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Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by tmaly »

cdiamand wrote: post #55
Emc2fma wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you market this to get that many visitors?

I actually launched my side project on indiehackers - http://www.oppsdaily.com - a newsletter filled with software opportunities. I posted some of the traffic stats here http://www.oppsdaily.com/blog

I just signed up for versioning newsletter, all I did was pit in my email and I got a quick confirmation.

I also signed up for oppsdaily, but the verification with MailChimp was quite difficult. I had to select pictures with grass, then select images with house numbers, then select new images with house numbers. You might want to consider using a different provider.

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by pigpen34 »

colinbartlett wrote: post #17
pigpen34 wrote: post #2

CronAlarm - https://www.cronalarm.com A platform for monitoring cron jobs and scheduled tasks. Nobody here is getting rich from it, but it is profitable and brings in some extra cash which is nice.

Looks great. I've used a similar service for a while called Dead Man's Snitch https://deadmanssnitch.com . Your product name is arguably more straight forward.

Thanks! I built this for myself a while back, before I knew any alternatives existed. When I found out about dead mans snitch I figured I might as well build out CronAlarm for others to use as well. Especially since I thought mine was better ;-)

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by tmaly »

nnn1234 wrote: post #107

Absolutely love indiehackers. Not a straight answer to your question I know, want to shameless plug the Platform I am helping build, it's for people with side projects and cognitive surplus as clay shirky puts it to get max value out of their time. Launching Feb 8th. Check out www.crowdraising.co

cool idea, what is the major value prop to people donating their time?

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by DeonPenny »

johnduhart wrote: post #65
DeonPenny wrote: post #63

NuBank: https://www.Nubank.io We allow you to do small/startup business banking all through our application rather than through your bank. We gained a few clients, but I am hoping once we release our own bank account and card products it will help us expand into a bigger project.

Check your SSL config, I'm getting a common name mismatch when I browse your site.

sorry force of habit it should have been http://www.nubank.io

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by jetti »

braythwayt wrote: post #38

My books on LeanPub: https://leanpub.com/u/raganwald I had been approached many times by tech publishers to write books from scratch, but I never found the process and economics attractive. Then I spotted LeanPub--quite possibly on HN--and I thought, "Hmmm, there is nearly zero barrier to entry." They accepted Markdown, and I already had my entire blog in Markdown on GitHub. So I published a collection of essays ( ht…

I also started doing this and I believe that I found LeanPub from you years back. I started in 2013 doing a book on XML and C# and made ~$20 from it. I never finished and never marketed. That book idea got picked up by Apress and the full new version of it will be released next month. I want to write a bunch of new books in the future but will definitely do it through Leanpub and avoid the traditional publisher.

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by andai »

pryelluw wrote: post #92
andai wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That last part got my attention! I'm currently studying internet marketing and there's so much stuff out there that makes me uneasy... have you found any resources for ethical marketing?

Ethical marketing is the result of having strong ethics. I personally care more about how I make money than how much I make. My reputation is priceless. So, always listen to your gut and never do anything that you are not comfortable doing. You have a choice.

Thank you, that is great advice.

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by nnn1234 »

tmaly wrote: post #123
nnn1234 wrote: post #107

Absolutely love indiehackers. Not a straight answer to your question I know, want to shameless plug the Platform I am helping build, it's for people with side projects and cognitive surplus as clay shirky puts it to get max value out of their time. Launching Feb 8th. Check out www.crowdraising.co

cool idea, what is the major value prop to people donating their time?

As of right now it's rewards. After the beta, we will include payments attribution of work, equity in an org and the feeling that you helped contribute in building something

Re: Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?

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Post by poloniculmov »

simon_weber wrote: post #64

I started two projects last year and now make ~$100/month in profit. Costs are almost nothing. https://autoplaylists.simon.codes : iTunes-style smart playlists for Google Music. https://gchat.simon.codes : autoreplies for Google Chat/Hangouts. Particularly useful for people with multiple accounts that forward email. https://simon.codes/2017/01/09/side-project-income-2016-0-to... has more details on why I chose these…

Thanks for your awesome work on the Google Music Api library.
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