Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by _jdams » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 2:05 PM UTC

someotheridiot wrote: post #31

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. The revenue fluctuates quite a lot though since I suck at that side of things.

Revenue is from LEGO and toy-related ads? What is the pricing model for an information-based website such as yours? I'm at work and unfortunately can't browse at the moment.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by andersthue » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 3:44 PM UTC

adzeds wrote: post #39

andersthue wrote: post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would absolutely LOVE your feedback - let me know how to contact you or reach out to me at anders(at)timeblock.com Thank you so much for offering your help!

Not a problem. I will drop you an email today with some thoughts.

Thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by andersthue » Fri, Mar 04, 2016, 3:46 PM UTC

palidanx wrote: post #34

andersthue wrote: post #5

As in the previous thread I made http://www.watermark-image.com that makes 3000+ each month. I am using the money to build http://timeblock.com that currently makes around $350 a month.

How did you come with the idea with watermark-image? Looks like a cool site!

Originally I had 200+ images I needed to watermark where I could not find a tool, this made me create a command line tool to watermark my images.

Then a friend suggested I made a product out of it and the rest is history :)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by someotheridiot » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 7:16 AM UTC

_jdams wrote: post #41

someotheridiot wrote: post #31

https://rebrickable.com - A LEGO database that shows you which sets you can build from your existing collection, also includes thousands of fan-submitted designs. The revenue fluctuates quite a lot though since I suck at that side of things.

Revenue is from LEGO and toy-related ads? What is the pricing model for an information-based website such as yours? I'm at work and unfortunately can't browse at the moment.

Yeah, ads and affiliate sales. It gets a decent amount of traffic (~130K users/month, 2M pageviews) but I have trouble monetising it.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by xrxrxrx » Sat, Mar 05, 2016, 6:22 PM UTC

MattBearman wrote: post #15

Holy crap, I remember seeing these kinds of threads before and being amazed by people making good money from a side-project, I can't believe I'm now one of them! My project is BugMuncher - https://www.bugmuncher.com - a website feedback tool I created back in 2011, and it's currently making $1,489 Monthly Recurring Revenue. Strictly speaking it's not a side project anymore, as in Sept 2015 I fired all my freelance cl…

have you considered adding a free tier? Our project has one and we have had success upselling existing free customers a lot, since our free tier is very limited.

Its different from a free trial since if they like your product will use it until they grow enough to upgrade and might eventually start giving you money.

I can think of countless products that I ended up upgrading from free to paid after using their product > a few months on their free tier.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by throweway » Sun, Mar 06, 2016, 10:15 AM UTC

iqonik wrote: post #11

throweway wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you sell? Face to face? Phone? Word of mouth?

Right now I spend my Saturdays going to a High Street and going shop-to-shop. If the manager/owner isn't in I'll follow up with a call to try and get a meeting. Word of mouth is starting to bring in new business, my accountant has recommended a few people to me! :)

Nice hustling!