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Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
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Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#32For https://scrapingfish.com/ it took us about 5-6 months from idea to $2k/month. It’s still not our main source of income. It was fun to build especially that it involved working with hardware.
Looks great, will give it a try.
Bug found: Your "Buy" page is missing the header bar for navigation etc.
edit: Contact page has the same problem. :-)
Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
I never hear that story. But I hear the 2 year one alot. The advantage of getting older is time is at warp speed so 2 years is nothing ha ha!
> The advantage of getting older is time is at warp speed so 2 years is nothing ha ha! To be honest: Realising that time is going by so fast really scared me this week. Being mid-30s I really need to get my shit together, soon... :-D
Spoiler: nobody ever gets their shit together
Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#34I've build BlueRetro [1] an universal Bluetooth controller adapter for nearly all pre-USB gaming console.
I made a gross income of around 3K a month last year out of Royalties on the soft for each device sold. It's Apache 2.0 software so people can do whatever they want.
I started making money when I decided to list on the GitHub README the list of manufacturers/makers that where sponsoring the project. (Only one person at that time) Soon after the others offered to give royalty as well.
I even got a Chinese company, notorious for selling "clone" of OSHW projects, to support the SW development as well via GitHub sponsor.
I've been working on it for the last four years. I entertained the idea to make and sell the hardware myself. But in the end I learned that's it's not something I'm interested to get into. What I really like is working on the software.
It naturally pivoted into a more community driven project where multiple makers are selling various variations of the HW.
I wrote a retrospective last years [2].
Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#35Not really $2K/mo but I run a SaaS for pest control businesses that brings in $100K/mo and started this business during the pandemic.
Can you share your company's website?
Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#36I run HTTP Toolkit ( https://httptoolkit.com ) which passed $2k a couple of years back. No longer a side project, as it's made enough money for me to work on it full time for a fair while now, but it certainly started that way, and it's still a one-man show (plus many wonderful open-source contributors). I suspect that'll be a common theme in answers here though: if you have a side project making $2k a month, in most…
I absolutely love how easy it was to capture requests through ADB with your tool, only solution i could find which just worked out of the box.
Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#37I run HTTP Toolkit ( https://httptoolkit.com ) which passed $2k a couple of years back. No longer a side project, as it's made enough money for me to work on it full time for a fair while now, but it certainly started that way, and it's still a one-man show (plus many wonderful open-source contributors). I suspect that'll be a common theme in answers here though: if you have a side project making $2k a month, in most…
I really like the UX on the homepage of emailing a download link to myself.
Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#38Yield farming crypto currency, make well over $2k per month. Some farms pay 50 to 70% interest
Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#39Sorry for spamming my blog but maybe you'll find it useful. https://pawelurbanek.com/anonymous-slack-bot-income this post describes my journey to total 50k profit from my bootstrapped side-project. TLDR it took 5 years. Current MRR is at ~3k USD.
Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
> The advantage of getting older is time is at warp speed so 2 years is nothing ha ha! To be honest: Realising that time is going by so fast really scared me this week. Being mid-30s I really need to get my shit together, soon... :-D
Spoiler: nobody ever gets their shit together
There's a quote from Sarah Manguso's _300 Arguments_ that I love:
> With great and solemn portent, my teacher announced she would tell us something that her teacher had told her, and that her teacher’s teacher had told him, and so on, back to Yeats: The thing to remember is that no one ever finds out that you don’t know what you’re doing.