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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by jcims »

adossi wrote: post #45

I mine cryptocurrency and make about $110/day. I have two L3++s, an AvalonMiner 1246, six RTX 3080s, an RTX 3090 and a couple older cards. It more than pays for the mortgage, and after electricity (residential rate) my profit is about $100/day. I also have the GPUs in a grow tent (designed for growing marijuana) with an 8 inch in-line fan hooked up to the supply of my home’s HVAC system. I’m heating my whole house wi…

For me the question is how to get comfortable with the mining software stack and the pooling services. I poked at it a bit earlier this year and, possibly just due to my own paranoia, I felt like I needed to take a shower afterwards. I don't know why, I just felt like there was no ground truth from which to build a framework of trust in the tooling and the services and I was suspicious of everything.

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Post by geocrasher »

mahoneycutt wrote: post #115

I've earned about $1500 a month for the last ten years helping senior citizens use Windows PCs. I also sell refurbished laptops for about 1/2 of what new laptops costs. I've sold over 200 laptops in the last 3 years. All it takes is a little patience. I only charge $25 an hour and have more work than I can handle.

I have been helping people of all ages, including many seniors, with their computers for the last 30 years. I finally hit a point now in my 40s where I just can't do it anymore lol. I love people, and I love helping people, but after you've written something down explain it three times and walk somebody through it five times, and they call you the next day asking how to do that thing you showed them because they can't remember any of it...

You're a better man than I! Also, raise your rates a bit. You are undervaluing yourself significantly. Even if you doubled your rates you Will still be in plenty of demand. And for those who simply can't afford it just give them a discount back to your old rates. I was charging 75 an hour for a long time and that was cheap in my area.

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Post by dave333 »

I run a string of free sudoku sites that have earned around $1000/month from advertising and donations since 2005:

https://fiendishsudoku.com https://samurai-sudoku.com https://sudokuprintables.org https://sudokuhints.com https://extremesudoku.info https://sudukopuzzles.org https://easysudoku.org

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by raegis »

adossi wrote: post #132
quickthrower2 wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice thats a lot of profit! Is there a “catch”? Are you getting super cheap electricity. Whats the depreciation like on the gear per day?

The catch is you need to be safe: - Where is the heat going? Are you exhausting it out the window? Are you going to burn your house down? - How are you distributing power? Are you using a PDU and a 240V 30A breaker or are you maxing out several 15A 120V lines? - Is the humidity dropping rapidly to dangerous levels, risking shock? Are you going to fry that brand new $10,000 ASIC miner because you dried out the air too…

Do you shut it down when on vacation? Or hire someone to babysit your machines when you're away?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by chevman »

I work in a large corporate/enterprise company doing marketing/tech work.

Started dabbling in freelance consulting/paid interviews and found I can easily get in the $500-$1,000/hr range.

So, been doing a few sessions a month and earning a couple thousand in extra cash. Not bad and met some interesting folks/companies in the process!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by santa_boy »

In aggregate, we were able to generate about $10K for few weeks of work in 2021 working on no-code projects (https://twitter.com/n0c0de1) ... most of it outsourced. Due to low-costs almost fully goes to bottomline.

Our aspiration is around SaaS for real estate brokers that I've dabbled with for many years. Stopped dev work due to boredom to "focus on the big picture". Kind of bleeding a bit since then but the products seem to be quite nice now.

Getting to the sales / marketing phase now and figuring it out (not our strong point ... painful stuff :) )

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by jcims »

crobertsbmw wrote: post #25

My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates. I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon em…

Nice! I just ordered two, one for my brother's first grandson (9mo) and one for my first grandchild on the way (-6mo).

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by leros »

alexellisuk wrote: post #3

I started an OSS project to enable me and my team to receive webhooks at a big co where Ngrok was banned and so was SSH. It works over an HTTP proxy using websockets. One of the requirements I had was for 1st class container support - so it could be run inside a K8s pod and support LoadBalancers for TCP traffic as well as HTTPS. The OSS project was very popular, but drew very little sponsorship. I then pivoted to a c…

Can you share the product? I'm curious.
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