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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 cushychicken »

axg11 wrote: post #334
specialist wrote: post #83

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Cool. I predict (hope) specialized jobs boards will become more the norm.

This is an interesting thesis. How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards? Today, HR teams usually post jobs on LinkedIn and perhaps one or two more platforms. A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.

How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards?

I don't care about People and Recruitment teams. I care about People and Recruitment teams for a very, very specific subset of electrical engineers.

My thesis is that HR and Recruiting for the sorts of roles I care about isn't very effective to begin with. The lack of specificity in existing platforms is a contributing factor to the problem I'm trying to solve. Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and whatever other generic job boards are just that - generic job boards. They have no reason to care about this niche any more than the other thousands of job categories out there. LinkedIn is becoming Facebook for wackjobs in work influencer clothing. Even StackOverflow Jobs tends to equate this type of work to general software engineering, when it requires very specific, critical knowledge you typically don't get until you're pretty deep into an EE curriculum.

Add value to the Users - the job seekers - and you start to build trust and aggregate supply. The savvy recruiters follow that. Our clickthru metrics already reflect this.

A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.

That the crux of my point. I don't care about non-specialists. I care about recruiters who need to find people to write Verilog or VHDL. If I can become one of their "one or two more platforms" besides LinkedIn, I've made it.

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

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Post by pyrrhotech »

bmitc wrote: post #408
pyrrhotech wrote: post #390

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Definitely, that's why I have API access to signals as part of the Gold Plan. I think there are several ideal users: 1. Active investors who like to pick individual stocks and want to know when is a good time to hedge for beta for macro downturns. 2. Other algotraders who want to either set up their own fully automated system using my models (either in full or as part of the input to their own proprietary model). 3.…

Thanks for the information. I’m going to check it out. This is a unique thing I haven’t seen before. On another but related note, are you familiar with Robert Carver’s books? If so, any thoughts? I’ve been going through his Leveraged Trading book.

Thanks for checking it out :)

I've heard good things about Carver's work but I haven't read them myself. However, I got started reading similar books by Ernest Chan

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

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Post by jlengrand »

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

Yours is a product and mine was just made for fun but I really like your project and had a similar journey last year.

E-paper is a perfect use case for a dynamic shelf calendar

https://lengrand.fr/complete-setup-epaper/

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

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Post by ThomasRedstone »

cooldrcool3 wrote: post #316
askhn000 wrote: post #231

I sell repackaged open source software on AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace and offer support as part of the monthly software cost. It's the same software but the Azure offer sells a lot better. Monthly income is about $1000 from both. Very few support requests come in, so it feels like mostly passive income. All I have to do is answer the occasional ticket and keep the images up to date.

Thats awesome! Do you just rebrand the opensource software?

I don't believe there is any rebranding.

Ultimately somebody needs to provide these images and if nobody else does it I guess you can make okay money from it!

It's probably automatable with some effort!

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

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Post by Xevi »

vittor1o wrote: post #302
idreyn wrote: post #299

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This has some neat use cases but I dearly hope it doesn't become the norm...

Can you elaborate a bit? Technically rich link previews save visitors from the tab-overload.

I have nothing against the previews. However when a website hijacks the link to serve a stripped down version of the content locally, it goes against the expectations of the user, and it can really f*k up accessibility tools. This is a bad use of javascript imo. A really bad use. And unfortunately it is being pushed as a way to retain users, meaning that it prioritises profits over everything else.

I don't want to be served a fullscreen auto playing video in a pop-up window when I click on a YouTube link. I want to go to YouTube and view it there, where I can like, subscribe, comment, and so on. It breaks my expectations in a bad way, and I can see why people are growing increasingly frustrated with javascript on websites due to this.

Sorry for being so negative about this. It's a cool concept, but I also really hope that this never becomes the norm. And that's coming from a web developer, someone that's usually cheering on all advancements in the web.

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

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Post by cushychicken »

rthomas6 wrote: post #365
cushychicken wrote: post #58

I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December. It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips. Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com

Please add Huntsville, AL to your board. I'm an FPGA engineer currently working there, and there are a lot of us, at a lot of companies.

Rocket town, USA!

I see that name pop up on all sorts of queries and I'm shocked it's not in the db. Digging into that presently. Thanks for the suggestion.

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

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Post by ternaryJimbo »

maxencecornet wrote: post #196

My side project https://playtoearn.one/ is not making $500/month yet, but it's getting there: a tiny bit more than $400 for this month It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying niche I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner There are so many play-…

How are you getting visitors, are you putting up google ads?

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

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Post by raron »

dom96 wrote: post #410
raron wrote: post #401

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I am curious: as a HW project how did you go through the CE / FCC certification process and production 0-series batch? Did you have some investor or paid from your own pocket? Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.

Also curious about this. I’ve done a lot of research on CE/FCC and while it seems possible to do CE yourself (since you can self-certify) you are on the hook if you miss something, like certain required tests (and doing some tests can be very expensive).

I think if you self-certify you have all the responsibility. (I do not know you as person or you as an organization.)

But if this thing just emit in a wrong RF band, it could mean insane fine fine from the local-frequency-band-office. And this is a very likely scenario (not like what happens if it catches fire and kill somebody...).

Anyway, I heard you should aim (at least) to the US market, which needs FCC. (eg. 300+ million people with one language vs. 30+ language in Europe.)

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

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Post by therealcamino »

cushychicken wrote: post #421
axg11 wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an interesting thesis. How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards? Today, HR teams usually post jobs on LinkedIn and perhaps one or two more platforms. A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.

How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards? I don't care about People and Recruitment teams. I care about People and Recruitment teams for a very, very specific subset of electrical engineers . My thesis is that HR and Recruiting for the sorts of roles I care about isn't very effective to begin with. The lack of specificity in existi…

There used to be a similar site for compiler jobs. I think the niche exists. If you can prove you can attract that audience with high-quality postings, I think it can work.

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

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Post by aeyes »

dionidium wrote: post #287
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

Just a heads up: my company blocks this site as malware

It is blocked on OpenDNS as well.
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