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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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https://pinkpigeon.co.uk Who'd have thought that a CMS could still make money in 2024, but this one is around £500 a month. It obviously doesn't pay the bills or the mortgage, but it works. All my clients are word of mouth, I do not advertise at all (a combination of costs and insanely opaque / fractured advertising models by Facebook and co...I don't have time to get a phd in your ad platform to see if any of my mon…

Thank you for deliberately not cooperating with Satan!

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

#592

I built a service that tells you whether your team's website/API or cron jobs are online, or not. It's called OnlineOrNot: https://onlineornot.com Coming close to 4 years of operation!

Started using this to check Namecheap hosting uptime claims, has worked well for me. Keep up the good work!

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

#593

I have developed about 20 mobile apps for the KaiOS ecosystem, which does around $500-$750 a month. I also run https://monitorprices.org , which is just a list of available monitors on Amazon, but provides a bit more filters. Does about $125 a month, maybe double if there’s a creator reward campaign running. Nothing splashy or exciting really, but it gives me motivation to keep trying things.

This is interesting. Why did you pick KaiOS? If money was the goal, I guess iOS and Android would make more, isn't it?

How does the development process feel like?

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

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I run https://pastmaps.com as a lil' solo bootstrapped labor of love. Think Google Maps, but for OLD maps. It has 185K+ fully georeferenced high-res maps covering all of America, as well as satellite, LiDAR, and 3D layers to enable exploration through space and time. History is cool yo. And apparently lucrative - it currently makes ~$5000/mo and is slowly but surely growing through word of mouth

What do you make money from? Map sales?

I haven't tested, but in addition to map sales there's a subscription option, for more features https://pastmaps.com/plus?src=header

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

#595
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Just launched Story Treasure a way to create illustrated children's books, motivated by the fact that I'm a portuguese dad raising two bilingual girls in Germany... very hard to find portuguese books around here! https://www.storytreasure.ai/

This is impressive. I'm working in an adjacent space and one thing that has been a challenge is character consistency -- having characters in AI-generated art appear reasonably similar across different image generations. Your implementation looks to do a solid job -- any learnings that you're willing to share?

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

#596

I’m building Sink It for Reddit ( https://gosinkit.com ), a Safari/Chrome/Firefox/Edge extension to make Reddit usable on the web. It’s similar to RES (Reddit enhancement suite) but supports all of Reddit’s designs and is being actively developed with around 300k users, mainly on the Apple platforms. It was built during the Reddit API shenanigans last year and is making four figures a month. 99% of the app’s feature…

Any chance there's an android app planned?

Also, wondering if an edge extension is in the works too. Most chrome extensions work directly on edge but some don't.

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

#597
I built https://runjs.app because I wanted an easy way to run JavaScript and test out ideas. It turned out that a lot of other people wanted the same thing.

The first version was free and very basic. After getting a lot of suggestions and feedback from the people using it, I added more features and introduced a freemium pricing model.

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

#599

I built a service that makes sure your forms are always working — no more lost leads due to something breaking. Currently bringing in over 1k/mo: https://formtester365.com It fills out the form as a human would (daily or on whatever weekly schedule you want) and then confirms it was received. It currently supports Gravity Forms on Wordpress due to their API for confirming submissions, but a new version that supports…

Does this spam their inbox? How do you mitigate that?

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

#600
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

TIL a "rolling tray" is a tray designed specifically to aid in rolling joints.

Took me a couple of minutes, a google search, and then another couple of minutes to understand what a "rolling joint" is. (not native English speaker)

I'm not sure you got it, because you referenced it as a noun, not a verb.

Rolling is the verb, the joint is the noun.

Rolling a joint is rolling a cigarette, except with marijuana.

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