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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by olingern »

vinrob92 wrote: post #69

https://www.manypixels.co I started Manypixels as a side project while being a digital nomad in Bangkok. After a few weeks it grew to $5000/month then $10,000 month and we're now at $40,000/month after 8 months. Wrote about that story from the early beginning here: https://www.indiehackers.com/@Vinrob/bootstrapping-a-product...

I saw your comment, liked the idea / design of your site, and signed up since we're in need of designers.

Some feedback:

- There's no way to see full resolution designs. Looking through the blog where your portfolio links to, there are _some_ samples, but some are pixelated and low-res.

- After signing up there's only a link to the customer portal via email, but there's no way to submit a design order nor are there any instructions on how to do so.

- I've been billed for a subscription, but no services have been or began to be rendered. Since I haven't submitted any design requests or any services have started, this is disappointing.

- The billing invoice is really confusing. I signed up for one month, but see two line items and "MANYPIXELS SPECIAL OFFER (2 for 1)" and two invoice line items for "PAID" and "ATTEMPTING"

I assume that since this is still a young product and you're still building the business out; however, I would expect the main site, manypixels.co, to know I've registered, be able to show me some information about my design request, and to download completed assets from it.

Looking forward to using the product!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by arrmn »

rfc wrote: post #129

Bit on the weirder submissions for YC but our family genome sequencing facility is generating more than $500/mo on the side. Currently growing at over 100% YOY (somewhere around 26% QOQ), closed out our last month at over $23k, and on pace to do somewhere between $350-400k. This is not an easy side project and there's been an insane amount of learnings on both the wet lab and informatics side. We've had some set back…

How big was the initial investment? What your background?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by fakeElonMusk »

I have an iOS glitch camera app making around $500/mo most months https://itunes.apple.com/app/defqt/id817026377 - app is featured in some China photography lists and Apple recently requested promo assets for a feature, although they have not featured it yet. The only marketing is on IG, just posting images from the app and from other Defqt users. Been in the app store since 2014. My main income is as a freelance iOS and Android app developer. It's really a niche app so unless we get featured by Apple it will stay small. Ranking in the app store is a nightmare and outside of spending your way into rankings, you are left with the coveted Gold Standard of getting Editor's Pick from the Cupertino gang.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by rfc »

arrmn wrote: post #132
rfc wrote: post #129

Bit on the weirder submissions for YC but our family genome sequencing facility is generating more than $500/mo on the side. Currently growing at over 100% YOY (somewhere around 26% QOQ), closed out our last month at over $23k, and on pace to do somewhere between $350-400k. This is not an easy side project and there's been an insane amount of learnings on both the wet lab and informatics side. We've had some set back…

How big was the initial investment? What your background?

Initial investment was about $175k, plus some ongoing for various purchases equipment/larger purchases. This is all bootstrapped with no outside investment. Background for myself is in product management for analytics & ML applications in the enterprise space. Other 2 co-founders: 1 has a PhD in Biology and the other has background in QA and robotics/automation.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by Lukin »

I believe that in Poland you cannot get a normal programmer's job after studies at universities. New programmers have such big lacks of knowledge that it cost really great amount of money and time to employers to teach them how to code properly. I started teaching people C++ in January 2018. I choose only those, who have basics of programming. I do not teach from scratch, because there are many such companies. I teach programmers tools (git, make, cmake, vim), scrum, exceptions, objective C++, STL, memory management, testing and TDD, Modern C++ (C++11/14/17), good programming practices, templates, recruitment tips. After the second edition of my course, I started earning over 8k PLN/month, which is over 2k USD/month. I spend only about 10h a week on teaching and running my business as a side project. I teach in Wroclaw, Poland. From the next year, I plan to make it a full-time job (it means 20h a week for me ;)) and prepare some good online courses. http://coders.school

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

#136

Post by montypython12 »

marketgod wrote: post #125
montypython12 wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you please explain a bit about how you get this edge?

We built a proprietary system which listens to the market using technical analysis, fundamentals, and news gathering. It looks for stocks which are trading with a higher than usual volume pattern, or fast price movement depending on our scanning. Also, eliminates a lot of stocks which don't fit the system requirements, in order to increase the rate of return using rules that we have been adding. Does that make sense?…

Thank you! I am a newbie in options area. Shall go through the reddit and find more about the Wheel Strategy.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by angelmass »

rfc wrote: post #129

Bit on the weirder submissions for YC but our family genome sequencing facility is generating more than $500/mo on the side. Currently growing at over 100% YOY (somewhere around 26% QOQ), closed out our last month at over $23k, and on pace to do somewhere between $350-400k. This is not an easy side project and there's been an insane amount of learnings on both the wet lab and informatics side. We've had some set back…

At first I read human WGS and I was like uhhh...

But it’s good to see those machines go to good use! That last core lab I was in was still processing the same types of samples through Sanger (of course not WGS), so I’m glad that the research community is using the smaller NGS instruments for what I feel like they were meant for. Good on ya :)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by vinrob92 »

olingern wrote: post #131
vinrob92 wrote: post #69

https://www.manypixels.co I started Manypixels as a side project while being a digital nomad in Bangkok. After a few weeks it grew to $5000/month then $10,000 month and we're now at $40,000/month after 8 months. Wrote about that story from the early beginning here: https://www.indiehackers.com/@Vinrob/bootstrapping-a-product...

I saw your comment, liked the idea / design of your site, and signed up since we're in need of designers. Some feedback: - There's no way to see full resolution designs. Looking through the blog where your portfolio links to, there are _some_ samples, but some are pixelated and low-res. - After signing up there's only a link to the customer portal via email, but there's no way to submit a design order nor are there a…

Thanks for the feedbacks! We are rolling out a v3 soon and will incorporate all of this!

Finally - feel free to dm on Twitter (@Vinrob) I'll happily give you my WhatsApp + email in case you need me to pick up the ball for your projects :)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018 – Show and tell

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Post by Puchaczov »

ddgflorida wrote: post #138

ConvertCsv.com - converts delimited data to/from JSON, XML, SQL, HTML Table, XML, and more. I built it because I work with data every day and need these tools. API coming soon.

Can you say something more? How you earn moneys here? What's your business model?
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