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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 akudha »

kmoser wrote: post #423
windowshopping wrote: post #402

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How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.

Not OP but I have two solutions for this: 1) find an existing site and mimic their design, or 2) hire a designer

You could also do something in between - buy ready made templates and customize them. It is easier than mimic-ing and cheaper than hiring a designer. Something like https://tailwindui.com/

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

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Post by joshstrange »

inide wrote: post #58
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.

Vendors just use their own smartphones and use our app to scan customer’s QR code to charge them.

As for the network we rely completely on the cellular network. We use an extremely small amount of data (a tiny fraction of what an image a user might be posting to FB/IG/SC/etc would be) so unless the networks are completely down we can manage without issue.

We check out venues/grounds/etc for cellular reception/speed ahead of time to make sure we are a good fit for a festival to try and avoid internet connection issues.

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

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Post by firefax »

pkkkzip wrote: post #147
firefax wrote: post #120

I play Texas Holdem. It's not enough $$$ to be a full time role, especially considering the costs of purchasing health insurance w/o a traditional W2 employer, but it's perfectly possible to buy in for the the table max (500) and leave with between between three hundred and a thousand dollars in profit in ~8 hours of play. (Real life, not online. "Caro's Book of Poker Tells"[1] will aid you more than fancy math, thou…

wrote a lengthy paragraph on the perils of online poker then i realized you were doing it offline! are you playing in the casinos? US I assume? tell me where the fishes are young man!

>tell me where the fishes are young man!

It's hard, because the bad players tend to play what is termed "loose aggressive" -- so you have to play less hands, and often they get lucky with crap like catching a flush draw or three of a kind, and they only play 1/2 or 1/3.

For privacy reasons I cannot give my specific location, but I've had good experiences at the Golden Nugget's 1/2.

(Unfortunately there's not much of a wall from the casino and I'm sensitive to smoke, so I didn't last long before getting a migraine -- maybe they'l outfit themselves like a dutch hostel with one of those big air sucking machines oneday)

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Post by fm2606 »

greenie_beans wrote: post #281
fm2606 wrote: post #245

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I think it does. How did you get your farmer network set up? Reminds me of https://www.vidaliaonions.com/ . The guy who started that bought the domain before he knew what he was going to do with it.

I copied him. His HN post from 2019 is what planted the seed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19728132 I'm from Mississippi and know some small farmers but none of the big sweet potato producers. "Mississippi Sweet Potatoes" coming from the "Sweet Potato Capital of the World" has always been a strong branding in my head growing up, just being near the influence of that. It's not hard to get their wholesale but I…

I have read of other people getting customers/orders before actually having the product in place.

But my doomsday mind has a hard time shaking what happens if you can't follow through? Is it as simple as refunding the money?

A simple, stupid question with probably a single answer but that is where my mind goes when I hear people doing things this way.

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Post by firefax »

apt-apt-apt-apt wrote: post #273
mettamage wrote: post #172

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How is it not enough $$$ for a full-time role if you make 1300/2 = 650 per 8 hour session? Is it because of CA?

OP may be highly skilled and disciplined, but the implication here is probably a bit exaggerated. Assuming he is talking about buying in a full $500 at a $3/5 table, that's 16 big blinds an hour (16bb/hr x 5usd/bb * 8hr = $640), which is a god-tier rate in the long run. For mere mortals with less skill and patience, it's also possible to lose the same amount the next 8hr session, resulting in a net zero for two days…

Also, you get fatigued after ~5 hours, it's hard to play well for long stretches and if you make a bad all in it takes a while to make up for it.

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

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Post by firefax »

greazy wrote: post #213
mettamage wrote: post #172

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How is it not enough $$$ for a full-time role if you make 1300/2 = 650 per 8 hour session? Is it because of CA?

My guess: events are not frequent, at least not in the above commenters neck of the woods. Travelling costs money, so they stick locally.

I play cash games, sit and go. Tournaments are much harder and become shove fests towards the end.

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Post by qup »

nadermx wrote: post #326

Made https://www.pdf.to since one day I had an issue with a PDF and figured why not since the domain was available. But because previous owner had it as a book torrent site, only gets traffic via Bing as it seems to be blackballed in Google

I believe this saved my ass once. Thanks!

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Post by jonkratz »

qup wrote: post #599
jonkratz wrote: post #571

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?

The input data is predictable, so it can easily be filtered out by a rule.

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Post by nicksergeant »

greenie_beans wrote: post #584
nicksergeant wrote: post #420

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Sure! When I started 5 years ago, I had a single Django + Wagtail app that hosted all websites on a single monorepo/deployable. For the few sites that needed interactivity I just used vanilla JS. We actually do have a few sites that we've done some custom Stripe integrations for so they can accept payments online, but it's very minimal/simple. About a year and a half ago I began moving everything to Next.js, and have…

interesting. i love wagtail + django. sounds like you like your choice to switch to next?

Wagtail is amazing! It did everything we needed and more. My primary frustration was in building reusable server-side rendered components and "interactive islands" (as popularized by Astro). The Django/Jinja templating language can be pretty verbose and difficult to parameterize reusable functionality. I found myself constantly doing this:

``` {% with field|contact_label as label %} {{ label }} ```

(the "with" templatetag)

Over time these templates just became very difficult to work with. Part of that is likely also because I've been a full-time React dev for the better part of a decade, and I'm just faster with it.

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