It may be passive or active or maintenance mode of income. Just something created by you and your sole passion that have worked out for quite some time and maybe still going on.
Ask HN: What is the best income stream you have created till date?
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#2Working at a FANG in software development has been pretty outstanding income wise.
Much better than hustling a few different freelance/contracts/side hustles for me at this point in my life.
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#3Working full time. I haven't been able in a decade to get anywhere near close to living wage with my 'side gigs'.
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#4Working at a FANG in software development has been pretty outstanding income wise. Much better than hustling a few different freelance/contracts/side hustles for me at this point in my life.
Same. The amount of overhead involved in any side hustle is just too high compared to getting stuff done as an employee. even volunteering as anything but unskilled labor is a hassle.
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#5this is like asking a fisherman where his best fishing spots are
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#6Aside from my full time career as a programmer, the best side income stream I've built has been my book I wrote[0] to help software engineers develop the soft-skills that are necessary to reach a senior level position.
I spent 4 years on and off writing and preparing the book for publication, and it's been bringing in a steady stream of income since it was published in October 2022.
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#7Aside from my regular job, life modeling.
Not a huge income generator (around $19,000 total over the last 5 years), but the pose research, networking, booking sessions, actually doing the modeling, and reporting on / posting the artwork from my sessions on my social media is pretty much a "sole passion" for me.
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#8Aside from my regular job, life modeling. Not a huge income generator (around $19,000 total over the last 5 years), but the pose research, networking, booking sessions, actually doing the modeling, and reporting on / posting the artwork from my sessions on my social media is pretty much a "sole passion" for me.
That’s awesome. Do you have a link to your social media?
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#9My cofounder and I have bootstrapped two software products that are generating revenue today with minimal involvement on our side.
The first product is a B2B onboarding platform. This product generates approx. $100k/year.
Our second product is a microsaas that turns google drive folders into a hosted, searchable wiki with one click. This product is making $2k/month.
Both products require minimum support and continue to sustain themselves.
One thing to note is that we did work full time on both of these products for like 1.5 years during the pandemic. At the time, it was definitely not the best income stream we had created but became so after we both got "real" jobs again.
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#10Got a job and then married someone who also has a job. We go to work, make our money, come home and relax.