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…
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#372During COVID I was in Mexico. At some point I wanted to go horseback riding. I was researching places to go horseback riding and I was not at all surprised to see I would have to make some calls to book. Fast-forward a few weeks, I become pretty good friends with the owner at the ranch I went to. We grab tacos one night and he shares his concerns: They're not doing so well financially and are worried about whether or…
So cool! What did you use as a booking system?
It’s in-house. I wasn’t happy with anything we tried, and honestly it wasn’t as bad as I thought it was going to be.
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#373I'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-J…
Keeping the link for later, thanks :)
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#374I 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…
Do you accept commissions? For example, if I want an F1 driver sculpted?
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#375I sell cheap but high-quality Anki decks for language learning: https://deckmill.com Created using a mix of automation (TTS, machine translation, etc.) and human reviews. Built it with a friend, making around $500 a month, very stable over the last couple of years. Spend 1 or 2 hours a month on it, mostly customer support.
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#376I'm continuing with my project Newsy https://newsy.co A modern take on domain parking. I have ~50 un-used domains. I wanted to make some good use out of them instead of just parking them. So I built Newsy to convert them into automated content aggregators.
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#377I 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.
https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/22/snapper-2-screensho... - video
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#378Social Link Pages (sociallinkpages.com) - a WordPress plugin to add link-in-bio pages to a WordPress install.
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#379Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I'm very deep in this space and been doing it a long time, it's not something you are going to just pick up overnight. It's like running a business.