Previously asked here → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152
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
#2Real Kana (for learning hiragana and katakana), https://realkana.com/
Monetization is ads (AdMetricsPro) and an iOS app. Seasonal popularity but it probably averages around $500/month. I would love to replace the ad engine with something less invasive (e.g. sponsors), but don't have the time or expertise.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#3I'm running a website for people learning Japanese (a dictionary and an SRS/Anki replacement, among other things) and currently making ~$1300/month from Patreon donations, up from ~$590/month the last time this show and tell was posted.
Link to the website: https://jpdb.io/
Still only a side-project, and will probably stay that way for a long time still.
Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#4Running a service to manage remotely old phone-based intercoms (e.g DoorKing) without the need to change any hardware.
We got some property managers in San Francisco and one locksmith reseller as customers.
Re: 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
#6I'm selling access to my collection of 500+ wallpapers I created over ~20 years. It is not $500/month every month, but sometimes I hit that number. Spent $0 on marketing ever (probably not a good thing, actually).
After all these years, it still amazes me some people are ready to pay for pictures :-)
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#7I'm selling access to my collection of 500+ wallpapers I created over ~20 years. It is not $500/month every month, but sometimes I hit that number. Spent $0 on marketing ever (probably not a good thing, actually). After all these years, it still amazes me some people are ready to pay for pictures :-) https://vlad.studio/
Long time fan, never thought of you as a person before this :)
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#8Running a service to manage remotely old phone-based intercoms (e.g DoorKing) without the need to change any hardware. We got some property managers in San Francisco and one locksmith reseller as customers. https://www.DropBy.io
That's a side project? The site looks very professional, congrats
Anyway a bug report: https://dropby.io/privacy-policy/ is showing some CSS as text in the beginning and the end of the page
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#9I started investing in stocks couple of years ago. It is probably not what you wanted to hear but it makes me a lot of money and allowed me to retire in my 30s, as a minimalist. I am a long-term investor(I hold positions at least 1 year) so the time it requires is essentially none.
Besides that I tried to run multiple project in my past but none took off. The problem is that the internet has been monopolized and it is no longer about the idea or being better than competition but it is 100% about money you spend on advertising. That's what killed all my projects. I still do them because I like to code but I don't expect to ever succeed. The goods times for the internet, around 2010s, are long gone.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell
#10I started investing in stocks couple of years ago. It is probably not what you wanted to hear but it makes me a lot of money and allowed me to retire in my 30s, as a minimalist. I am a long-term investor(I hold positions at least 1 year) so the time it requires is essentially none. Besides that I tried to run multiple project in my past but none took off. The problem is that the internet has been monopolized and it i…
Out of curiosity, what stocks would you (or anyone reading my comment) recommend for someone in their late 40s? TIA.