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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by Jabbs »

stuckkeys wrote: post #49
Jabbs wrote: post #30

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search…

What are you using to for the scraping? Playwright…selenium? I wanted to do something as a hobby but my IP kept getting reported lol. Also when you say companies…where are you getting the information from? Data brokers? Anyway, it is an interesting topic to me.

Selenium, although I'm using a wrapper library that uses it. I only query each company every few days or so which probably helps to not get banned IP-wise but also rotate them. But many of the company job links are through external sources too (lever, greenhouse, etc.) which don't seem to mind

The company data was gathered online for a long time until I found https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/ (which now is the source for much of that data)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by MeetingsBrowser »

henrygabby wrote: post #25

Unsexy tech business making roughly $6-7k/mo. I partnered with a local janitorial company that targets industrial clients with recurring nightly cleaning needs and I make roughly 7% of gross revenue as a recurring weekly payment as long as the client stays on w/o much work. I help do some client support, SEO, and pay for things like Apollo.AI to reach out to customers but other than that it is pretty hands off. I fee…

But what does the business actually do?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by lubujackson »

tikotus wrote: post #19

I'm making a physical product with my wife: an illustrated narrative puzzle magazine. It's similar to escape games, but it's more story driven and easy to do in short sessions and at your own pace. It started with my wife making the first magazine pretty much by herself. Since then we've made more magazines together and the business is slowly growing. We're selling them mainly on our custom lightweight online store.…

Just bought a set for my kids who are currently obsessed with escape games and puzzles in general. Looks like a huge win for long car rides/airplane trips!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by LarsDu88 »

https://roguestargun.com

Solo Developed VR starfighter combat sim for Quest, PCVR, and soon the PICO4

Meta, send me a free Quest 3, please.

Would not recommend doing a game, let alone a VR game as a sideproject for anyone

My day job is Machine Learning engineer, so I really should've picked an AI sideproject facepalm

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by lbhdc »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #32

I made an AI chatbot for OnlyFans models. Their fans can speak to "them" via a third party messaging app. It's currently pulling ~15k USD MRR. I built my own GPU infra for inference and I run Llama 3 with a fewshot prompting to get the model to respond like a given OF model, typically using their actual DMs with fans. I don't have a website for obvious reasons, but if you're in the biz you've no doubt heard about my…

Can you describe your GPU setup? I have been super interested to get some coloc space, but have a ton of questions.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by inide »

joshstrange wrote: post #34

It’s not really MMR but I have a side business when I provide software for online and in-person festival payments (entry/food/drinks). If you take the total revenue (or profit) for the year and divide by 12 I’m well over the $500/mo limit. I currently do 3 festivals a year which all pretty much fell in my lap, I’ve yet to start any sort of sales/marketing due to being busy with my day job/life and not wanting to grow…

This is pretty interesting! What hardware are you using for vendors? Kinda curious how you deal with the network aspect of it. Sometimes venues have low cell reception or flaky venue networks.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by M3L0NM4N »

epaga wrote: post #16

I made SmoothTrack, a no-equipment head tracking app for iOS and Android which lets you control the game camera in sim games (like MSFS 2024 for example) with your head - basically like TrackIR, just without any equipment and for $15 instead of $150. I originally made the app just for myself to save myself the money of buying a TrackIR system, but then /r/flightsim begged me to release it as a full app. Last month, I…

As a flight simmer, definitely going to check this out.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by giancarlostoro »

goenning wrote: post #10

I did not like any Kubernetes UI so I built my own https://aptakube.com It went from side project to my primary job in less than 6 months. Everyone was saying that $99 was too much for “an API wrapper”, but here we are, 2 years later and with hundreds of small to enterprise companies using it :)

That UI looks nice, do you blog anywhere about tech you used to make it?
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