I make Mac utilities at https://fadel.io/ and iOS apps ( https://podbuddy.app/ ). I’m at $4k/month and revenue is growing. I do iOS consulting as well, but I’m inching closer to going indie full time.
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
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#432I 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 $150/mo. It's an app that adds analytics to GroupMe which is a WhatsApp alternative. https://chatstats.co/ I keep complete revenue and effort data here if you're…
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#433https://stockevents.app ~5000$/mo An investment tracking app with a unique view of things (events). Started just before corona, since I needed something like this myself. Turns out a lot of people were searching for something like that. The fact that many other investment tracking apps are either ad ridden, slow or have a bad ux helped as well. Technical: - App flutter - Backend go - Database postgres - Hosted Kubern…
How do you get the raw data? Do you have to pay for licenses?
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#434I have three: https://pikaso.me which lets people post their tweets on Instagram https://postsheet.com for sending emails / SMS from data in Google Sheets or Airtable https://volt.fm for viewing Spotify stats and discovering new music
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#435My 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…
Do you/will you ship internationally?
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#436I helped my wife (a primary school teacher) start a social emotional development book & activity subscription service. https://mybookbag.com.au/ It's slowly growing, but to be honest the pricing needs to be increased. Profit margins are paper thin (ha!). Still though, it's been fun putting together the website, integrating Stripe etc. Biggest issue is book publishers. Wow their ordering systems are archaic! We can't…
>It's slowly growing, but to be honest the pricing needs to be increased. Profit margins are paper thin (ha!). Looking at your site, the first thing I noticed is that you use AusPost (I'm assuming you'd be paying MyPost Business rates). Especially for larger packages within the same city, Sendle generally has better rates and turnaround times. Have you looked into alternative logistics options? >>We can't deliver dif…
Sorry, I missed this.
We've discussed this and I'm keen to give it a go in some form or another. If we continue to grow I think it'll become a necessity. However, each month has a unique theme that's consistent across the 4 age brackets. So we can't necessarily send out previous month's stock as it won't match the month's theme.
What we have started doing though is selling one-off bundles in addition to our subscriptions. These are selling reasonably well considering we haven't really pushed them. So I think we may be able to offer past subscription bundles in a similar fashion. The only thing that gives us pause is that we've noticed other book subscriptions have attempted this and had issues clearing out their excess stock. Whether that's a reflection on their product, their website, or the fact people just aren't interested in "old" stock, I'm not yet sure.
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#438We created a fitness app, available in iOS and Android. Currently it made 200$/month, hope to grow to 500$/month soon. Spend most of time to work with a professional trainer to create contents. https://apps.apple.com/am/app/fityou-lose-weight-in-30-days/... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vietfitnes...
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#439Promoting and marketing is alien space for me (as well as for many other designers and developers here, I'm certain). Please wish me luck promoting and marketing my art in 2022 :-)
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#440I made an Algolia alternative, https://anvere.net , launching soon. Currently earning $700 from an early adopting customer.