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I sell a web service that randomly texts your kids to call you. Or reminds you to call your parents. https://www.callyourmomanddad.com

Please avoid clicking on the link until later... apparently it is getting hammered right now.

I'm new to hyperlinking on HN. My apologies.

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$25/month from Patreon for a very niche open source game. Not exactly passive, except that I was doing it already anyway, might as well have a Patreon for it. ( https://spacenerdsinspace.com )

Wow, how many hours have you put into building this? And you are doing it all for free?

OSS developers are the carries of our civilization.

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Followup question (if allowed). If your passive income involves software and you're also employed at a software company, how do you deal with the potential legal problems? Most contracts don't allow for commercial side projects and the company owns anything you create even outside of working hours. Do people just keep quiet and not tell their employer? How risky is it? I know some people who simply don't bother telli…

> Most contracts don't allow for commercial side projects and the company owns anything you create even outside of working hours.

I never understood this. I have friends who were developers at a software company and afraid of doing anything after hours since they felt their company essentially owned them and anything they create, 24/7. I am not a lawyer, but I reckon unless you’re building and/or running your business using company property or company proprietary IP, that section of the contract isn’t worth the paper it’s printed on.

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I'm working on a website that calculates the unit prices on Amazon products. Hoping to help save people some money, since there are a surprising amount of times where buying in smaller quantities actually saves you money.

The website is https://unitprice.org/browse if anyone is interested! It's still very much in its infancy, but I plan on doing a "Show HN" soon! Based on the last two weeks, I have only made about $10, but that's been with very little traffic so far.

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Currently i have mainly two different passive income streams. A side project and multifamily property investments. My side project ( https://www.teamcalapp.com ) returns around $2500/month and growing. I think the main improvement to be done is doing more marketing, which is unfortunately not so passive. Im also investing in apartment complexes. Right now i have 4 passive investments. Since I’m only a passive LLC mem…

Silly question, but how will your product survive if Google decides to just implement that type of view on the calendar?

Good question! The lack of this feature was why I made TeamCal because Microsoft has it already a long time in Outlook. It doesn’t seem that Google invests a lot in Google Calendar improvements, especially for B2B use cases. Thats why I’m not overly worried.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

And that rarely holds up in court, especially in California. Some common sense comes into play e.g. if you're building a direct competitor or using their IP, then of course that's going to be an issue.

> And that rarely holds up in court, especially in California. Flowchart to help determine employer ownership of inventions: https://www.oncontracts.com/docs/Who-owns-an-employee-invent... (from 2010; annotated w/ citations to state statutes) (self-cite). EDIT: Ownership of copyright in an employee-created "original work of authorship" will depend on the facts. Here are a couple of cases: CASE 1: (A) The employee-aut…

Is "invention" to be interpreted in a very broad sense here? If I build some cookie cutter CRUD app that nevertheless provides an income, is that an invention?

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I post photos to pixabay.com and get Paypal donations

Of what.. and does it amount to much in $? Curious, because I've looked on pixabay for some things that were wildly under-represented, and I had half a thought to fill those gaps, mostly for fun and I'm... close to it.

Just the same landscape/architecture photography I do anyway. It's more than I made from Shutterstock. Probaly $100/year? So it's definitely on the level of "beer money."

https://pixabay.com/users/derwiki-562673/

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