https://swordbattle.io
Nice! What's your tech stack here?
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
#92I'm making some money by putting all my nonfiction book notes on https://littlerbooks.com/
Nice! I thought about doing this at some point. Did you have to run ads, do SEO or anything to start to get traffic?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#93https://swordbattle.io
You make $500+/mo from that game?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
Funny, I've been thinking of building this automation for myself.
Cool! It's been super useful personally and hard to describe without sounding scammy because people don't believe there's free money just sitting out there. Need to put some more work into it, but there's so many sites that could be added and the bonuses really tally up if you collect from all of them (I have a running list and right now it's around $20/day in bonuses if you collect from every site on the list).
I think someone maintains a spreadsheet of these that I came across on reddit. I'll come back and post it here later if I can dig it up.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#95I launched https://www.builtatlightspeed.com/ in early 2023.
I’ve been involved in the Jamstack, static site generator, template ecosystem for many years. Built At Lightspeed is a template marketplace focused on ssgs and “modern frameworks”
Sales have been entirely from Affiliate sales, mostly via the Lemon Squeezy affiliate program. Its doing about $400usd/month. I recently launched sponsors and the initial interest has been good.
Tailwind and Nextjs are the most popular categories and best sellers. Tailwind (like Bootstrap before it) has a vibrant commercial template ecosystem. I’m seeing a huge uptick in interest in “full stack” boilerplates that have hefty price tags of $100-$400 and I plan to focus on this area more. No code templates for Framer have also exploded.
The site itself relies on Algolia to drive the faceted search results and filters and overall I’ve been happy with it. It’s a bit expensive and the older release of its react hooks library had a lot of edge cases with nextjs, but it’s been improving.
This year I will continue to refine and curate the results, focusing more on content quality and classification the extending the inventory. I recently bumped it from 4000 results to 20000 as an experiment, and this was just by easing back some of the quality filters.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#96we already had this thread
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#97During my previous job, when we were migrating to Kubernetes I couldn’t really find a GUI app that I liked, and most importantly, that could connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. We had 6 clusters and having to switch context constantly was annoying I ended up building one [1] to use myself, shared with a few people and they loved it. I asked if they’d pay for it and to my surprise, a lot of people said yes. I…
Looks really well done! What did you build it with?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#98I built https://bankstatement2csv.com It's a pdf bank statement to csv converter (which seems like an increasingly popular niche for solo devs), making $550/month as of today. Marketing is challenging, and have only really had some minor success using ppc. Also, I have a fairly high churn rate (like 30%). From talking with users, it's mostly from individuals or small business owners that convert their statements from…
That's awesome!
I wonder if you could make this an API you could sell to devs/businesses? It's a different customer, but maybe something you could expand into.
Thanks for sharing the details!
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#99we already had this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38935714
Yup, my bad. The Algolia search on HN defaults to "Popularity", and the 2024 version from earlier was 20+ links down on the page.
So I missed it. And I don't read so good.
Sigh.
Buuuut, it seems like we're getting different people sharing their side projects, so that's a win!!
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#100I started and run https://pacsbin.com , a radiology teaching file/research platform. I’m a radiologist and started this as a resident while unsatisfied with all existing options. It has been really gratifying to work on a niche problem for which a lot of my colleagues need a solution, and has helped me learn a ton about the tech and standards that underpin my profession.
This is great. I run a very very similar platform. How are your prices so cheap? 120$ for 500 studies a year?
S3 is really cheap, and from the beginning I spent a lot of time optimizing for simplicity and efficiency, so I don’t have much overhead. Since this is targeted towards residents and academic radiologists, it’s important to me to keep the price as low as possible. What is your platform if you don’t mind sharing?