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

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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 mromanuk »

coderunner wrote: post #62
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?

Tech sophistication can be as little as a single PHP webpage or maybe less (There is a blogpost somewhere, from the creator Levelsio) There was a "million dolar page". Marketing is hard, except if you get lucky.

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

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Post by gigamick »

spyke112 wrote: post #57
Glench wrote: post #31

Congrats! I had no idea what this product was or why it was useful until I read the Why I Built This page, but then again I'm not your target customer.

Having used Siundcloud a ton, i can definitely see the appeal here, especially the “we do not compress” thing! That’s really nice!

Awesome! thanks for the feedback. A lot of people who have come from Soundcloud said that was a thing, so I thought I should point it out on the homepage.

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

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Post by fileeditview »

With no experience in this business I wonder if some of your plans (especially "Pro") are priced to cheaply?!

Great story! Keep going.

I still have a side project that basically goes unmaintained for several years now but only returns about a hundred bucks a month. I think it still has potential but for several reasons I totally lost the passion for it.

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

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Post by MrDresden »

gigamick wrote: post #64
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.

Ah ops, fixed that for the history. Songbox it is ;)

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

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Post by ehvatum »

Congrats! After two decades as a salaried engineer, my brain was convinced that customers would give me money just for being a superior human being. People who were brought up right might not have this problem when they start a new thing, but I think that all too often this thinking creeps in with success. In my case, the world beat it out of me as I tried to make and sell things for profit, because I started rotten and had to get better, but as a decent human being, you should stay exposed to the rigors of serving your customers.

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

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Post by bacheson1293 »

Congrats! I ramped a little faster but followed the same path. The project started at my kitchen table now grosses $13M per year (10 years later). Keep going my friend; the road will be rocky but it's well worth the time and effort once you reach the top of the mountain!

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

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Post by imagesandwords »

gigamick wrote: post #24
imagesandwords wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What happens if you worked at a project before you joined a company (e.g. a website or an app) which also contributes to your income? And what if you actually hire people to work on it for the time after you join the other company?

Sorry I'm not entirely clear what you mean. However I try not to weigh myself down with "What ifs" as a general life rule. Where does it end? What if your parents never met? Please don't read this as facetious, I'm not meaning to be.

Maybe what I am asking is ambiguous. However, @dogma said that anything you work on during the time you are employed might be regarded as company IP.

What I am asking is what happens with work/projects/apps that someone has done on the side before joining a company, and especially in the case that this creates a revenue stream.

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

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Post by gigamick »

ehvatum wrote: post #77

Congrats! After two decades as a salaried engineer, my brain was convinced that customers would give me money just for being a superior human being. People who were brought up right might not have this problem when they start a new thing, but I think that all too often this thinking creeps in with success. In my case, the world beat it out of me as I tried to make and sell things for profit, because I started rotten…

Thank you! How are you getting on with your own projects now?
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