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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 Irongirl1 »

vneur wrote: post #642
duck wrote: post #415

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Looks like a fun game, I'll pass that on to some climber friends. Curious - where did you get the cards printed at? Working on a card game myself, but have been putting off researching that much after getting overwhelmed with options.

Depends on scale. For our initial play-testing I bought a bunch of plastic card sleeves and regular playing cards, and then printed out the 3"x5" game cards on my home printer. The playing cards are to make the card sleeves stiff and this way you can really quickly swap out your cards while play testing. For prototyping the box and the demo copies we tried a few different print shops that operate in the US. The easie…

Can I ask a dumb question...why didn't you use one of the print-on-demand providers like Printify? Costs? Or something else I haven't even considered?

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

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Post by Irongirl1 »

syndacks wrote: post #110
tjbiddle wrote: post #77

I don't know if I can even call it a side-project any more. I stopped working professionally 3 years ago. Bought an e-commerce business that was making ~$2k/mo profit and ran it on the side while I had my DevOps job. That project has now turned into ~$30k/mo profit, and I've bought two more e-com businesses that average ~$10k/mo between the two - these are early and I expect them to scale up once I smooth out a few b…

If you don’t mind me asking, what are the e-commerce sites? Also, how does one get into such a business? Were you interested in this space beforehand or did you simply acquire a business that looked promising?

I'm looking at this course from ryan kulp:

https://www.microacquisitions.com/how-to-buy-small-companies

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

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Post by Irongirl1 »

AdamJMarsh wrote: post #351
chevman wrote: post #166

I work in a large corporate/enterprise company doing marketing/tech work. Started dabbling in freelance consulting/paid interviews and found I can easily get in the $500-$1,000/hr range. So, been doing a few sessions a month and earning a couple thousand in extra cash. Not bad and met some interesting folks/companies in the process!

What are these paid interviews?

Like this: https://expertopportunities.com

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

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Post by Ir0nMan »

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…

How much did the initial connection for yourself cost?

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

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Post by balls187 »

Benjamin_Dobell wrote: post #361
balls187 wrote: post #274

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IANAL, but trademark infringement? I mean, can anyone write a "For Dummies" book? To clarify there is a series called XXXX For Babies.

"For Dummies" is a registered trademark ( https://search.ipaustralia.gov.au/trademarks/search/view/626... ). "for Babies" is not, at least I can't find one. Honestly, I don't see how "for babies" could be trademarked since it's a literal phrase describing the product. "For Dummies" is not used literally. That's not to say generic words / phrases cannot be trademarked. Just look at Apple. However, trademarks for a gen…

> Honestly, I don't see how "for babies" could be trademarked since it's a literal phrase describing the product. "For Dummies" is not used literally.

Neither is "For Babies" specific to the series I am describing. The book series is not for babies, as far as I am aware, very few, if any, babies are capable of reading, let alone fully understanding stories that are read to them.

"For Dummies" effectively means using laypersons language to convey complex topics more easily. Not, as you said, to literally mean the readers are of low-intelligence.

Likewise, "For Babies" effectively means using language, images, and story telling to convey complex topics more easily to young children, not just for literal babies.

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Post by Irongirl1 »

nickjj wrote: post #810
jimmer22 wrote: post #805

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Looks really cool. Would love to read a transcription of the conversation if you have one. Otherwise will check out the audio later.

There's no exact transcript but every few minutes or so has a 1 sentence summary with clickable timestamps to quickly find points of interest.

This will make transcripts, pdfs etc for you:

https://designrr.io

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Post by tmaly »

clxxx wrote: post #778
tmaly wrote: post #771

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I am curious to know how you use ffmpeg for editing? I have used it to slice up videos I recorded in batch.

I use it extensively in a program I wrote out. I have it automatically trim out silence in front and end of clips and combine it with an algorithm to detect mistakes and take them out. Then it zooms in and out of clips and attaches pictures to create slideshows and adds transitions and cover pages etc based on a text file that gives instructions. Here’s the channel if you’re curious: https://m.youtube.com/c/rareliqui…

do you use something like ffmpeg-python or just shell out?

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

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Post by Ir0nMan »

chadash wrote: post #574

I help elementary schools place students into classes. classplacer.com. This involves some clever algorithmic work and turns out to be a very interesting mathematical problem. I only work with two schools since I don’t have time to expand this and I’m right around that $500/month amount but it’s more like $6k-ish per summer. It still requires some active attention on my part but maybe 10 hours of work per summer sinc…

This is the same way Bill Gates got his start.
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