I run a micro ISP providing gigabit internet access to around 100 businesses that does around $4.5k a month. It started by accident when I got a connection for myself and then shared it with others. My landlord then expanded and invited me to offer it to more units so I made the platform self serve which means apart from initial install it's pretty hands off. Not enough to live on but good side income while I launch another startup!
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#492I have one, TurnShift: https://turnshift.app.
Now making almost $500 MRR with 10 customers.
This is an app to share tasks, duties and manage rotations in Slack. It was an internal tool at my previous company (Algolia), that I rewrote with their permission as a SaaS and sold to them. Growth is slow, mostly driven by Google searches and Slack app store.
One out of 10 signups per month will eventually use the service. For the few ones I've been able to ask "Why did you leave", the answer is: they want a Google Calendar for Teams. Which I am slowly building. This way, the shift scheduling will be more flexible.
Show HN thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26025254
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#493I built a new Pinboard.in client for iOS and macOS called Pins (Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25881622 ) If it were back in the old days, I would've charged for it upfront for $5 or so. Instead I decided to make it free to try with an in-app purchase to remove all limitations. Targetting a niche customer base that have already paid at least $22/year for a Pinboard.in subscription and are likely to be…
Cool! How did you recruit the beta users? Shared among friends? Or did you use dedicated service?
Hanging out where my potential users are I guess. I announced the upcoming app release on Twitter, mentioned @Pinboard; it got retweeted and people started reaching out.
Original tweet: https://twitter.com/quanganhdo/status/1346130521034788864
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#494Free No-Code Website Builder + Web Application Platform
- https://developer.boomla.com/
These are really 2 distinct products. I wanted to build a website builder that made sense, which I figured needed a new OS to avoid the nonsense complexity. (It's an overlay OS.) They go hand-in-hand, as every OS needs a killer app anyway, which is the website builder.
The website builder is taking off. I'm providing it for free, with the caveat that I'm going to start a domain registrar soon and I'll ask people to move their domains to this registrar, which will cost about the same as other registrars. So the revenue is not collected for now.
For me the long game is the application platform, which takes a unique, simpler approach. Lots of no-code users started hacking code on Boomla, I'm pretty excited about that. You just write the code and Boomla takes care of everything else.
I'm not sure it qualifies as a side-project, as it started out as such but now it takes all my time, even though it doesn't pay my living. Some border case I guess.
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#495Earlier quoted context omitted.
What do you mean "paid interviews"? I do a lot of interviews for the companies I work for and this intrigues me.
Some folk decided that whiteboard interviews are broken, and the more enlightened way is to pay candidates to work on more representative tasks that take longer, and pay them for their time. GP is exploiting one of the failure modes by treating these interviews as paying gigs.
I highly doubt that paid interviews pay $500/hr, let alone $1000/hr.
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#496I've been drawing pictures and publishing them as desktop wallpapers for ~20 years now, selling Vlad.studio accounts with unlimited access to downloads [0]. In 2021, I earned $4761, which means ~$400/month. It's not horribly little amount, especially for Russia (where I live), given it's a side project. However, I feel I need to do something more active, rather than just drawing new pictures. Promoting and marketing…
You should consider jumping on the NFT bandwagon while the hype is there.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell
#497I run a micro ISP providing gigabit internet access to around 100 businesses that does around $4.5k a month. It started by accident when I got a connection for myself and then shared it with others. My landlord then expanded and invited me to offer it to more units so I made the platform self serve which means apart from initial install it's pretty hands off. Not enough to live on but good side income while I launch…
very cool! how much bandwidth do you need to supply a 100 "gigabit" businesses? and how do you get it?
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#498https://stockevents.app ~5000$/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…
Looks like it got the HN hug of death, getting 502 error.
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#499My side hustle[0] brings ~$600/month. Not a whole lot but it covers the costs and brings a decent profit. [0] https://pdf2qrcode.com .
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#500My latest side project is a link management system. It gives you one place for all your links, you can use it in social media as a bio link, instead of posting non usable links each time you want to direct your audience to a specific content. I sell it via agencies for now and I make a little less than $300/month.