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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 jonwinstanley »

clxxx wrote: post #698

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 reve…

Can you also commercialise the program you wrote to cut down the editing? Surely that’s a valuable product even if it’s for a niche type of video

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Post by holgersindbaek »

alexmingoia wrote: post #584
holgersindbaek wrote: post #552

I make $10.000+ on a solitaire website called https://online-solitaire.com/ , that I made a while back.

Do ads show up after you play? I don’t see how it’s monetized.

Ads pop up after 5 gameplays.

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Post by jonwinstanley »

wonderwonder wrote: post #609

Have a saas I built for a large company to manage their marketing and advertising. Deployed about 8 years ago. Two employees, myself and my brother. Built it in php, and javascript and was the first web based app I had ever built. Got paid about 150k to build it and then we have been netting ~$2500 a month (we then split it 50/50) for the last 8 years. No upgrades or additional work done. Most months all I do is send…

Sounds like you had a decent run. Is there a way to make it more general and onboard new customers?

Or somehow find companies that have the exact same need?

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Post by sundarurfriend »

majani wrote: post #672
3np wrote: post #424

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I can not find it now, but I recall reading a post from the (former?) founder/owner of a coffee company. His goal was to have an ethically justifiable supply chain, free from slavery and human exploitation. Or at least less of it. His conclusion was that this is impossible and became very disillusioned that due to various reasons he would not be able to not be part of the problem. I found this when searching but I’m…

In my experience living in a poor country, most of the issues brought up against globalized supply chains are either made up or sensationalized by people in developed countries who lack perspective. Low wages? Actually they are a really good entry-level option for people doing rural-urban migration. Expensive middlemen? They serve a purpose in the marketplace and smooth out logistical inefficiencies. Greedy multinati…

> In my experience living in a poor country, most of the issues brought up against globalized supply chains are either made up or sensationalized by people in developed countries who lack perspective.

Agreed. It's also being heavily used to put a thin humanitarian sheen on what actually boils down to racism/xenophobia - not in all cases of course, but to a significant extent.

> I could go on and on... bottom line is, globalized supply chains aren't broken and don't need fixing

I wouldn't go that far, I'd say instead that they're not particularly more broken/unethical than pretty much anything else in the business world, but are easier for media to point fingers at and sensationalize without getting into much trouble from businesses.

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Post by LunaSea »

schnebbau wrote: post #512
seanwilson wrote: post #47

This grew out of a side project of mine: https://www.checkbot.io/ > Checkbot for Chrome finds SEO, speed and security problems before your website visitors do. Test 100s of pages at a time for broken links, duplicate content, missing titles, invalid HTML/CSS/JavaScript, insecure pages, redirect chains and more. I started working on it for myself to help automate common checks I was having to do manually when working…

This looks like a slam dunk. You're only making $500/month from this?

There's hundreds of apps doing this do assume that what is missing is a differentiating feature.

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Post by jonwinstanley »

exikyut wrote: post #253
binwiederhier wrote: post #39

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This is really cool. Thank you for sharing. It's kind of shocking though that 1 million downloads equals "only" $500 in ad revenue. I would have expected a much higher value. May I ask what the install base is?

TIL the number represents how many times an app has been (re)downloaded, not how many active users it has! Makes perfect sense really... especially considering it's so easy to assume "downloads" = "users"...

Does that include updated versions too? So 10 updates would count as 10 downloads for a single user?

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Post by markvdb »

Graffur wrote: post #596
parmezan wrote: post #588

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Impressive dude. Also from a security perspective don't forget to update those very out of date nginx webservers :) My tool detects version 1.10.3 which was released on 31 Jan 2017

What tool do you use?

wget -S ?

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Post by vram22 »

blunte wrote: post #482
AussieWog93 wrote: post #469

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>I’m hoping I can soon employ my little sister to manage all the shipping. Be careful about this. It changes the dynamic you have, and can cause issues if you hire non-family in future. Same applies for close friends.

It adds more complexity to relationships, but it can also keep families/friends closer because they have more shared goals. There are some cultures where family businesses, where most members of the family work and participate, are the norm. Quite a huge population of people operate that way.

>There are some cultures where family businesses, where most members of the family work and participate, are the norm. Quite a huge population of people operate that way.

Yes. Among Indian comunities, Gujaratis (particularly the Patel sub-community who own the majority of US motels, the Ambanis - Reliance group, big) and the Marwaris (some big Indian businessmen among them, like the Birlas, Ruias, Goenkas), are examples of this.

Possibly Kashmiris (handicrafts shops), Punjabis and Sikhs (auto parts shops, dhabas, etc.), Bunts (a Karnataka sub-community, Udupi restaurants), and Chettiars (gold and jewelry shops, money-lending, trading abroad) too.

And I am only writing about those I know about. There could be others too.

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Post by vram22 »

WastingMyTime89 wrote: post #585
AussieWog93 wrote: post #486

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I would be interested to hear other founders' first-hand experience with this. In my experience, hiring my younger cousin for occasional work during school/uni breaks has been great, but involving close friends looking for work has been disastrous 3 out of 3 times.

My parents worked with my grand parents before taking over the business and I have occasionally worked with them through the years. You don’t really hire family members. They join you in the family business. It’s a different dynamic but I t doesn’t really cause issue because the family business has always been a part of our family life. The frontier between personal life and work is very blurry but that’s nothing unu…

Yes. And I have read a few pretty interesting novels in English about such business families, from the time I was a kid.
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