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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

#431

I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically generated posters of my art: https://spacefiller.space/prints This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.

Curious who you use for printing. I've got an idea I'm working on with poster-sized output that I'd like to tie into a printing/shipping API if possible.

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#432

Twitter 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.

Where does your traffic come from? Is it SEO from domain match of “delete tweets app”?

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#433

My brother started Podcast Notes in 2015. I help out on the tech side. We now have a growing community of Premium Members, 35k Twitter Followers, 25k email subscribers. https://podcastnotes.org

I've been writing my own notes for various things including some podcasts. I'm curious who are the writers or note-takers for your website?

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

#434

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This is awesome. I would 100% buy a battery operated version

100% I agree. Makes non-sense the eInk (low consumption) but power cord.

In defense of cord, I find battery powered (and wireless) things a a lot less "magical" than their alternatives for long lived devices.

"Oh, that's not working today. I guess I need to charge it."

Corded seems a good fit for a static location device.

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

#435

I'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

Really neat! Business-wise, is it meant to compete with sites like Wanikani and Bunpro, or is it meant to be more complementary?

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

#436
A quarterly magazine — $2K/mo: pipewrenchmag.com

Two membership tiers, one paid, one barter: pipewrenchmag.com/backer-barter

We publish one longform nonfiction feature every quarter, surrounded by a constellation of reactions, asides, and art inspired by the core story. Our latest issue is about bringing in "outside food," and the art of smuggling snacks into movie theaters: https://pipewrenchmag.com/making-concessions-movies-and-popc...

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

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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.

The answer is a big "it depends", but there are ways to get basic FCC certification done for as little as $1K-$2K if you contact enough labs and your engineers are reasonably good at adhering to proper design practices (minimize respins and testing repeats).

CE mark isn't actually required in the US, but you'd need it for Europe and other locations. It's more involved, but all-in testing can be done for > 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.

Crowdfunding is how it's done for HW products. Investors aren't going to be interested in anything small time (less than $10-100mm potential revenue + recurring subscriptions) unless they're friends and family or something like that.

It's a lot of money, but it's not out of reach for someone with a tech job who uses crowdfunding for the major production push.

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

#439
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Cool. I predict (hope) specialized jobs boards will become more the norm.

This is an interesting thesis. How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards? Today, HR teams usually post jobs on LinkedIn and perhaps one or two more platforms. A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.

Cross posting software for HR people to push jobs to multiple job boards is a whole product area in its own right.

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

#440

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…

Buy a server with a good graphics card, your server costs will equal out in 3-6 months and then you will actually have revenue.
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