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Re: Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?

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8innovate wrote: post #601
pryelluw wrote: post #31

I do business strategy for startups through topographical business maps. It's the best strategy tool out there and helps avoid costly mistakes. It also aides in acquiring funding.

Could you talk a bit more about what services you offer? Do you have more of a consulting relationship or are you offering a service at a set price? Also, one random question: do you find most of your clients are from the UK? For some reason I've always associated Wardley maps with the UK but I'm not sure if that's actually the case.

1. Consulting. Mostly because you can't productize strategy.

2. No, US only. Wardley does originate in the UK. The US is slowly catching up. I predict this will be taught in college in 10 years.

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Post by jarvelov »

adrianh wrote: post #567
jarvelov wrote: post #366

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That gypsy jazz combo sounds amazing, would you mind sharing a link to where I can listen to it?

Sure, here’s my YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/adrianholovaty

Thank you, it was very nice. Hope I can catch one of your shows one day, cheers!

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pettycashstash2 wrote: post #137
gottebp wrote: post #32

Breville coffee grinders are impossible to get internal parts for. I designed a 3D printed upgrade for the main wear-part in their BCG800XL and BCG600SIL Grinders. The storefront is through ShapeWays[1] and I use iFixit[2],[3] to drive the traffic. It passively makes enough to cover my own coffee needs forever. I spend about 20 minutes per month fielding questions. This all happened because my grinder failed and I co…

I recently ordered a part for my daughters dresser drawer - the Kenlin Rite-TrackII, and paid $12 for four including shipping. 6 to 7 years ago I paid $68 for a single part. To my surprise when I opened my recent plastic mailer envelope, I discovered it was a 3D printed piece. Any idea how one can 3d scan a part for exact copy?

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Post by agumonkey »

checkyoursudo wrote: post #687
agumonkey wrote: post #560

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So far I only brushed it, and am not sure my model is Cd plated or not but well. The more you dig into materials, the more you realize you were handling toxic things all the time without knowing it.

My father-in-law as a kid used to go to the junkyard and break open thermometers and dump the mercury out into his hand. Seems like he did it a lot. Dunno if he ever suffered any health consequences because of it; but, you know, he didn't know any better. He just thought it was neat.

The other day i accidentally broke a magnetron ceramic heatsink. I knew of the potential toxicity (disassembled a dozen so far) but this time i fucked up. Cue 3 days of ventilation and cm by cm wet cleaning.

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Post by dangwu »

muzani wrote: post #683
frankus wrote: post #679

This is unlikely to be reproducible, but I bought a foreclosed condo in Seattle in 2013, did a few weeks’ worth of work (spread out over a year or so) redoing the kitchen and bathroom, and sold it not quite three years later for $120k more than I paid for it. I also have a couple of super simple apps in the iTunes Store that earn about an iPad a year worth of money.

This seems very reproducible, or at least many people focus on doing this. Donald Trump is probably the most popular example of someone who got rich buying things at low value and fixing it up for a large profit.

It’s not easily reproducible in Seattle any more. The housing market has flattened over the past year or so. Back before 2018, properties would easily go up 20% a year.

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Post by anotherthro313 »

I travel a lot, and outside of the United States, countries have import taxes, especially on luxury goods. In some countries and iPhone Xs will cost $800 more than in the USA.

I have to visit the USA about 8 times per year, so every time I do I buy 10 phones in a state with no sales tax (usually Oregon) and make about $5k in profit selling locally (which does eat up a ton of time, but not $5k worth).

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Post by NLips »

anotherthro313 wrote: post #697

I travel a lot, and outside of the United States, countries have import taxes, especially on luxury goods. In some countries and iPhone Xs will cost $800 more than in the USA. I have to visit the USA about 8 times per year, so every time I do I buy 10 phones in a state with no sales tax (usually Oregon) and make about $5k in profit selling locally (which does eat up a ton of time, but not $5k worth).

So... smuggling?

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Post by akg_67 »

When I was in Texas, I used to buy Disk drives in bulk through auction from PC manufacturers Compaq and Dell that didn't meet their QC, test these drives and sell the good ones to retail shops, PC repair shops and individuals. I stopped once competition became tougher, bad to good ratio of disk drives increased, and disk drives became cheaper.

In Japan, several people asked me to teach them English. So I teach them English, some pay me in food and drinks. I also figured out that I was good in helping others prepare for standardized exams TOEFL/TOEIC/GMAT/GRE/USMLE so that became my primary side gig.

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Post by iraldir »

bentossell wrote: post #75

Makerpad.co - I teach people how to build projects without code. I’m collaborating with companies now to help provide educational content on how to use the tools for a non-technical project or business. Last 4 weeks revenue is around 30k (from memberships and companies paying to be listed and create the content which isn’t released yet). It’s pretty much all profit too as I do it solo with little overhead. There’s a…

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