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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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I commented elsewhere about an East Coast presence... your comment above has me thinking about CBD infusion options, too. Something I'm very familiar with for treating older woofs in pain, and spazzy "I hate the vet" woofs, haha! Hope to hear from you.
I just don't feel like I'm nearly educated enough on CBD in dogs to start using that as an ingredient. I know it's become very common very quickly, but I'd have to read all the research before I could consider it.
The FDA would probably have something to say about it. They don’t want CBD in human foods either and I believe they have sent warning letters for pet foods as well. (They call it “mislabeled” because it’s not a “food” but a drug since CBD is now used medically by Epidolex, or something like that)
Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#343I 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…
If you just want to share, posting to p2p network like peertube/zeronet/ipfs and blog help you stay away from censorship.
You can still accept donation.
If you want to sell it, it's less smooth though
Re: 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?
#345I created a HTTP request scheduler that allow people to setup rule based notifications: https://ihook.us . Not making money yet, all free plan users right now :)
For me the font on your landing page doesn't load because of a CORS issue, thought i'd let you know!
wow, thank you so much for spending time to post the issue, really appreciate it! I thought this issue had been resolved months back by adding CORS rules on the CDN (S3). I wonder the error is due to the updated policy somewhat not pushed to some edge. Just tried to push the policy again and hope that helps.
Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#346I don't talk about my side projects at work hours, even if someone asks. However, I built Pixmap for Android to learn Android dev. It makes a couple dollars a month... :) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.winricklab... I built FastComments as a tool for myself, but it's starting to gather bigger and bigger customers. https://FastComments.com
FastComments is really cool looking and so simple (it reminds me of brutalist web design). Could you explain a little on how you do limiting of page loads? I've been trying to add this kind of functionality to my own projects but can't think of a way to track it without storing in a db which seems like a bottleneck process if every page load is a write
I'm guessing they're using watch.ly. I've never heard of the service but it's on the header of the fastcomments blog. Watch.ly mentions a service that will "add realtime hit counters to my products."
Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
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Hi I am currently working on releasing the paid version of my app (online voice memo). I was wondering about any resources you have to learn about licensing and legal stuff, or any common caveats that you ran into.
It depends on your situation but if you are in the US I'd create an LLC and do business with that. It takes a few minutes if you use services that file for you. Second will be dealing with sales tax and it's a nightmare. If you sell to customers in Europe you need to pay VAT to different countries at different rates. Same goes for US states that tax very differently. We moved recently to paddle.com which acts as a re…
You can also do what I do and just ignore those foreign taxes, on both practical and philosophical grounds.
On a practical level, no foreign government is going to bother you until your sales are in the millions, at least. They don’t have the ability to know your sales in the first place, and you’re way too small to bother trying to go after. Especially since there’s no real enforcement mechanism for, say, France to try and collect $200 from some random American online software business.
Philosophically, I vehemently disagree with the premise that a foreign jurisdiction can tax my business because their citizens choose to visit my website and buy things. Should German websites pay a 200% tax if citizens of Eritrea buy things from their website, just because Eritrea passes a law that says that? I have zero representation or connection to these jurisdictions, and if they want tax money or to stop their citizens from using my website, that’s between the citizens and their government. Until there’s some enforcement mechanism, I’ll just keep ignoring them like I always have.
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#348I 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…
Totally sold — my Akita loves ice cubes so he’s bound go wild for these especially in the summer.
Glad to hear it!
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On the safety side, I've had crude analysis done (which is the standard nutritional testing for pet food in the US and was $250 per flavor), and I've consulted with a couple of vets to make sure the product is safe. On the legal side, I've got business insurance, which thankfully isn't that expensive. I've been holding off on forming an LLC since that's gonna run me about a grand here in CA including the cost of sett…
why not an S-corp over an LLC?
I'm not an expert and will need to double check, but I believe an S-corp is more complex, and since it's just me it's not really any better. And from the tax side as an LLC you can elect to be taxed as an S-corp so no benefit there.
Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?
#350Earlier quoted context omitted.
On the safety side, I've had crude analysis done (which is the standard nutritional testing for pet food in the US and was $250 per flavor), and I've consulted with a couple of vets to make sure the product is safe. On the legal side, I've got business insurance, which thankfully isn't that expensive. I've been holding off on forming an LLC since that's gonna run me about a grand here in CA including the cost of sett…
Why not incorporate somewhere that's not CA?
Because then you end up paying there _and_ in CA. Any state you do business in demands a cut. Even so, if you ever intend to sell your company or do business outside your state, it makes sense to be a Delaware company - lots of lawyers know Delaware business law.