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And I do about $1200/month running a piece of software that handles early and late fee charges for a couple large Airbnb hosts. <-- this one I actually hate, but it started with another vision and this is the service that worked. And now it's like free money and I know the hosts would just replace If I took it away.
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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?
About $2K/mo, flexible but sometimes unpredictable schedule (log4j vuln on a Friday? Seriously?), friendly clientele, 6 years strong and going.
No way I'm telling you people. The business I'm in is centuries old. Even still, I'd need to be a special kind of stupid to advertise that there's easy money niches of it to a bunch of people who have discretionary income. Edit: There's wood involved, but not that kind of wood.
Not exactly a side project though -- more of a spinoff project, since I got started on it because Tarsnap needed FreeBSD support in EC2. Most of my recent work has been far beyond what Tarsnap needed though.
I started this service during my last undergad year, improving the pipeline really helps me a lot in understanding crawler, schema designs which you don't learn from anywhere. This experience also helps me land my first job as well.
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…
I make $3-5k a month from my golf betting algorithm website: https://www.golfforecast.co.uk About half of the income is from algorithm profits and half from subscription fees. Feedback/questions appreciated!
These sorts of things blow my mind, and I have no idea where one would start.
I don't know if I can even call it a side-project any more. I stopped working professionally 3 years ago. Bought an e-commerce business that was making ~$2k/mo profit and ran it on the side while I had my DevOps job. That project has now turned into ~$30k/mo profit, and I've bought two more e-com businesses that average ~$10k/mo between the two - these are early and I expect them to scale up once I smooth out a few b…
If you don’t mind me asking, what are the e-commerce sites? Also, how does one get into such a business? Were you interested in this space beforehand or did you simply acquire a business that looked promising?