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

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

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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…

ToolWall looks really cool. Great job.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

why would you ignore rent income

I guess that would be because that is making money by having money and not readily accessible to those who don’t already have money.

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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…

This comment is so so so relatable. I’ve lost a number of great friendships/relationships in my life because of how much I suck at keeping in touch with folks. I can’t even blame those folks for considering me a bad friend because of this. What does make me sad though is when some of them think I do this on purpose or that I don’t care about them. While I excel at many things, frankly, keeping in touch with family and friends is one of those social skills I’m not so great at. I constantly feel misunderstood on this point, but I get it, no one owes me understanding, especially if they perceive me to be a bad friend. On the bright side, this has made me much slower to judge others when they don’t behave the way I’d prefer. Anyway, I digress . . .

I just wanted to let you know I understand your perspective here.

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

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https://seniormindset.com/ – book and workshop helping people with the shift in mindset that goes into being a senior [software] engineer. You can tldr my philosophy as “business results trump technical excellence” No MRR but made about $40k in sales last year. Biggest challenge is figuring out how to turn that into stable revenue. Biggest opportunity is that unlike my previous (technical) infoproducts, this one does…

How long did it take you to develop your Senior Mindset infoproduct? Curious what the ROI on your time looked like for that.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I’ve wondered this too. I don’t know any young people (at least nobody my kids’ ages between 17 and 26) who use Facebook. It seems like they might be missing a large part of their target audience.

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I created http://www.bithacker.io during the pandemic. It’s a live interviewing platform but for RTL design candidates. It supports Verilog simulation with an interactive waveform viewer as well. We’re also working on enabling synthesis soon. So far we’re getting some early traction and excited to grow it more in 2023 :)

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

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I built Tax Loss Harvesting Tool for different kinds of portfolios. Despite still being in the early stages, I'm gaining some interesting traction so far! I was badly hit in the recent market downturn because I had invested in leveraged ETFs without a deep understanding of how they function. But I still have faith in securities in the ETFs so I decided to see if it was possible to swap securities in order to harvest…

And HackerNews broke my Custom Portfolio Analyzer module! LOL :) Fixing it.

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

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Been chipping away at this as a side project for many years - Visual Project Planning and Scheduling. Draw on a whiteboard and it makes a levelled schedule for you. It has resources, equipment, and much easier to understand than MS Project. I have had a blast building it and it is hard to market - but the people that do stumble across and use it, the visual way of planning really resonates with them. https://www.game…

Wow, that looks less like a side project with such enterprise customers. What's the background to this, may I ask? Typically such tools tend to get built when faced with problems on the ground and tend to be specific to some niche. But as a side project, how do you know who your customers are, what they want and how they run their business?
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