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Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by venusflytrap90 »

venusflytrap90 wrote: post #64
cloudjacker wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

40% a bit too high for Canada. Plus a 105k a year salary from day job. Its enough to live on for a 27 year old.

@cloudjacker - It's enough for me to live on, doesn't mean I'm not trying out a lot more things to earn even more

"This will never end 'cause I want more / More, give me more, give me more"

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by jcdavis »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #42
jcdavis wrote: post #25

Standard 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?

Reinvesting it all.

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by cloudjacker »

venusflytrap90 wrote: post #71
venusflytrap90 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

40% a bit too high for Canada. Plus a 105k a year salary from day job. Its enough to live on for a 27 year old.

@cloudjacker - It's enough for me to live on, doesn't mean I'm not trying out a lot more things to earn even more "This will never end 'cause I want more / More, give me more, give me more"

preaching to the choir, it was other people that thought my spot on observations were an insult to their aspirations

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by ZeroFries »

cloudjacker wrote: post #55
Kurimo wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where do you live that $350,000/yr isn't enough to live on?

the first question: do I feel like debating wealth inequality to get my HN karma back up? naaaaaaaaaaaah anyway, in silicon valley (or san francisco in particular) you could not retire on that. you could coast, but you couldn't use it to buy a house (or apartment/condo), the moment you make a downpayment you absolutely have to keep working to make the monthly payments

350k after taxes and you couldn't retire? Do you mean in one year of work? You can live on 50k after taxes no problem even in SV. Also, why stay in SV if you're not working there? If you can maintain revenue for 5 years you can buy a house in cash no problem.

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by cloudjacker »

ZeroFries wrote: post #74
cloudjacker wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

the first question: do I feel like debating wealth inequality to get my HN karma back up? naaaaaaaaaaaah anyway, in silicon valley (or san francisco in particular) you could not retire on that. you could coast, but you couldn't use it to buy a house (or apartment/condo), the moment you make a downpayment you absolutely have to keep working to make the monthly payments

350k after taxes and you couldn't retire? Do you mean in one year of work? You can live on 50k after taxes no problem even in SV. Also, why stay in SV if you're not working there? If you can maintain revenue for 5 years you can buy a house in cash no problem.

If you can maintain revenue, yes, get decent cash flow on a rental property, sure you can make it work

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by hbhakhra »

swalsh wrote: post #12

I built a drop-ship site, it started as a way to play with some ideas I had at work. As a platform, I think it can scale pretty well... it has a super flexible EDI system allowing me to automate suppliers, inventory system, custom website, order management system, advertising feeds etc. It's built to handle thousands of suppliers, products, and orders, and has all the bells and whistles. But I only really make enough…

I attempted a drop shipping site as well, didn't go anywhere. Thankfully I used wordpress to set it up so not too much of a time waste, but only after building it did I realize its all about marketing your product. Not only that, the drop shipping suppliers are supplying to anyone that wants to do it, so there is plenty of competition.

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by ruler88 »

busterarm wrote: post #63
ruler88 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

can you share your app?

That would reveal who (s)he is.

Also, I don't think you should work for an organization that does not allow you to hack up projects on the side for fun! Unless you think they can prove that you used company equipment/time to develop this project.

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by baby »

cloudjacker wrote: post #55
Kurimo wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where do you live that $350,000/yr isn't enough to live on?

the first question: do I feel like debating wealth inequality to get my HN karma back up? naaaaaaaaaaaah anyway, in silicon valley (or san francisco in particular) you could not retire on that. you could coast, but you couldn't use it to buy a house (or apartment/condo), the moment you make a downpayment you absolutely have to keep working to make the monthly payments

not everyone is living in the silicon valley.

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by hbhakhra »

jcdavis wrote: post #25

Standard 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.

I actually appreciated your answer, because its easy to lose sight of truly passive options to make money. If you don't mind, how much do you have to invest to get that $8-$10k worth of dividends?

Re: Ask HN: What revenue generating side projects do full-time employees here have?

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Post by raben_ »

rockdiesel wrote: post #31
raben_ wrote: post #23

I run https://ubersuggest.io a simple keyword suggestion tool. On average I have 80k monthly unique users.

I'm quite surprised that you only average 80k uniques/month. With how much I see this tool being recommended throughout the SEO community, I thought it would've been a lot more. Have other similar tools cut into your traffic?

I think this is due to the fact that in web marketing many people love to talk about tools they actually don't use (that much). By the way my traffic slightly increased over the last few months.
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