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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by starik36 »

rozenmd wrote: post #156

I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/ I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it. Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime a…

Very cool. Looks very professional like there is a large team behind it.

How do you market it?

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Post by nokya »

baristavibes wrote: post #400
Fermat963 wrote: post #210

Twitter Archive Eraser https://delete.tweets.app/ , allows users to reliably delete old tweets. Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app for the past 1.5 years or so.

In the EU don't they have an obligation to let you remove all posts due to GDPR?

No, you are entitled to request to "have your data deleted" but the interpretation is basically left to the data controller. In practice this means that the controller as many options to make your life as miserable as it can/wants when you try removing your data from its systems, and more particularly when you want to remove specific portions of your data.

Twitter is a perfect example: removing "some" of your tweets is purposefully made cumbersome for users so that they get discouraged to manage their tweets. Searching through your tweets by date range or by keyword, and a button to delete all results? "Nah, too complicated for us silicon valleyers" :)

One thing to remember with GDPR is that it is not a law that protects customers. It is a legal framework that specifies a set of requirements, which companies must abide to in order to do whatever they need/want with your data. Once you understand this, GDPR becomes much clearer :)

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Post by josecastillo »

I made an Apple Watch app and complication a few years ago that averages $800 a month. I don't put any money into marketing or search ads, and it's been feature-complete since 2019:

https://www.betterday.app/

The app is built around two small, simple features: today's date with a customizable format, and a three-year calendar so you can see what weekday dates fall on outside of the current month. It also supports several alternative calendar systems including the Islamic and Hebrew religious calendars, which I think may be another use case that drives sales.

Anyway: it's a one-time, two-dollar purchase that lots of folks are still finding and finding useful.

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Post by darkwizard42 »

konschubert wrote: post #10

I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... It syncs with Google Calendar. To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings . If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

Very cool and love the design of the display

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Post by p3rls »

My team makes this https://kpopping.com

It's a platform for following what's happening in kpop that we've been building for five years. It makes about $1500 a month through advertisements and subscriptions these days, but we want to expand and experiment with other revenue sources.

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Post by jdlshore »

dqv wrote: post #344
jdlshore wrote: post #168

My JavaScript screencast, letscodejavascript.com, made over $10K net profit per month at its peak. It costs $25/month for unlimited access to over 600 videos. I stopped producing videos in April 2018, but the site is still up, and still gets occasional new subscribers. (There's been an influx lately, in fact, and I have no idea why. Maybe because I have a new book out.) It's still netting more than $500/month, althou…

Do people ask for support? What I mean is like "x package isn't working" or "I'm having trouble setting this up on my machine", do you help them troubleshoot? Or is it just the videos.

Each video has a comments section, and some of the early videos did get the types of comments you're talking about. I put the answer on the comment page and (in some cases) updated the videos. But I updated the README in the repo and improved the videos, and it stopped being an issue pretty early on.

Now all I get in support requests is the occasional account management email, and those are pretty streamlined at this point. (I could eliminate nearly all of them by creating a proper account management page, rather than directing people to email me, but given the number of requests I get, the cost of doing that is way higher than just handling it by email.)

It helps that the screencast is aimed at more advanced developers. But that's also why it didn't end up being viable in the long term, I think. That and the "long play" format, I suspect.

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Post by ghostbrainalpha »

nice_scott wrote: post #384
ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The real question.... are you having more sex since it was released?

funny enough, yeah! My wife loves trying to keep up a high score and keep the 'longest streak' stat going.

Then this is the most successful side project on this page. Doesn't matter how much it brings in.

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Post by _w6y3 »

asadlionpk wrote: post #402
zakki wrote: post #393

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am curious, how is a VPN solving a latency issue?

take the shortest path instead of cheapest-to-ISP path I am guessing?

Yes pretty much. Most ISP's just buy access to the cheapest routes which are not always the fastest. I rent servers that are connected to the fastest routes and send the customers game traffic through them. This often results in lowering the latency by a significant amount.

The other thing the VPN does is allows people to choose which region they want to play on. For example, in PUBG, when you launch the game it pings all of the different available regions and selects the one with the lowest latency. This is not always ideal as there may not be any players on the closest servers and you end up playing against a bunch of bots.

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