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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 raron »

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

I am curious: as a HW project how did you go through the CE / FCC certification process and production 0-series batch? Did you have some investor or paid from your own pocket?

Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.

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

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Post by asadlionpk »

zakki wrote: post #393
_w6y3 wrote: post #375

I make around $500 per month running a gaming VPN service - [link redacted] I initially built it to route PUBG players in Australia (myself included!) onto the fastest links to overseas servers as the Australian servers did not have enough players. It was strung together with OpenVPN and a Discord bot as I never expected more than around 20 people would use it... mostly figured it would be me and my squad mates. With…

I am curious, how is a VPN solving a latency issue?

take the shortest path instead of cheapest-to-ISP path I am guessing?

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

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Post by jventura »

codegeek wrote: post #15

https://cronhub.io (a project I just took over). Makes about 1k/month for now.

I had a similar idea 2 years ago [1] but haven't been pushing it forward because I thought nobody would need something like this, since it's easy to implement a cronjob in a backend server. Maybe I should revisit this! :)

[1] https://cronbeats.com/

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

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Post by AussieWog93 »

c_ma_gee wrote: post #366
AussieWog93 wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Haha, I'm in the same boat. Have needed to set up a VAT number in the UK for almost a year, still haven't done it!

Your comment was a good reminder: I just translated the page into english as well :-) - Thank you for your comment!

Oh no. Now I need to get a VAT number! Thanks for the kick up the arse. :)

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

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Post by nevster »

Make between $500-$1000 per month from http://www.auctionsieve.com/ - old school desktop app I started in 2003. It's a front-end for eBay to quickly filter search results.

I have all sorts of interesting collectors using it - some guy who buys old porsche parts, a famous comic book artist who collects comics, etc etc

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

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Post by go_prodev »

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

Great job. These look absolutely fantastic and I love the idea. It seems like the perfect use case for e-paper.

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

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Post by bmitc »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #390
bmitc wrote: post #376

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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.…

Thanks for the information. I’m going to check it out. This is a unique thing I haven’t seen before.

On another but related note, are you familiar with Robert Carver’s books? If so, any thoughts? I’ve been going through his Leveraged Trading book.

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

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Post by dom96 »

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

Really awesome. I’m working on a hardware project myself, nice to see a success story.

I’m curious about the enclosure, do you cut it out of wood yourself or are you using a supplier for it that cuts it/glues it for you?

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

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Post by dom96 »

raron wrote: post #401
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

I am curious: as a HW project how did you go through the CE / FCC certification process and production 0-series batch? Did you have some investor or paid from your own pocket? Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.

Also curious about this.

I’ve done a lot of research on CE/FCC and while it seems possible to do CE yourself (since you can self-certify) you are on the hook if you miss something, like certain required tests (and doing some tests can be very expensive).

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