Last August I bought 6 small work platforms/mast lifts at an equipment auction and sold them in FB Marketplace for an extra $1000 each after expenses. Cleaned them up a bit, but that was it! I’m bidding on 5 more this week, should be an easy $5k arbitrage.
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
#682https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search…
Great site. Small feedback: There's a category 'Closure'-- I'm not sure if that's something I don't know about, but it definitely isn't for jobs using 'Clojure'.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#683I made an AI chatbot for OnlyFans models. Their fans can speak to "them" via a third party messaging app. It's currently pulling ~15k USD MRR. I built my own GPU infra for inference and I run Llama 3 with a fewshot prompting to get the model to respond like a given OF model, typically using their actual DMs with fans. I don't have a website for obvious reasons, but if you're in the biz you've no doubt heard about my…
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#684https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search…
Great site. Small feedback: There's a category 'Closure'-- I'm not sure if that's something I don't know about, but it definitely isn't for jobs using 'Clojure'.
Oh wow that’s not good, thank you so much for pointing that out!
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#685Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess it is survivorship bias, but I’d never be one of the survivors if I don’t even try. I have an Etsy product, Christmas tree ornament, has made about $600 gross last year and another $400 or so this year… It’s not much but now I have an Etsy shop with 5 start reviews all across. Planning to make a few more non-seasonal products and see where I can take it. But, I also have a graveyard on my GitHub! I guess the…
Makes sense. One of my projects is bound for etsy. How do you find selling there? I also have the distinction of publishing a halloween item on cults, but a month after halloween ended, so I am waiting 10 more months to see if theres any interest.
I quite enjoy selling stuff n Etsy. The products and buyers there are not on a race to the bottom for the absolute cheapest thing (maybe it is so in things like shirts or mug or whatever) but instead I see the buyers as people expecting and unique thing that resonates with them.
So I think the key is unique and then using keywords, videos and Etsy ads are not bad to get some traction, even for a brand new store
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#687I am currently running an application in Korea that analyzes the results of sports Toto matches. I earn approximately $500–550 per month through in-app purchases.
This business model is somewhat limited, so I am considering other services.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tistory.dd...
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#688I own an escape room business with one, two-part, room and it does about this or much more in some months.
The problem is, unlike so many examples in these threads, this business requires every available minute of my time so it’s a little more than I bargained for. Plus there is a brick and mortar location, city regulations, etc.
You gotta REALLY love the hell out of this business to do it at all, let alone as a side project.
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#689Created a simple and cute iOS app for tracking baby teeth — makes about 1-2k EUR (after Apple’s cut) per month since five years. getbabyteeth.app Last year a couple of copy cats showed up, but they missed the part that people actually value in the app: the visuals. It‘s a simple webapp, wrapped in Expo, but highly polished to make it look and feel native to iOS. Last year we added a second app, written in Swift and S…
> Do you have an idea why it‘s not interesting abroad? Is keeping kid’s baby teeth considered normal behavior in Germany? It’s considered a bit bizarre in US. I have a 6 year old and very much in this market but simply have zero interest in the entire premise of logging and keeping this info and the teeth themselves. The tooth fairy is our main tradition and I think most people are happy to dispose of the biohazard w…
Isn't it for tracking baby teeth development? Nothing about physically collecting the teeth.
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#690I built a Figma to Bubble.io converter, basically Figma to code but for a nocode platform. Niche, but something that I personally needed so figured others may find value as well. I charge a flat $25/mo, and based on the Figma design it significantly speeds up my development in bubble. Been hovering around $1.4K MRR, only real spend is ~$15/day google ads which has yet to pay for itself, but I keep telling myself its…
I used to work for a company that did Bubble.io development including custom plugins. A very... cheap community of devs haha. No one wanted to spend money on much of anything in our experience.