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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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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…

Do you accept commissions? For example, if I want an F1 driver sculpted?

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

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During 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?

More here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482904

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.

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

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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-J…

That's awesome. I've been using similar product previously, but these were either prohibitively expensive, or self-hosted.

Keeping the link for later, thanks :)

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

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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…

Do you accept commissions? For example, if I want an F1 driver sculpted?

Which one? I am planning on doing Ayrton Senna.

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

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I 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.

How do you guys generally acquire customers?

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

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I'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.

How much does the typical parked domain make? What is the biggest revenue generator? Newsy seems interesting but is it really working well for your 50 domains? Is it anything more than RSS aggregator with autoposting? What else do you do to help with the passive income streams?

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

#377

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.

Wow this is interesting, you write "read like snapper" on the homepage. I made a screenshot tool for iOS which is actually called Snapper. I have been working on/maintaining it since 2014!

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/22/snapper-2-screensho... - video

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

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Earlier 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?

It's quite possible for 100% loss, has happened to me before. But I'm in a lot of different projects and I don't keep all my assets in one place. I've had farms yield 1000% before so it's a crazy game.

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.

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