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

Post by Cryptokey199512 » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 3:52 PM UTC

robswc wrote: post #217

pxue wrote: post #193

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Facebook marketplace is as trustless as you can get. It's 2010 version of Kijiji/Craigslist with built-in picture upload. Right now depending on how much effort you want to spend, you can get a place for $2000 usd a month or $600 a month, for relatively similar unit maybe 20min of walk distance apart. Simply because information does not flow freely. Airbnb fixed the trust issue and dominated rental market in the last…

Interesting, definitely down to talk about this more!

Post by Cryptokey199512 » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 3:53 PM UTC

robswc wrote: post #143

pxue wrote: post #71

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Mexicos overall internet presence is literally stuck in the early 2000s. Most business' official website are a Facebook page. In a country of 150M people and growing expat presence, there is a TON of opportunities for software businesses to enter the market. For example: Riviera Maya has no MLS style real estate tracker/listing platform. The entire real estate industry operates on word of mouth, WhatsApp and Facebook…

Is there much of a market, given that they already use the tools mentioned? Genuinely curious. I've always hated sales but would love to work on making existing solutions better.

Post by sent-hil » Wed, Jan 25, 2023, 7:35 PM UTC

tomaskafka wrote: post #326

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…

Very nice! I must admit that at first I thought it's a tool wall designer SAAS (and that $60 for ability to add a drill holder to a plan is pretty steep), it took me a bit of scrolling and reading to understand you are actually selling a physical tool wall elements :). Also, the subtitle "Use the world's first and only digital artboard to organize your physical tools." - I'd probably put the physical tool wall elemen…

Post by shahahmed » Thu, Jan 26, 2023, 4:34 AM UTC

goenning wrote: post #274

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…

Post by valryon » Thu, Jan 26, 2023, 10:04 PM UTC

entelechy0 wrote: post #61

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.

Hey man, I bought Steredenn on the PS4 like 5 years ago and it was one of the best shootemups I've ever played. I haven't beaten it yet but was considering picking it up again for the Switch. Thank you for making it. I am working on my own game and games like yours are an inspiration for me to keep going with it. If I can ask a question, was there an initial design decision to build the game in Unity, or was that jus…