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

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Post by pks016 »

Xixi wrote: post #128

https://tomotcha.com/ — a Japanese tea subscription service. Although we had to suspend our activities for the better part of 2022, we've been able to resume in January 2023. Logistic is brutal in what is starting to look like a post globalization world: shipping fees are through the roof, delays are long, regulation (especially in the EU) is ever more stringent. COVID-19 pretty much killed bemmu's Candy Japan ( http…

Interesting. I am curious about the tea (as a customer). I usually try different kinds of tea. The pricing looks steep. Is it always green tea every month?

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Post by culiao »

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…

Did you use a 3rd party for handling booking?

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Post by dang »

marc_io wrote: post #190
dang wrote: post #103

Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421 - Dec 2022 (70 comments) Ask HN: Those with money-making side projects,how did you come up with the idea? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33942558 - Dec 2022 (211 comments) Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3280606…

Hey, that's super useful. Thanks dang.

no problem just don't get me started on the 'side projects'

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Post by pks016 »

Aeolun wrote: post #163
j1elo wrote: post #123

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you get " How much does it cost? " as a Frequently Asked Question? :-)

I concur. How much does it cost? From the page I get the impression it’s free, but then you write it earns you money, so that can’t be true.

It's 39$ for 110 photos.

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Post by anonu »

karakanb wrote: post #106

https://getblast.io/ - it is an end-to-end data platform: data ingestion + dbt-like transformations + data quality checks + data catalog, all through a single interface. It is making ~$4k/month currently. Around the beginning of 2022, I was having a conversation with a few friends that are working at small mobile gaming companies, and they were having a lot of trouble building their data pipelines, especially because…

So you're building Snowflake. I love the idea... Lots of room to scale this to a unicorn.

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Post by robswc »

kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #149
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 c…

Ironically, a badly designed modern website turns me away. (sometimes because the thing literally doesn't work)

I remember trying to book a place and there was some issue with the z-index and I couldn't click to confirm the dates on the pop-up calendar. Made me wonder how much $$$ they could be losing because the % of people willing/know how to delete the offending element must be pretty small.

I agree 100% with what you're saying though. Older websites appear more "complex" to a lot of people. There's good middle grounds though. The new netflix for iOS is really nice, imo. Leans more towards form but still functions very well.

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Post by robswc »

pxue wrote: post #193
robswc wrote: post #143

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Facebook marketplace is as trustless as you can get. It's 2010 version of Kijiji/Craigslist with built-in picture upload. Right now depending on how much effort you want to spend, you can get a place for $2000 usd a month or $600 a month, for relatively similar unit maybe 20min of walk distance apart. Simply because information does not flow freely. Airbnb fixed the trust issue and dominated rental market in the last…

Interesting, definitely down to talk about this more!

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Post by readonthegoapp »

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 :…

i've def thought of using this before, but couldn't quite figure out if i trusted it.

so far, nope!

i appreciate that the site looks clean/barebones, but the logo is _so_ barebones -- just text -- that i thought... oh, this is just unsupported, someone thought of doing it, good idea, but then it didn't make any money, so they bailed, no harm no foul, wonder if someone else will do it b/c it's really needed.

i've had various extensions over the years that i wanted to build out, or pay someone else to build out, but there was no way to recoup my investment.

maybe i'll give it another look.

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Post by welsakka »

rogual wrote: post #5

A long time ago, I made some Flash games. I recently converted some of them away from Flash and released them together as a desktop game for modern computers. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1458090/Hapland_Trilogy/ I am currently making more than $500 a month from this, although I don't necessarily expect that to continue. Games are a crowded market. It was a fun project, though.

Thanks for the good times, these games had me spending hours trying to win

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Post by [deleted] »

culiao wrote: post #212
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…

Did you use a 3rd party for handling booking?

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