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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 rahimnathwani »

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.

I just downloaded your sample deck for Spanish. One of the sentences is:

  Front: I'm not happy.
  Back: No soy feliz.
This doesn't seem correct to me.

I'm not happy (right now) => No estoy feliz.

No soy feliz means something like "I'm not a happy person".

EDIT: I should have mentioned that I'm not a native Spanish speaker. It turns out I'm wrong here, and that either estoy or soy would work in this case.

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

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Post by mrichman »

andyish wrote: post #68

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.

Nice! What's your tech stack and how long did it take to build your MVP? Can you share your current revenue and expenses?

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

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Post by thomaslangston »

enraged_camel wrote: post #44

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…

There are some YouTube channels that specialize in landscaping. I could see digitally and entrepreneurially minded landscaping professionals being a good part of their audience. Might be worth sponsoring a video or two.

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

#85

Post by sphuff »

harel wrote: post #80
sphuff wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

While we're both here, it's not exactly clear to me what that whole thing means and does. Arguably i'm not too clued up in SD models and what they are and why would I want them. Might be a good idea to explain this or if explanation exists make it more prominent to hook ignorant people like me. :-)

Great point. I might need an entirely separate landing page for the artist/general audience vs the prosumer type landing page that currently exists.

(If you’re interested, the gist is that custom models allow for completely distinct “styles” as well as unique characters. For example, if you wanted to generate art in the style of Monet, you could train a custom model in that style)

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

#86

Post by mjaques »

rahimnathwani wrote: post #81
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.

I just downloaded your sample deck for Spanish. One of the sentences is: Front: I'm not happy. Back: No soy feliz. This doesn't seem correct to me. I'm not happy (right now) => No estoy feliz. No soy feliz means something like "I'm not a happy person". EDIT: I should have mentioned that I'm not a native Spanish speaker. It turns out I'm wrong here, and that either estoy or soy would work in this case.

You are correct, but I'd say this one is fundamentally ambiguous (I'm Portuguese myself, where this also applies), as it is a one-to-two mapping here. Without further context you can't really choose one or the other, so we just left it as is :).

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

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Post by jasonb05 »

Python concurrency has a super bad wrap (the gil) and I'm trying to help out even change opinions (e.g. work with it rather than throw it all out).

I write short focused how-to ebooks that on the different Python concurrency APIs in stdlib. Content marketing leads to email marketing to one-off sales. Doing about $2K/mo. Might expand into third party libs this year.

https://SuperFastPython.com

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

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Post by mjaques »

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?

Hmm, maybe we need to make the pricing pop more :D.
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