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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 dave_4_bagels »

mromanuk wrote: post #71
coderunner wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I'd generally still argue that marketing is the hardest part of any side-hustle / startup in general. What is lost on many here is that $100/mo. spend on solid marketing could speed up the growth curve (without that much more engineering effort) so that it would take maybe a year instead of three to reach the point you could quit your day job.

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

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Post by rob74 »

So, in other words, it's an online demo tape? For creators to send around to (hopefully) interested parties, and with the added advantage that creators can find out who listened to which songs how many times? Sounds like a good idea - as long as the people listening to the songs are aware that they're being tracked this way...

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

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Post by rndgermandude »

gigamick wrote: post #26
kevsim wrote: post #25

uBlock Origin blocks your player at the bottom of the screen. Not sure why.

Hmm... thanks for that pointer. I'll investigate that. Cheers

Yeah, does for me too:

>Filter: /api/v1/track/*

>Filter List: EasyPrivacy

>https://songbox.rocks/api/v1/track/6d2c872d-fb1b-11e8-87d2-4...

Probably some generic analytics blocking filter.

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

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Post by avinoth »

gigamick wrote: post #94
avinoth wrote: post #91

Congratulations is due! The journey sounds very similar to what I'm going through, though in my case acquisition was the end result, couldn't see it through to the 3 digit $$. Built an app 3 years ago, just kept at it and it was on a constant cycle of losing interest and suddenly bursting out features then losing interest again over and over. Nevertheless, I get the grind and I respect it. It isn't easy keeping at so…

Thanks, how did your acquisition end up happening? what MRR did you sell it at?

It was via microacquire.com, the MRR was mostly around ~$90 for a year or so and was on the same when sold. Expenses were around ~$5/mo. so just kept it on maintenance mode.

I decided to sell primarily because there were lots of enterprise companies' interests with people reaching out for bulk pricing and stuff, but I've really lost motivation on this project at that point so put it up for sale if anyone's interested to take it in that direction.

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

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Post by aardshark »

Minor nitpick, but what's up with the artifacting on your large images?

See the text in your image "the button at the bottom of the page."

See also the gradient in your second image: "Create a Private Playlist"

There are noticeable artifacts, whether from compression or something else.

It just takes away from that polished feel for me.

Sorry I don't have actual functionality feedback!

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

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Post by gigamick »

aardshark wrote: post #115

Minor nitpick, but what's up with the artifacting on your large images? See the text in your image "the button at the bottom of the page." See also the gradient in your second image: "Create a Private Playlist" There are noticeable artifacts, whether from compression or something else. It just takes away from that polished feel for me. Sorry I don't have actual functionality feedback!

No this is cool feedback. All good. I don't know why you're seeing that. I'll investigate.

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

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Post by kevsim »

rndgermandude wrote: post #113
gigamick wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hmm... thanks for that pointer. I'll investigate that. Cheers

Yeah, does for me too: >Filter: /api/v1/track/* >Filter List: EasyPrivacy > https://songbox.rocks/api/v1/track/6d2c872d-fb1b-11e8-87d2-4... Probably some generic analytics blocking filter.

Yeah, "track" in your URL seems to be the culprit. Bad luck.

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

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Post by smarri »

Congratulations on the milestone! And for plugging away at the project, it's great. I noticed a small formatting issue, I think, on the privacy policy page there is a button which has the text "Canvas::Blog Buttons.Next", I assume you probably meant for the text to say something different. Did you build the webpage yourself or use an agency for any of it?

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

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Post by gigamick »

btown wrote: post #98

This is a really great idea, kudos! You might want to look at Docsend for feature and marketing inspiration - they started by allowing mainly startup pitch/sales decks to be tracked in much the same way your audio clips are, but have since expanded to a wide variety of enterprise use cases. I can only imagine that the music industry has many such use cases, including enterprise-style auditing/reporting needs and the…

There's a lot on this comment and I appreciate it all.

One thing I'll pick up on now before looping back later is the ability to RECEIVE tracks via songbox. This is actually a feature I only rolled out last week. EG I could give you a link to my portal and you upload tracks to it, and they all fall into my feed for review.

This literally is live in the app just now, I just haven't shouted about it yet as it is brand new.

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

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Post by jedimastert »

gigamick wrote: post #116
aardshark wrote: post #115

Minor nitpick, but what's up with the artifacting on your large images? See the text in your image "the button at the bottom of the page." See also the gradient in your second image: "Create a Private Playlist" There are noticeable artifacts, whether from compression or something else. It just takes away from that polished feel for me. Sorry I don't have actual functionality feedback!

No this is cool feedback. All good. I don't know why you're seeing that. I'll investigate.

It looks like the images were somewhat aggressively compressed, and it's starting to become visible
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