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

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

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We make more than that with VYPER -- http://vyper.io

you took the ponzi scheme and applied it to marketing. That's glorious. I am starting to believe what I once read about the brightest minds of our era being too busy trying to devise new effective ways to make us click on the ads.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Would you mind explaining what this does? I am vaguely aware of "advertising networks" but really don't get it enough to grok what you are doing. How do you know what device an ad appeared on unless the ad is somehow pulling a monitoring .gif from your servers etc? (That's a bit 90s I know)

We scrape hundreds of thousands of publishers who we know run the popup/redirect ads, with IP's from 100 + countries, spoofing hundreds of different mobile devices / orientations / etc. There's a little more magic to it than just those things, but that's the principle. We see what popups appear, and then record this info and show it in the tool.

I would never have thought of that. Thanks

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

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post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

what kind of website is that if you don't mind sharing

She sells (exclusively) on TeachersPayTeachers.com. Educators create resources and list them online for others to download/buy. Each seller is required to have at least one free resource so somewhere around 5%~10% are free. The payment structure is basically 70% to the seller, or the seller can pay a flat fee of $60/yr to become a "premium" seller and then keep 85% of sales. What's nice about their platform is that t…

We homeschool, and buy things off TPT all the time.

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

#48

I do 2-4 k a month on adult oriented webcam sites. Running on autopilot updating every 60 sec. Have a normal job and nobody really knows about this side project..... no work required just paying for hosting and domains. My big secret, my family would kill me if they saw the sites.

I'll bite. How exactly do you make the money? Signups, affiliate fees linking through to other sites?
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