I'm not an engineer outside of the occasional WP site, but that's enough. Cold email is my bag and I'm a good (and proficient) writer. In October I started cold emailing internet, marketing, and SW companies asking if they needed any help with their blogs. In the intervening months I've added 7 clients that pay, on average, $700/month for various help with content. MOst of it is blog posts but I also do press releases, eBooks, etc.
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
#382I run a B2B lead generation SaaS for the UK market. It provides up-to-date data from Companies House, but also allows you to sort and filter businesses by: - where they are located - when they registered - what SIC (standard industrial classification) code they use - their operational status - their accounts category Businesses typically use this to find new businesses to try and market/sell their services to. It’s w…
That's really interesting - Do you do all the letter-sending yourself or outsource that?
Thank you, I'm glad you think so!
I don't handle the fulfilment myself. I wrote a software integration that connects NewBusinessMonitor with a direct mail company in the UK. They have special machines that can print, envelope, and send all the letters automatically, at large scale. The letters are printed in colour (on rather nice quality paper), trimmed by guillotine (for full-bleed printing), folded in half and inserted into a windowed envelope, before being dispatched 2nd class, usually the following business day.
I typically don't need to manually intervene in any part of the process; I just try and do hand-holding with people when I onboard them, because I think good business is about building relationships with people, and many (most?) of my users specialise in areas outside of computing.
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That's really interesting - Do you do all the letter-sending yourself or outsource that?
Thank you, I'm glad you think so! I don't handle the fulfilment myself. I wrote a software integration that connects NewBusinessMonitor with a direct mail company in the UK. They have special machines that can print, envelope, and send all the letters automatically, at large scale. The letters are printed in colour (on rather nice quality paper), trimmed by guillotine (for full-bleed printing), folded in half and ins…
Very handy! I had visions of you sitting licking envelopes shut every night lol
Are you making $500/month, or I'm guessing a little more than that?
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#384I built an iOS sex tracking app, Nice. https://nicetracker.app/ There were no sex tracking apps on the App Store that weren't focused the menstrual cycle, so I built my own. It now includes cool features such as syncing across iCloud devices, location recording, STD/STI tests, and most importantly, stats!
The real question.... are you having more sex since it was released?
funny enough, yeah! My wife loves trying to keep up a high score and keep the 'longest streak' stat going.
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I think so too :D It's definitely something I am having in the backlog, but I cannot promise if and when it will be implemented.
I wanted to let you know that I find your approach to future features refreshing, in contrast to the typical over-promising you typically see.
Yes, and also honest.
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#386I'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…
So you ship every weekday? Nice.
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This is pretty cool, though it would be nice if it worked with caldav instead of just google calendar :)
I think so too :D It's definitely something I am having in the backlog, but I cannot promise if and when it will be implemented.
If you are okay with gpl software/backend, you could reuse some code of one of my side project: https://apps.kde.org/kalendar/ (support google api, caldav, etesync and Outlook calendars)
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I've thought about this a lot, and to answer 100% honestly, I'm not sure I always will, but for now: 1. These are not HFT models. They trade once every 2-4 weeks on average. They scale to billions in capital, so selling them does not inhibit my own returns. 2. There's a lot of demand. Part of the reason I decided to launch is I had some friends IRL begging me to let them use my models as well. Seeking Alpha has over…
Who would you describe as your target audience? For example, would someone with some software and mathematics skills but limited financial knowledge (but growing interest) be able to turn the signals into a trading system?
Definitely, that's why I have API access to signals as part of the Gold Plan. I think there are several ideal users:
1. Active investors who like to pick individual stocks and want to know when is a good time to hedge for beta for macro downturns.
2. Other algotraders who want to either set up their own fully automated system using my models (either in full or as part of the input to their own proprietary model).
3. Average folks who are mostly passive investors but want to be just active enough to avoid the biggest downturns that can take years or decades to recover from. They don't want their retirement savings to potentially stagnate for 13+ years like March 2000 to March 2013. Our models have low signal frequency compared to most competitor systems which make them easy to execute on almost passively by following our email notifications.
4. People who already have 6 figure+ investment accounts and want to grow it more aggressively than SPY or VTI, but don't want to 1. spend the time and energy managing their portfolio themselves and/or 2. pay very high hedge fund / PE / VC fund fees for dubious benefit