Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

Post by dQw4w9WgXcQ » Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 6:39 PM UTC

Fermat963 wrote: post #153

Twitter Archive Eraser ( https://delete.tweets.app ) makes ~3K USD per month. I don't do any active work on it any longer for the past 2 years or so, other than the small bug fixes/when Twitter changes the archive format. Bracing for a shutdown to the API soon anyway. Past submissions on how it used to bring in $7k per month and a few technical details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23439606 (June 2020), https…

Post by yesthisiswes » Sat, Jan 28, 2023, 2:32 PM UTC

nargella wrote: post #361

yesthisiswes wrote: post #348

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’d love to know more about what went into finding and acquiring this tool. Looks pretty cool.

I used https://acquire.com/ in this case. I looked at maybe 80 companies just from the surface. Then inquired about 15-20 of them for more details. After about a week of thinking, zeplo wouldn’t leave my mind. There was one other close contender but zeplo was more present in my mind and had better metrics. From there it was letter of intent, due diligence, asset agreement, escrow, and asset transfer. Hopefully this h…

Post by kmenon » Tue, Jan 31, 2023, 8:47 AM UTC

mjaques wrote: post #32

I sell cheap but high-quality Anki decks for language learning: https://deckmill.com Created using a mix of automation (TTS, machine translation, etc.) and human reviews. Built it with a friend, making around $500 a month, very stable over the last couple of years. Spend 1 or 2 hours a month on it, mostly customer support.