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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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Here's a brief list! * Wakeup.io - Simple Phone Wake-up Calls @ https://wakeup.io and it is fully automated and runs itself with actually really good profits. It was built in 2-3 days. * GetProve, Simple Phone Verification @ https://getprove.com and it is fully automated and runs itself with again, really good profits. It was built in a week or so. * Teelaunch, Kickstarter/Indiegogo Fulfillment Service (exited/sold)…

Great to see your success. How many projects have you launched total? How much marketing time and money did you put in?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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Here's a brief list! * Wakeup.io - Simple Phone Wake-up Calls @ https://wakeup.io and it is fully automated and runs itself with actually really good profits. It was built in 2-3 days. * GetProve, Simple Phone Verification @ https://getprove.com and it is fully automated and runs itself with again, really good profits. It was built in a week or so. * Teelaunch, Kickstarter/Indiegogo Fulfillment Service (exited/sold)…

Great to see your success. How many projects have you launched total? How much marketing time and money did you put in?

Thanks, though I'm really just trying to focus on ONE project now as opposed to running ~30 side projects. An immense amount of time... Email me if you want to chat more! Let people tell you you're crazy if and when you say you're going to build this this this and that. Then go and build it. You will awe them.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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Great to see your success. How many projects have you launched total? How much marketing time and money did you put in?

Thanks, though I'm really just trying to focus on ONE project now as opposed to running ~30 side projects. An immense amount of time... Email me if you want to chat more! Let people tell you you're crazy if and when you say you're going to build this this this and that. Then go and build it. You will awe them.

I want to put together a timeline like @yegg had once, not sure where it went since his blog switched to Medium. But I've been working on side projects since I was at least 16, I have tried to build competitors to services like MailChimp, Facebook, etc. It's a ton of failure honestly, but it has been a fun ride. My biggest failure is due to lack of focus on ONE project, which I have changed recently and built the habits required to stay hyper-focused on just one or two things. I am doing contract work to help fund myself building and hiring a team to build a massive & global side project now. Who knows if it will get traction, but just like the others, it is merely a FUN experiment.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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Here's a brief list! * Wakeup.io - Simple Phone Wake-up Calls @ https://wakeup.io and it is fully automated and runs itself with actually really good profits. It was built in 2-3 days. * GetProve, Simple Phone Verification @ https://getprove.com and it is fully automated and runs itself with again, really good profits. It was built in a week or so. * Teelaunch, Kickstarter/Indiegogo Fulfillment Service (exited/sold)…

Really cool to see these, how do your customers get to your pages? Do you actively advertise?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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Here's a brief list! * Wakeup.io - Simple Phone Wake-up Calls @ https://wakeup.io and it is fully automated and runs itself with actually really good profits. It was built in 2-3 days. * GetProve, Simple Phone Verification @ https://getprove.com and it is fully automated and runs itself with again, really good profits. It was built in a week or so. * Teelaunch, Kickstarter/Indiegogo Fulfillment Service (exited/sold)…

Way to go man, I recall you kicking ass at CT back when I was there too.

If you get a sec - which blog post?

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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I've worked over a year on https://www.boxfactura.com/ which is a special email service for invoices in Mexico. It has been profitable since January after quite some legwork, on the technical side as well as the sales and persuation side.

muy bonita!

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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post #15

Here's a brief list! * Wakeup.io - Simple Phone Wake-up Calls @ https://wakeup.io and it is fully automated and runs itself with actually really good profits. It was built in 2-3 days. * GetProve, Simple Phone Verification @ https://getprove.com and it is fully automated and runs itself with again, really good profits. It was built in a week or so. * Teelaunch, Kickstarter/Indiegogo Fulfillment Service (exited/sold)…

Way to go man, I recall you kicking ass at CT back when I was there too. If you get a sec - which blog post?

haha thanks man, nice to see you here! you kicked butt too.

I found it on the Wayback Machine, here's the blog post in particular: https://web.archive.org/web/20120424194627/http://maxkle.in/...

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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I run mailsac.com and skim a profit. I failed to properly sell to a couple of customers that would have made it fairly profitable (at least two very large companies use it for email testing). It has a decent number of users and signups but I haven't spent the time to figure out if there is more they'd pay a lot for. It took about two years of literally doing nothing to make a profit.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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post #14

Here's a brief list! * Wakeup.io - Simple Phone Wake-up Calls @ https://wakeup.io and it is fully automated and runs itself with actually really good profits. It was built in 2-3 days. * GetProve, Simple Phone Verification @ https://getprove.com and it is fully automated and runs itself with again, really good profits. It was built in a week or so. * Teelaunch, Kickstarter/Indiegogo Fulfillment Service (exited/sold)…

Really cool to see these, how do your customers get to your pages? Do you actively advertise?

Absolutely zero advertisements. It's all natural growth. I would say I spend 2-3 days in time giving the services a little push. Just give them a push of traffic, whether it be Wakeup.io being featured in LifeHacker, or GetProve getting to the #1 spot on Google for SEO, you need to find the one viral thing that will boost you and give you credibility.

Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?

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Way to go man, I recall you kicking ass at CT back when I was there too. If you get a sec - which blog post?

haha thanks man, nice to see you here! you kicked butt too. I found it on the Wayback Machine, here's the blog post in particular: https://web.archive.org/web/20120424194627/http://maxkle.in/...

Thanks!
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