Nothing really to show visually but I make about that passively selling/trading high end watches. More a hobby than anything just to wear them but some easy cash.
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#32I sell cheap but high-quality Anki decks for language learning: https://deckmill.com
Created using a mix of automation (TTS, machine translation, etc.) and human reviews.
Built it with a friend, making around $500 a month, very stable over the last couple of years. Spend 1 or 2 hours a month on it, mostly customer support.
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#33https://www.escape-team.com - a printable escape game. It currently makes about $600 on iOS and $400 on Google Play, all through the $1.99 IAPs.
I do not do any advertising for it, but as it is played in groups, it nicely advertises itself.
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#34A long time ago, I made some Flash games. I recently converted some of them away from Flash and released them together as a desktop game for modern computers. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458090/Hapland_Trilogy/ I am currently making more than $500 a month from this, although I don't necessarily expect that to continue. Games are a crowded market. It was a fun project, though.
Holy smokes! What a massive time sink it was :) Brilliant little gems, absolutely brilliant.
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#35Nothing really to show visually but I make about that passively selling/trading high end watches. More a hobby than anything just to wear them but some easy cash.
Reptime?
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#36https://sre.rs - DevOps course (Udemy) for smaller teams and individuals
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#37I sell handmade sculptures of influential people and famous monuments on Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/shop/jurgenstudio . Revenue is 2-6k USD depending on the season. I hired someone part time who took over production and shipping. it's mostly passive revenue for me apart from growing the business by developing new products when I feel like it. The profit margin is around 50% after all material and labor costs are pai…
I was expecting Rihanna or Gizeh, not Zizek ans the Berghain, and I love every bit of the surprise!
Congratulations!
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#38A long time ago, I made some Flash games. I recently converted some of them away from Flash and released them together as a desktop game for modern computers. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458090/Hapland_Trilogy/ I am currently making more than $500 a month from this, although I don't necessarily expect that to continue. Games are a crowded market. It was a fun project, though.
Oh my god, you made the Hapland games?
I spent hours of through high school playing them.
Wanted to say thanks for the great times!
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice! Was the booking system simple CRUD, or did you require credit cards for payment or reservation? Edit: Saw the URL from another comment. Great work, simple and does exactly what’s needed.
It's mostly CRUD, and the stack is very boring: Rails/Hotwire/Bootstrap, about 10k lines (we have apps for the staff on the ground, agents and agencies that we partner with, and some other stuff in there). The tricky part of handling the bookings is that on any given day we have a limited number of horses and multiple types of rides: 3 trails at 10AM, 1 trail at 3PM. A few times a month we'll max out the horses and n…
An absolutely amazing story. I’ve wondered for a while how powerful bringing skilled software engineers (let’s be honest, people don’t give us credit for the amount of actual business skill is required to effectively do this job) into small businesses would work. Most people who don’t work in tech or advertising don’t think so much about tracking everything. It presents a pretty big opportunity for both small business owners and software people.
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#40https://www.escape-team.com - a printable escape game. It currently makes about $600 on iOS and $400 on Google Play, all through the $1.99 IAPs. I do not do any advertising for it, but as it is played in groups, it nicely advertises itself.
A lot of traffic also comes from the mission editor: