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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 ChuckNorris89 »

longnguyen wrote: post #20

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

I have been conditioned to automatically assume KTool must be a KDE app. I was wrong.

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

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Post by jollofricepeas »

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://…

Exactly.

1. Being comfortably full-time employed is a fantastic mental, social and financial moat for bootstrappers.

2. Copycats assume that they can just throw up anything without focusing on sales, quality customer service, operations and financial discipline.

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

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Post by caspg »

o2sth wrote: post #30
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!

Glad you liked it. Let me know if you have any feedback.

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

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Post by lucas03 »

tmms wrote: post #38

I built https://www.inveester.com , it's a stock portfolio tracker mobile app with some focus on dividends/passive income. Didn't reach 500$ yet but it's growing and crossed 100$ MRR already

I also have similar site, with ~300 MMR. It seems like every second programmer is working on his own dividend tracker :D

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

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Post by dmundhra »

I built nitrohire.co, a reference checking tool for hiring managers and also did a Show HN recently [1].

The revenues are a few $100s currently though I have not been doing a lot of marketing for it yet since the beta launch resulted in a lot of feedback that I am trying to evaluate and address.

Also, if someone is interested in hiring/recruitment/professional networking space, would love to connect! Email in profile

1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34101264

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