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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

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Post by macaskar »

dubme1 wrote: post #338

I run https://aliveai.app a large uncensored (i.e. adult) AI image and video generator. It started as a small side project but slowly grew every month and recently exploded to well over 50k USD revenue per month. It's fun to have a large community of paying users but honestly I never thought out of all my side projects this one will make it. I am still a one man show managing everything from development, marketing, c…

wish you a good exit and return back to days when you did that: "I miss the days where I can just sit down and code a nice feature that people will like"

Thank you for the post. It once again reminded me how important it is to choose a pet project that aligns with your personal values.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by tonixx »

binsquare wrote: post #182

I run a keywords research tool, it scans posts across social media sites like bluesky, mastodon, hackernews, etc. KeywordsPal.com It's actually super interesting the technical aspects to scan 50k posts a day for as cheap as possible. I write about it here: https://keywordspal.com/blog/building-multi-platform-content... I also built it as a result of being unsatisfied with f5bot

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by xk3 »

I make between $400 ~ $600/mo between these two:

Disk Prices on eBay - https://unli.xyz/diskprices/

Digital Film Stock - https://unli.xyz/digitalfilmstock/

Both are very similar... just a lot of regex (200+ expressions) to parse eBay item titles and descriptions

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by jyotibishnoi »

emil-lp wrote: post #152

So, if these posts come at the same time each year, and IDs are consecutive, then year,id 2025,46307973 2024,42373343 2023,38467691 2022,34190421 2021,29667095 2020,24947167 2019,20899863 2018,17790306 2017,15148804 And the delta is year,delta 2025,3.9M 2024,3.9M 2023,4.2M 2022,4.5M 2021,4.7M 2020,4.0M 2019,3.1M 2018,2.6M Has HN peaked?

Unclear until you also count comment count on the threads, because number of posts is consistent but engaging with the posts may have gone up

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by markdown »

jotaen wrote: post #202
markdown wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Intel macs only?

Not OP, but it looks like the wording of their downloads page ( https://videohubapp.com/en/download/ ) is slightly confusing: - Clicking “Demo” (for macOS) points to the 3.2.0 ARM version - Clicking “Intel Mac” points to the 3.1.0 (!) Intel version The Github release page appears to list all available versions: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App/releases To me, it would have been clearer to avoid the “Demo” bu…

Hey thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by yboris »

combyn8tor wrote: post #118
yboris wrote: post #7

Occasionally $500/month, but more reliably $300/month in sales of my Video Hub App - lets users browse, search, tag, and organize videos on local / network drives. Aiming to have an 8th anniversary release February 2026. $5 per copy (Windows, Max, Linux; keep forever) https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source (build your own copy) https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Curious how you manage licensing?

When a person buys, they get the download links in the mail; the installers work without any license keys, so buy once, use forever.

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Post by yboris »

huhtenberg wrote: post #262
yboris wrote: post #7

Occasionally $500/month, but more reliably $300/month in sales of my Video Hub App - lets users browse, search, tag, and organize videos on local / network drives. Aiming to have an 8th anniversary release February 2026. $5 per copy (Windows, Max, Linux; keep forever) https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source (build your own copy) https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

A bit of unsolicited advice - * Focus on Windows users. Windows desktop share is 10x that of Mac and nowadays Windows users pay almost as willingly as Mac ones. * Charge several times more. * Redo the website. In particular get rid of 3D slant and on-hover animations, put larger high-res screenshots, explain each of them well (and not in gray on gray text), put up "Windows / Mac / Linux" in bold friendly and highly-v…

Thank you for all the suggestions! I like them and will try to implement at least a few in the coming year (I end up spending more time towards other exciting projects like writing a sci-fi novel and DIY remodeling my house).

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Post by Cremiant »

skwee357 wrote: post #145

I 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…

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Post by infiniteAdmin »

dubme1 wrote: post #338

I run https://aliveai.app a large uncensored (i.e. adult) AI image and video generator. It started as a small side project but slowly grew every month and recently exploded to well over 50k USD revenue per month. It's fun to have a large community of paying users but honestly I never thought out of all my side projects this one will make it. I am still a one man show managing everything from development, marketing, c…

Hi dubme1, ping me info at "eez" + "ness" dot com, re: convo on sale options.
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