Earlier quoted context omitted.
My work VPN blocks this as porn. Ha!
do you work at a ruby shop?
Har har. I work in finance.
Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
91–100 of 171 posts
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
http://abiteofpizza.com Google analytics showed a decent amount of traffic from users searching for asliceofpizza, abitofpizza, etc, and I talked to some users that indicated they had trouble remembering the domain. Bought the new domain for ~$600 over the summer. My direct traffic has increased a lot since then, so I'm inclined to say it helped.
You redirect properly + submit to Google, etc? A proper redirect + submission should see a dip then recovery, not a persistent dip.
Yeah, I did a 301 permanent redirect (the redirect is still there too), redirecting each page to the correct corresponding page on the new domain. I also told Google about the redirect through the webmaster's console.
I am ranking for terms like 'pizza codes', but I'm assuming that's due to my domain name (and the traffic from this is considerably less than I used to receive). I've pretty much just accepted the loss of organic Google traffic, and the site's doing pretty well without out it.
If anyone has experience with this, and has any ideas, I'd be eternally grateful. I spent a considerable amount of time looking trying to figure out what was wrong with no success.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#93Earlier quoted context omitted.
My work VPN blocks this as porn. Ha!
Oof, good to know... Any other false positives you've had so I can maybe figure out why? Edit: Never mind, I think your censorware might just have a more inventive sexual imagination than I do when it comes to domain names...
None that I'm aware of.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#94http://pizzacodes.com My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.
How are you going about getting the deals / codes etc into your system?
Users can submit codes, or I add them when I see them on sites like slickdeals. I built a python backend that checks where a code works for new codes. After that, I have some methods so I don't have to check as frequently.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#95I made an Android app, Unlock With WiFi, three years ago. It has brought in about 64K over that time. The app unlocks your phone when you're connected to your home wifi. I'm currently working on a complete rewrite that will support patterns and face lock for root users.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benhirashi...
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#96A music album I made fits that description, although it is winding down, as to be expected: http://lifeformed.bandcamp.com/ Via album sales, Spotify streams, iTunes, etc, all done through TuneCore ( https://www.tunecore.com ).
Cool album. How did you get a big enough audience to make real money from this? Was it just word of mouth from making good tracks? Or was it also from doing shows or reaching out to music blogs or something?
Nevermind, I got it:
http://www.google.ca/trends/explore#q=lifeformed%2C%20dustfo...
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#97http://www.brombone.com
It's a service that solves SEO for javascript driven websites.
For the most part, Google can't crawl sites that manipulate the DOM using javascript (AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, etc). The solution is to use a headless browser to make html snapshots for all your pages and serve those to Google instead of the page that requires javascript.
This turns out to be a bit of a pain in practice. So, BromBone does it for you. It generates, hosts, and updates the html snapshots. When Googlebot visits your site, you proxy the snapshot from BromBone and serve it to Google. Now Google can see the same thing your users see.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#98http://pizzacodes.com My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.
Is there a mobile app wrapping this that allows clicking the codes within the app?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
You redirect properly + submit to Google, etc? A proper redirect + submission should see a dip then recovery, not a persistent dip.
Yeah, I did a 301 permanent redirect (the redirect is still there too), redirecting each page to the correct corresponding page on the new domain. I also told Google about the redirect through the webmaster's console. I am ranking for terms like 'pizza codes', but I'm assuming that's due to my domain name (and the traffic from this is considerably less than I used to receive). I've pretty much just accepted the loss…
Have you considered working with local pizza shops or recruiting a "virtual" sales force to do that for you?
Unlike Groupon it wouldn't be about big deals but simply more people calling the local indy than the big chain which pumps the coupons out.
So many food websites focus on big cities or daytime office deliveries, but there is a lot of delivery pizza business in the midwest and other more spread out places.
For me, knowing when they stop delivering at night at a glance would help too.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#100http://best.ly
It's a SaaS providing A/B testing for mobile apps that started out as a side project.