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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 ravivooda »

bt3 wrote: post #268
ravivooda wrote: post #236

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…

Mind speaking to the monetization component of your app? It's not readily visible from your links. 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 seeme…

Monetization is predominantly through affiliate referrals to CPAs and Tax Advisors; I ran Facebook ads and I had a good number of people reach out to me via messaging. am also exploring possible monetization opportunities through integrating APIs with big brands and roboadvisors.

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

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Post by nicbou »

trungdq88 wrote: post #263
nicbou wrote: post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Thank you! 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.

Someone made something precisely for that and posted it here last week. I forgot the name unfortunately, but I share the pain.

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

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Post by Xixi »

pks016 wrote: post #211
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?

It is indeed mostly green tea, although different kind of green teas: "standard" green teas (from Sencha to Gyokuro), teas made of twigs (Karigane), roasted green teas (Hojichas), green tea with rice (Genmaicha), green tea flavored with yuzu (Yuzu Ryokucha), etc. Sometimes we throw in something completely different, like a Zaracha, a Sobacha, or even a Japanese black tea.

This is the 2023 lineup so far: Sencha (January), Yuzu Ryokucha (February), Karigane (March), Genmaicha (April). But while there definitely is variety, yes, you need to really like green tea to fully enjoy the subscription...

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

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Post by goenning »

I have two projects, combined doing ~€1500/mo

https://fider.io - an open source alternative to UserVoice. I started this one 6 years ago to learn Go and React. I’ve seen thousands of instances out there being self hosted, so I started a cloud hosting to those who don’t want to manage it themselves.

https://aptakube.com - Desktop Client for Kubernetes. This is very recent, launch was 2 weeks ago, so it’s only starting to get some traction now.

I’m leaving my job to go full time indie hacker now, wish me luck!

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

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Post by bluSCALE4 »

sent-hil wrote: post #98

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…

This is awesome. Had I not already invested in a system, I'd of totally gone all in on this.

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

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Post by predmijat »

eande wrote: post #160
predmijat wrote: post #36

https://sre.rs - DevOps course (Udemy) for smaller teams and individuals

Nice and you have some interesting packages I have not touched. I just bought the course to help out :-) and lets see if I can run it on my Raspberry PI here cluster at home I recently built up.

Thanks!

GitLab will be a tough one for R-Pi :) There’s this one: https://docs.gitlab.com/omnibus/settings/rpi.html but I was told it doesn’t help that much (haven’t tried it myself)

Oh, and you will need a public IP.

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Post by jedberg »

nicbou wrote: post #272
trungdq88 wrote: post #263

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thank you! 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.

Someone made something precisely for that and posted it here last week. I forgot the name unfortunately, but I share the pain.

Plus. Self updating screenshots:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34416386

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

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Post by rebeccaskinner »

I wrote a book: https://www.pragprog.com/titles/rshaskell/effective-haskell/

I’ll admit that going in I talked to a few other authors and the common wisdom is that you don’t write a book for the money. I wrote the book because I thought there was room for a more practical industry focused Haskell book that didn’t assume any particular math or FP background, and showed readers how to apply the ideas in the context of real world problems. It’s been very well received so far as it’s been in beta and I made a decent amount on royalties in 2022. Going into 2023 I’m hopeful that I’ll see that continue as the book has its final release, and I’m planning to follow up with some additional materials like videos and interactive training that I hope will get more people excited about Haskell and will generate enough revenue to keep me motivated during the times when it all feels like a lot of extra work.

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

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Post by jerrygoyal »

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.

what a beautiful landing page. From where do you get most of your users?
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