Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

91–100 of 515 posts

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#91

Post by agotterer »

pwython wrote: post #73
agotterer wrote: post #21

A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe menu. The food is served family style and is authentic to the region we are hosting. We typically host the dinners on a Tues or Wed when the restaurants in our region aren’t too busy and could use the extra business. So far we’ve hosted 12 din…

How do you monetize it?

The cost per plate is negotiated with the restaurant ahead of time. We collect all of the money at time of RSVP which includes our margin. We then pay the restaurant and keep our fee.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#93

Post by agotterer »

epolanski wrote: post #77
agotterer wrote: post #21

A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe menu. The food is served family style and is authentic to the region we are hosting. We typically host the dinners on a Tues or Wed when the restaurants in our region aren’t too busy and could use the extra business. So far we’ve hosted 12 din…

[flagged]

Edit: dishes authentic to a region cooked as close to authentic as the chef and ingredients allow.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#94

Post by pimterry »

spotplay wrote: post #51
pimterry wrote: post #15

I 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…

Interesting project. Will definitely check it out next time I have to analyze the traffic from my phone. I was just about to ask how do you differentiate your product from mitmproxy but on a quick google search I found this thread from a few years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29627819

The nice bit of running a project for a long time is that eventually your old answers accumulate and save you time like this :-).

That said, one point there is outdated: HTTP Toolkit does now fully support websockets too. There's more I'd like to do there, but as far as I'm aware it's equally capable to mitmproxy in that sense today.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#95

Post by 3dfan »

klaaz0r wrote: post #56

I run two side projects atm but they are both becoming more and more the main job. I am building a Zillow for Europe [1]. The real estate market in Europe is a big mess and for the past 10 years not much has happend so far in proptech because it was easy to rent/sell properties. Now things are changing and I see a lot more supply coming on the platform. So far rented out 40 apartments doing around 3k in profit a mont…

How do the properties get onto homestra? Do landlords find your site and enter the data + pay you? Or is the model different?

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#96

Post by capableweb »

epolanski wrote: post #77
agotterer wrote: post #21

A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe menu. The food is served family style and is authentic to the region we are hosting. We typically host the dinners on a Tues or Wed when the restaurants in our region aren’t too busy and could use the extra business. So far we’ve hosted 12 din…

[flagged]

If you live in a metropolitan area, finding them in local niche shops tends to not be overly difficult. Not to mention that it's possible to import as well.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#97

Post by lm28469 »

jb1991 wrote: post #66
richrichardsson wrote: post #8

If I got my side project to generate $2k/month it would no longer be my side project!

In many places (most places), it would be hard for 2k/month be your full income.

(?) That's higher than min wage (post taxes) in most western countries, for most small saas/web projects/apps with small operating costs that's plenty

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#98

Post by blainehoyt »

klaaz0r wrote: post #56

I run two side projects atm but they are both becoming more and more the main job. I am building a Zillow for Europe [1]. The real estate market in Europe is a big mess and for the past 10 years not much has happend so far in proptech because it was easy to rent/sell properties. Now things are changing and I see a lot more supply coming on the platform. So far rented out 40 apartments doing around 3k in profit a mont…

Can you add a map to Homestra? That’s the one piece of functionality that most overseas real estate sites are missing.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#99

Post by pimterry »

iamlolz wrote: post #37
pimterry wrote: post #15

I 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.

Thanks! Yes, I found that a huge percentage of visitors to the site were on mobile (especially for HN/reddit/etc traffic) and when your product is a desktop app there's not much you can do with that, so for a long time I effectively didn't have a call to action for most visitors at all, which isn't great for anybody.

Under the hood it's just a tiny automated email flow set up via Mailchimp that sends out the download link when you sign up. Nothing fancy, but it's easy and it does the job.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

#100

Post by klaaz0r »

blainehoyt wrote: post #98
klaaz0r wrote: post #56

I run two side projects atm but they are both becoming more and more the main job. I am building a Zillow for Europe [1]. The real estate market in Europe is a big mess and for the past 10 years not much has happend so far in proptech because it was easy to rent/sell properties. Now things are changing and I see a lot more supply coming on the platform. So far rented out 40 apartments doing around 3k in profit a mont…

Can you add a map to Homestra? That’s the one piece of functionality that most overseas real estate sites are missing.

Already have it: https://homestra.com/map/

It's hidden on mobile because I didn't have the time yet to optimise it!

Post reply on HN