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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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Post by entelechy0 »

valryon wrote: post #45

I make videogames for a living: - Flipon ( https://flipon.net ) an arcade puzzle/match-3 inspired by Tetris attack on PC mobiles and switch - Steredenn ( https://Steredenn.pixelnest.io ) a roguelike shoot them up, pc, iOS, switch. I’ve been lucky to have an extra income with those two games for a few year.

Hey man, I bought Steredenn on the PS4 like 5 years ago and it was one of the best shootemups I've ever played. I haven't beaten it yet but was considering picking it up again for the Switch. Thank you for making it. I am working on my own game and games like yours are an inspiration for me to keep going with it.

If I can ask a question, was there an initial design decision to build the game in Unity, or was that just your preferred tool out of experience?

(asking because I am fool-heartedly going in pure libsdl2 and C++)

Thanks again!

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

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Post by mattl »

noah_buddy wrote: post #50
mattl wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How much do you spend on likeness rights for the people or the similar thing for famous monuments?

I think it depends on how the work is produced for celebrities. If it’s a mass produced product and not one off artisan creations, OP might run into problems

They look to be making several of each person.

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

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Post by hifikuno »

eps wrote: post #42
mjaques wrote: post #32

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?

On the front page it says €15.99 for access to all decks forever, including updates.

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

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Post by pcardoso »

joshmn wrote: post #3

During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book. Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or…

Very cool to know.

I did something very similar for Surfing schools. Not yet making any money off it, but I am trying to. Reaching out to other surfing schools, improving the product adding new features.

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

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Post by eps »

porsager wrote: post #20

I wanted to give swift a try when it came out in 2014. I created the keyboard I know you all miss on the iPhone, and it's been doing quite great since. https://typenineapp.com

This has gotta be a massive patent minefield.

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Post by sphuff »

harel wrote: post #21
sphuff wrote: post #15

I got pretty into Stable Diffusion soon after it came out. Like a lot of users, I tinkered around with different ways to run it, going the usual route of running on my weak local machine, then going on to runpod, then implementing my own custom solution. What I came up with worked pretty well for me, so I created a site that allows users to upload custom models and run Stable Diffusion “in the cloud”. I launched in e…

When previewing models and your email is no validated, the link comes up in glorious html on the screen: Click here to verify your email.

Thanks for the heads up! I’ll take a look - last I checked that link was rendering correctly, so I’ll see what’s going on there

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Post by phist_mcgee »

joshmn wrote: post #3

During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book. Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or…

It's a great website, really well done!

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Post by andyish »

I built https://team-today.com in a lock down as a way for my remote team to see when people are on holiday, going to site, or wfh.

Since then it’s grown to include other features like desk booking and PTO approvals. But at it’s all been built around the core concept of seeing when your colleagues are working and where they’re planning on working from.

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

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Post by adithyasrin »

https://www.arbeitnow.com - a job board for Germany. It's been up for two years this January and it keeps me going! Revenue and traffic fluctuate a lot, does not really matter to me as long as people keep finding jobs through it so I'll keep working on it as long as I can.

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

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Post by kedmi »

windowshopping wrote: post #58
kedmi wrote: post #13

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.

Thanks! Will look into it.
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