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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 PostOnce »

ATHF-Rabbot wrote: post #13

Nice try, taxman! Nyahaha!

Taxes pave roads, build hospitals and schools, keep shipping lanes free of pirates, and provide weather-monitoring radar and satellite systems.

Taxes keep famine, war, and pestilence at bay.

Also, not paying your taxes is an easy way to ruin your life, and paying your taxes is an easy way to improve it, assuming you live in a country with a competent government.

I can't tell you how much I love not having to hike down to the river for water, or not having to smell heaps of garbage at neighbors houses because we have trucks pick it up roadside.

No one ever tries to hijack my car either, mostly due to tax-funded stable, secure society.

Taxes make life great, even if we don't spend them optimally.

edit: you only need open a history book to find out how miserable life was before

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

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Post by caspg »

I'm running a https://velomapa.pl - website with cycling related stuff (routes, races, photos, and other stuff) in Poland.

It's a super seasonal niche. During the season it brings around $1000/month through various types of ads and donations.

Now, I'm building and growing https://travelermap.net, which hopefully will work nicely all year around. It's also a content site that I'm planning to monetize using ads.

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

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Post by MonkeyClub »

PostOnce wrote: post #21
ATHF-Rabbot wrote: post #13

Nice try, taxman! Nyahaha!

Taxes pave roads, build hospitals and schools, keep shipping lanes free of pirates, and provide weather-monitoring radar and satellite systems. Taxes keep famine, war, and pestilence at bay. Also, not paying your taxes is an easy way to ruin your life, and paying your taxes is an easy way to improve it, assuming you live in a country with a competent government. I can't tell you how much I love not having to hike dow…

I agree with you that taxes are a necessary and in one way a good thing as well.

Just a note, though, that there was taxation even before we had social contracts that funneled taxes to public interest projects.

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

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Post by pakwa »

PostOnce wrote: post #21
ATHF-Rabbot wrote: post #13

Nice try, taxman! Nyahaha!

Taxes pave roads, build hospitals and schools, keep shipping lanes free of pirates, and provide weather-monitoring radar and satellite systems. Taxes keep famine, war, and pestilence at bay. Also, not paying your taxes is an easy way to ruin your life, and paying your taxes is an easy way to improve it, assuming you live in a country with a competent government. I can't tell you how much I love not having to hike dow…

Excellent post imo. Wish more people would be ready to pay more than always wanting to pay less. Especially the 0.1%.

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

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Post by Jugurtha »

nhoughto wrote: post #23

We built a tool that does $5k/month which we are _shutting_ down today (end of 2022) after 8 years. Kind of the opposite but thought I’d share. Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669122

Why are you shutting it down?

From this page: https://getsandbox.com/shutting-down

>it has been running mostly on autopilot for the last few years and increasingly we don't have the time to dedicate to the maintenance or improvement of it

I don't understand how it was on autopilot yet, at the same time, represented too big of a time sink maintenance wise.

>and the process of selling it off too high friction for the reward.

Have you tried some services that get shared here to sell/buy SaaS companies/products?

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

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Post by middleman90 »

I built Gaintrain (https://gaintrainapp.com/), a meal planning app designed to help users optimize their muscle gain.

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Since its launch in July, we have focused on improving retention and making the app as useful as possible. Currently, we have not actively pursued marketing efforts, but have gained users through searches on app and play stores. Recently, we introduced a paid subscription option and have already surpassed $500 in monthly revenue.

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

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Post by jeremycarter »

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.

Massive fan of Mailsac! Great offering.

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

#29

Post by nhoughto »

Jugurtha wrote: post #26
nhoughto wrote: post #23

We built a tool that does $5k/month which we are _shutting_ down today (end of 2022) after 8 years. Kind of the opposite but thought I’d share. Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669122

Why are you shutting it down? From this page: https://getsandbox.com/shutting-down > it has been running mostly on autopilot for the last few years and increasingly we don't have the time to dedicate to the maintenance or improvement of it I don't understand how it was on autopilot yet, at the same time, represented too big of a time sink maintenance wise. > and the process of selling it off too high friction for the…

Hit its effort vs scale limit and we’ve got more pressing things to spend time on. We could grow it but the result isn’t worth the effort compared to cost benefit of other endeavors we’ve got on the go (big tech jobs) and more recent time needs (young families).

Learnt a bunch across so many dimensions and set us up for ongoing success with that knowledge, but this specific thing has no future and selling it appeared too hard.

It was on autopilot for sure but that baked in an assumption that customers self solved, and had no new needs. We felt bad that we were delivering a decaying service to users in silence, users could use an alternative and get better service for their $ (in theory) and we would stop taking $ for what we see as delivering a subpar result.

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

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Post by o2sth »

caspg wrote: post #22

I'm running a https://velomapa.pl - website with cycling related stuff (routes, races, photos, and other stuff) in Poland. It's a super seasonal niche. During the season it brings around $1000/month through various types of ads and donations. Now, I'm building and growing https://travelermap.net , which hopefully will work nicely all year around. It's also a content site that I'm planning to monetize using ads.

Cool website, will be using it for sure!
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