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Re: Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?

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Post by dvko »

kirso wrote: post #434
dvko wrote: post #304

It’s definitely not my passion but in 2013 I built a WordPress plugin around the API of a popular newsletter service and it’s been paying my bills ever since. Still going strong at €36K per month excluding VAT. There was (and still is) a huge market where non-technical people are looking for a GUI around something a programmer would find very simple (and usually too boring to work on). More so if the tech surrounding…

Second www.microacquire.com you might find more buyers there. Would snap it in a heartbeat!

Had never heard of it until it was mentioned here. Do you have any personal or even third-hand experiences with it?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?

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Post by srr1 »

LiquidPolymer wrote: post #220

Probably not relevant to the younger set here on HN: I became obsessed in the late 90’s with using a camera to photograph subjects and events that are hard to observe with the naked eye. (Examples include: spotted bats photographed in flight, or red tree voles that only live at the tippy top of Doug fir trees, or nocturnal genets photographed in arboreal habitats). I loved the challenge of the work. I grew up poor. S…

You remind me of Maurice Frydman .. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurice_Frydman

Re: Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?

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Post by LeanKhan »

tobinfekkes wrote: post #370

Startups, and tech in general, are becoming more of a tax than a help. Just like North America (and largely Europe too) outsourced its manufacturing know-how to cheaper markets, labor, resources, and regulations, we're outsourcing all our business logic, day-to-day functions, and IP to cheaper and cheaper SaaS products. Sure, you can get setup quickly, but it will get torn down just as quickly with deprecations, no s…

What do you call this kind of all-round software that runs these businesses? Is it just traditional ERP software?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?

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Post by Mushhh »

jldugger wrote: post #420
Mushhh wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We spent a long time analysing the terms and conditions and we couldn’t find anything that applied to our business. Asking directly where we broke terms was no hope, because none of which they cited applied to us either. We wouldn’t go back to card payments if we could. We save a fortune by paying 0% processing fees, have more control and are protected by a regulated UK bank instead of companies like Stripe or PayPal…

Bro, you're selling drugs on a "for science only!!!!" basis that is purely a fig leaf. IDK the controlled substance laws around Psilocybin but this is definitely a gray area at least.

Maybe take some time to read before making silly accusations like that.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?

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Post by jldugger »

Mushhh wrote: post #445
jldugger wrote: post #420

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Bro, you're selling drugs on a "for science only!!!!" basis that is purely a fig leaf. IDK the controlled substance laws around Psilocybin but this is definitely a gray area at least.

Maybe take some time to read before making silly accusations like that.

Well, I googled the phrase "microscopy spores" and the first hit was a webpage that first defines the term to mean "observe under a microscope" then warns customers that the cultivation of psychoactive mushrooms is illegal in many places in the world. So at the very least, your competitors are pretty much implying that one _could_ use "microscopy spores" for cultivation, and I imagine the majority of customers are expecting to do so.

And hey, maybe you in particular have cracked the code in how to ship spores in syringes that only inject into slides and not say, a prepared cultivation point. But I am 0 percent surprised payment processors noped out.

Re: Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?

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Post by c0rtex »

Fredej wrote: post #286
twodave wrote: post #132

Software consulting. You’d be surprised how many little businesses out there have a need for custom software. I make about $60-70k/year in my spare time (maybe 10 hours/week) doing everything from adding features to legacy products, building brand new applications and even simply conducting technical interviews. It’s also pretty nice to work on something besides the usual thing at work, experiment with new/different…

I do that same thing. Earning around $100 an hour, and I can do as many hours as I want, whenever I want to. I do this on top of my full time job, so I usually do a few hours at night or a weekend day here and there. That's similarly in the $60-70k extra per year. What I do is embedded software for medical devices though, so beyond building there's a lot of documenting, reading documentation adhering to standards.

I'm looking to do exactly this. I'm currently doing embedded software for aerospace, so somewhat similar with regards to documentation and standards (it's critical software, just not human safety related). Can you share how you found the work?

I'm also curious to know how you can do small quantities of hourly work in this field rather than take on projects that would require much larger time commitments. Are you just consulting as a domain expert or something?

Re: Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?

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Post by mtnGoat »

xcubic wrote: post #431
mtnGoat wrote: post #371

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Create it. Otherwise it’s just SEO spam, IMHO.

Never meant in that way. Do you create it? Got someone to do it for you? Also, how do you pick topics for websites?

I usually write it myself based on topics I am learning about or already know about. Or topics where good qualities of reference data is available for free use that can be spun or joined.

Review sites also do very well. Build enough of them, create a PBN and sell links as a secondary revenue source.

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