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Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by 1123581321 »

donutdan4114 wrote: post #17

I launched an app for Shopify about a year ago called Custom Fields: https://customfields.bonify.io Currently it's making about $5,000 / month. It's been a very interesting process dealing with building the app, marketing it, and dealing with support. The app is $19/mo for regular Shopify stores, and we have about 700+ total customers (only some are paying). We get A LOT of support requests for misc things and have b…

Well done! A few years ago I assumed it was way too late to get into selling Shopify apps. I am glad to have been proved wrong, and you have me re-evaluating some newer marketplaces I presume to be mature.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by koolba »

donutdan4114 wrote: post #17

I launched an app for Shopify about a year ago called Custom Fields: https://customfields.bonify.io Currently it's making about $5,000 / month. It's been a very interesting process dealing with building the app, marketing it, and dealing with support. The app is $19/mo for regular Shopify stores, and we have about 700+ total customers (only some are paying). We get A LOT of support requests for misc things and have b…

Very nice! Spread out over many customers that sounds like a pretty stable revenue stream.

Curious though how much support do you provide for $19/mo? Do you get a lot of support requests / emails?

At that price point one customer interaction is more than most tech workers rate for the time spent interacting with it.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by iopuy »

pilom wrote: post #37
aerovistae wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious~ age income occupation? I'm seeking to do this as well.

30, ~125k household income for two adults no kids, IT and teacher. Our income made it a little easier to get here but the $200k hole of combined student loans we started with (now fully paid off) probably counters that pretty evenly.

Is there more to the story? Started with -200k and now sit on +300k with a 125k salary? House? Came into a windfall of cash in addition to salary?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by gbacon »

plantain wrote: post #39

https://skysight.io/ Soaring (gliding) weather forecasts for EU/NA/SA/AU. My side project has now become my main gig. Took approximately 3 years to build, 2 before I started making any money from it.

What are potential benefits to power pilots? Have you considered approaching, say, ForeFlight about licensing and integration?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by justboxing »

http://www.visaok.in/ - Since late 2016. Soft-launched in April 2017.

Made 700$ in June, been fluctuating since then, but I'm not doing it for the money though.

When I first came to America on a H1-B visa, I remember job searches were super-annoying because I'd find a position that I was a good fit for, only to find "Sorry we can't sponsor your Work Visa" in Bold H2 font. I am now an American Citizen, but even now, I find these exclusions on several popular websites like dice.com, indeed.com and even here on @whoishiring

So I decided to create this curated job board listing jobs with employers who are willing to sponsor or transfer your work visa in over 30 countries around the world. Lot of countries in Europe (ex: Germany, UK, Netherlands etc) have recently launched "Startup Visa" programs that lets entrepreneurs come to their country and live and work on exciting new technologies and eventually get permanent residency.

A new modern UI, email alerts for jobs matching your search, and a Visa application / help community site is in the works.

Meanwhile if you have feedback please shoot me an email. theblogdoctor [@] gmail

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by uakiki »

http://www.soulidstudio.com - since 2009, Mosaico started as a side project to help me handling dozens of windows on my desktop. Now it's a commercial product appreciated by thousands. It's C++ and Qt, I also wrote the licensing system in .NET and C++.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by znq »

We've developed an internal tool to remotely access iOS and Android log files (NSLog and logcat). We work remotely, so we always had issues debugging problems that we couldn't reproduce.

Initially it was just an internal experiment at Mobile Jazz and at some point we even thought killing it, but now after 3 years we're at €7300 MRR (~$8600/month) and growing consistently.

That said, we still haven't reached our break even point (also because we decided to invest more in marketing and supporting additional platforms) and it'll take us some more years to recuperate the time (=money) invested.

We've written about our story here: https://bugfender.com/blog/three-years-bugfender-9-5m-users/ and have provided an updated to revenue numbers and other statistics here: https://bugfender.com/blog/updates-from-bugfender-q2-2017/

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by jwitko »

geerlingguy wrote: post #46

https://hostedapachesolr.com - since 2013, started with intention of just hosting my own search indexes (since cheap shared hosting didn't allow java apps to be installed), then ballooned from there. Minimal maintenance, almost every process is automated with Ansible + Jenkins + tiny bits of PHP glue code. https://servercheck.in - since 2012, same as Solr, I started it to do SMS messages for my own site outages... th…

Very inspiring. Coming across a "geerlingguy" ansible repo in my searches for pre-existing ansible roles is always a treat as I know it will be solid quality.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by johns »

fernandohur wrote: post #36

Working on https://apibot.co , a testing and monitoring tool for REST APIs. Many of our customers come from word of mouth plus talking to people. Its been very interesting to see the kind of tests that people built with our tool. We're still technically in BETA although sales are going slow but smoothly. Send me a message if you are interested (fernandohur at apibot.co).

Good luck!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

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Post by Jeremy1026 »

guohuang wrote: post #29

I have been working on a side project to show all the most mentioned books from hacker news, stackoverflow, reddit. http://toptalkedbooks.com we are still struggling on marketing, no revenue yet.

I don't intend to be mean or anything, but why did you post this here? The prompt was for $500+/mo income projects. "No revenue yet" is not $500+/mo.
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