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Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

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Post by gigamick »

mtlynch wrote: post #56

Congrats! I went full time on my own projects back in early 2018, and I only recently started making significant money from it. I like following along with indie developers. Do you blog anywhere or post about your progress? For reference, here are some indie developers whose regular progress updates I enjoy: * Cory Zue, creator of SaaS Pegasus and PlaceCardMe: https://www.coryzue.com/writing/ * Jen, creator of Lunch…

I actually don't... I mean I have a blog where I post the odd article at my other site, https://division77.com but I didn't think anyone would be interested in my ramblings.

Maybe this thread has changed my mind on that.

Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

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Post by coderunner »

holoduke wrote: post #41

Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going. I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job. People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a d…

Would you mind sharing what your app is? I'm curious what level of technical sophistication is needed for an app that makes $2k/day. Was it more engineering or marketing or equally both that helped you gain users and traction?

Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

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Post by MrDresden »

Congratulations on the achievement!

The site looks very good, and the idea is very appealing (though I am not a target customer). Will point Songbox out to my audio producing friends.

One question in regards to where the audio is being served; would it be possible to proxy it through Songbox from another origin point?

Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

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Post by gigamick »

MrDresden wrote: post #63

Congratulations on the achievement! The site looks very good, and the idea is very appealing (though I am not a target customer). Will point Songbox out to my audio producing friends. One question in regards to where the audio is being served; would it be possible to proxy it through Songbox from another origin point?

Just so you're not recommending a competitor, it's songbox :-) not soundbox.

Hmmm... I'm unsure of wether you could host the audio somewhere else and serve it through songbox. It's an interesting proposition though and one I will look into.

Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

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Post by gigamick »

epalm wrote: post #60
gigamick wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ooops... thanks so much I will address these issues tonight.

No problem! PS I think your Pro tier is too cheap ;) anyone that wants to remove your branding (and perhaps whitelabel the product as their own?) is a big enough outfit to pay more than what you're asking.

You're not the first person to say that. It used to be $50 a month and no-one took me up on that, however the product has evolved quite a bit since then.

Will re-look at pricing in the new year.

Thanks a lot for your input, it is appreciated!

Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

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Post by microtherion »

gigamick wrote: post #51
microtherion wrote: post #44

Looks very nice! Do you have some sort of upload API, so music creation software could potentially upload directly, without going through a GUI? (I realize this may be an exotic request, so I understand if this is not of interest for you to implement).

I use filestack.com for uploading and handling assets.. so yes I do believe this could be a possibility. Do you see a use case for this?

This may not be a particularly compelling use case for you, but one of my side projects is a music editor that can generate and upload sheet music and backing tracks for existing or new compositions: https://woodshed.in

While there are tons of image sharing sites with suitable APIs for this, it's surprisingly hard to find audio sharing sites (maybe due to piracy concerns?).

Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

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Post by gigamick »

dbrgn wrote: post #52
gigamick wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do utilise such tools but I 100% advocate for being a human being and just speaking to people. Customers really appreciate it. I guess its not for everyone, and it's not infinitely scaleable but it is highly valuable in the early stages.

So much this! I'm one of the people that appreciates seeing "behind" the product very much :) If you feel that a real human person is behind all that, and not a faceless company, you're also much more likely to share feedback. (Nobody would share improvement ideas for Windows with Microsoft, since you can be sure that those go straigth to /dev/null (or, more appropriately, the recycle bin).)

I really agree with you. I think in any walk of life you can reap so much benefit from just being a human being and treating others the same.

I get so much response when I email people. Every email is hand typed and I just say whatever comes to mind at the time.

Its super helpful for getting feedback and getting to know my customers.

Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue

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Post by jxm262 »

holoduke wrote: post #41

Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going. I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job. People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a d…

Congrats! Posts like this give me massive inspiration. Like many here, I have tons of side project/toy apps stored in private repo's; that will probably never see use by anyone other than myself. However, some of this code _does_ make me profit (trading bots). Been contemplating taking portions of my trading app and generalizing into a product, but always seem to lose motivation.

Glad I saw this post + thread today, y'all just gave me another boost of energy.

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