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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

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Post by faxmeyourcode »

nicksergeant wrote: post #420
abetusk wrote: post #406

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do you mind going into what web stack you use? What about businesses that want online payments?

Sure! When I started 5 years ago, I had a single Django + Wagtail app that hosted all websites on a single monorepo/deployable. For the few sites that needed interactivity I just used vanilla JS. We actually do have a few sites that we've done some custom Stripe integrations for so they can accept payments online, but it's very minimal/simple. About a year and a half ago I began moving everything to Next.js, and have…

I've wanted to do something like this for years. I might have to actually stop fiddling with the idea in my head and give it a real shot in 2025.

I'm curious - how does the design process go? Do you propose a design, do they usually have a pretty complete vision or do you have templates that they can take inspiration from?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by rvrs »

idoma wrote: post #381

I buy & sell pixels (hats) in a video-game - Team Fortress 2. I'm currently making $10k-15k per month; I'm one of the largest sellers on the game's main third-party marketplace ( https://marketplace.tf ). Less of a side project and more of a part-time job, since it's ~4-6 hours of work per day.

What does your dealflow look like? Do you usually trade smaller unusuals into larger ones or are you just flipping big-money unusuals? How do you get the deals?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by mfiro »

Jabbs wrote: post #30

https://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 project! What steps did you take to address the legal implications of scraping from different websites?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by idoma »

rvrs wrote: post #802
idoma wrote: post #381

I buy & sell pixels (hats) in a video-game - Team Fortress 2. I'm currently making $10k-15k per month; I'm one of the largest sellers on the game's main third-party marketplace ( https://marketplace.tf ). Less of a side project and more of a part-time job, since it's ~4-6 hours of work per day.

What does your dealflow look like? Do you usually trade smaller unusuals into larger ones or are you just flipping big-money unusuals? How do you get the deals?

I buy ~$2,000 of items per day from a handful of places (advertising, bots, listings, quicksells).

I sell _anything_ that I can buy at a reasonable margin, but that trends down towards a ~$50 average.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by high_byte »

com-adm wrote: post #773

https://www.comicsmaker.ai Its a service where users can create comics using AI generated artwork. Love creating art and writing software so it's a passion project for me. Haven't done any marketing yet, its mostly organic search traffic.

this is really nice. what's your MRR? do you know anifusion?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by coldtrait »

duck wrote: post #114

Still running https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years and 60k+ subscribers. It has been hard to put a lot of focus on it the past couple years, but been finally getting some time to spend on some improvements there. Income here has always been simple sponsors which I'm very grateful for.

For whatever reason, UBlock origin on Edge messes up the email content and somehow hides it. No issue using Firefox which also has UBlock origin running.

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

outime wrote: post #128
duck wrote: post #114

Still running https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years and 60k+ subscribers. It has been hard to put a lot of focus on it the past couple years, but been finally getting some time to spend on some improvements there. Income here has always been simple sponsors which I'm very grateful for.

Congrats! Time to update the © years? It may look abandoned to the newbies.

Or just remove it because who cares?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

JoeMattie wrote: post #80

I built the frontend for https://rigged.ai We do statistical processing and breakdown of options sweep data, and generate realtime alerts that people can use to copy trade big Wall Street traders. We also have a strategy playground you can use to test different strategies that could be used for a trading bot.

I didn’t see a pricing page on the homepage, what’s your pricing model?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by thegabriele »

GaryNumanVevo wrote: post #32

I 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…

How is that you promote Gary Numan.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by sunnybeetroot »

yakhinvadim wrote: post #142

I made News Minimalist — a news aggregator where all news is ranked by significance on a scale from 0 to 10. The ranking lets readers select a "significance threshold" and ignore all news below it. It's making close to $1000 MRR now with all money coming from premium subscriptions: users can personalize their feed with category/country filters, block topics and get access to news summaries. https://www.newsminimalist…

Congrats on this, I’m a subscriber from the early days albeit not a paying one but it’s amazing to see you are bringing in revenue.
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