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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since my background is in AI, I made my own. → https://www.namy.ai It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from…

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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I do a lot of landscape astrophotography which involves a TON of signal processing to get rid of various sources of noise. https://instagram.com/dheeranet People ask to buy prints from time to time. Not quite $500/month just yet but getting there. Then there's this web-based function plotter I made in 2007: http://fooplot.com/ It once made upto $900/month but since then, mobile apps have gotten better, and today it m…

I have seen your astro work for awhile now and it is awesome - had no idea you could reliably make anything close to that money wise. Sounds like I need to actually take my processing a bit more seriously and actually create the new site I have been meaning to work on. Personally I am going to probably focus less on getting the perfect processing (generally I just do a few stacks for noise and sometimes combine with…

I haven't played with automated pano heads, but I made a DIY scanning digital back for a 4x5:

https://dheera.net/projects/4x5/

My original intention for this is gigapixel images, but I ran into some issues cancelling the CRA correction that the Pi HQ cam does, and also, my newly bought Sony A7R4 can shoot 240 MP shots with pixel shift so it's suddenly less interesting again since it's already within an order of magnitude of a gigapixel, and if I got a shift adapter mount and shot with a medium format lens I could probably easily exceed a gigapixel with the A7R4. I might try to shoot 4x5 film some time though.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#133

I made a background noise website and app https://asoftmurmur.com There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer than I'm comfortable with

Do you mind going into where your main revenue stream comes from and how it breaks down? Is it mostly apple users? Google play? Do you get any revenue from the website itself?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I am a developer, Do I need this API? No, if you can build your own rendering system with all these features and able to make it run this fast. You don't need this API. Your FAQ is great hahaha!

Yes, every developer thinks the same about almost every API/service, that they could build it over weekend.

Building it is one thing. It's not even uncommon for people to be right about that part.

It's the maintenance, support, training, operations, and documentation that will kill you, if you think you can "just" write some service and then move on to other tasks.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#136

We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with. https://oku.club Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe

Do you provide a way to export data in case the site closes down? I don't use any app/site to track what books I read, but I see that it could be interesting.

We do but it's not fully automated just yet, it'd involve sending us an email.

Similar story with csv imports, it's half supported but not in the UI yet.

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post #60

Web comic newsletter: https://funnies.page Full disclosure - $500+/month in revenue, but not profit. The majority (95%) goes to the creators I work with.

Oh man, you gotta charge more! This is insanely cheap. The average substack charges $5 a month, and you usually get an email a week at best.

Ha I appreciate the thought, but it's hard to compare novel writing from thought leaders to funny images. I wish I could charge more, but I don't think the value is quite there yet. Maybe if I was strict about exclusive content (which I don't want to be; I like giving artists flexibility on where/how they distribute their work), I could get away with charging higher as well.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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post #60

Web comic newsletter: https://funnies.page Full disclosure - $500+/month in revenue, but not profit. The majority (95%) goes to the creators I work with.

Wow, you only take about 2%? (assuming 3% for processing?)

Yup that's about right. I don't mind though; I view this project as a labor of love.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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I make about $50k/mo on https://www.closingcredits.com

I found that most teaching platforms for voice actors out there are run by a bunch of celebrities who are pushing edutainment, not education.

So I wanted to make something specific for voice actors. I will try to branch it out to other creators later.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#140

We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with. https://oku.club Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe

Looks neat. Why do you think oku will replace goodreads?
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