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Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

#1

Post by tagabek » Thu, May 07, 2015, 9:45 PM UTC

It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue.

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#2

Post by gamechangr » Thu, May 07, 2015, 9:53 PM UTC

I would guess that not many are making a $1,000 a month on side projects. Most of my friends have side projects where they make $100-$300, but when they get to over $500 they consider making that the primary project.

Some games make that but you have to continue to update them or they loose their ability to continue to sell, so it's misleading when people say "I make $1500 a month from my games" they should also say "I spend a couple hours a week making sure they are updated to the new versions".

But you may already know that.

I will follow you're question to see if you get much response. I would love to be surprised!

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#3

Post by galooph » Thu, May 07, 2015, 10:09 PM UTC

There was a thread about this not so long ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844083

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Post by Osiris » Thu, May 07, 2015, 10:57 PM UTC

I wrote a battery laptop monitor : http://batterybarpro.com . I get about 1k uniques a day and net about $1500/mn in sales of the Pro version.

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#5

Post by eonw » Thu, May 07, 2015, 11:29 PM UTC

I have a few games on the iOS store that still generate some money each month.

My main side project income comes from simple sites I build using public data and my SEO skills. Essentially its all ad sales.

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#6

Post by dangrossman » Thu, May 07, 2015, 11:29 PM UTC

This same thread from two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592

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#7

Post by sgnelson » Thu, May 07, 2015, 11:37 PM UTC

Money?

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#8

Post by bemmu » Fri, May 08, 2015, 12:11 AM UTC

There's an ebook written by HN user riskish on this topic: http://www.sideprojectbook.com/

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#9

Post by gtheme » Fri, May 08, 2015, 1:49 AM UTC

I built Premium Ghost Theme marketplace http://www.gtheme.io/ to sell premium ghost themes. I designed most of the themes because I have chicken and egg problem. Now I get about $100-$300/m revenue.

Most people still dont know what is Ghost https://ghost.org/ yet. It is CMS that like Wordpress, but built on NodeJS.

EDIT: Added what is Ghost

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#10

Post by CyberDildonics » Fri, May 08, 2015, 1:58 AM UTC

gtheme wrote: post #9

I built Premium Ghost Theme marketplace http://www.gtheme.io/ to sell premium ghost themes. I designed most of the themes because I have chicken and egg problem. Now I get about $100-$300/m revenue. Most people still dont know what is Ghost https://ghost.org/ yet. It is CMS that like Wordpress, but built on NodeJS. EDIT: Added what is Ghost

A ghost theme market place you say? I went to the site and sure enough, it's ghost themes. Premium ghost themes in fact. I still have no idea what the fuck ghost themes are though.