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Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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I used to sell extra naughty bikinis online, in addition to being a consultant for distributed real-time machine learning. People had a hard time combining the image of a nerd in the basement with that of a flashy sales guy surrounded by models. So I usually didn't mention the bikinis to allow me to charge full nerd pricing for my coding. This site project brought in roughly €500 monthly with almost no work, because…

How did you find your marketing contractor? What were they doing?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

#52
I started a podcast to talk with folks about their tech stack choices. It's at https://runninginproduction.com/.

Since October 2019 it's made $200 in the form of 1 episode having a sponsor.

As a side topic, I would be very happy to have anyone on who wants to talk about their tech stack for their side projects.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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I really don't like talking about my side projects, so I guess they all qualify, but I'm particularly excited about one at the moment. Right now I'm working on a dog treat business - I make a treat mix that you add water to and freeze for a meat-based frozen treat. I feel really good about the product and the packaging design (and this is the first time I've ever worked on any kind of a physical product, so it's real…

Thanks so much to the folks making purchases! Each time I get the email saying an order has come in, it reinforces for me that this is actually a product people want, which is just so ridiculously cool at this early stage. Thank you!!

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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I copied an app from the App Store. Their business model was free desktop application but $20 for the iOS client and I really wanted it so I made a 'clean-room' implementation with CloudKit and charged $0.99 for a one-off cross platform sale. Bit brazen, but the idea isn't entirely unique. Edit: P.s email me at adam@adamfallon.com if you would like a promo code to get the app for free :). * https://apps.apple.com/us/…

Simplicity. I love it when < 1MB apps provide utility.

Unfortunately can't take credit on iOS here - the same app is 1.4mb on iOS - I assume because it isn't statically linking some part of the CloudKit syncing framework on macOS whereas it does on iOS? Or maybe SwiftUI framework is dynamic on macOS due to Catalyst - not really sure.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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I really don't like talking about my side projects, so I guess they all qualify, but I'm particularly excited about one at the moment. Right now I'm working on a dog treat business - I make a treat mix that you add water to and freeze for a meat-based frozen treat. I feel really good about the product and the packaging design (and this is the first time I've ever worked on any kind of a physical product, so it's real…

This is great and it's something I'd definitely buy for my dog.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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http://askjud.com — I made it when I was 15. It’s pretty terrible, but has made $30k+ over its lifetime.

from what exactly? the ads? how long is lifetime? $30k's nothing to scoff at!

I also can not figure that site out or how it makes money.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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I started building Lanes ( https://lanes.io ) in 2016 as a way to learn how to code. Don't talk about it because it's way overdue for an update. But it plods along, earning enough to cover the bills for my second project, Simplescraper ( https://simplescraper.io ). With Wunderlist shut down this year it was the perfect time to relaunch Lanes 2.0 to try capture some of those task-manager migrants. But if there's a sin…

simple scraper is cool - I had that same idea and you beat me to it!

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Simplicity. I love it when < 1MB apps provide utility.

Unfortunately can't take credit on iOS here - the same app is 1.4mb on iOS - I assume because it isn't statically linking some part of the CloudKit syncing framework on macOS whereas it does on iOS? Or maybe SwiftUI framework is dynamic on macOS due to Catalyst - not really sure.

That's still way smaller than your average iOS app.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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I really don't like talking about my side projects, so I guess they all qualify, but I'm particularly excited about one at the moment. Right now I'm working on a dog treat business - I make a treat mix that you add water to and freeze for a meat-based frozen treat. I feel really good about the product and the packaging design (and this is the first time I've ever worked on any kind of a physical product, so it's real…

My feedback, product looks great, packaging looks great. I would not want to buy the Beef & Cheddar. Compare the label of Beef & Cheddar to Turkey & Cinnamon. Turkey & Cinnamon have four simple ingredients, Turkey, Yogurt Powder, Whole Wheat Flour, Cinnamon. Compare that to Beef & Cheddar, there are so many things in that ingredient list by comparison. When I think of food that is 'good for you' I want to see simple ingredients that I can pronounce, no food dyes or additives.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

#60
My astrology charts app for android [1] brings me about 5€/month. I earned more by doing some consulting with the technology I use for this app (Pybridge [2]) than with the app itself.

My web app [3] earned only 50€ since 2016. My other projects (ex: mockrest.com [4]) don’t make me any money at all. I have to use other strategy.. :/

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flatangle....

[2] https://github.com/joaoventura/pybridge

[3] http://elements.flatangle.com/

[4] http://mockrest.com/

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