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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 monero-xmr »

leonhard wrote: post #126
monero-xmr wrote: post #90

I make far more than $500 per month in cryptocurrency staking and various types of lending pools. For the curious it’s like a hobby that can make you a lot of money.

Can you elaborate? Which currencies and how do the lending pools work?

For example Synthetix SNX is paying like 30% right now

https://staking.synthetix.io/

Then take the minted SUSD and put into Curve for 8%

https://optimism.curve.fi/factory/0

Then take the OP minted and put into XTK pool for another 60%

https://app.xtokenterminal.io/mining/pools/optimism/0xDa62d1...

This in general is known as yield farming

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

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Post by kennyalami »

holgersindbaek wrote: post #77

I started a solitaire website 5+ years ago. When Covid hit, I ended up finally putting ads on it. Since then it's been growing steadily and about half a year back I made it my full-time gig. You can check out the game here: https://online-solitaire.com/ . I wrote a post about my journey on Indie Hackers if someone is curious about it: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-grew-a-simple-solita... .

Looks super good indeed! Great story on IH.

Did you start having only the game at first above the fold and then added more content below? How did it evolve over time?

It looks like SEO drives most of your traffic.

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

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Post by robswc »

pxue wrote: post #71
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…

Mexicos overall internet presence is literally stuck in the early 2000s. Most business' official website are a Facebook page. In a country of 150M people and growing expat presence, there is a TON of opportunities for software businesses to enter the market. For example: Riviera Maya has no MLS style real estate tracker/listing platform. The entire real estate industry operates on word of mouth, WhatsApp and Facebook…

Is there much of a market, given that they already use the tools mentioned?

Genuinely curious. I've always hated sales but would love to work on making existing solutions better.

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Post by gcanyon »

alin23 wrote: post #97

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…

I have an idea for rcmd -- if possible, it would be great to be able to assign a right-cmd-key to -- or open one if none is. Likewise for calendar.google.com and probably others. I'd pay an extra few dollars for that feature, as I'm forever opening because my tab hygiene is lacking.

I read your piece on window switching -- would AppleScript work? This works:

    tell application "Safari"
      tell item 4 of windows
        set the current tab to item 3 of the tabs
        set the index to 1
        end tell
      activate
    end tell

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Post by j_4 »

My tiny game has been bringing in at least $5k a month since I released on mobile, it's fully passive now.

https://j4nw.com/pawnbarian

I feel doubly blessed that it worked out with no ads or micropayment sinks of any sort, just a demo and a single $5 purchase.

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

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Post by lazaroclapp »

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.

Native Spanish speaker here (ES-MX, specifically, if it matters). I think this is one of the cases where a solid general rule breaks down in the specifics.

You are correct about the difference between "ser" (to be, permanently/over an indeterminate time) and "estar" (to be in a particular state right now). But "No soy feliz" sounds perfectly idiomatic to me, even for a relatively transient state of sadness. ("No estoy feliz" doesn't sound wrong to me either, but feels just slightly less natural than "No soy feliz" even in a context like "No soy feliz ahorita", with an explicit "right now").

As a note: "No estoy contento" (Also "I am not happy", or maybe "I am not in a good mood") is definitely "estoy", rather than "soy". No clue why "No soy feliz" does feel idiomatic.

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Post by mogulchris »

redtriumph wrote: post #121
mogulchris wrote: post #114

I have 2 projects right now, combined doing over $500+/mo :) They are pretty different target market wise/price point and that has been pretty cool to see the differences in marketing/churn/adoption/etc... 1. Mogul - Privacy focused Personal CRM ( https://mogulnetworking.com/ ) (~$650/mo, ~6 years old) 2. Ellie - A better day planner ( https://ellieplanner.com/ ) (~$160/mo, ~1 year old) Honestly no game plan, I just…

I read about Mogul. It solves some of my problems related to keeping in touch with friends. During Covid, I got into more VC calls with friends to stay in touch. Once Covid lockdowns ended, I wanted a system that would remind me of touch basing with XYZ friend, based on last sync up date. Over several years, my image as a good friend has tarnished since I didn't keep my side of bargain in enforcing good relationships…

I resonate a lot with what you are saying.

Although Mogul was originally built for professional networking, I personally use it to maintain personal relationships (it’s amazing to see how impactful it is when you can recall super small details about someone/a convo with a friend).

Thanks for sharing this.

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Post by kinkrtyavimoodh »

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…

Thanks for sharing this! i feel this is a cautionary tale for us HN-minded folks since i see a rather unusual love for the look and feel of the "old internet", and what i like to call the Craigslist style of design. As someone who remembers the internet of the 90s and early 2000s before it was taken over by ads and SEO spam, i understand the nostalgia, but as a web developer, also know that i need to do right by my clients and build things for them that make their businesses successful. An old outdated website turns away many customers.

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Post by rahimnathwani »

lazaroclapp wrote: post #146
rahimnathwani wrote: post #81

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Native Spanish speaker here (ES-MX, specifically, if it matters). I think this is one of the cases where a solid general rule breaks down in the specifics. You are correct about the difference between "ser" (to be, permanently/over an indeterminate time) and "estar" (to be in a particular state right now). But "No soy feliz" sounds perfectly idiomatic to me, even for a relatively transient state of sadness. ("No esto…

Thanks for taking the time to write this. As you probably guessed, I'm not a native Spanish speaker. (I should have mentioned that in my comment!)
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