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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 saradhi »

Checkvisaslots.com - recently picked as one of 12 Google's favourite chrome extension for 2022. It got the attention more than I expected, been a big hit.

I've expanded the service to visaholics.com (yet to generate revenue) where visa applicants can share their experiences.

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

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Post by dglass »

Not your typical side project but my book, Junior to Senior, has been averaging over $500/month in sales since it was published back in October of this year.

I've also been growing my newsletter, Beginner.dev, to help reach my target audience for the book and teach them the importance of soft-skills for software engineers.

I also have a job board for junior software engineering roles in the works to add even more value for the book's target audience.

book: https://www.holloway.com/b/junior-to-senior

newsletter: https://newsletter.beginner.dev/

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

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Post by 147 »

dglass wrote: post #3

Not your typical side project but my book, Junior to Senior, has been averaging over $500/month in sales since it was published back in October of this year. I've also been growing my newsletter, Beginner.dev, to help reach my target audience for the book and teach them the importance of soft-skills for software engineers. I also have a job board for junior software engineering roles in the works to add even more val…

How did you grow your newsletter/market your book? My goal for 2023 is to focus on growing my audience for my newsletter on devopsy topics.

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

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Post by codegeek »

I think lately there has been this concern from many folks that copycats are taking away some market share from indiehackers. A post was made on indiehackers as well recently related to this. So I feel that people would be hesitant to share. I personally have come across couple of indie hackers who stopped "building in public".

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

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Post by dglass »

147 wrote: post #4
dglass wrote: post #3

Not your typical side project but my book, Junior to Senior, has been averaging over $500/month in sales since it was published back in October of this year. I've also been growing my newsletter, Beginner.dev, to help reach my target audience for the book and teach them the importance of soft-skills for software engineers. I also have a job board for junior software engineering roles in the works to add even more val…

How did you grow your newsletter/market your book? My goal for 2023 is to focus on growing my audience for my newsletter on devopsy topics.

Mostly through posting valuable content on the newsletter and sharing it across various channels, as well as comments like this where I can plug the book and newsletter in the right context.

It also helped that the book was published on Holloway.com, and they had their own audience that they have been able to promote their titles.

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

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Post by motoxpro »

ruffrey wrote: post #5

Mailsac.com Disposable email for quality assurance and dev teams. A long term side project (10+ years). Started with Node.js and mongodb. Grew to golang and Postgres, with several custom micro services.

Nice. Perfect for QA. Will give it a go!
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