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

Post by codeadict » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 6:52 AM UTC

wastedhours wrote: post #412

fufmaya wrote: post #340

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First off, it looks like you've really worked hard at this, and it looks really interesting. It's something that I would try if I saw it in a store. I would expect to find it at any of the health food stores locally. I mean the following constructively: Why the focus on ditching alcohol? It's a big turn-off and I'm not even a regular drinker. Seems like the wrong messaging immediately. Sell your product on its own me…

Non and low alcohol is a massively growing market - it's not about judgement, but about creating an adult drink that doesn't have alcohol. Whether that's for people on medication, designated drivers, recovers, or those who just want something else. It's very common to market these sorts of drinks as non/low alcohol as that's part of the appeal.

Post by jack95 » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 8:51 AM UTC

snird wrote: post #71

It's probably not what you meant, but I recently created a weekend project bot that scans facebook for apartments rental ads. Thanks to this bot, I landed an opportunity I wouldn't have catch otherwise, saving me 6,000$ a year. Assuming I will hold my new apartment for 3 years, this is a net savings of 18,000$. I haven't sold anything, but yet I created something that "generated money" for me. My code is open source…

Post by yonig » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 12:38 PM UTC

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abetusk wrote: post #355

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I've often thought about doing this or something similar. Can I ask, how long have you been at it? How did you pick your initial round of public domain pictures? What was your growth curve like? And did you automate the print/production initially or do it only after you'd been around for a while? If you don't mind me asking, what print/production company are you using, how did you find them and why did you settle on…

I’ve been doing it for around 4 years now. Growth has been slow initially because you need a lot of listings to be noticed - the bigger sellers all have over 1000. I knew I wanted to do something with public domain art prints, so I researched other sellers to find the types of things that were popular. Lots of places like the Library of Congress, NYPL and the Rijksmuseum have open access policies, so I regularly hunt…

Post by samteeeee » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 5:09 PM UTC

par wrote: post #148

My side project, meta meme, makes around $5k a month.

Post by bemmu » Mon, Jun 08, 2020, 5:20 PM UTC

cableshaft wrote: post #418

bemmu wrote: post #73

I wanted to learn iOS dev, so made the simplest game I could think of: a card game where you just draw a random card and win if it's between two values. Then I made another app that just transliterates your name into Japanese characters and displays that. That one made $33 / year. Together they almost covered the Apple Developer fee :-) Things continued like this for years, until one day Apple started getting harsher…

> While my game has no other players, and the "money" you win doesn't save anywhere or get you anything, it was still gambly enough that I could no longer have it in the store as an individual developer. Uh oh. I am developing a single player game that's somewhat similar to yours and was planning to release it on iOS. It doesn't involve money, just points, but it is push your luck. Do you know what I should be lookin…