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Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by akudha »

klaaz0r wrote: post #56

I run two side projects atm but they are both becoming more and more the main job. I am building a Zillow for Europe [1]. The real estate market in Europe is a big mess and for the past 10 years not much has happend so far in proptech because it was easy to rent/sell properties. Now things are changing and I see a lot more supply coming on the platform. So far rented out 40 apartments doing around 3k in profit a mont…

What kind of startup costs do you have for webtastic? Do you pay for data or scrape it?

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Post by gubikmic »

lavrton wrote: post #389

I am building Polotno SDK ( https://polotno.com/ ). It a mix of SaaS and paid javascript library and react components. It is a design editor that you can integrate into your web app. From the first paying customer it took around 1 year to get 2000 MRR. And I spent around 9 months on making first version before the first paying customer. It took me a very long time to find the idea of SDK. Previously I was thinking on…

How did you market it?

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Post by debesyla »

xhfloz wrote: post #220

I built mmm.page [1] originally for personal websites, or "internet canvases." They're meant to be pages for very easy combinations of text, mixed media, embeds, etc. — let more people create fun/interesting places on the internet. [2] I started working on mmm.page in Feb 2021, and launched it that May on Hacker News [3], then it hit $2k/mo last year, and has been growing steadily since. There are roughly 30,000+ use…

I absolutely love the non-registration title page editing. Both impressive (haven't seen anything like that) and clear how it works. Can't wait to think of an idea what I want to build... :-D

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Post by ronyfadel »

mthoms wrote: post #338
ronyfadel wrote: post #316

I make around that with each of my side projects: - VidCap [1] - AI Profile Pic [2] - Mission Control Plus [3] - Batteries [4] - Kay [5] (makes less, currently at $600 MRR) [1] https://vidcap.app/ [2] https://aiprofilepic.app/ [3] https://fadel.io/missioncontrolplus [4] https://fadel.io/batteries [5] https://usekay.xyz/

I use both Mission Control Plus and Batteries. Very useful! No problem if don't want to answer, but I'm curious about what rough percentage of your income from those apps comes from Setapp? How does their compensation even work for a permanently running utility? As far as I know, there's not a lot of information out there about their business model and how they compensate developers. Anyways, thanks for the useful ap…

Setapp income accounts between 10% and 30% depending on the app.

The Setapp SDK tracks usage time and the app makes a fraction of user monthly payments (factored by app price and user time spent on the app)

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Post by realitysballs »

pimterry wrote: post #15

I run HTTP Toolkit ( https://httptoolkit.com ) which passed $2k a couple of years back. No longer a side project, as it's made enough money for me to work on it full time for a fair while now, but it certainly started that way, and it's still a one-man show (plus many wonderful open-source contributors). I suspect that'll be a common theme in answers here though: if you have a side project making $2k a month, in most…

I used it once to get past a crux in my project , solid ui/functionality.

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Post by gremlinsinc »

atari800 wrote: post #384

I created a SaaS CRM/DMS for manufactured housing retailers ("mobile home" dealerships.) Monthly gross is about $4,000. Expenses other than my own time are $400 per month for the server. So about $3,600 a month net. The MH industry contracted drastically after the 2008/2009 financial crisis, and the handful of dealership software companies still in the industry went under. So I basically have the market to myself rig…

how did you even find this niche?

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Post by crispinb »

tommoor wrote: post #132

https://getoutline.com – A team knowledge base, hit $2k MRR a couple of months after turning on paid plans, has always been steady growth since then. A few years in and almost reached what I'd consider v1 feature complete.

Nice that you released the source. Some might say a little risky for a commercial hosted app. Not knocking it though. What made you decide to?

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Post by IAmGraydon »

Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you have. Much like the amount of food in the jungle is limited, so is the size of any market.

Don't create competition for yourself. They can go on having no idea how lucrative your little side project is and you can go on reaping the benefits. As soon as you tell someone with more resources that your little side idea is actually turning over large sums of money, you better believe their wheels will be spinning on how to get a piece of it. It's so easy to avoid this, you just have to not run your mouth.

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Post by person101x »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #418

Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you ha…

The economy isn't a zero-sum game. Everyone wins in the long-term when we help each other succeed.

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Post by j0hnyl »

monero-xmr wrote: post #187
pcthrowaway wrote: post #181

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I found the high yields were always on shitcoins (where projects occasionally rug), or lost due to impermanent loss. I'd love to be able to find more than 10% consistently on something like USDC

There are places to get > 10% on stables. But always the risk of rugs / hacks, you need to diversify. This is a crazy game, but if you are a software engineer it's a good side hustle / hobby to earn more money. I'm always mentally ready to lose 100%, it's about growing your stack and siphoning off some amount from the interest every week. I enjoy it

Technically you can lose more than 100% because you owe taxes on your staking rewards.
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