customers another two.

I wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42344002

It’s a B2B SaaS in out-of-home advertising. We found that buying ads outside the digital realm is hard and the only alternative are marketplaces that take away control over media owner’s inventory. So we did for those companies what Shopify did for small businesses — we gave them the tools to sell and to market.

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Post by nicksergeant »

martyz wrote: post #365
nicksergeant wrote: post #310

I started designing and building websites for locally-owned small businesses in my town, and have grown it to 45+ clients with a current MRR around $11k. I still work full-time and have built an awesome team over the years! https://flxwebsites.com

Cool! Kudos for finding success in a competitive market. How do you promote yourself?

Thanks! Mostly Facebook honestly. Small business owners hang out there a ton because of all the community pages where folks ask for recommendations for certain types of businesses in the area.

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Post by gaoryrt »

heliographe wrote: post #4

I'm making photography software: https://heliographe.net Right now my work is Apple platforms only (revenue through App Store), but I'm actively looking into ways to expand to other platforms. As a long time photographer, my philosophy is to make tools that are useful to me first and foremost, and to build smaller scope things that compose well (UNIX philosophy). I've got some exciting new things planned for 2025. Th…

I'm a user of the 65×24 app, I didn't know that the same person made the trichrome app, what amazing work!

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Post by windowshopping »

ssiddharth wrote: post #262

I’m building Sink It for Reddit ( https://gosinkit.com ), a Safari/Chrome/Firefox/Edge extension to make Reddit usable on the web. It’s similar to RES (Reddit enhancement suite) but supports all of Reddit’s designs and is being actively developed with around 300k users, mainly on the Apple platforms. It was built during the Reddit API shenanigans last year and is making four figures a month. 99% of the app’s feature…

How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.

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Post by zyx_db »

wtf242 wrote: post #354

The Greatest Books https://thegreatestbooks.org I created it in 2008 and have maintained and improved it over the years. I am trying to figure out how to monetize it more. I currently make around $2k a month. I just use adsense and have a paid membership feature through buymeacoffee. I get massive traffic and I'm pretty much the #1 result for anything related to best/greatest books. It's built with Rails and Postgres…

oh wow, ive actually come across this organically before. good job on seo!

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Post by windowshopping »

bengold14 wrote: post #131

RankPic ( https://www.rankpic.info ) is an app to help users crowdsource their best photo. I've been building over the past 3 years & just recently monetized and crossed the $500/m mark through a Pro subscription. It's grown into a lovely community of people who help each other pick their best pictures for dating apps, professional photos etc. I've seen some pretty fun novel use cases, such as (multiple!) people usin…

How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.
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