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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 tomschlick »

cyounkins wrote: post #428
tomschlick wrote: post #255

https://zonewatcher.com is an audit trail and changelog for your DNS records. It began in 2016 out of some frustration I was having with consulting clients who would modify their DNS records incorrectly, breaking their email and/or website until I was able to get them back online. It was frustrating digging through emails or old technical documents to find the original values before they had made their changes. I wan…

I set up an account with the public DNS provider and it doesn't appear to support multiple entries per record type. For example, time.cloudflare.com has two A records but the UI only shows the one.

Yeah that would definitely be a bug if that’s the case. Thanks for the report, I’ll put it on my todo list to look into over the next day or so.

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

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Post by depomoty »

raphaelj wrote: post #373
depomoty wrote: post #259

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 :)

Great to hear that :) Don't hesitate to get in touch if you need help with the setup. There will be links to get in touch all over the place when you sign up haha

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

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Post by gcanyon »

alin23 wrote: post #306
gcanyon wrote: post #144

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I have an idea for rcmd -- if possible, it would be great to be able to assign a right-cmd-key to -- or open one if none is. Likewise for calendar.google.com and probably others. I'd pay an extra few dollars for that feature, as I'm forever opening because my tab hygiene is lacking. I read your piece on window switching -- would AppleScript work? This works: tell application "Safari" tell item 4 of windows set the cu…

Hey that’s a useful feature indeed, and it can already be added by the user with rcmd’s Window Actions which support AppleScript. I actually have done that myself already for Firefox. I could maybe try to implement the main part of the “find and switch to the tab if it exists” so that users can simply assign the URL. Thanks for reminding about this use case!

The solution I posted works for most use cases, but apparently Safari can have zombie windows with no tabs. I quit and restarted, and updated the script to handle the situation where there are no windows, but I need to wait until there are zombie tabs again to double-check that my fix for that works. Once that's done I'll post again.

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

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Post by alin23 »

gcanyon wrote: post #420
alin23 wrote: post #413

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Not sure if you already installed the Experimental Window Switching part, leaving it here just in case: Click on Switcher in the rcmd menu Scroll to the bottom and click on Try experimental window switching Install Hammerspoon Install the rcmd script Screenshot: https://lowtechguys.com/static/img/rcmd-window-experimental.... After that, you should be able to press Right Option + Equals ralt-= to assign a key and an a…

Wait -- why do I need Hammerspoon to trigger an AppleScript that I wrote? Actually, now that I think about it, isn't this easier to do: 1. Write the AppleScript (done) 2. Save it as an app 3. Assign a right-command to that app. 4. There is no step 4.

Hammerspoon is needed because App Store apps are sandboxed and can't focus specific windows, can't run arbitrary scripts and AppleScripts.

What that gives you is the ability to map Right Option+letter to specific windows or tabs of the currently focused app.

So in your case you could dorcmd-s for Safari then ralt-m for mail tab, ralt-h for HN tab and so on, and it can also open those tabs/windows if they aren't already open.

And you also get a visual switcher to see what your options are in case you tend to forget these shortcuts.

Here are some examples of how I tend to use that feature: https://files.lowtechguys.com/rcmd-window-actions-h264.mp4

I'll have to make it more discoverable and user friendly though.

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Post by lethologica »

c7b wrote: post #299
lethologica wrote: post #198

I started selling NSFW stickers on Etsy. Originally it was a way for me to have a creative outlet but turns out a lot of people want this kind of product. Making just about $500 a month from it now. It’s great because all I have to do is draw the original art once and then I can just repeatedly print it and cut it out. It’s also a very relaxing hobby for me. I enjoy sending out envelopes with hand written notes. It’s…

How do you do the sticker printing? I recently helped make some stickers for marketing for a friend's business, and I was surprised how much they cost to order in small batches (which is annoying, because we wanted to make miniseries with different designs, but now we just ordered a larger batch of one design instead). Sounds like you use your own hardware, do you have any experience with different models?

I have the simplest set up you could imagine. I just use a Brother MFC-J4440DW printer, the same printer I’ve used for years to just print text documents and some glossy Kodak sticker paper. The printer was a couple hundred bucks and the paper is $10 for 10 sheets. I charge anywhere from $15 to $25 per sticker and usually get 4 stickers per sheet of paper. I then cut them out by hand using an xact-o knife. I’ve looked into automating the cutting process using something like. Brother Scan’n’Cut or a Cricut but I honestly enjoy the manual process of cutting stickers so I’m sticking to it (pun intended!)

There was a little bit of trial and error to get the level of printing quality I finally ended up with but now that the settings are dialed in it’s a very easy process. Drawing the art is the hardest bit. I just use an iPad Pro with the pencil and Procreate for that

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

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Post by lethologica »

boppo1 wrote: post #325
lethologica wrote: post #198

I started selling NSFW stickers on Etsy. Originally it was a way for me to have a creative outlet but turns out a lot of people want this kind of product. Making just about $500 a month from it now. It’s great because all I have to do is draw the original art once and then I can just repeatedly print it and cut it out. It’s also a very relaxing hobby for me. I enjoy sending out envelopes with hand written notes. It’s…

Are you printing & shipping them yourself? I considered selling stickers at one point but print costs under 500 was too high, plus the hourly requirements of doing my own pick& pack. I thought about hiring the neighbor kid, but casual hiring seems to get messy/illegal fast.

Yep, print and ship myself. The shipping can definitely be expensive for a single sticker depending on where it is being sent to but I charge anywhere from $15 to $25 per sticker (all original art and I think that’s why I can get away with the higher prices) so shipping doesn’t dent into that too much to not make it worth it.

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Post by wonderfuly »

topicseed wrote: post #414
wonderfuly wrote: post #195

I built https://chatgpt4google.com which is a browser extension that enhance search engines with ChatGPT. It got over 500k users in less than two months. I started doing some monetization experiment recently, and already got $500+ now.

Ouch that domain is calling for a cease and desist due to trademark/copyright infringement

Good point!

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Post by fnands »

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 really like your pricing model (i.e. use forever + 1 year of support).

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Post by boppo1 »

lethologica wrote: post #436
boppo1 wrote: post #325

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you printing & shipping them yourself? I considered selling stickers at one point but print costs under 500 was too high, plus the hourly requirements of doing my own pick& pack. I thought about hiring the neighbor kid, but casual hiring seems to get messy/illegal fast.

Yep, print and ship myself. The shipping can definitely be expensive for a single sticker depending on where it is being sent to but I charge anywhere from $15 to $25 per sticker (all original art and I think that’s why I can get away with the higher prices) so shipping doesn’t dent into that too much to not make it worth it.

Do you use any sort of stiff backing to prevent bending?

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

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Post by Jemaclus »

raphaelj wrote: post #357

Not $500/month yet, but I'm already having a few paying customers: https://noisycamp.com/ NoisyCamp is a platform for music studios to manage their reservations. It also helps musicians to find place to rehearse.

You should sync up with this guy! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34490043
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