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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

#191

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…

Awesome! Could you charge more?

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

#192

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's the easiest way. Creating your own app or service from scratch, marketing it, and retaining users long-term is nearly impossible (seems like). All of those problems are solved by integrating with a 3rd party.. Granted, that has it's own risks and limitations, but seems worth it for small side projects.

Exactly. Just wondering are there any other third party platforms you are excited about? Recently I was checking - https://www.cloudflare.com/apps/ but can't find how revenue works on there.

Not sure they have launched that yet, but you can charge separately outside of Cloudflare

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

#194

http://livereacting.com/ - SaaS app launched about 8 months ago. Currently $3k/mo. I automated everything. Last 3-4 months it works almost on autopilot I just do customer support

This is quite cool. How do you get this to work with FB? Are these streams you run via their Live API?

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

#195
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I screen scrape camping reservations and send out notifications when a campsite becomes available. http://reserve.wanderinglabs.com/ Currently working on integrating the new CA reserve website. It is a shit show.

Interesting premium payment options. Can you share a rough breakdown of what people have paid? Do you think if you made the low end $5/$15 it would change revenue much?

I'd say 90+% of the people pay the lowest option of $10. I doubt lower would bring in many more people. I have a rewrite about ready with the amounts being radio button with the non lowest amount selected. I be this brings in a little more per person without a big drop of in count.

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

#196

I've been working on https://doorbell.io since 2013, and although it had a slow start in terms of revenue it is making just shy of $2,800/month at the moment, still as a side project.

Hi, cool site.

You might want to consider redirecting requests for your IP address to go to your domain name.

Something like:

server {

    listen 443 default_server ssl http2 reuseport;

    listen [::]:443 ssl http2 reuseport;                
         
    server_name doorbell.io;

    # redirect IP address requests to https domain                        
    if ($host = '192.241.177.143') {                        
      return 301 https://doorbell.io$request_uri;                             
      # you might want to use code 307 in place of 301 if you care about POST requests etc                     
    }                   
## more stuff here

}

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

#198
post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you talk a bit more about the fulfillment company. How exactly does it work with your setup, and pros/cons you've noticed?

Often the pros and cons are two sides of the same coin. For example - we have a 10k sqft warehouse - which is fairly expensive, and required a 5-year lease commitment. On the other hand, it's awesome to have so much customizable space completely to ourselves. The lease commitment also helps me keep focused on long-term success - which is especially nice during a rough month. Our focus now is on growing our Shopify e-…

This (MonthlyBoxer.com) is awesome! You've solved a "pain-point" on a large ecommerce service. I suggest just focussing on this one instead of the poop bags, because, solving "pain points" to real world problems trumps hate-products, plus the latter could expose you to lawsuits that will distract you from your main venture.... wishing you the best to grow and succeed!

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

#199
post #157

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).

FIY: I get an HTTPS certificate error on Chrome reply

same

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

#200

ICO, we raised more than $15M in 9 minutes, we only built a website with homepage, lol

Really? Looking at your Twitter, you work at toptalkedbooks.com which according to your associate that posted in this exact thread a few posts below ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149593 ) isn't even making any money. Hmmmm?

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