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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 grwthckrmstr »

I have 2 passive income generating projects!

1) I created a course called Learn Programmatic SEO. It's an excellent intro to SEO for someone new to the field, and it teaches the SEO approach through which companies like Canva, Zapier, Veed/Kapwing and others grew their search traffic to become $10-$100mn+ ARR generating companies.

https://preetamnath.com/programmatic-seo

The course was made in Feb 2021, I spent a week crafting and editing the content but the learnings came from before it. I've done almost no marketing for many months now and I still average $500-$600/month, completely passive income. Lifetime income from the course is ~$20,000.

2) I created a habit tracker spreadsheet which earns $50-$60/month, again completely passive.

https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-template

The template is really simple and easy to use, and I believe it can make more. I built another site called https://www.dailyhabits.xyz and I'm planning to drive some traffic from it to the habit tracker spreadsheet to grow revenue to $200-$300/month. Let's see how that goes!

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

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Post by l33tc0de »

dt3ft wrote: post #503
Farbklex wrote: post #499

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is moderation and abuse of free hosting for malicious purposes an issue for you?

It was not an issue this far, but if it gets more popular, it may become an issue. I am not actively promoting it though.

I'm curious, do you store the files on s3 or something else? How costly is it?

I'm working on an image hosting side project and wanted to know. Thanks

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

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Post by jonwinstanley »

melonbar wrote: post #739

I mine Bitcoin in my basement :) two Antminer S17+ 73T/hs makes me almost 1k a month profit!

What’s your electricity bill like?

With all the chat about crypto mining I always wondered if it would double/treble a household’s bill, or is it actually more reasonable than that?

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

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Post by RedBeetDeadpool »

espadagroup wrote: post #60

I designed a healthier men's dress shoe and was able to gain close to $100K in preorders in a Kickstarter this past September; https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/oaka/oaka-the-worlds-he... . Hopefully it doesn't stay a side project for too much longer, fingers crossed.

I always wanted to create/design my own physical product. Where can I go to learn how to get a product manufactured?

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

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Post by madisvain »

I built and sold couple of open source API's I built and am now working on a new one that combines them together to make a complete API product for VAT compliance.

https://vatcomply.com https://github.com/madisvain/vatcomply

The idea is that you can geocode, show exchange rates and validate VAT numbers all from the same API.

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

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

lbrito wrote: post #733
deanmoriarty wrote: post #511

After reading all this, I admit I feel kind of silly for working so hard (50-60h a week on average) to earn my Silicon Valley FAANG comp. I am wondering how much survivorship bias is at play here, some ideas look relatively simple compared to the amount they bring in. Or maybe one really has to take the leap of faith and trust that there is demand for virtually anything? Maybe it’s not so simple, my partner opened a…

Honest question: why not leave FAANG/SV, take a relaxed remote job of maybe 30h/week and live in a low-cost, warm and cosy Mediterranean city (since you mentioned you're from Europe that shouldn't be a problem)?

I think you just told me my retirement plan :-) Thank you

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

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Post by drakonka »

I have one: I self-publish science fiction on the side. Although it isn't consistently $500 per month yet. Sometimes it is a bit more, other times less. The income goes up as I build up my backlist, but usually it is a spurt in the month of release that then trickles down to a lower baseline. With each new release, that baseline gets a little higher.

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

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Post by marginalia_nu »

tpoacher wrote: post #723
marginalia_nu wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that spirit, search.marginalia.nu makes me about $70/month. Hardware investment is about $4-5k, plus a few hundred hours of development time. It was never intended as a means of getting rich though, so I am very grateful for the support.

I just visited your website, and had fun in the "small internet" sense. Thanks :) I was very surprised your pages had a .gmi extension but were actually normal html. Then I figured your "memex" engine probably automatically translates gemini content to html and doesn't bother changing the extension (which in retrospect is more of a feature than a bug). Very nice. I noticed your search engine is not available on gemin…

Yeah, the memex straddles both protocols, and the urls are the same save for the protocol. It's essentially a single user wiki based on git and gemtext.

The search engine is available on Gemini, just not at that address. Try gemini://marginalia.nu/search

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

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Post by clove »

I wrote a bunch of study materials and practice tests for passing the Chinese language exam equivalent of the TOEFL in China. It was doing well for several years, but the site broke (or was hacked) suddenly and is now making zero dollars. I have no idea how to fix it, but the business was completely passive aside from sending out the study materials, which were all digital.

Essentially, I'd get a purchase and have the files sent to the customer, costing me a couple minutes for the $20 or so from the sale. About one sale per day equates to around $500 a month.

The site is/was https://hsktests.com/.

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

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Post by peanut_worm »

czue wrote: post #289

I have two! An app for making wedding place cards that does about $1000/mo https://www.placecard.me/ A boilerplate for making SaaS apps with Python/Django that does $5k/month (highly variable) https://www.saaspegasus.com/ I also have a third that does around $150/mo. It's an app that adds analytics to GroupMe which is a WhatsApp alternative. https://chatstats.co/ I keep complete revenue and effort data here if you're…

Where did you get the art for your place card business?
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