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Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#51

https://standupjack.com is a side project I started earlier this year on my own. It's making more than $1k/mo now :-)

Very nice looking website.

FYI, you have a typo in the FAQ: "Can I change the time I get asked for an update?". I think "change my time" should be "change my settings".

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#53

https://basketball-gm.com/ is a basketball management sim video game (sorta like football manager), and it makes more than that from ads.

This is brilliant. May I ask you a question? I assume you are not using real team names or real players. If you are using real names, how do you handle the licenses? Sorry, not a baseball enthusiast hence could not figure if your team / player names are real.

Yeah, that's the reason I don't use real players :)

A lot of similar games simply ignore the law and pray they don't get sued (or that the publicity from a lawsuit would actually be good).

But I do have support for uploading custom leagues, and people have made them with various real leagues like the NBA https://github.com/alexnoob/BasketBall-GM-Rosters/releases/t... and the Philippine Basketball Association http://www.mediafire.com/file/1e8cq2l3rrndln5/PBA-GM-2016.tx...

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#54
post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

53.0.2785.143 on OSX 10.11.3 is fine. Perhaps an extension is throwing it off?

Same blackout issue for me. OSX 10.9.5 Chrome 53.0.2785.116

I just updated to 10.11.6 like the original reporter (thanks for that, Apple stopped nagging me I guess?) and still can't reproduce it on my end. Does it do it for either of you in incognito?

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#55

https://standupjack.com is a side project I started earlier this year on my own. It's making more than $1k/mo now :-)

cool, id actually been thinking of looking for something like this as we do standups but now with an international team spread across timezones a phone based one isnt really practical

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

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I started Hacker Paradise as a side project in 2014, and now we're a full-time team of 3. We organize trips around the world for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who want to work remotely while traveling. People pay us to organize housing, accommodations, and community events wherever we go (past speakers have been CIO of Estonia in Tallin, Matz in Tokyo, etc.). Happy; to answer questions about running more o…

I am currently on the trip in Jeju. Hacker Paradise is great. Highly recommend.

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#58
I made two TypeScript videos for Pluralsight ("ES6 with TypeScript" and "Practical TypeScript Migration"). I put them together in the evenings and weekends using the knowledge I got at my day job and from working on TypeScript open source projects like grunt-ts (and a lot of research).

It was a lot of work, but it's a great passive income now that they're done, and I'm quite proud of how they turned out. The Pluralsight authors are a great professional network to be plugged-in with, and being an author is a pretty unique differentiator on your resume.

I'm going to put together a third course soon.

They're always looking for new authors. https://www.pluralsight.com/teach

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#59

I made http://feeder.co , a Chrome extension to simulate Firefox's RSS live bookmarks back in 2010. Now it has 500,000 active installs on Chrome and our cloud hosted service is netting around 1500 USD each month after costs (1700 subscriptions). Me and my twin brother have had it as a passive income thingie for years. After a failed attempt at selling it (SaaS metrics are NOT easy) we met a guy who saw some potential…

Still interested in selling?

Re: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

#60
You guys are making cash off your side projects? Jeez. I usually just release them for free. I should get in on this.

...Assuming that I ever finish a side project.

...And that I ever come up with a side project somebody would pay for.

Neither is very likely.

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