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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 ultrasounder »

cushychicken wrote: post #421
axg11 wrote: post #334

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

How would HR/People/Recruitment teams work effectively in a world where there are many specialized and actively used job boards? I don't care about People and Recruitment teams. I care about People and Recruitment teams for a very, very specific subset of electrical engineers . My thesis is that HR and Recruiting for the sorts of roles I care about isn't very effective to begin with. The lack of specificity in existi…

Next up, Leetcode for VHDL/Verilog. Heck what's stopping LeetCode for LtSpice/Altium/Solidworks. Create artificial Supply crunch and You have the exact same scenario playing out in Software engineering field where candidates jostle for "highly competitive jobs" where they are put through a hazing routine called "white board interview". I visited the SAC Goldrush museum recently and came away from this fact embedded deep in my brain" When there is a goldrush, always sell Shovels". You seem to have trailblazed that path for me. So Thank You!

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

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Post by semireg »

This year marks 3 years working on Label LIVE, an electron app for designing and printing labels. Think: import a spreadsheet and print barcodes to a zebra printer.

In 2021 the profit eclipsed my consulting income. My 2020 goal is to double revenue. Today it’s making mid 4-figure MRR but adding in one-time-license-sales the annual revenue is healthy 6-figure.

The last few months I’ve been focusing on marketing and integrations. Today you can trigger label print jobs via the command line, MQTT, and now HTTP.

If label printers are your jam you can read more here: https://label.live/features

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

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Post by tasha0663 »

thrwy_ywrht wrote: post #252
abetusk wrote: post #211

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Thanks, that's pretty interesting to hear! Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction enough to get to $500/month?

> Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction enough to get to $500/month? Pure dumb luck. I made the site to scratch my own itch many years ago, and then it took off because there were few similar sites at the time (that let you mix together different sounds). Only promotion I did was mention the site on reddit a few times. Users were prepared to tolerate a lot of rough edges at first. There has been zero…

> discover-interesting-website portals (the modern versions of StumbleUpon)

Such as? Besides HN, of course.

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

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Post by insaider »

I make $3-5k a month with my golf betting algorithm: https://www.golfforecast.co.uk

I'm a data scientist/software engineer and I started the project 5 years ago as part of my masters thesis. Never intended for it to be gambling-oriented but that's just the best way to monetise!

Questions/feedback appreciated - cheers

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

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Post by s-xyz »

Just launched https://umbrellatoday.app, which is inspired from my personal frustration with umbrellas. The tool allows you to create alerts for rainy days, warning you to bring an umbrella.

The assumption is that we want to minimize our interaction with umbrellas; if you buy a big umbrella, it is a hassle to drag along and you will most likely loose it after a few afterwork drinks. Other way around, a small and cheap umbrella does not cover you enough, and breaks easily.

As said, just launched, lets see how it goes. Happy to hear your feedback.

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Post by thamer »

searchableguy wrote: post #110
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

That's pretty cool. Love to see a hardware project. What's the profit margin like? E-ink displays are expensive. That price point seems not enough to generate decent income.

I was curious about this too. From the dimensions listed on the website, it looks like the screen is about 6.3×3.7 inches, or about 7.3 inches diagonal.

There seem to be 8-inch e-ink displays for sale on AliExpress for $20-$40, actually much cheaper than I expected. No idea about the quality though.

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Post by ajitgoel »

matthall28 wrote: post #81

A tiny API for embedding weather forecasts as an image: https://weatherembed.com/ Makes around $500/month from various subscriptions through RapidAPI. Built on a whim during the pandemic. Uses Google Cloud Run + NodeJS.

subscribed to the (free) service through RapidAPI and tried testing it, getting { "message":"This endpoint is disabled for your subscription" }

for all the three endpoints.

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

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Post by ethbr0 »

buf wrote: post #297
friendly_chap wrote: post #290

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Did you not sign away the IP while you were there? If so by this comment you implicate yourself.

+1 That's a great point to make for people who are building side projects. Make sure you list your side projects in an exception in the IP clauses of your employment contract, like I did.

Out of curiousity, what does that typically look like? Named project + brief description + market it's in?

Have you ever had any pushback from legal? Presumably to the effect of "What if you take our IP and put it into that project?"

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