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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 ehnto »

codegeek wrote: post #6

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".

It can be an antagonistic environment for online businesses, a surprise for the starry eyed hacker or entrepreneur who just wants to build cool stuff.

We regularly had competitors running negative SEO campaigns back when that was easier, we had review bombs, DDOS attacks, network incursions, you name it. Building out of the public's eye doesn't really stop that once you are actually operating, your competitors will find you.

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

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Post by lockdown22 »

MesoSim: Advanced Options Backtester - https://portal.deltaray.io

Put it together while I was learning about Options Trading and manual backtesting was very tedious. It made me better understand options, develop and validate strategies and now also enables users to iterate quickly on trading system development on SPX, BTCUSD and ETHUSD options.

For example trades see these posts: - https://blog.deltaray.io/boxcar-trade - https://blog.deltaray.io/boxcar-ng-an-optimized-boxcar

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

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Post by rozenmd »

codegeek wrote: post #6

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".

I love threads like this - while I've stopped sharing my numbers in public, I've watched folks blindly copy my uptime monitor's landing pages and then close up shop 2-3 months later when they haven't gotten rich fast.

At this point, being comfortably full-time employed and using that income to let me play all-in-one Founder/Designer/Engineer/Customer Support over the past few years is the moat.

OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com), for what it's worth.

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

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Post by rozenmd »

I built OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) - it's a hosted Status Page, with built-in Uptime Monitoring.

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As the 200th uptime monitoring service, folks often ask me what makes OnlineOrNot different - and they often find the answer disappointing: me.

I've worked on the web for Atlassian and Cloudflare, I've seen what works and doesn't work for self-serve web apps. So OnlineOrNot has:

- docs written in clear English that aren't out of date, and load fast

- a modern, responsive web UI with errors that don't make you feel dumb

- uptime monitoring for websites, web apps, and APIs that Just Works

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

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Post by eerikkivistik »

A few years ago we set up https://pepchecker.com. It's a relatively simple API/Dashboard to search for politically exposed people and monitor sanctions. We rolled it out a separate product, because we kept rebuilding it for various financial systems.

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

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Post by hakanderyal »

codegeek wrote: post #6

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".

If you are operating successfully in an obscure niche with little to no competition, sure, keep it to yourself.

Otherwise, whether you build in public or not, you will be found, copied, attacked, competed, analyzed and there is no escape from that.

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

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Post by josevalerio »

rozenmd wrote: post #14
codegeek wrote: post #6

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".

I love threads like this - while I've stopped sharing my numbers in public, I've watched folks blindly copy my uptime monitor's landing pages and then close up shop 2-3 months later when they haven't gotten rich fast. At this point, being comfortably full-time employed and using that income to let me play all-in-one Founder/Designer/Engineer/Customer Support over the past few years is the moat. OnlineOrNot ( https://…

I see you in a lot of threads and really appreciate sharing your experience in the comments / blog :)

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

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Post by longnguyen »

I built KTool (https://ktool.io) — it allows you to forward web articles, newsletters and RSS feeds to your Kindle.

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I did a Show HN 4 months ago[1].

The reason I started KTool was to spend less time on computer screens, and more on e-ink Kindle. I was afraid of going blind.

After 4 months improving KTool, it now becomes a tool to help you combat doom-scrolling. Instead of mindlessly scrolling the web, I deliberately send interesting articles to my Kindle.

Recently, I added newsletter & RSS support, it's 100% automated now.

My favorite source of content is Hacker News RSS[2], Stratechery[3], Indie Hacker Newsletters[4] and a few other Substack newsletters.

I can enjoy reading HN latest stories or my fav authors' latest pieces on my Kindle without spending hours browsing on my computer.

I just reached $580 MRR today (Dec 31st)

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996

[2]: https://hnrss.github.io

[3]: https://stratechery.com

[4]: https://www.indiehackers.com/newsletter

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