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

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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 marketgod »

montypython12 wrote: post #136
marketgod wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Don't be too cool to paper trade ;)

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

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Post by rfc »

angelmass wrote: post #137
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 :)

Thanks! We're working on scaling up to human WGS but it will take time. We do have some ideas on how to reduce the price a ton but it requires more capital than we have currently - so either patience or VC.

So for now we're sticking with bacterial and targeted human as our primary market.

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Post by olingern »

vinrob92 wrote: post #139
olingern wrote: post #131

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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 :)

Sure. Would love to chat. You're Twitter account is set to only allow DM's from people you follow. I'm @olingern

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Post by blacksoil »

freediver wrote: post #99
blacksoil wrote: post #54

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Wow this is very cool. Can you share how much you're making?

Launched two weeks ago and had 5 days rented out so far. There is demand for this but a lot of capital expenditure. The server itself is $20k+ and then you have hosting. I am using a DC in bay area and it is $1200/month for server. So I can't say this is a business, more like an experiment right now.

Sounds really cool. Best of luck! :)

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Post by lysp »

conorpp wrote: post #40

This is a hardware project I started when I was a senior in college. U2F Zero, a open source U2F token / two factor authentication device. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01L9DUPK6 https://conorpp.com/designing-and-producing-2fa-tokens-to-se... Brings in around $500-$1000 per month of revenue (when in stock haha). I started just to learn how to lay out a circuit board and make my own embedded device, just kind of…

Can you please update the date on your KickStarter? "Fall" means nothing to non-American's.

Either a month or a quarter would be fantastic (Nov 18 or Q3 18).

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Post by Pimpus »

_august wrote: post #8

https://fitloop.co/ A site I built to teach myself bodyweight fitness (from a routine I found on reddit) -- grew a userbase and built up more detailed tracking, configuration, and usability. The MRR is a bit hard to calculate right now (since I charge annually), but somewhere in the $500 - $1000 range. Edit: This app grew from feelings of being stuck / burned out / almost depressed that can come from being in front o…

Awesome. I would love to start bodyweight training, but your routine requires things like gymnastics rings and pull-up bars and I'm traveling at the moment. Are these absolutely necessary?

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Post by EvanKRob »

roybarberuk wrote: post #93

I’m a full time developer but own a gym. By accident! I went to take over a building as office space that was a liquidated gym. Signed the lease and the day before we moved in the owner called and said we can’t remove the equipment as it was all put in before the stairs. I asked a lot of questions about why the gym didn’t work, had already seen the equipment in there and did some negotiating on purchasing the kit, kn…

Late to the party but this is awesome. I'd love to have something like this near me. That facility and price are perfect.

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Post by thinkingemote »

osrec wrote: post #9

I started https://usebx.com/app just under a year ago. We now do a few hundred thousand GBP per month in revenue. Nothing fancy, just a solid accounting and project management app, solid service, and good sales to corporate customers (we look after the smaller customers too, but only actively market to larger corporate clients, where the returns are significantly better). We've just invested more in the code base to…

is this your side project? Sounds like a main one.

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Post by osrec »

thinkingemote wrote: post #149
osrec wrote: post #9

I started https://usebx.com/app just under a year ago. We now do a few hundred thousand GBP per month in revenue. Nothing fancy, just a solid accounting and project management app, solid service, and good sales to corporate customers (we look after the smaller customers too, but only actively market to larger corporate clients, where the returns are significantly better). We've just invested more in the code base to…

is this your side project? Sounds like a main one.

Started as a side project, and became a main project over the course of a year :)
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