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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 #76

I made ~$4000 last month by arbitraging crypto currencies on 3 markets. I use a bot to do the work for me, but I monitor it very closely and I spend a lot of optimizing the old code. I don't have much money on the exchanges because I don't trust them but I could make much more if I wanted to risk more.

Which exchanges are you using if you don't mind my asking? I have some btc that I mined ages ago and want to do something interesting with it..

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

#232

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…

Reminds me of https://twitter.com/botus?lang=en hah, good idea. Wonder if anyone has tried this for cryptocurrency markets?

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

#233
post #214

http://reviewsignal.com - ~$3,000/month I run the largest web hosting review site. It uses twitter comments as the data source. I wrote nearly the entire thing from scratch in PHP/MySql with a couple libraries for twitter streaming api, templating, WordPress blog. I did a long interview at IndieHackers if people are really curious with full monthly revenue disclosed ( https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/reviewsig…

how does it make money?

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

#234

I don't do side projects or open source any more and run some bots for cryptocurrency trading instead. The bots continue to grow their positions and has been several times more lucrative than anything else I've tried to monetize at a fraction of the effort ¯\_(シ)_/¯ I guess it still counts

where do you get started with trading algos?

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

#235
post #214

http://reviewsignal.com - ~$3,000/month I run the largest web hosting review site. It uses twitter comments as the data source. I wrote nearly the entire thing from scratch in PHP/MySql with a couple libraries for twitter streaming api, templating, WordPress blog. I did a long interview at IndieHackers if people are really curious with full monthly revenue disclosed ( https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/reviewsig…

how does it make money?

affiliate links with companies that have programs. But that doesn't influence the rankings. You'll notice companies without programs like Amazon, Azure listed. Also companies like Digital Ocean who don't offer cash, but only credit rated quite well. I let the data sort it out, it's nice when they do have affiliates because it's a business after all, but the existing shitshows of affiliate garbage just pumping the highest paying companies has done tremendous harm to thousands if not millions of people over the last decade+.

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

#236
post #141

https://wanqu.co - A San Francisco engineer (me) curates 5 English articles on tech & startup for Chinese makers everyday. Started on August 6, 2014. It's a side project of mine. I built a website (Django), a native iOS app (Swift), a native Android app (React Native), and some automation tools. It brings around $1200/month via iOS in-app-purchase, sponsorship, affiliate links etc. I keep a full time job while doing…

Good and useful idea! Sounds useful!

I feel there's a huge pattern of "proficient in X and Y" opportunities that people underappreciate.

There may be a million people better than you at X, another million better at you than Y, but only 10 better than you at X and Y.

So if an idea requires expertise in both, the chances of success increase substantially. Or at best, there's simply no one who's ever done it!

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

#237
post #37

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.

Interesting off-topic: considering your current income (salary), do you think $200K college was worth it? I believe you could command same amount with a degree from free/state/cheap university, no?

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

#238
post #54
post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is an awesome project, nice job! If you don't mind sharing, how did you land your first few law/economics blog customers? Seems like they might be a tough market to get into. Do you run into onboarding issues with them around the script setup? One small nitpick - your three section links in the header ("How it Works", "Analytics", "Why Publir") need a "cursor: pointer;" rule on them.

To be honest, my partner and I just made a Sheets doc of all the blogs we read, and emailed the writers (usually professors) letting them know that they can give their readers a fair way "out" of the ad ecosystem. They loved it. Figuring out how to remove ads client-side while not getting the site "charged" for policy violations by the ad networks was tough, though.

So how did you do the last exactly? Very interesting.

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

#239
post #8

I made ~500 euro a month by running ads on my a visualization website[1] I made a few years back (in a weekend). I've earned that until a month ago, when I changed the Google AdSense ads to a static ad (which I don't get commission for). [1] https://blocks.wizb.it/

The IP always 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1, looks like you may have a bug.

Ah darn, will have a look soon. I think an API I am consuming updated some stuff.

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

#240

I've been working on my app Leap Second, it generates somewhere around 1-3k per month. https://www.leapsecond.co I created the app after using 1 Second Everyday crashed on me and deleted a few years videos. The app stores everything in the Photos app which made it very fast and easy to develop (a weekend). Now I spend a few hours a month mostly improving the UI and doing bug fixes as I find them. Initial traction was…

Pretty sweet. How do you generate income? Ads?

Haven't added any ads. Just In App Purchases to unlock some more advance features.
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