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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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Post by Ephil012 »

tehsauce wrote: post #108

Shortly after stable diffusion was released, I realized that an enormous number of non-ML people were suddenly interested in using an ML model. However, APIs are insanely expensive and not very developer friendly, and running it yourself required pretty fancy hardware. The goal was to make the technology absolutely as accessible as possible. So I launched https://computerender.com with the simplest API possible - jus…

Out of curiosity, how do you handle traffic surges? Do you just have to manually add more servers? Or did you write a script to auto purchases more servers on vast.ai since there isn't any autoscaling feature there (that I am aware of)

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Post by nanidin »

monero-xmr wrote: post #141
leonhard wrote: post #126

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

How does the $500 compare to your assets at risk in these schemes? I.e. are you picking up pennies in front of a steamroller?

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

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Post by booi »

trungdq88 wrote: post #252

I built a screenshot app for macOS and made ~$3k/mo from it :) https://xnapper.com People like the app for its ability to turn a normal boring screenshot into a beautiful one that they can share on social media instantly.

Brilliant

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Post by tomschlick »

https://zonewatcher.com is an audit trail and changelog for your DNS records.

It began in 2016 out of some frustration I was having with consulting clients who would modify their DNS records incorrectly, breaking their email and/or website until I was able to get them back online. It was frustrating digging through emails or old technical documents to find the original values before they had made their changes. I wanted a tool that could automatically backup those records to make reverting easy while at the same time notifying me of any changes so issues could be proactively fixed before their business was impacted.

So with that, ZoneWatcher was born. Depending on your plan, we check multiple times per hour and take a snapshot of each zone's records. When a change happens, we record the change and send you a notification so you can review and have the necessary data to revert if it was in error.

Making close to $500/mo now since a major relaunch / feature update back in December with a decent stream of new users every month. No major marketing done yet other than just word of mouth and the occasional reddit post on /r/msp's vendor threads.

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Post by itake »

cjbgkagh wrote: post #242
mylons wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I’m basically losing money. I spend like $1.20 to earn $1.

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Post by depomoty »

I'm working part-time on my project https://chartbrew.com

It's an open-source data visualization and reporting platform that I started in 2018, I abandoned in 2019, then resumed working on it more seriously in 2020.

Currently, the platform is doing $1,138 in MRR from then managed hosting service and has made over $11k in revenue so far. It's been growing steadily in the last few months but going through a rough Dec-Jan period at the moment. You can see the open page at https://chartbrew.com/open

Onwards and great job everyone at working to make side projects work for you!

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Post by nicbou »

spoils19 wrote: post #225
kinkrtyavimoodh wrote: post #149

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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…

This is one the examples where the exception proves the rule. After introducing my friends and family to a CLI-based booking tool I wrote for them, they have swore off website UI's since. Every other week I get an excited e-mail stating how great the tool is, and how they have also convinced their own friends to give up JavaScript and turn towards Rust.

I'd love to hear more
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