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

Post by mrbombastic » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 3:59 AM UTC

galangalalgol wrote: post #136

pxue wrote: post #71

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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…

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…

Post by mylons » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 4:01 AM UTC

itake wrote: post #187

pc86 wrote: post #181

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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?

Ignoring rent income, I only made ~$75k in side income in 2022.

Post by spoils19 » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 4:05 AM UTC

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…

Post by phil-martin » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 4:11 AM UTC

Post by ksenzee » Mon, Jan 23, 2023, 4:17 AM UTC

jefftk wrote: post #111

joshmn wrote: post #27

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It's definitely my favorite fun fact. I'm grow up in the city but I spent a few summer days on a horse growing up. One of my earliest memories was horseback riding with my mom. I must have been no older than 18 months.

> One of my earliest memories was horseback riding with my mom. I must have been no older than 18 months. That is an incredibly early memory! 3-4 is more typical, and 2 is usually the earliest: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childhood_amnesia