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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 an_opabinia »

marmaduke wrote: post #227
an_opabinia wrote: post #209

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job Hacker News repeatedly rediscovers that there is no point in putting in more than the bare minimum at typical jobs over and over again. Some people pour the gained time into leetcode and succeed. Some pour it into stuff they're excited about. Some into their families. Some pour it into being at the right place at…

> Hardly anyone has ever succeeded by pouring it into their jobs This might be the most relevant part of the discussion

It certainly is a conundrum for startups, where after the founders, you're asking someone to commit career suicide by working hard for you.

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

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Post by quickthrower2 »

That looks really polished. Well done. It wouldn't be HN if I didn't give some feedback!

One thing that I think is confusing is "Advanced security" and "Any file type" in the price comparison. I think it is better to list the specifics e.g.

"Password Protect Your Profile Page"

"Only .mp3 and .wav supported" "All music files supported"

Etc.

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

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Post by gigamick »

DanSmooth wrote: post #179

Fantastic logo! I first thought it was a stylized treble clef but I think it's more a stylized sixteenth note. Not sure if this was your intention but still great. You might even consider to add the five lines used in sheet music to make the music-part more clear. Speaking of logos, I disliked that you use songbox there, but call your service SongBox. I would change it and maybe even fix it in the user stories. Small…

haha you're the first person to notice the Dr Who thing.

Good advice, thank you!

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

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Post by guillem_lefait »

neogodless wrote: post #169
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…

1 dollar a month is the dream for me. I could finally pay for several of those domain names I keep holding on to!

You're not alone !

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

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Post by gigamick »

rubicon33 wrote: post #157

That's awesome. I applaud anyone who sticks with a project for that long. I've got a similar side project that makes some money, but isn't profitable yet. I'm in the "almost given up" point, considering shutting it down, but would be letting people down and frankly, letting myself down. Props to you for sticking with it and it sounds like it's been worth it!

What's the project man? I've been there a few times. For me when I get a new idea for a feature or some feedback that I think is meaningful, it really re-ignites the fire.

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

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Post by samizdis »

You wrote on your site about why you developed SongBox, saying:

We received dozens of demos in the post every day. This was well into the streaming era, but we still received box loads of CDs every day, from all over the world.

Some of these packages were exquisite. Some were terrible. Some came with elaborate gifts. What they all had in common was that none of them got heard. They piled up in the corner of the office and every week the area would get cleared out.

Myself and some of the other developers called it "the corner where dreams went to die".

To me, that is really emotive. If your dialogue with HN users in any way helps you to address that sad problem (by way of optimisation of pricing/functionality/whatever) on behalf of those with whom you seem to empathise/resonate then that will be a happy outcome.

Good luck and best wishes.

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

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Post by aspaceman »

yodsanklai wrote: post #226
ramraj07 wrote: post #146

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The reality is that some people can just do more per day than others. It's very common in academia that many professors spend their entire lifetime in 60-80hr work weeks their entire life. I remember going to conferences,especially the really small ones, the professors and students would spend all day listening to extremely draining lectures; this one particular conference started at 8.30 am, went till 1 pm, you get…

> It's very common in academia that many professors spend their entire lifetime in 60-80hr work weeks their entire life. I would take this with a pinch of salt. Socializing by the pool after the talks isn't hard work. Also, most people only listen to some of the talks. It's not uncommon to see the room half empty the last days of the conference. There are also various social events and so on... While it's true that s…

Yeah it very much depends on the faculty member.

Keep in mind that some academics truly love this stuff too. They’re enjoying socializing and keeping up on the field and it quickly changes the “work” dynamic when you’re not writing as much code anymore. I think you’re both correct though.

I would agree that doctors and lawyers have the most hard working hours. No room for error as the doctor, and just mounds of tedious paperwork as a lawyer.

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

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Post by aspaceman »

jiofih wrote: post #149
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?

Guessing by his profile: a Football Live Scores app that has 100k+ reviews in the play store - a very conservative estimate would put it at 3-5m users. It seems to have been plastered with ads which, safe to assume, are the source of that revenue.

Yeah it’s a really nice niche. Other niche ideas like this:

- Music Tuners

- Rulers/ measurement tools

- Tools using gyroscope (record speed indicator)

Take a simple idea and continue developing it until the user experience is really enjoyable. Not guaranteed to succeed, but a compelling way to spend your time.

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