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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 mjaques »

Arainach wrote: post #74
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.

Cool product. One bit of feedback: after downloading a deck, the page redirects away to "how to use our decks". This is confusing and not intuitive - my workflow was that I wanted to download the Beginner/Intermediate/Advanced deck for one language and I had to navigate back to that language 3 times.

Huh, that's good feedback, thanks for pointing it out - I don't think we had considered the workflow of a user downloading all the decks back to back.

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

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Post by bhargav »

jasonb05 wrote: post #87

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

Great to hear. How did you "get the word out" about your content? Was it mostly inbound?

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

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Post by lillecarl »

kureikain wrote: post #17

https://mailwip.com email forwarding with extra stuff like webhook, full inbox log, SMTP support, and "email to blog" I made this because every time when I start a project and bough a domain and setup email. first thing. So I scratch my own itch :).

There are multiple typos/spelling mistakes on the front page, I'd look into grammarly :)

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

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Post by predmijat »

no_carrier wrote: post #88
predmijat wrote: post #36

https://sre.rs - DevOps course (Udemy) for smaller teams and individuals

How much does this make for you?

A little more than $500/mon at the moment. If you are to trust Udemy's "instructor marketplace insights", top courses with the keyword 'devops' are north of $10k/mon, but median is just $27/mon.

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

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Post by bhargav »

Glench wrote: post #41

https://extensionpay.com — A really simple way for browser extension developers to take payments in their extensions. I made it to use in my own extensions since it's a pain in the butt to take payments in browser extensions. It has an open source library that works across all browsers and allows for one-time or subscription payments. Since 2021 developers have made over $125k with ExtensionPay which makes me happy :…

Great way to solve a problem! For those that may be curious. Author said devs using Extension Pay have made $125k in 2021. They charge 5% on transactions which translates to $6250, roughly $520 per month. Perfect candidate for this thread.

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

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Post by alin23 »

I’ve mentioned before on HN how I make around ~$7k from my Lunar app nowadays [0] but controlling monitors is a larger niche and the app was developed and perfected over the course of 5 years.

This time I’d like to show you the progress of my last year’s project, https://lowtechguys.com.

It’s a small macOS app studio and here are my App Store sales for the last month: https://f.alinpanaitiu.com/gjxBpg/Image.png

You can see trends in red because December is a slow month for app sales, not sure why exactly.

But even with just 4 small macOS apps I manage to make ~1k/month with close to zero maintenance.

I have a lot more ideas for small non expensive apps that could add to the revenue but less and less time for them.

Right now I have to rebuild an old wooden house and finally move out of my rented apartment. I’m grateful to have a source of income on the side that can support me this year so I can pause tech while I do field work.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33620955

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

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Post by sent-hil »

https://toolwallhq.com - Digital organizer for your physical tools. I used to have a hard time keeping my shop organized, so I jumped in and came up with a solution that has worked for me so far and perhaps might help you.

The idea is you use the digital artboard to visualize your tools on the wall and then buy the holders to mount it on your workshop wall.

There seems to be a growing overlap between programming and woodworking for whatever reason. I could go on about the similarities, but after hours of staring at the screen, we sometimes want to make things with our hands and woodworking helps me do that. If you're looking to get started, I can't recommend visiting a local makerspace enough.

PS also on Etsy if that's your thing: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ToolWall

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

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Post by eps »

mjaques wrote: post #89
eps wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is there no pricing info?

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

Definetly do that.

I completely missed it because the price was in the text in refular font and it wasn't on the Download page or anywhere else on the site. There's no Buy page, so the impression I was left with is that you have a sneaky onboarding that reveals the price after a sign-up... or something similarly shady. Not a very good initial impression.

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

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Post by jasonb05 »

bhargav wrote: post #92
jasonb05 wrote: post #87

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

Great to hear. How did you "get the word out" about your content? Was it mostly inbound?

Good SEO for the tutorials which rank well in the SERPs. Competition was mostly blog spam compared to my hand-crafted human (me) written stuff. Took ~6 months to escape the sandbox.

Then massive "complete guide" posts on major topics like "multiprocessing" "threading" and "asyncio" that rank well in the SERPs and did okay to well on /r/python.

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