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Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
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Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
#22Continuo - http://continuoapp.com
It's a numbers-free habit tracker for iOS, for people who want to self-track but don't want to deal with remembering and inputting precise values all the time.
I'm not buying helicopters off of it, but it brings in $400-$600/month, plus I occasionally get to hear nice little self-improvement stories from my customers.
Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
#23Continuo - http://continuoapp.com It's a numbers-free habit tracker for iOS, for people who want to self-track but don't want to deal with remembering and inputting precise values all the time. I'm not buying helicopters off of it, but it brings in $400-$600/month, plus I occasionally get to hear nice little self-improvement stories from my customers.
How are users finding you?
Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
#24IndieHackers.com will break $3-4k in monthly revenue this month or next, mostly from advertising. It costs me <$200/mo to run. It features all sorts of interviews with developers running profitable side projects themselves, so check it out if you're looking for ideas or inspiration!
How did you market this to get that many visitors?
Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
#25Continuo - http://continuoapp.com It's a numbers-free habit tracker for iOS, for people who want to self-track but don't want to deal with remembering and inputting precise values all the time. I'm not buying helicopters off of it, but it brings in $400-$600/month, plus I occasionally get to hear nice little self-improvement stories from my customers.
How are users finding you?
I'm not always sure. There was a Lifehacker feature, and it's been on one of the App Store productivity lists for a few months, but daily sales vary mysteriously and I have no idea where the little spikes come from.
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#26How a Car Works: http://www.howacarworks.com
Revenue from Adsense and iOS app salse. Profits around $2,000 per month.
I'm now working on a video series about how cars work which I hope will be a good seller.
Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
#27I've published many courses on Udemy.com (http://udemy.com/user/sgslo).
Creating the courses is fun, and exchanging correspondence with students is fantastic - they tend to be super motivated and have many ideas for different apps that they want to build.
Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
#28How a Car Works: http://www.howacarworks.com Revenue from Adsense and iOS app salse. Profits around $2,000 per month. I'm now working on a video series about how cars work which I hope will be a good seller.
Looks nice, except that there are no videos (?) which makes it more difficult to understand, e.g. to tell in what direction gears move, etc.
Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
#29http://www.ipv6buddy.com/
A keypad for IPv6 addresses :-)
Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?
#30https://info-beamer.com/ - Digital signage for the Raspberry Pi. Powered by Lua/OpenGl/OpenMax, so it doesn't depend on a sluggish browser. It started as a for-fun project for a hacker conference and since then I turned it into a profitable business.