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Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by zladuric »

wunderflix wrote: post #157

I started many unsuccessful side projects, making me almost no or no money at all. The latest one (WunderFlix) is different though. It starts making a modest amount of money. But since I never made any money with the other projects I still don't like to talk about it. But, now that you've asked... I always wanted to have an app that can help me creating short films of my kids with my iPhone. I searched the App Store…

Hey that's cool! Btw, I see the developer is listed as WunderFlix GmbH. You really registered a company just for side project, does that mean it makes enough money to justify the costs of a proper company?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by xwdv »

z023bs wrote: post #325
xwdv wrote: post #305

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I trade very few stocks, most of the FAANG types. For example, on Friday I made good money on FB with several 50 cent moves. I buy 500 shares at a time, so a profit target of about $250. I would use a sequential order to buy at a certain entry point and then it immediately submits a sell order for 50 cents higher when it fills. My strategy is basically the poor man’s HFT. The key is picking a good entry point. I gene…

thanks so much for divulging details about your strategy! I was thinking about trading options since your losses are capped, it seems like your strategy of trading quality stocks caps your losses

Your losses may be capped but you have to risk a lot more money more often with options to make decent profit. No thanks.

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Post by tunesmith »

marviel wrote: post #368
tunesmith wrote: post #113

I have a creative writing site that lets authors write branching fiction novels together. It's stupid fun, we have Discord/Zoom writing events Sunday nights where we try to write chapters together (usually around 500 words) and read them to each other. It existed years ago and made some advertising money, and then I shut it down because of spam problems (since solved). I brought it back to live because of COVID. I'm…

I really love this idea, and would love to try it out.

I dropped you a note.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by gabrielrdz »

joelrunyon wrote: post #6

I built https://startablog.com - we set up free blogs for people. I also have a mobility/coaching app that I've actually done an interview or two about but it's started to take off this year - https://movewellapp.com

I think I recognize your name. You had a motivational website or blog, Impossible things or something like that?

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Post by jcun4128 »

phreack wrote: post #382
jcun4128 wrote: post #250

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> how much both Apple and credit card providers have a chilling effect on freedom of nudity in entertainment - it's appalling As in good or bad? they're blocking/enabling?

Really bad. For example, if you want to have push notifications on an iOS app, there's no way to do it via a website or a PWA. And there's no way of sideloading an app at all for nearly all users. So then the App Store is your only way, which means you must not ever dare have any kind of nudity in your app, since that's an instant rejection during reviews, particularly if you're an indie dev. So I was basically force…

Dang wasn't aware, thanks for the info

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by jcun4128 »

lpellis wrote: post #413
jcun4128 wrote: post #247

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Sounds like an Android app would be hard to maintain no? With regard to how many devices/os versions come out... not sure if you bother with that?

I've only had to update it two times to fix bugs with android upgrades,so all in all not too bad. Google did once randomly pulled my app without warning (just an email after they pulled it) for violating some terms, without stating what terms. I couldnt get any useful feedback, eventually I just bumped the version number and rewrote the description, that got met back on the store. But it did make me very weary of bui…

wow that's messed up pro/cons of centralized app stores

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Post by dguo »

antoniomtz wrote: post #282
dguo wrote: post #273

I got tired of reading bad READMEs and made https://www.makeareadme.com/ on a whim. Over the past few years, it has climbed up the Google search rankings. It's usually in the top three hits for "readme" now. I serve developer-focused ads with CodeFund (and Carbon as a backup when CodeFund doesn't have an ad available). I get about $45 in revenue per month. Hosting costs are $0 because it's just a static site served f…

How many visitors do you have per month?

About 37,000 per month, according to Google Analytics. The actual number is probably quite a bit higher, since I assume programmers use ad blockers at a high rate.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by lance_klusener »

abc126589 wrote: post #30

My app Twitter Archive Eraser ( https://martani.github.io/Twitter-Archive-Eraser ) used to be free, then I added a donation button and people, while barely donated, used to say that this is something they would have paid for! I worked on a paid tier (learnt a tremendous amount about actually selling an app, integration with payment processors, licensing, more legal stuff than I wanted to etc.) Almost from the get go,…

Now a twitter user, and hence a basic question - 1. This app lets user select a bunch of their tweets and delete them?

Question - Does something like this exist for Facebook?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by dguo »

gkoberger wrote: post #275
dguo wrote: post #273

I got tired of reading bad READMEs and made https://www.makeareadme.com/ on a whim. Over the past few years, it has climbed up the Google search rankings. It's usually in the top three hits for "readme" now. I serve developer-focused ads with CodeFund (and Carbon as a backup when CodeFund doesn't have an ad available). I get about $45 in revenue per month. Hosting costs are $0 because it's just a static site served f…

Ah, my SEO nemesis! Really, though, your site is awesome. I just emailed you about sponsoring it, if you're interested :)

Haha thanks! As soon as I read the first line of your comment, I knew you must be from ReadMe.
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