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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

#831

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

This is a solid, great-looking website! 10k is an impressive number. How old is this website?

The website is 3-4 years old now I think. I implemented ads around 1.5 years ago. I really didn't think there was money in banner ads anymore before then actually. I sure was wrong!

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#832

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

$10.000 per month?

Yup... you can read more about my journey with the game here: https://sidehustleschool.com/episode/1767/

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

#833
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I make $10.000+ on a solitaire website called https://online-solitaire.com/ , that I made a while back.

The default autoplay option is too eager, I had ace of spades but 2 of spades was hidden. I couldn't move 3 of spades anywhere to reveal the card under it as the other stacks were autoplayed up to 5 already.

Thanks for the feedback. You can change the autoplay option under settings.

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

#834

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…

PHP app with no upgrades in 8 years? Jheez, that sounds like a black hat hacker's dream...

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

#835

I've been drawing pictures and publishing them as desktop wallpapers for ~20 years now, selling Vlad.studio accounts with unlimited access to downloads [0]. In 2021, I earned $4761, which means ~$400/month. It's not horribly little amount, especially for Russia (where I live), given it's a side project. However, I feel I need to do something more active, rather than just drawing new pictures. Promoting and marketing…

I love your artwork, some of it reminds me of this style that I have bought prints of https://www.mateo-art.com/ You need to add the option to have prints delivered like they do!

Also, on your site it took me too long to realise that the 'next page' image was a link.

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

#836

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…

Can you outline what aspects did you set out to improve for each of the businesses?

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

#837

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You sacrificed much for your money. What's your exit strategy?

I don’t have a clear plan for the future, right now I’m just accumulating assets until I get to a point where I can feel financially unbreakable. I might be getting there in ~5 years with some substantial luck, or never if shit hits the fan. I decided a long time ago that I won’t have kids (not for financial reasons), so there is not much urgency in my life beside the itch to get back more personal time. Current drea…

You can already start living your dream with a remote 30-50% load job.

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

#838

I have about 6 years of applied AI experience and I have been trying to work on something that can use that experience and be useful to others. Ended up building an analytics based platform that uses data analysis techniques to generate trade ideas for retail investors [0]. Started it as a hobby July 2019, but it ended up growing quite big. The plan was to generate about $1k/mo but we are generating about $120k/mo th…

Where do you get your data from?

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

#839

I own 4 shares in the S&P 500. I developed trading strategies to sell my shares and buy them back at key points using Fibonacci retracements. Best business ever. And if I leave it it still makes money. I’m nowhere near $500/month but learning to trade simply has taken me years and I’m very proud of my smol accomplishment.

Have you automated the strategy? What APIs do you use to pull real time market data and execute trade orders?

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

#840

I built an API/IAAS (sort of), https://approximated.app , to make it really easy to connect end user's custom domains to any web app. It offers automatic SSL for unlimited custom domains and subdomains through dedicated reverse proxy clusters. Each comes with a dedicated anycast IP address so that your users can point an apex A record at it and be geo routed to the nearest region of your cluster. You can add virtual…

So kind of a mini Cloudflare?

Sort of, yeah, but with a heavy focus on businesses who want to offer custom domains to customers of their own apps. For example, how Shopify lets you connect your own domain to their platform (not a customer, just an example).

Also a different business model (pay a monthly rate for servers in however many regions you want) with some different benefits and trade offs. CloudFlare SSL for SAAS didn't publicly exist when I started this, and it's economics ($2 per domain) still don't make sense for a lot of apps.

In the future, I'll probably look at whatever CloudFlare will have a hard time offering under their business models, and do those so that people have options. Even just the same features but with different pricing models can be really useful to companies with different constraints and goals.

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