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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 nunez »

bmitc wrote: post #565
nunez wrote: post #470

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I meant “paid off its advance through royalties”. Sorry! Everyone’s path is different, but generally speaking, if you publish enough blog posts (especially on LinkedIn), someone from a content shop will notice and ask you to write a book or create a course. Both flows are similar, but I’ve only done courses and can speak to that in detail. You propose a course. The content manager you work with decides if it fits the…

Thanks so much for all of this detail and information! Sounds like LinkedIn takes their courses pretty seriously. I'll have to look into this more.

Indeed; they do! I have loved working with LinkedIn Learning. (They used to be lynda.com before LinkedIn acquired them.)

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

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Post by jborak »

I build a secure tunneling service called Packetriot ($2k/mo) https://packetriot.com.

Similar to ngrok with our own differences and approach. I also publish another product called Spokes Gateway which builds on the tunneling server and includes support for service meshes, high-availability, clusters and some other features.

I'm building a separate website for Spokes and its related software, hoping to publish it soon. It's eventual home will be https://spokes.network.

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

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Post by joelrunyon »

noja wrote: post #559
joelrunyon wrote: post #548

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The app is free to download and you can try a bunch of the free workouts (?) no questions asked. Is that not enough of a trial?

No, because none of the free workouts are workouts I am interested in. Just my 2 cents.

You can try the free workouts and then pay for the ones you're interested in. It's $5/month. We've found this works well and lets us get everyone some routines at least.

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

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Post by superphil0 »

davidkuennen wrote: post #53

I'm working on an event based stock portfolio/investment tracker. Currently at 10k MRR. https://stockevents.app Edit: Just noticed this thread was merged/resubmerged? Now I have a duplicate answer here. :-/

How do you get the data?

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

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Post by hazza_n_dazza »

HEHENE wrote: post #197

My 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…

I had a look at the servers for rent through your affiliate, and I did not like that they have 'drip'pricing - starts out at 7.40AUD or so, then the add ons come, like server location or decent RAM. Then on logout they offer e 50% off coupon, so I go back, choose a server and nowhere to put the discount code! SO awesome service, Ilove it I'm going to set up a a server, but maybe look for a better server provider with clear pricing. Also their servers in Sydney were down, so thats a flag also.

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

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Post by noja »

joelrunyon wrote: post #583
noja wrote: post #559

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, because none of the free workouts are workouts I am interested in. Just my 2 cents.

You can try the free workouts and then pay for the ones you're interested in. It's $5/month. We've found this works well and lets us get everyone some routines at least.

Okay. Your app. I was just explaining to you why the conversion didn't work for me.

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

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Post by zoltron3000 »

Getting close with https://www.onward.ly/. A course + journal for getting clearer on yourself. Helps form mental models and habits around being present, leaning into what you want, and saying no to the rest. Basically show up as yourself not what other people expect you to be.

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

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Post by kmetan »

cushychicken wrote: post #58

I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December. It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips. Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com

Thanks for sharing this... How did your paying customers became aware of you?
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