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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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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!

Thanks John, I'm a big fan of your work :)

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

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https://www.recapped.io is what I actually launched 2 months ago since I was frustrated by the lack of existing solutions for my sales team. Around $600/mo now, but believe I should hit $2,000+ MRR by next month. TL;DR: Sales-enablement that helps sales reps communicate, collaborate, and engage with potential customers.

Looks cool, one suggestion, in your homepage, change the screenshots to have actual text in them, it provides a lot more context to understand the app.

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

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You aren't investing it well then. This year S&P has gone up something like 20% (thank you, Donald). From 300k that would net you 60k which is 5K/mo. All you'd need to do is rebalance into VOO.

it's not possible to decide if something was a good decision or not by looking at realised performance over a short time scale. having a portfolio that is entirely concentrated in the S&P will have less risk adjusted expected reward than one that allocates a bit in some other buckets as well (e.g. international shares). c.f. the book "random walk down wall street".

It's very hard to outdo index funds. Even Warren Buffet said as much. My personal observation over the last decade confirms it. I also trade individual stocks in industries where I understand the underlying trends, and those do outperform s&p, but I'm very much aware that betting the wrong way could instantly undo those gains. Index funds are much safer.

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

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https://marketvulture.com - Monitors dramatic events around the world and spots the opportunities that lie beneath. Using machine learning, we track global happenings, business downturns, logistic delays, breaking news, disasters, market conditions, macroeconomics and more to find interesting and profitable ways to leverage current events. We've been open to the public for about 5 months; php7/python/redis/mariadb/wo…

Well that's fucking unpleasant.

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

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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.

Shopify seems to be booming.. I hope they do, I have some stock in them, and of course, the app. I may end up doing more apps in the future, but their app store is just going to get more flooded, more competition, etc. Sooner the better, gotta get your foot in the door.

BTW That's also a great investment strategy to invest in something you know and understand like that. You're on fire! :)

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

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My domain name and social media handle search tool has been humming along nicely for 5+ years now and produces a modest amount of profit each month. https://namevine.com/ It makes money from domain name registrations it refers via affiliate links. I've been playing with the idea of adding "pro" features for a couple of years now but I worry anything that detracts from its simplicity may hurt sales.

This site is very helpful -- can't believe I didn't hear about it before!

Question: Have you thought about on-boarding LinkedIn vanities? Ex. linkedin.com/in/[vanity_name]?

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

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http://movewellapp.com Built this as a home physical therapy coach after I busted my ankle running an ultra marathon. It's grown quite a bit in hte last few months.

This is great. Is there an android version on the radar?

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

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Home page of your site appears to currently say it's free [1] - how're you making $150 a day? [1] "FREE DURING BETA: Our site is always free for buyers, but right now it’s free for sellers too."

Yup. $150 sold vehicle. Its a hassle right now its all manual i run everything off FB messenger. I do plan to flip it soon. Trying to grab a slice from cars, auto trader for used tesla listings.

How are you convincing anyone to pay $150/car when your site says it's free for everyone?

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

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I built https://localname.io as an excuse to learn some Swift and node.js. It helps server side development by giving a publicly accessible URL to your computer. I needed it for development and testing of mobile applications together with the backend. Also works well for webhooks. Didn't reach the $500 yet, but it's getting there!

Your landing page looks great. Did you hire out the design work or do it yourself?

The implementation of the software I did myself, but the design and the coding of the landing page has been done by the amazing people at mobilejazz.com (disclaimer, I'm a co-founder)
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