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I had 3 sources of side income last year. 1/ Started a niche dating app in 2017. Revenue ranges form 700-1,100/mo. Hosting is about $50/mo. 2/ Bought a house and rent our spare rooms for $3,100/mo. 3/ Contracting projects for a small dev shop earned $3-10k/mo (depending on how many hours I worked).
Nothing really to show visually but I make about that passively selling/trading high end watches. More a hobby than anything just to wear them but some easy cash.
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I keep running into this in the US in large cities. Really well regarded restaurants or music venues do everything through FB and insta. I don't have either of those apps, and I don't remember my passwords from a decade ago. Isn't there a service somewhere, where you give someone some pictures of your food, and restaurant, and you get a container and credentials for a webpage that handles reservations, takes pickup o…
Because Facebook is simple. Any one can update it, and it doesn't go down, and it doesn't cost anything. I've many times seen web presences fail for small organizations, when the only person that understands the web set up leaves. With Facebook, that doesn't happen. I'm sure there are services such as you describe, and probably many restaurants use them, and it's not obvious. But Facebook is the default.
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.
Great job! How did you convince users to trust an unknown site to store their personal data? This is one the things holding me back from implementing my side project ideas. I personally know that I won’t misuse users data but how do I really convince users.
I'm dual-licensing it. It may be surprising that people would buy a codec for a 34-year-old format, but GIF is a popular medium, and I've created a solid implementation (in Rust, of course).
I really like the licensing model. Unlike a SaaS, it doesn't require me to stay up all night worrying about uptime. The types of companies that buy the licenses know what they're doing.
I had 3 sources of side income last year. 1/ Started a niche dating app in 2017. Revenue ranges form 700-1,100/mo. Hosting is about $50/mo. 2/ Bought a house and rent our spare rooms for $3,100/mo. 3/ Contracting projects for a small dev shop earned $3-10k/mo (depending on how many hours I worked).
Nearly $100k/yr in side income at the low end is very impressive. Do you work full-time as a developer in addition to this?
If you don’t know what remote browser isolation is, it’s basically a security product to keep browser. Content executing on a remote computer away from your local device and Netwerk but turns out people use it for a lot more than that: an embedded multiplayer browser for live streaming educational lessons; a human in the loop intervention console to investigate and unstick stalled web automation tasks; as well as the more traditional security or reverse proxy use cases. A large part of my nontraditional marketing came through my source available GitHub version, which is now languishing well behind the paid pro version in terms of features and quality: https://GitHub.com/dosyago/BrowserBox
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