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Just wanted to let you know that there is a typo on the first page of artistic.af: "...a lot of historic genuius..." Site looks great!
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And another one: ...and the inspriation of you...
Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
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Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#112Don't have it anymore (sold it in 2013) but http://myapptemplates.com. Took it from $0 to $3,000 a month in about 1 year
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#113Here'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)…
super inspiring. Thanks for sharing man.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#114I started a Product Hunt style newsletter that curates the best UI designs every day (http://uimovement.com).
It was profitable from sponsorships about 6 months after launch (slightly over $1,000 a month in revenue, costs $300ish a month). I spend about 10 minutes a day on it. I need to spend more time marketing it and updating some of the tech - but I'm too lazy.
Also, I'm not sure the 6 months to profit counts, because I worked on 3-4 similar side-projects before launching it for about a year before.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#1154 months. I built a Slack bot called Standup Jack ( https://standupjack.com ). It's a ton of work upfront but if you launch early, keep an open dialog with your users, iterate on their feedback and keep your costs low, it's a nice way to earn some side income each month. Udemy is a pretty easy way to start since they do the marketing for you (for a pretty big cut).
A fantastic tool built around a great idea. When people ask me the timeless question of "why Slack", I actually point to Standup Jack as an example of how a simple and useful integration can save time and increase transparency through Slack's API. I actually had no idea it was a one-man show until just now. Seriously awesome execution!
I really appreciate the kind words and thanks for spreading Jack!
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#116https://www.docsapp.io/ I built DocsApp in 1 year and now is ramen profitable. Tech stack: * Play Framework (Scala) * PostgreSQL (RDS) * S3 * Docker (cloud.docker.com) * Scaleway * HAProxy
May I ask which S3 plugin do you use ?
Haven't found anything useful for Play!.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#117A year. I was spending way too much time on eBay, so I wrote something for myself that would scrape the web pages and use a kill list to filter out the junk. I wanted a better UI to add words to the kill list and realised I could make money via the eBay affiliate program. So I took two months off between contracts and wrote the first version of AuctionSieve - http://auctionsieve.com There was a D&D forum, the Acaeum…
Are you still scraping or did you migrate to their API?
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#118https://www.docsapp.io/ I built DocsApp in 1 year and now is ramen profitable. Tech stack: * Play Framework (Scala) * PostgreSQL (RDS) * S3 * Docker (cloud.docker.com) * Scaleway * HAProxy
May I ask which S3 plugin do you use ? Haven't found anything useful for Play!.
Use AWS Java SDK since my S3 usage just simple upload file.
Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#119Re: Ask HN: Do you have a profitable side project? How long did it take to achieve?
#1205 years. (2011-2016) While working on my first startup (Sauce Labs), I made a robot that plays Angry Birds as a side/art project in the autumn of 2011. The serious part of the project is that you can use the robot for testing mobile apps and devices. I started to sell the robots (still as a side project) on Tindie when that first launched in the summer of 2012. I made a couple of thousand dollars the first few years,…
It's interesting to me that your approach to automated testing includes a real, physical device. How well do you think your robot offering is positioned versus fast and free virtual automated testing within an Android/iOS simulator? I assume there must be some material advantage to testing on a real device, but I don't know a lot about the domain. What happens if the layout of the app changes slightly- are your testi…
I've been involved in automated testing with a robot for point-of-sale systems. The pinpads are secure devices, so there's no way of injecting commands, and there's no adequate bug-compatible simulator. It's cute watching it carefully insert a card, type in the PIN, remove the card, etc.