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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by i-dont-remember »

popupeyecare wrote: post #165

I’ve created Pixie, a platform to employ and track your kids work. For families with a business, it helps reduce tax burden and fund a child’s Roth. I’m a physician with some 1099 income, built the platform myself because my kids help with my side projects, and have since onboarded CPAs who now offer it to their clients. I saved 5k this year on my own taxes by employing my kids and it has funded their Roth. Soon afte…

This is neat, I appreciate that even if I can't use the service, i still learned something new about what's possible. Gonna keep it in the back-pocket for sharing with friends.

Also reminded me of when Justin Jackson talked about how he hired his kids for help with real projects and the positives from it https://justinjackson.ca/flipping-tables

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by nohillside »

huhtenberg wrote: post #262
yboris wrote: post #7

Occasionally $500/month, but more reliably $300/month in sales of my Video Hub App - lets users browse, search, tag, and organize videos on local / network drives. Aiming to have an 8th anniversary release February 2026. $5 per copy (Windows, Max, Linux; keep forever) https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source (build your own copy) https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

A bit of unsolicited advice - * Focus on Windows users. Windows desktop share is 10x that of Mac and nowadays Windows users pay almost as willingly as Mac ones. * Charge several times more. * Redo the website. In particular get rid of 3D slant and on-hover animations, put larger high-res screenshots, explain each of them well (and not in gray on gray text), put up "Windows / Mac / Linux" in bold friendly and highly-v…

Did you bother to look at the source code? It's Electron-based, so the effort for supporting more than one OS isn't very high.

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skwee357 wrote: post #145

I run a dead-simple, one-time, online fax service called JustFax Online[0]. While I don't have a recurring revenue as I operate one one-time payment, for the past months I have been consistently grossing over €500/mo. This also brings tears to my eyes, as I remember[1] browsing these threads and being amazed (still am) by all the people who make side projects and make money from them, and at the same time thinking th…

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by i-dont-remember »

I've been helping with a small portfolio of Slack apps under the brand https://happybara.io, including Nightowl (multi-DM broadcast for Slack, like BCC for email), and Channitor (channel management & auto-archiving).

It's been a really interesting journey making mistakes & learning from them. One mistake that made me feel foolish: I assumed no one would ever pay for one of the apps. A paywall was added "just in case" -> boom, customers almost immediately started signing up. I felt incredibly silly after that, especially for the number of times I've read on HN and similar sites "your work is valuable" and "charge more".

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by phaser »

Microlandia - The Brutally honest city builder.

I started making this game several years ago, sporadically, abandoning it for month-long periods, but after posting it here a few times in Show NH I got the encouragement I needed to publish it to itch.io, then to Steam.

This month it crossed the $500/month mark by far, but it was a long road to get it to a state where it can actually be an interesting enough game to make money.

https://microlandia.city

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by riku_iki »

GravityAnalyt1 wrote: post #163

Building version 3 of a front-end SaaS application that services proprietary models for analyzing securities, events/catalysts, etc. I am taking what I have learned from 5 years of users asking questions and basically redoing everything. This version will hopefully provide a bot free / pump free replacement for iHub, StockTwits, Twitter, etc. to people who manage money professionally or otherwise. Assuming I get more…

> www.gravityanalytica.com

no ssl?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by superfamicom »

Super Fine Cuts, super low run custom "vinyl" records. I have been working on automating some processing but currently it is all manual.

Had an overwhelming response as people are finding it mostly though ChatGPT which has been very interesting as I did a soft launch to friends only and no marketing.

https://superfinecuts.com/

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by LollipopYakuza »

dubme1 wrote: post #348
LollipopYakuza wrote: post #341

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Have you considered hiring someone to reduce the load of repetitive tasks?

For a while I was looking for a non-technical co-founder, but I found it difficult to find someone who is both skilled and motivated in the adult content domain. I am currently rewriting the user role and permission system with the goal of introducing a moderator role in the future that has limited, moderator-only access rights. At the moment, there are only admin and regular user roles. Even with this in place I am…

That's interesting! I didn't know this could be such a barrier. Is this because of the potential impact on mental health? Or just because people wouldn't like to be publicly associated with NSFW content in any way?

While job hunting years ago, I got approached by a company running adult websites. They seemed to be pretty relaxed about it and they were multiple candidates for the position. There were advertising through LinkedIn as just any similar small business.

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Post by Jeremy1026 »

I've been 3D printing accessories for the Volkswagen ID. Buzz since July. I started by modeling and printing a couple of things that I wanted, then added a couple of items that other owners have talked about on various subreddits and Facebook groups. I'm now moving about $750 worth of items a month. http://buzzprintco.etsy.com

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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crobertsbmw wrote: post #40
1-more wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bought probably 6 copies between the first and second. Love this book! First gets stuck in NOT mode sometimes but it’s chill.

Yeah, I’ve improved it a lot, but a lot of the books from the run I did 18 months ago get confused on the cover page thinking it’s open to the NOT page.

ooooh what was the fix? It seems so hard to rely on light for the page numbers! My niece was just doing "For Big Babies" in a dim room and my brother in law had to point his flashlight at it to keep it on the current page.
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