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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by kouteiheika »

CobrastanJorji wrote: post #435
kouteiheika wrote: post #35

I'm running a website for people learning Japanese and currently making ~$590/month from Patreon donations: https://jpdb.io/ This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working publicly for the past year. Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959

Really neat! Business-wise, is it meant to compete with sites like Wanikani and Bunpro, or is it meant to be more complementary?

Eventually it's meant to have enough content/functionality to be a replacement for both.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by halpert »

rozenmd wrote: post #156

I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/ I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it. Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime a…

How did you acquire your customers?

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Post by astroalex »

uptown wrote: post #431
astroalex wrote: post #158

I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically generated posters of my art: https://spacefiller.space/prints This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.

Curious who you use for printing. I've got an idea I'm working on with poster-sized output that I'd like to tie into a printing/shipping API if possible.

I used printful.com. Their matte prints are surprisingly high quality.

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Post by mgz »

ghostbrainalpha wrote: post #358
mgz wrote: post #144

I built an app to control what my kids watch on Youtube: https://kidstv.family Makes $1500/month

How long did it take you to build this? Do you do any advertising?

It is a hobby project for 3 or 4 years.

No advertising except for $20/month for Apple Search Ads… I guess I should advertise more.

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Post by greengrassi »

evanlivingston wrote: post #318
joshgachnang wrote: post #226

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Oh my gosh, I love this. I even love the name. My fiancé and I were even talking about how we wanted to move the house towards more "invisible technology" (magic mirrors, things like this, maybe the Frame TV if we get a good deal and figure out a good spot for it, etc)

Recheck the frame tv. I wanted one until I realized it's just a thin tv thats motion activated to stay on/turn on and show a static image.

How does that differ from what it is advertised as, or from what you expected?

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Post by riantogo »

insaider wrote: post #445

I make $3-5k a month with my golf betting algorithm: https://www.golfforecast.co.uk I'm a data scientist/software engineer and I started the project 5 years ago as part of my masters thesis. Never intended for it to be gambling-oriented but that's just the best way to monetise! Questions/feedback appreciated - cheers

In the UK are you able to straight up create a gambling website/app? As an example, could I create a blackjack app and accept/payout money using, say, paypal or stripe? No other hoops to jump through?

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Post by eximius »

asaddhamani wrote: post #223
eximius wrote: post #9

https://hoppy.network Hosted WireGuard as a Service with static IP assignment.

What’s your server location?

Only Chicago right now. We'd like to expand when the economics makes sense (there is a bit of a chicken/egg problem there where we definitely lose some potential sales by not providing the region folks want - but we need sufficient saturation to pay for the new deployment).

My advice if you want to use our service but in a region besides Chicago: use our service and email us the region you'd prefer. In the mean time, the extra 20ms round trip latency probably won't bother you and we'll let you know when we expand in the future (and your voice will help decide where!).

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Post by eximius »

pyuser583 wrote: post #482
eximius wrote: post #9

https://hoppy.network Hosted WireGuard as a Service with static IP assignment.

Is this a VPN? How does it compare to, say, NordVPN?

Yes and no.

It is more like we provide you a network interface that, instead of being plugged into your modem for Comcast/AT&T/etc, it's plugged into a datacenter.

You get a public static IPv4/IPv6 connection with Reverse DNS - just located somewhere else.

Making your machine publicly routable is the primary use case (e.g., for email, web, whatever you want if you have trouble with NAT/CGNAT or simply don't want your home IP associated with the service), but it also encrypts your traffic between your PC and our datacenter such that your ISP can't snoop - which is not to say we're a good privacy solution - that is not what our product is designed to do.

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Post by jbirer »

I am working on a multiplayer adult metaverse game that's running on two blockchains, and so far it has earned me over 1000$. https://coomiverse.xyz

I guess it will leave the side project status once it gains even more traction but for now I consider it a side job.

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