Made this Amazon product ideas search engine: https://amalytics.com
Not sure where to take it next as there’s well funded competition and conversions/revenue have plateaued…
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#592I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/ I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it. Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime a…
> My trick for launching into 200 competitors providing the "same" service and still getting customers
I feel like this wasn't really answered. I think its just a big space and you market well and have a solid landing page.
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#593I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December. It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips. Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com
Whats an RTL job?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#594https://bruzu.com API to generate images on the fly. Sample https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN3
I have done this before, a bare bones example can be done easily in Lambda with GraphicsMagick and ImageMagick for node https://www.npmjs.com/package/gm see "annotate an image" example.
I understand your service does more that this. I map the POST JSON to GM params to allow the caller to do nearly anything GM CLI can do.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#595I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/ I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it. Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime a…
> My trick for launching into 200 competitors providing the "same" service and still getting customers I feel like this wasn't really answered. I think its just a big space and you market well and have a solid landing page.
I look at it from the perspective of having a successful React blog, having started writing consistently in 2020.
I have different experiences to others on the market, thus I resonate with some more than others.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#596This feeling when only I make zero profit projects without success :-)
you are not alone
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#597I sell random generators for Dungeons & Dragons games.
To be fair - I did spend full time on this when it launched but it’s been a side project for the last 6 months.
The sales fluctuate a ton but usually above $500 a month, almost pure profit and almost 0 hours work.
I have a plan to increase revenue this year by going all in on SEO
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#598My JavaScript screencast, letscodejavascript.com, made over $10K net profit per month at its peak. It costs $25/month for unlimited access to over 600 videos. I stopped producing videos in April 2018, but the site is still up, and still gets occasional new subscribers. (There's been an influx lately, in fact, and I have no idea why. Maybe because I have a new book out.) It's still netting more than $500/month, althou…
$10K/month to $500/month seems like such a big drop. Why do you think that happened? Because you don't upload new videos anymore?
It happened very gradually over the course of the show’s 6-year run. (Started 2012, last video 2018.) As for why, I’m not entirely sure, but I think that part of it was that people are more interested in tutorial videos about the latest tools, and my show was almost exactly the opposite: it was about design, creating maintainable code, and avoiding fads. So as the initial audience dropped off, I didn’t have the word of mouth marketing juice to attract replacements.
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#599Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is this a VPN? How does it compare to, say, NordVPN?
Yes and no. It is more like we provide you a network interface that, instead of being plugged into your modem for Comcast/AT&T/etc, it's plugged into a datacenter. You get a public static IPv4/IPv6 connection with Reverse DNS - just located somewhere else. Making your machine publicly routable is the primary use case (e.g., for email, web, whatever you want if you have trouble with NAT/CGNAT or simply don't want your…
Thanks! I’ll keep you in mind if I need such a service!
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#600I have a side business that does payment processing. I clear an extra $2k-$3k a month. Currently looking for outside sales reps while I develop open source payment options that aren't available yet. If you are a developer, good at sales, or want to try it, let me know.
link please