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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by binwiederhier »

exikyut wrote: post #253
binwiederhier wrote: post #39

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This is really cool. Thank you for sharing. It's kind of shocking though that 1 million downloads equals "only" $500 in ad revenue. I would have expected a much higher value. May I ask what the install base is?

TIL the number represents how many times an app has been (re)downloaded, not how many active users it has! Makes perfect sense really... especially considering it's so easy to assume "downloads" = "users"...

Yeah I didn't know that until I had my own app in the Play store. It is quite surprising even though it says Downloads.

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Post by top_kekeroni_m8 »

asdev wrote: post #358
hayksaakian wrote: post #4

I run several amazon affiliate websites like https://www.hayksaakian.com Basically we find the top rated products and summarize why people might like them. It's nothing too fancy, and I got into it mostly to see if I could do it without investing more than 1 day a week into it and outsourcing the rest. I'm more focused on my main thing right now (marketing agency) so the side project's been pretty stagnant. It's real…

how do people make it to your websites? paid ads? seo?

looks like a typical SEO spam website that I would avoid

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Post by dt3ft »

Farbklex wrote: post #499
dt3ft wrote: post #445

My side hustle[0] brings ~$600/month. Not a whole lot but it covers the costs and brings a decent profit. [0] https://pdf2qrcode.com .

Is moderation and abuse of free hosting for malicious purposes an issue for you?

It was not an issue this far, but if it gets more popular, it may become an issue. I am not actively promoting it though.

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Post by dt3ft »

dubbel wrote: post #473
dt3ft wrote: post #445

My side hustle[0] brings ~$600/month. Not a whole lot but it covers the costs and brings a decent profit. [0] https://pdf2qrcode.com .

Interesting, how did you come up with the idea? I wouldn't have guessed that there is sufficient demand for something like this. Good job!

Thanks. The idea came up thanks to the pandemic. I wanted to make it super simple to make any pdf file reachable via qr code. I’m sure the market is a lot bigger, but I never really spent any significant effort on marketing.

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Post by franciscop »

czue wrote: post #289

I have two! An app for making wedding place cards that does about $1000/mo https://www.placecard.me/ A boilerplate for making SaaS apps with Python/Django that does $5k/month (highly variable) https://www.saaspegasus.com/ I also have a third that does around $150/mo. It's an app that adds analytics to GroupMe which is a WhatsApp alternative. https://chatstats.co/ I keep complete revenue and effort data here if you're…

I literally shared your /open/ page the other day, I find it very cool that you have a USD/hour and that for static-ish projects it makes sense that it only increases! That does put a lot of perspective, since I feel it's similar to some of my open source projects (minus the $) in that it just keeps on giving value.

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Post by chrismatheson »

gvv wrote: post #505

I invested 10k in PCS ( https://pancakeswap.finance/pools ) and getting around $460/month. High risk tho.

Just found it amusing, your description vs the tag line on the site "Just stake some tokens to earn. High APR, low risk."

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Post by sersi »

gnicholas wrote: post #256
serjester wrote: post #139

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Any takeaways from such a successful Kickstarter? Or helpful resources?

I launched a successful Kickstarter a few years ago. Getting press coverage is critical, but it's difficult to get press to cover something that isn't yet available. To overcome this catch-22, you can (1) have a product that is somehow attached to a current trend in the news, or (2) have enough progress that you can convince journalists that it's not vaporware. It also helps to have an existing network that would be…

Those marketing companies can also be a good way to give you the initial market reach with kickstarter so that later on, when you make your product available outside of kickstarter, you have an established customer base. It can be worth losing the profit of the initial run for this.
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