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Dug a little into your background, read some of your posts. Appreciate the different perspective with "Choose Money First." I think a piece of that will stick with me forever now, just because it hit a little different. So I guess just.. thanks for the thoughts.
Link?
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
#202My side project currently grosses close to $1,400 per month through Patreon. I run a modded Grand Theft Auto: V roleplaying server with around 1,500 members (around 300 really dedicated MAU.) If you're not familiar with GTA RP, it tries to emulate real life as closely as possible while still recognizing that GTA is an arcade game. Players live lives as if they were real people, buying cars and houses, holding jobs, o…
Wow, this sounds really interesting. As someone who used to be an avid GTA V player, I can imagine how much fun this can be. Do you have any videos on the mod and/or on the playing experience?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#203I 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…
I’m getting a lot of false positives but this has already generated some great ideas!
I'm sorry! I didn't expect the HN hug of death. About 200 concurrent people right now, so the domain check API is failing :(
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#204AI that explains code, at a high business logic level. I originally designed it while working on a complex physics system for a game engine, and needed to understand it myself and also explain it to non-technical people. Try it on your own code: https://denigma.app
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#205I 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…
Looks really cool. The first two results I clicked on where registered a long time ago, though. https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma... https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...
Thanks! Yeah, I did NOT expect HN's traffic. It's overloading the domain checking API and making it fail
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#206I'm running a website for people learning Japanese and currently making ~$590/month from Patreon donations: https://jpdb.io/ This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working publicly for the past year. Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959
This is quite cool. One suggestion would be to have the pronunciation listed in addition to the kanji and audio (at least when I searched I didn't see it, so the only way to learn to pronounce is to use audio). Do you know of something similar for Chinese by any chance?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#207I play music in bars. Or busk an accordion. Fun times. Definitely not passive income, but it's work I like.
Are you using Venmo for tips? I used to have an itch for digital tip jars, but never figured out the right set of features to really drive adoption... This was well before Patreon, and PayPal was pretty much the only API game in town. Since then, I've felt like Venmo handles 9/10ths of the live performance problem (unleash the appreciation (money) locked in digital form).
I never have cash on me and when I see a QR code I usually give 2-5x more than I would if I was carrying cash on me because it feels weird to "drop in" $1-4 on Venmo and I guilt myself into more.
Anyway, accordion OP you should get a QR code for tips :)
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#208I 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?
The basic model is people pay for access to more sounds. For the last few years this bas been separate transactions on the ios app, android app and for the web version. Ideally I'd move to a single subscription-based account that worked across all devices for extra sounds.
Revenue breakdown is roughly equal between android, ios and web, somewhat surprisingly. Android converts worse but has higher user numbers. Web converts much worse, but converts at a higher price (justified by the fact that hosting/maintaining the web stuff take a lot more time and money)
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#209I 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…
Works surprisingly well.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#210Twitter Archive Eraser https://delete.tweets.app/, allows users to reliably delete old tweets.
Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app for the past 1.5 years or so.