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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by niftylettuce »

TheHippo wrote: post #243
niftylettuce wrote: post #9

Forward Email is doing several thousand per month now just one year in. Site: https://forwardemail.net Open Startup: https://forwardemail.net/open-startup

Don't determine the users language by the country the request is coming from. My browser wants English, despite me being in Germany, so don't show me the German page. The good thing though was that besides the language selector nothing else was translated.

It actually doesn't determine it by the country the request is coming from.

How it works is fully documented here: https://github.com/ladjs/i18n#i18nmiddlewarectx-next

1) Check URL (e.g. if /de or /de/ then it's a de locale - as long as de is a supported locale)

2) Use the custom function (if provided by the detectLocale parameter) for locale detection

3) Check the "locale" cookie value (or whatever the cookie option is defined as)

4) Check Accept-Language header

Regarding nothing being translated, there was an issue with our locales folder sync and that's being resolved soon!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by niftylettuce »

tomaloner wrote: post #66
niftylettuce wrote: post #9

Forward Email is doing several thousand per month now just one year in. Site: https://forwardemail.net Open Startup: https://forwardemail.net/open-startup

Super cool. How do you prevent your sending from ending up in spam folders?

We're working on Spam Scanner because we weren't happy with rspamd nor SpamAssassin or any other archaic or non-trivial closed-door tech. See https://spamscanner.net for more!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by mendigou »

dsinc wrote: post #491

I run a micro ISP providing gigabit internet access to around 100 businesses that does around $4.5k a month. It started by accident when I got a connection for myself and then shared it with others. My landlord then expanded and invited me to offer it to more units so I made the platform self serve which means apart from initial install it's pretty hands off. Not enough to live on but good side income while I launch…

This is awesome. I'm not from the US but will move there soon and seeing how the internet connections around the area where my partner lives are absolute c*p, maybe this would be an option?

Can I reach out to you somewhere? You can also write to at Gmail.com if you don't want to publish it here.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by _3u10 »

nlh wrote: post #634
Kaze404 wrote: post #591

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The screen following getting their card should be a page letting them know you aren’t onbaording new customers, their card hasn’t been charged and you’ll let them know when you’re taking on more customers (eg. The product is built) If a website did this to me they'd also be getting a very angry e-mail and zero recommendations from me.

Yup agreed 100%. I see this often as a suggestion for testing your project hypothesis and I think it’s a terrible idea. Starting your relationship with a customer by misrepresenting your state of development is bad advice.

They aren’t customers as they haven’t bought anything.

Second not spending hundreds of thousands to millions in dev on a product with no market vs having to buy a new domain because your site went viral and you now have millions of bad reviews. (Hint: this never happens) Is great advice.

There’s also other ways to do it, my friend was creating a course so I got her to do all the marketing first, set a date six months out and used the proceeds of the first sales to fund development.

What I’m trying to get at is to verify sales you need to get people to put their money on the line.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by AussieWog93 »

louwhopley wrote: post #599
AussieWog93 wrote: post #390

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The short answer is outsourcing. The logistics are covered by a mixture of Amazon FBA (USA/Canada) and a Chinese 3PL company (all other countries). The only orders I handle myself are the Aussie ones, as well as large orders to overseas universities. I try to keep at least 6 months' work of stock at any time spread across multiple locations. Given the way social media and online communities work, sales tend to be ver…

Do you mind sharing who’s doing the PCBA? I’m looking to get a similar sized electronics project into production, but don’t know how to vet suppliers.

I use stg-pcba. If you're just getting your toes wet, though, I'd look into PCBWay.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by ARandomerDude »

silexia wrote: post #669
ARandomerDude wrote: post #429

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Great comment, thank you! I've been thinking about a similar approach. > I partnered with the guy who helped me build a fence to start a landscaping company. How did you identify him as a reliable candidate for a business partner? Would love to hear more. Thank you!

What I like most about my partner is his humble attitude, desire to learn more, reliability, and hunger for a better life for his family. He had done lawn mowing and some landscaping for several years prior, but the primary work we are doing now he had not done before. I strongly think the best opportunities for side gigs that make a lot of money are in the construction trades. Providing a service that people despera…

Great response, thank you!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by [deleted] »

Kaze404 wrote: post #591
_3u10 wrote: post #518

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Why not pay someone to develop your side project? More importantly if you want to put survivorship bias on your side, never develop anything until you have a working sales funnel. Put $1000 aside a month on a design and site for your idea, followed by a marketing person w/ a budget. The screen following getting their card should be a page letting them know you aren’t onbaording new customers, their card hasn’t been c…

> The screen following getting their card should be a page letting them know you aren’t onbaording new customers, their card hasn’t been charged and you’ll let them know when you’re taking on more customers (eg. The product is built) If a website did this to me they'd also be getting a very angry e-mail and zero recommendations from me.

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by clxxx »

It’s hard to call it a side project because it became my highest revenue stream now after a year of building it, but I started a youtube channel with a friend. However, given that I put in less than 6 hours a week on it (working less and taking a smaller cut of profits), it still feels like a side project.

We started in January and are now at ~30k a month and growing steadily. Our revenue streams are split by ad revenue, patreon, sponsorships, and other various income split somewhat evenly. It took a year of working with seeing no profits, but now we are growing at a steady pace and just hired our first employee (an analyst, we are a finance youtube channel)! We see it more an an e-learning company with youtube as it’s main marketing base, as we are building out career courses (for investment banking and MBA stuff), a newsletter, and sites for helping people with their investments.

I’m the editor, and I vastly cut down my editing time by building out a program that does most of the editing for me using ffmpeg to automate 80% of the work. A video that might take 8 hours to edit only takes me 2 hours, and I think thats the biggest reason it feels like a sideproject still because of the optimized workflow.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by bener »

Hendrikto wrote: post #456
bener wrote: post #214

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What are you mining? If it's ETH, what will happen to your rigs after the upcoming changes?

He said he uses NiceHash, so he mines whatever people pay him to mine, not a specific currency.

As far as I was aware, nicehash focuses on mining ETH at the moment and pays in BTC. At least that's what the default was for my setup.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by alexellisuk »

leros wrote: post #170
alexellisuk wrote: post #3

I started an OSS project to enable me and my team to receive webhooks at a big co where Ngrok was banned and so was SSH. It works over an HTTP proxy using websockets. One of the requirements I had was for 1st class container support - so it could be run inside a K8s pod and support LoadBalancers for TCP traffic as well as HTTPS. The OSS project was very popular, but drew very little sponsorship. I then pivoted to a c…

Can you share the product? I'm curious.

Sure:

https://inlets.dev

And the docs:

https://docs.inlets.dev

Subscription only, companies can buy a static licenses if required.

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