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Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Would love some feedback from HN community. Any thoughts?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#52
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I 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.

Linking to this comment from your Show HN, which describes how your decks are different from what people can put together themselves:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25678152

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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I 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.

Why is there no pricing info?

I read through the entire site and was convinced there was no price, but when I came back to reply I found that there is an element at the top of the homepage (next to "No subscriptions. No frills.") that says "Get access to all our decks for just €15.99."

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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I'm one of the cofounders of PriceTable. [1] It has been a side project since 2018 or so. About a year and a half ago I posted about it on HN [2] and back then our revenue was $2,500/mo. We recently passed the $6,000/mo. At this point we have a few very happy customers who make up the bulk of our revenue. We have been trying to grow more, but our challenge is that we haven't been able to figure out a cost-effective w…

The question was about one's personal side projects.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#55
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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 busine…

One of the things I wanted to do was understand who our customer was. They had really no idea. Waivers are all digitalized and ask for the basics: name, date of birth, where you're from, emergency contact. I use a "gender API" to get the gender of the rider the best we can, and from there we have learned a lot about who our typical customer is.

Some fun factoids:

* typical rider is 35-44. Less than 10% of riders are under the age of 24,

* about half of people book when they're in Mexico

* average lead time is 7 days

* about 66% of riders have riding exp; about 33% consider themselves "novice" or "expert" riders

* 45% of riders are male, 55% are female

* 1 rider reported they are from Antartica

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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> I get to say I am a co-owner in a Mexican horse ranc You must get business cards made and start distributing them to friends and family whenever you get the chance. Not for marketing - to brag and to be able to be mildly annoying.

It's definitely my favorite fun fact. I'm grow up in the city but I spent a few summer days on a horse growing up. One of my earliest memories was horseback riding with my mom. I must have been no older than 18 months.

Note that you can also use the ranch business cards as 'get out of jail cards' to avoid social chatter when you need to change the subject: You note that the in-law starts taking the discussion towards some uncomfortable topic during thanksgiving dinner. You immediately use the card: "Say, have I given you my business card?" - and then you move on to talk about the ranch. Even if they interrupt you and try to get back to the topic, the topic will be derailed for good. Usable every 6 months by pretending that you forgot that you already gave them your business card...

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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I 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.

Why is there no pricing info?

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

#58
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OpenSay - Responsible anonymity in Slack, moderated by AI and team effort. https://OpenSay.co

One bit of small feedback - I would say your landing page is very busy, it could use some more space separating content once you start scrolling down past the top part.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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I 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 love the selection and I'm thinking of buying a couple! Is it possible to have special requests made? Wittgenstein would be a great addition (the tryptic Nietzsche / Freud / Wittgenstein has been what forged my weltanschauung )

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Awesome work! Would you mind sharing? I live in Mexico City and would love to try horse back riding.

Sure. We're in Vallarta if you ever make it out this way. :) https://ranchoelcharro.com Obligatory disclosure: some semblance of ownership.

I live in Veracruz. Will be paying you a visit in the future!
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