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

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

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Post by awillen »

petercooper wrote: post #88
awillen wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Honestly, the Beef and Cheddar smells a little funky but not too bad (especially for people who are used to having dogs around), and the Turkey and Cinnamon smells pretty good because the turkey isn't that pungent, so the cinnamon masks it. That said, when you're taking freeze dried meats and putting them in a food processor to turn them into powder, it stinks to high heaven and you end up with a light dusting of mea…

Haha, rather you than me :-) This might be partly why I don't have a dog though! Good luck with this, seems a nice business!

Thank you!

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

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Post by andreasduess »

I’ve launched a Botanical Brewery, making non alcoholic tonics from medicinal mushrooms. Right now, we are 3 weeks away from launching our chaga drink. We were supposed to launch weeks ago, but COVID threw a spanner in the works. It’s my first time putting out a real product and the amount of work involved is huge - but it’s also a ton of fun. You can check it out at borealbrewing.ca

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

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Post by awinder »

h4t wrote: post #10

Yep I've been pushing ref links for cryptocurrency exchanges for several years. I make around 60k a year just off other people trading. For US based traders go here and make affiliate accounts so you yourself can disperse. https://primexbt.com/?signup=97540 https://www.binance.us/?ref=35057005 and then I also push bybit referrals which is a 2 step process first you have to create a bybit account: (requires vpn that d…

How do you get your links into the mix so to speak? or is that “secret sauce” haha. I’m just curious if the people I see dropping links into random threads are pulling that much or if you do something more sophisticated.

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

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Post by Scoundreller »

I made a grainy and poor-quality but useful video on how to fix a specific issue for Macs which didn’t have a video anywhere else.

Spent 5 minutes to make the video and upload it.

Was making $2-3/month, which is a great ROI for 5 minutes of work.

All positive comments and upvotes because the video is useful.

Then YouTube demonetized all small publishers because they can somehow block spam, but not identify “offensive” content.

Fuck you Youtube.

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

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Post by julianeon »

badideaprojects wrote: post #18

https://sendnoodz.io | Spam your friends with MMS of noodles Strangely not because of the content, rather because there are lots of inconsistencies/imperfections in the design and it doesn't make enough to justify fixing them.

This seems like the kind of thing that could go viral on Twitter or Instagram. Maybe advertise there.

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

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Post by andreasduess »

I started up a botanical brewery. We make non alcoholic drinks from medicinal mushrooms and we’re about three weeks away from launching our chaga based drink. We were supposed to launch in March, but COVID threw a spanner into the works. You can check it here: https://borealbrewing.ca

Putting out a real product has been an insane amount of work, from getting the brand designed to finding somebody to actually help with production, but it’s been a fantastic learning experience. I’m really hoping that we’ll get the product out with no further delays, as it’s full of, amongst other good things, antioxidants which are great immune boosters.

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

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Post by seanwilson »

I built a Chrome extension that checks websites for SEO, speed and security best practices:

https://www.checkbot.io/

Most of the growth has been organic but I post it in forums when it seems relevant. I haven't had much luck with ads but writing articles has been worthwhile.

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

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Post by dehrmann »

Like everyone here, I get ideas for side projects that might be profitable. At some point, I started looking at the likelihood of success, the time I'd invest, and how much I'd make. The answer is almost always that I'm better off dedicating the time to my day job, or even just relaxing so I'm better at my job.

That said, I get it. You get some financial freedom, you get to explore a project that interests you for you, you get to learn something new, and this is from the perspective of someone who's got a job he's happy with.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

FailMore wrote: post #34

The closest thing I've had to that is my side project Taaalk ( https://taaalk.co ) - it's a platform for online interviews. After the success of one of our interviews on HN [1], someone contacted me and suggest that I interview a highly successful value investor. We had a great 'Taaalk' [2] and he then put me in touch with an investing friend of his in London who runs a fund. We met for lunch and he taught me all abo…

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