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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
#292Forward Email is doing several thousand per month now just one year in. Site: https://forwardemail.net Open Startup: https://forwardemail.net/open-startup
Quick question that I couldn't find in your FAQ: Can you reply to forwarded emails? As in can you communicate back and forth with someone sending emails to an alias?
I've used a free email forwarding service which didn't give me this functionality (maybe this isn't common practice).
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
#293I earn more than $500 a month with [redacted], a phone contract comparison website for the UK market. [link redacted] Today, 90% of my time is spent on content marketing, followed by improvements to the website. Data is automatically pulled once a day. Parsing the data feeds can be frustrating, as there is no consistent format or documentation, therefore I need to code around many possible edge cases. I do all the we…
Useful! If you're able to share, I'm curious how you market this and get eyeballs on your site?
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#294I run an e-commerce store as a side-hustle: https://drinkyourdailywater.com/ We sell glass water jugs targeted at desk workers, to help remind you to drink enough water. I created it because I wasn't drinking enough water. Running paid ads has been very hit or miss, and I don't have a knack for the marketing. But word-of-mouth has been good for us and we get the odd corporate sale here or there.
Been looking for something like this. Just ordered one!
I bought one too. I tried to make the giant water bottles work and they just don’t for me. They’re too clunky to use. I like that this pitcher is made of borosilicate glass and has a good profile for desk usage. Good job OP.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
#295I've been working on Newsy this year
It's a tool that lets you create content sites based on your unused domain names. It's been growing steadily.
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Technical analysis is snake oil. Don't believe in it.
I tend to think this is true. I also tend to think that enough people trade based on technical trends that it should be possible to make money by predicting their behavior. But it may not be possible for mere mortals to do this — perhaps all the profit is sucked up by HFTs with supercomputers.
A lot of people trade based on technical indicators and there's plenty of simple strategies based around moving averages that aren't complex.
In my hometown of Chicago, a lot of people used to be employed in the pits at the CBO market making. (Basically being around to take the opposite end of a trade and making small profits by selling/buying at better prices.) But those jobs were eliminated by HFTs. HFTs absolutely sucked up a ton of profits. All the traders I spoke to who had traded in the 80's, 90's and 00's said that trading got much much harder from the years 2005-2010.
Retail traders still have the ability to take speculative risk and buy/hold. It just takes a lot of time.
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#297I dont make $500 a month but in the next 5 years I hope to if not more. I make pottery, mugs, and bowls for fun. Only after doing it for so long did I realize that you can honestly make a living off of it. So long term when tech discrimination hits me but the arthritis doesnt, I'll be making pots til I'm dead!
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#298I have two! An app for making wedding place cards that does about $1000/mo https://www.placecard.me/ A boilerplate for making SaaS apps with Python/Django that does $5k/month (highly variable) https://www.saaspegasus.com/ I also have a third that does around $150/mo. It's an app that adds analytics to GroupMe which is a WhatsApp alternative. https://chatstats.co/ I keep complete revenue and effort data here if you're…
Love that dashboard! Makes me wonder what your Line Impact would be for the various projects, seems like you get a lot of business value from each line of code.
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#299I bought a coffee farm in Colombia. Annualized it makes around $800 / month and growing. Should double to $1600 / month next year as we’ve doubled our production. It’s barely profitable, but is profitable nonetheless. The more we plant the more profitable it will get, and we’ll be planting 10,000 more trees soon!
Just to repeat what others have said I would love to hear more about this
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#300I have a case management and billing system for Medicaid providers that brings in ~$3k/month annualized. It was a lot of work up front, but generally requires little effort to maintain outside of new features.