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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 hamishirving »

jasdeepsingh wrote: post #65

https://servicehq.ca Built this over about 2-3 months with the help from a Beta customer satisfying their requirements slowly, but still ensuring that the platform is generic and modular enough. It’s now averaging about $1000/month with 2 customers. I’m now planning to slowly rebuild the mobile app (need to improve UX and add offline functionality). Once ready, I can start selling to more customers, Also thinking of…

Looks interesting, we’re building something similar in my day job. Let me know if you’d like some help with the UX

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Post by marketgod »

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

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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.

Hey, I just found the user again, check out https://www.reddit.com/user/ScottishTrader

He posts about Wheel Strategies a lot.

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

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Post by czue »

I make about $800/month selling place card templates and formatting at https://www.placecard.me/.

I started the project last year and made $3 in my first six months. But have seen pretty decent slow and steady growth since then.

I've written extensively about the process on my website (http://www.coryzue.com/writing/) and on indie hackers in case interesting to anyone.

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

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Post by ycombinete »

_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…

Great to e-meet you dude. I used this ages ago when I was getting into bodyweight fitness. Thanks for a really neat app.

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Post by nloa »

fipple wrote: post #58
justaj wrote: post #48

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It's interesting to see a counter-example to the otherwise ever-present HN credo of "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything". On one hand you have execution that can get you an advantage of a difficult-to-reproduce technology stack for solving a problem, but on the other hand, information that other players might not have discovered (yet) also can get you an advantage in the market. Although I find the latter to be…

I basically have a shitty Rails app that solves a particular problem for a completely non tech industry (there are millions of such problems). It’s easy for me to find the people who need it. But if I ever had to compete with high quality software my app would probably die.

How are you monetizing your app?

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Post by Breza »

bwb wrote: post #117
gutopro wrote: post #116

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What is the source of the income ? I mean what is the business model.

affiliate/ads. Nothing too fancy yet, we are starting to look at what else we could do.

I'd look at how websites like uptimerobot.com make money. Let people set up lists of sites to track and give them analytics about how often they're down.
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