Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

281–290 of 466 posts

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

#281

Post by jerrygoyal »

Glench wrote: post #41

https://extensionpay.com — A really simple way for browser extension developers to take payments in their extensions. I made it to use in my own extensions since it's a pain in the butt to take payments in browser extensions. It has an open source library that works across all browsers and allows for one-time or subscription payments. Since 2021 developers have made over $125k with ExtensionPay which makes me happy :…

I've been using extensionpay for one of my extensions and have no complaints so far.

https://gourav.io/notion-boost

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

#282

Post by dicriseg »

galangalalgol wrote: post #197
_tom_ wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because Facebook is simple. Any one can update it, and it doesn't go down, and it doesn't cost anything. I've many times seen web presences fail for small organizations, when the only person that understands the web set up leaves. With Facebook, that doesn't happen. I'm sure there are services such as you describe, and probably many restaurants use them, and it's not obvious. But Facebook is the default.

I've seen that too. Or when the framework chosen goes away. If the person at a small restaurant or non profit who understood the page goes away you can at least find someone to come up to speed. But sometimes it relies on stuff that just isn't there anymore and you have to start over. I'm not in web dev, or whatever its called, but is there some technology in the space that is the equivalent ofba T-shirt and blue jea…

WordPress is my first thought.

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

#283

Post by stayallive »

I had so many side projects I made a side project to centralize accounts and payments. It’s now called Chief Tools (https://chief.app) and contains a certificate monitoring tool (https://cert.chief.app), a zero-downtime deployment tool for PHP (https://deploy.chief.app), a DigitalOcean billing monitor (https://bill.do; which I acquired) and a URL shortener (https://tny.app).

All of these have no marketing and terrible landing pages since they are mostly built for me (although I like to think they are pretty ploished) but hit $500+ a few weeks ago. It took 5-10 years but interesting to see either way (payments were only available about a year ago though, before it was all free).

The funny thing (to me) is that the URL shortener is doing the big bucks since apparently there is still a place for new ones in the market which I did not expect, I mostly built it to be able to easily redirect a hostname.

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

#285

Post by hamburglar »

holgersindbaek wrote: post #77

I started a solitaire website 5+ years ago. When Covid hit, I ended up finally putting ads on it. Since then it's been growing steadily and about half a year back I made it my full-time gig. You can check out the game here: https://online-solitaire.com/ . I wrote a post about my journey on Indie Hackers if someone is curious about it: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-grew-a-simple-solita... .

Good site. I just gave you at least an hour of ad views because I can't ever stop until I win one. :) Note that on chrome on linux, the ads get quite heavy and slow everything down after 5 or so games, and I have to reload the page or it's too unresponsive to play.

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

#286

Post by rymawby »

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.

I love this app and use it daily. (I think I got it through setapp). Awesome work.

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

#287

Post by slavba »

Few years back I built an RSS to email service, still making ~$600/mo from it. https://www.feed2mail.com. Later added an option to follow social feeds (Twitter, mostly) and connected the service to a Telegram bot that brings additional $100/mo. https://t.me/Feed2Telegram_bot

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

#288

Post by nmfisher »

valryon wrote: post #45

I make videogames for a living: - Flipon ( https://flipon.net ) an arcade puzzle/match-3 inspired by Tetris attack on PC mobiles and switch - Steredenn ( https://Steredenn.pixelnest.io ) a roguelike shoot them up, pc, iOS, switch. I’ve been lucky to have an extra income with those two games for a few year.

The second link seems to be down (when I googled, seems the HTTP version works fine, the HTTPS one is broken).

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

#289

Post by eps »

pornel wrote: post #186

https://gif.ski — a modern GIF encoder that beats everything else on quality. I'm dual-licensing it. It may be surprising that people would buy a codec for a 34-year-old format, but GIF is a popular medium, and I've created a solid implementation (in Rust, of course). I really like the licensing model. Unlike a SaaS, it doesn't require me to stay up all night worrying about uptime. The types of companies that buy the…

Good stuff. Ran into gifksi few times and even though I know how to do what it does, the demo gifs never fail to impress!

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

#290

Post by jurgenwerk »

kylecazar wrote: post #11
jurgenwerk wrote: post #2

I sell handmade sculptures of influential people and famous monuments on Etsy - https://www.etsy.com/shop/jurgenstudio . Revenue is 2-6k USD depending on the season. I hired someone part time who took over production and shipping. it's mostly passive revenue for me apart from growing the business by developing new products when I feel like it. The profit margin is around 50% after all material and labor costs are pai…

This is super cool. Admittedly, I know nothing about creating concrete figures -- I imagine the real artistic work is in creating the mold? Can you share how that is done -- is a sculpture created and then surrounded by the mold material?

1. I hire a 3d designer to create the 3d model I want. For example, I send him a couple of photos of Alan Turing

2. After I am happy with the likeness, I 3d print it. In this phase the 3d model comes to life and it's usually quite different from what we see on the computer as a 3d model. It has something to do with the difference in perspectives in which the designer designs shapes and in which we observe the item when it's produced as a real physical shape. This is very hard to get it right. Then we repeat the steps from 1 until I am happy with the likeness and the facial expression (this can be many iterations)

3. When I have the 3d printed positive, I create a mold using silicone rubber

4. The 2-part mold is then ready to be used for hundreds of castings (I use concrete)

Post reply on HN