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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 PinkPigeon »

cdosborn wrote: post #632
PinkPigeon wrote: post #24

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…

> It's mostly about having low-JS, good SEO, easy access to information, which can be managed by very inexperienced users Nice! I shared in the parent thread about my tool which spell checks sites, it found a few small issues: https://www.spl.ing/report-card?website=pinkpigeon.co.uk&uui...

This is a brilliant tool, thank you very much for showing me. Bookmarked.

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

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Post by PinkPigeon »

yard2010 wrote: post #591
PinkPigeon wrote: post #24

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!

One can but try, but it feels like that's getting harder and harder to do these days...

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

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Post by VectorLock »

Traubenfuchs wrote: post #581
VectorLock wrote: post #569

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Viagra/Cialis or something else?

The pde5 menagerie has a few more now but I feel like there is little difference between them. Permanent tadalafil if you can stand the side effects, any of the others if you are suffering and want them to be over faster.

Interesting I never heard of ED meds of that nature described like more addictive drugs where "you take one freebie and you're coming back for more." Why don't people get them OTC instead of on the black market? Are you from a place where they're more illicit?

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

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Post by bennesvig »

nspeller wrote: post #116

I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives. It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos. I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that i…

I've wanted to learn Music Theory for about a decade (only learned guitar tabs as a teen and to read sheet music as an adult). Love what you made and just got the premium course.

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

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Post by arahman4710 »

gcanyon wrote: post #466
arahman4710 wrote: post #219

I built a tool called Canyon to help jobseekers land their dream job by helping them perfect their resume, be much faster at applying to jobs, and practicing with our mock interview tool. https://www.usecanyon.com/

My last name is Canyon -- do I get free access? :-)

Haha please check out the product and if it'd be very helpful for you, we can do it!

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

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Post by Soupy »

nicbou wrote: post #517
Soupy wrote: post #117

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?

It's currently 60% premium subscriptions to unlock advanced features (LiDAR layers for example) and then 40% for more traditional physical map print sales. I didn't intend to get into the physical ecommerce world with this but customers kept asking over and over again for ways to purchase the maps for display so I finally gave in last year. Figuring out the supply chain, shipping, graphics design process, etc has been a bit of a lift but fun to do. We have 2.2M unique product variants available so that's also been a bit fun to wrangle!

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

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Post by samteeeee »

zyx_db wrote: post #399
wtf242 wrote: post #354

The Greatest Books https://thegreatestbooks.org I created it in 2008 and have maintained and improved it over the years. I am trying to figure out how to monetize it more. I currently make around $2k a month. I just use adsense and have a paid membership feature through buymeacoffee. I get massive traffic and I'm pretty much the #1 result for anything related to best/greatest books. It's built with Rails and Postgres…

oh wow, ive actually come across this organically before. good job on seo!

same here!

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

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Post by galvanizednuts »

wesvance wrote: post #205

I built https://explorehere.app to help you learn about the history of the world around you by sending a push notification whenever you pass a new historical marker on your travels! It’s a freemium app with a pro subscription for advanced features; our revenue is just under $1k/month. We’re working towards ExploreHere being a passive adventure guide. As you go about your travels ExploreHere will nudge you about inter…

I was thinking of making something along the lines of this… good execution
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