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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.
How to you keep those mini videos up to date?
My tiny game has been bringing in at least $5k a month since I released on mobile, it's fully passive now. https://j4nw.com/pawnbarian I feel doubly blessed that it worked out with no ads or micropayment sinks of any sort, just a demo and a single $5 purchase.
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.
This is an excellent landing page. They rarely explain what a product does this well and this fast. How to you keep those mini videos up to date?
It's a pain in the ass, I have to re-record the videos every time. But I think it's worth it.
Usually I only update the videos if the app UI get too much different than the current version, which happens once every few months.
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I did a Show HN 4 months ago[1].
The reason I started KTool was to spend less time on computer screens, and more on e-ink Kindle. I was afraid of going blind.
After 4 months improving KTool, it now becomes a tool to help you combat doom-scrolling. Instead of mindlessly scrolling the web, I deliberately send interesting articles to my Kindle.
Recently, I added newsletter & RSS support, it's 100% automated now.
My favorite source of content is Hacker News RSS[2], Stratechery[3], Indie Hacker Newsletters[4] and a few other Substack newsletters.
I can enjoy reading HN latest stories or my fav authors' latest pieces on my Kindle without spending hours browsing on my computer.
I just reached $620 MRR today (Jan 23)
I was pretty depressed at work a while ago and to take my mind off of the negative energy, I made a desktop app for provisioning bring your own servers, creating sites, and deploying web apps. It was free. Fast forward a few years and a coworker joined me and we made a cloud version of it. It is doing ok but yet pay for two of us full time. However, we looooove working on it and helping customers esp. with their depl…
Developed a few websites that I do monthly support and maintenance on. I’m averaging about $600.00 MRR which is down from the $1200.00 MRR I was making for a better part of last year. The beauty of it though is it only requires about 1-2 hours tops of my time each month though. Combining both some additional contract work with this MRR outside of my FT job I’m doing about $1500.00 to $2,000.00 month. Working on a few…
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…
I ask as I've built a similar tool that supports portfolio rebalancing and helps generally understand portfolio health. I found the niche of "DIY" investors willing to pay for software somewhere between fully automated and hands-off is small and although I've never pushed towards aggressive monitization, it always seemed like most self-service investors are conditioned to only pay for data (which I suppose in part your application presents).
(I suppose it’s relevant as, at its core, the books are made via one-off programs I write for each kind of puzzle. In addition to the LaTeX crap that turns the output of the program into a nicely formatted puzzle.)
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?
And you just asked the big questions - we have only successfully managed to find customers by word of mouth. We get the occasional person who stumbled across GamePlan from a Google search, but that is becoming more and more rare
I built it with a old colleague part time. We were trying to solve our own frustrations with planning, and just kept adding more things. It’s been an enormous amount of fun to do.