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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by hemmert »

czue wrote: post #289

I have two! An app for making wedding place cards that does about $1000/mo https://www.placecard.me/ A boilerplate for making SaaS apps with Python/Django that does $5k/month (highly variable) https://www.saaspegasus.com/ I also have a third that does around $150/mo. It's an app that adds analytics to GroupMe which is a WhatsApp alternative. https://chatstats.co/ I keep complete revenue and effort data here if you're…

Amazing dashboard! Place cards are a more seasonal business, but the SaaS seems to take of nicely! Congrats!

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Post by Roverlord »

AdamJMarsh wrote: post #345

My side business that I work on outside of business hours is my lifelong passion in filmmaking & photography, although I have done more livestream production as well. My video/photo/livestream production company produces roughly $6 to $12k per month in revenue at a profit of 40 to 60% depending on the type of work and whether I shoot it myself. Estimate that 60% of work that I quote are projects that I shoot myself.…

I'm mostly a photographer (UK), looking to change my business model up when I move and incorporate more video work. I'm intrigued by the livestream production. Are there any resources you'd recommend for someone looking to get into this?

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Post by akyoan »

asdev wrote: post #320
999900000999 wrote: post #147

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At which point can you just hire someone to manage it and then retire? I know if I was making that much money via passive income I would never work another day in my life.

the days of consumer products on autopilot forever is over, requires constant work to continue marketing, website updates etc

Hiring people is not autopilot. You can hire a CEO for example.

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Post by duck »

vneur wrote: post #22

I built a board game in 2021 that has been just breaking the cutoff for this post, all I do is mail out a few games a week as we get orders. We do all our own fulfillment to save money. Currently trying to design a real video game. I got lucky with the board game because it targeted a really niche audience (rock climbers) and so we weren't really competing with the full board game market, which is honestly super satu…

Looks like a fun game, I'll pass that on to some climber friends. Curious - where did you get the cards printed at? Working on a card game myself, but have been putting off researching that much after getting overwhelmed with options.

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Post by AussieWog93 »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #404
AussieWog93 wrote: post #397

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>It's slowly growing, but to be honest the pricing needs to be increased. Profit margins are paper thin (ha!). Looking at your site, the first thing I noticed is that you use AusPost (I'm assuming you'd be paying MyPost Business rates). Especially for larger packages within the same city, Sendle generally has better rates and turnaround times. Have you looked into alternative logistics options? >>We can't deliver dif…

We've looked into this quite a bit actually. Auspost did work out the cheapest, at least initially. However, Auspost's recent price increase was particularly painful. Children's books have fairly large dimensions, so our pricing is largely dictated by parcel size, rather than weight. I can't remember whether this factored in, but we are ourselves reasonably remote. Technically Melbourne, but not really. So I think th…

>we are ourselves reasonably remote

Ahh, in that case you might be boned. Sendle rates can be pretty ridiculous for anywhere deemed remote, with pretty arbitrary definitions too.

Clyde and Warrandyte are "remote", for example, but Lilydale and Rosebud (!!!) aren't.

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Post by MrDresden »

tomkat0789 wrote: post #182
chevman wrote: post #166

I work in a large corporate/enterprise company doing marketing/tech work. Started dabbling in freelance consulting/paid interviews and found I can easily get in the $500-$1,000/hr range. So, been doing a few sessions a month and earning a couple thousand in extra cash. Not bad and met some interesting folks/companies in the process!

Your day job is OK with this? I forgot what I signed, but I believe my contract has a clause that says they own all the technical output of my brain. Did you tell your manager you have a side hustle? I've been thinking of something similar if I can build a sufficiently relevant specialty knowledge.

Why would anyone ever sign such a contract?

I'm certain it would not be considered legal where I am from.

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Post by garyfirestorm »

davidkuennen wrote: post #399

https://stockevents.app ~5000$/mo An investment tracking app with a unique view of things (events). Started just before corona, since I needed something like this myself. Turns out a lot of people were searching for something like that. The fact that many other investment tracking apps are either ad ridden, slow or have a bad ux helped as well. Technical: - App flutter - Backend go - Database postgres - Hosted Kubern…

How do you get the raw data? Do you have to pay for licenses?

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Post by bener »

adossi wrote: post #264
bener wrote: post #214

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What are you mining? If it's ETH, what will happen to your rigs after the upcoming changes?

My ASICs mine Bitcoin directly, while my GPUs mine Ethereum but I'm paid in Bitcoin, which is a function of NiceHash. More often than not mining Ethereum directly using something like HiveOS is more profitable, but I opt for NiceHash because the convenience is more valuable to me than the fractional benefit of mining Ethereum directly. Also, I personally would rather hold Bitcoin. But that is just me. In terms of ETH…

Thanks for the excellent response! I love nicehash and have been using it on a little 1080ti rig myself.

I'll probably stick with what they recommend once ETH changes. It does seem probable that the values of the new favorites will spike a bit once everyone jumps on board.

Do you think bitcoin-only asic miners are still a viable thing to set up as an ongoing thing? I feel like asic miners are currently a risky investment due to their nature of being linked to certain currencies.

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Post by esses »

seangp wrote: post #235

Friend and I have recently launched a side project where we give away high quality, royalty-free music. Early days but we’re making ~$800 per month from YouTube’s content ID payments alone. https://bluefoxmusic.com

These are great tracks. Thank you!
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