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Nice! Thanks.
how do you get customers?
Just inbound for now. We haven’t really launched yet. Most customers find us on bing.
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
#482Cold call training aka 'exposure therapy' https://coldcallgym.com Just a call a number and practice a cold call with a bot. People seemed to like it when I built it so I made a free and paid tier. Getting like 3-5 new users per day without really doing anything.
This is pretty unique and amazing. How are you marketing this all the way to $500/mo.?
Thank you. I'm not doing any marketing at all. In fact I noticed about a third of the traffic comes from ChatGPT of all places. I guess that's just from the SEO. But users keep trying it out, maybe because it's really simple to start. Just call the number.
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#483I 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…
Very cool. Love how simple it is, no bullshit.
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You probably need to add some visual indicator that the generation is ongoing. A progress bar is ideal, but those can be hard to feed with real data.
Thanks! I wanted to implement something like that, but it's difficult to predict the progress since it's depending on how many requests are being handled in that exact moment, but it never got past 25 minutes, not even during peak hours. I am thinking of adding a modal saying that you can close the page and you will get notified over email when the photo generation is ready (the email part is already there).
Doesn't have to be accurate. Just always set it to 30mins if it will never go past that. Most people will be pleased it finished sooner.
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#485Been doing a YouTube channel on Python for Finance for quite a while and make some affiliate revenue: https://youtube.com/@parttimelarry
Jesus, 130k++ subscribers, WOW!!!! This is a huge success!!! Im also in this field, never thought that you could collect so many people on this niche topic! If you say: some affiliates - think about getting a sponsoring partner for some B2B stuff, and speak the advertorial by yourself(!), one slot per one video/show. In my country we have a small but good&nerdy startup podcast run by two guys - they do advertising th…
haha, getting downvoted for applauding someone who built a successful product, while I judged based on my own professional experience?
:-))
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Do you think it will become more difficult to make money on such services due to AI getting better and better at coding? Like, wouldn’t that make it easier for people to create competing services? Or do you think this effect is counteracted with AI also opening up for new opportunities for creating services that would not otherwise be feasible pre AI?
That headshot project looks completely AI generated. The landing page is a full-fledged AI template.
You mean the frontend? What makes it entirely AI-generated in your view? Even if it were, would that be a problem for you or you're just envious?
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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.
Haven't promoted it at all, beyond having a marketing site live on the web with competent SEO. I should say, it's not hugely popular or anything. But considering that I only built it for my own needs, I look at it more as art than craft. In that way, it can only be a success.
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#489Still doing https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years thanks to many of you.
I subscribed last december after knowing about it in last year's version of this thread. It is great and gives a very good summary of the HN week, I love it!
That is great to hear, thanks for being a subscriber!
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#490Microlandia - 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 ma…
I'm curious, what happens if you allow much more unlimited zoning to begin with in a city? Do you have ways to model decreasing regulatory burden for new development?