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Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#72A good old fashioned web site which ranks high for a resort town which has a lot of tourists who don't know where to eat so they search in the Google. My next venture is a run on sentence shortening service.
do you make money from the restaurants advertising directly or adsense etc?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#73I built and sell a collection of plugins for the Delphi IDE at http://www.twodesk.com. (Yes, people still use Delphi), for a consistent single-digit multiple of $1K each month.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#74I was making ~$3k/month with http://myapptemplates.com. Recently sold it. Now working on an ad tech startup.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
Have you noticed a decline related to the rise of AdBlock (and related)?
Interesting question. I read her post, checked out the blog, disabled Adblock but still didn't see any ads. So I disabled Ghostery as well and finally saw the source of her income. My initial thought was "who the hell clicks these ads?". I suppose the target group isn't people like me who use extensions Adblock and Ghostery. And people like me are (and probably most of you) - at least for now - a pretty small group a…
you don't have to click the ads to mean something. every time you see an ad you're most likely getting cookie retargeted as well, meaning the advertizers now can uniquely identify you across the internet. The next time you purchase something related to an ad you saw half way across the internet, she gets paid for showing you the ad.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#76I make quite a bit more than $1k a month from Duet - http://duetapp.com It's a project management app for freelancers and small businesses. Hopefully one day soon it will be more than a side project.
Good on you! Curious to know how do you market & promote the app, considering that project management is a very competitive/saturated market segment?
It's very difficult and I'm still figuring it out, but I get a decent amount of traffic from the free version http://getsoloapp.com.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#77A good old fashioned web site which ranks high for a resort town which has a lot of tourists who don't know where to eat so they search in the Google. My next venture is a run on sentence shortening service.
do you make money from the restaurants advertising directly or adsense etc?
Direct only. Our competition is tripadvisor, it a david and goliath situation, even though we specialize in just one area for one thing. My friend owns a similar site in a much larger demographic and makes a lot more, but be advised.. this works mainly because of salesmanship and ranking well, the per month hours are now very minimal (5-10).
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#78Kickstarted a Python course (now 2, soon to be 3 courses) - RealPython.com
Oh awesome, I backed both of your courses.
Wish I could say that I have had enough time to go through them both...
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#79I now blog at http://ta.gd/mypost no ads no nothing, it really just a feed for all things tech, also original post. About 3 years ago I had a news blog called alternative news daily which I sold for about 7 times revenue. My best day ever I took down 800 and change in a day.
It was during the bp oil spill ordeal, I heard Lindsey Williams on a talk radio show talking about all the toxic chemicals and gas the spill would produce, and how the worker were getting sick from it.
up until then I had never heard of anything like this in main stream news, so I wrote a lengthy article on it. A few days later guess what... The story was a hot item in main stream news! Not only did alternativenewsdaily.com have the top position in search, the distribution channels I submitted the story too made up the rest of the serps. Traffic poured in by the thousands and my ads were catching clicks like crazy. Later on the momentum wore off and I was drowned out by NYTimes, huffpost, and others, but that short time I was on top was freaking awesome.
I still have decent ranking blogs that I will try to post breaking news on as soon as I hear about it to try to get a jump on mainstream outlets, I monitor drudgereport for that, but I doubt I'll ever get anywhere close to that day traffic surge.
for a good laugh you may be interested in my post http://ta.gd/boyband how to start the ultimate boy band in 5 easy steps (no ads)
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Important to note: Missionaries are now discouraged from using backpacks, so a sidebag like this is great timing.
Tangential curiosity: Why discouraged from using backpacks?
The other aspect is that they actually want to discourage them from carrying so much stuff. They have many problems with back pain and the such. And like the other guy said, they want Missionaries "to look professional, and backpacks are not professional".