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

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

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Post by DanHulton »

I make Nodewood: https://nodewood.com/

It's a SaaS starter kit/boilerplate written in Node.js and Vue 3. Made almost _exactly_ $500/month last year. Would have/should have made more with proper marketing, but I've been doing probably too much engineering instead. The next release should be the one to take it out of "beta" (honestly, an arbitrarily-chosen label, especially compared to some competitors with fewer features/work put into them), and then it'll be a bit easier to work with some potential partners who would prefer to promote non-beta software.

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

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Post by rozenmd »

nahtnam wrote: post #164
rozenmd wrote: post #156

I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: https://onlineornot.com/ I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it. Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime a…

Do you use any tools like Linear, Notion, and/or Github Projects to keep track and organize new features?

I've tried a few tools, the only one I kept using habitually was Trello.

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

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Post by konschubert »

zzixp wrote: post #114
konschubert wrote: post #10

I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... It syncs with Google Calendar. To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings . If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

Oh man I love this! Definitely keeping my eye on it. Any chance at Outlook integration?

I can say it's in the backlog, but I can't say if and when.

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

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Post by justsocrateasin »

I have a fondness of writing summary articles on to cap off a big work project (for instance, completing a database migration). A few of them get 'traction', but mainly I like the challenge of eloquently describing my problem/solution and giving myself a zitgeist of work I've done. It's satisfying.

Recently, I had an old colleague of mine reach out and ask if I had the time to be a part-time contractor/advisor for his tech consulting start-up, since their client needed to do a database migration. He had remembered me because of the articles I wrote. It's a nice bit of money on the side ($500-$2.5k a month depending on how much I work) and I'm always learning something new.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

abider wrote: post #118
konschubert wrote: post #10

I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... It syncs with Google Calendar. To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings . If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

have you thoughts about offering this as software service for something like the Remarkable?

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

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Post by Ruthalas »

yboris wrote: post #28

I created Video Hub App - browse, search, and organize your videos - "like YouTube for videos on your computer". It's a commercial project / charityware that is turning 4 years old next month. I sell it for $5 per copy and give $3.50 to a cost-effective charity. If you go to the blog you'll see the history of sales. As of now I donated almost $13,000 to charity thanks to this project. It's averaging around 100 sales…

Offering perpetual licenses is a huge plus in my book, and often drives my purchasing decision. Thank you.

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

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Post by handzhiev »

cushychicken wrote: post #58

I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December. It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips. Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com

Looks cool, I love this kind of niche projects. How do you / did you drive traffic and job postings to it?

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

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Post by oleksii88 »

Working on https://folge.me - desktop app for creating step by step tutorials and guides. Unlike modern SaaS businesses I decided to charge one time price, which makes revenue very unpredictable, but usually keeping around 400-500 USD per month
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