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Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
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Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#42Standard trolling-but-not-entirely answer, I'll probably get $8-10k worth of dividends this year from investing and holding in a bunch of low-cost index funds.
Are you reinvesting the dividends or cashing them out?
Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#43New account because I don't want my employers knowing. My sideproject on iOS and Android generates 1.1M a year. About 90-100k a month. I'm still employed because the app runs on its own, very low maintenance, so might as well get a salary doing something else and learn new things
So like $350,000/yr after the 30% cut from the app stores, and additional 40% cut from state and federal taxes? yeah I'd keep my job too and look forward to those sweet tax deductions and getting all that extra social security withholding back
Where do you live that $350,000/yr isn't enough to live on?
Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#44New account because I don't want my employers knowing. My sideproject on iOS and Android generates 1.1M a year. About 90-100k a month. I'm still employed because the app runs on its own, very low maintenance, so might as well get a salary doing something else and learn new things
So like $350,000/yr after the 30% cut from the app stores, and additional 40% cut from state and federal taxes? yeah I'd keep my job too and look forward to those sweet tax deductions and getting all that extra social security withholding back
I'm having a hard time understand the point of this comment. Are you saying this is not enough money to live?
Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#45I wrote an e-book novel. So far, I have made about $24. I probably spent more than that on the electricity to run Notepad++ and 7-Zip, but OP asked for "revenue-generating", not "profitable".
It's not bad writing; I'm just terrible at sales/promotion. I don't really do it for the money, anyway.
Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#46I DJ and coach powerlifting on the side, that earns me about $500/mo - not all side hustles are tech-related :)
Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#47I've been running Flextory (http://flextory.com) for years now. However, the revenue it makes is pretty small now and customers have dropped off as more niche solutions come into existence.
I've thought about selling it or even just open sourcing it though. Maybe one day. It's been a really fun project though.
Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#48Generating about 16k/mo after about 6 months building an Amazon FBA business selling private label goods from Alibaba. Spend about 1 hour per week managing inventory, the rest (shipping, returns, support) is automated through Amazon and other various services.
I'm interested in something like this. May I pm you?
Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#49None anymore, my new contract explicitly disallows side ventures. But about a year ago a friend and I built a screenshot-sharing service when CloudApp raised their prices. It's basically a dock app that watches for new screenshots and auto-uploads to the cloud, the same thing Dropbox and tons of others do. We never made money off of it, but learning stuff like how to incorporate and some new tech was worthwhile.
Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?
#50Generating about 16k/mo after about 6 months building an Amazon FBA business selling private label goods from Alibaba. Spend about 1 hour per week managing inventory, the rest (shipping, returns, support) is automated through Amazon and other various services.
I'm interested in something like this. May I pm you?
I am interested as well