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

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

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kitecourier.com - the end-to-end certified mail platform that makes sending legal notices as easy as sending email. Revenue is very spiky. Some months ~$10k, some ~$100. Inspired by this Patrick McKenzie thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7135833 Certified mail is weirdly powerful leverage. I decided to productize that.

That's original. How'd you come up with an idea for that?

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

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How does this compare to Trainer Road?

TR's "AI" claims are a bit of a stretch. It basically just monitors fatigue and will ramp down a prescribed workout to ensure you don't overtrain. The workouts themselves are templates chosen from a list and do not adapt to the rider as an individual. It plugs in a standard periodization schedule with flexible dates. Repth uses AI for everything with a few guardrails. You pick a peak date, describe your peak event, w…

How did you promote it? I find myself in the same market but for planning based on route weather and fitness conditions w/ https://brezza.cc - It is very hard.

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

#454

I’m still selling Computer Engineering for Babies. And I just launched a new book called Simple Machines Made Simple on Kickstarter a month or two ago. Both books are basically just simple interactive demos for kids and adults. https://hackylabs.com

Thank you! As it has become popular at baby showers to bring a book I always send my partner with the original 2. We have probably gifted 5 or 6 sets now.

We are excited for the next version.

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

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I love your website. I stumble upon it again every other year and I'm always amazed by the quality of the content and writing. I was reading your articles on my Windows Mobile phone, ages ago! Have you also had a decline in traffic in the last 18 months? It seems like the entire independent web is getting strangled out.

Thanks! We had our 20th birthday earlier this year, so we've certainly been around for some vintage devices. Over the years our primary audience moved from desktop web browsers to mostly mobile readers, and now our largest audience is podcast listeners. Site traffic is indeed down in recent years. The largest decline was when Facebook introduced "boosting," and stopped showing our posts to 90%+ of our Facebook follow…

I love this site - have you considered monetizing with like e-books or other offline offerings, if you don't already?

Also, your traffic might not be counting those of us like myself who use an RSS feed (a la Feedly) - those links don't go to your site, they just go to, well, the link. =)

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

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Is it representative of the regular difficulty because if so it... doesn't bode well for me. The concept is really cool though. I like it!

Thank you! It's a pretty normal mid week puzzle. They start easy on Monday and get harder towards Sunday. But don't be afraid to use hints to get started with the game! It gets easier with time!

Hi,

When one clicks on 'Play tutorials', the text at the bottom reads :

>Start by follow the instructions

Should be 'Start by following the instructions', I believe?

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

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Disclaimer: I haven't make any money, YET. I recently open-sourced my first ever tool! and I'm super excited about it guys It's an HTTP request replay and comparison tool in Go. You can replay real traffic, compare multiple environments, detect broken endpoints, generate HTML/JSON reports, and analyze latency It’s currently at v0.4, so I’d love any feedback, suggestions, or ideas for improvements. (Be gentle, I haven…

I think you should better post this separately, e.g. as “Show HN”. It’s off-topic for this thread (hence, I assume, the downvotes).

probably, yeah. That's okay :)

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

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Thank you! It's a pretty normal mid week puzzle. They start easy on Monday and get harder towards Sunday. But don't be afraid to use hints to get started with the game! It gets easier with time!

Hi, When one clicks on 'Play tutorials', the text at the bottom reads : >Start by follow the instructions Should be 'Start by following the instructions', I believe?

Indeed! Thank you, fixed!

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

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https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ 26.3% of jobs found on company websites are not advertised on any job boards but found using this tool. The app scrapes company's directly (24/7) and give the user: - a head start over other job seekers - access to thousands of jobs not listed anywhere else - daily job filter emails with ability to be highly curated to reduce noise

1. What is the churn like? Don't people cancel after finding a job?

2. Has any company objected to scraping?

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

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What's your source and/or quality of the financial data? How much do you cover? What data fields do you provide?

I fetch those from 10-Q forms through an internal scraper I built. The response is quite big, you can check it out here: https://www.quantiq.live/docs

Nice! Makes me wonder how many other businesses are possible to build, on top of govt data.
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