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

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Post by vageli »

trapexit wrote: post #55

I run small outsourced IT systems for SMBs. Web scrapers, reporting, stuff like that. Baisically private bespoke SaaS. About $10k/mo gross revenue and takes a few hours of work a week (unless there’s a downtime event that needs fixing). A lot of upfront work to build some of these systems though. Got to $2k/mo in the first month of doing this. I don’t recommend working (as a solo operator) with clients who have budge…

A couple questions, if you don't mind. How did you go about finding clients? What is the nature of the work agreement—project-based, hourly, or something else?

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

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Post by eerikkivistik »

We built pepchecker.com (Saas) as a weekend side project back in 2019 and have been slowly adding functionality over the course of a few years. It's now profitable and growing pretty rapidly. If we had put more effort into it, I think we could have crossed the $2k mrr threshold in a year.

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

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Post by klaaz0r »

3dfan wrote: post #95
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?

We work with a lot of agencies/landlords mostly larger once now but making it more self serve in the upcoming months

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

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Post by pc86 »

epolanski wrote: post #92
trillic wrote: post #86

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That attitude isn’t invited to the dinner party.

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You're right, how dare these rubes not ship in gallons of water from Turkey so they can boil that to be truly authentic. What idiots.

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

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Post by cleverfoo »

I built Scanii [1], an unsafe/malware content detection API/SaaS, as a way to keep my coding skills sharp as I moved into engineering leadership roles. Over the years it has grown into a lovely $35k/month business while spending $0 in marketing thanks to our amazing customers.

My advice to aspiring entrepreneurs: get it out there quick, listen to your customers and be ready to act on their feedback. Finding product/market fit is a journey even if you are selling into the most well understood vertical since it's not just about what the market expects it's about what your engineering talent/capacity can delver in a reasonable amount of time.

[1] https://www.scanii.com

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

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Post by tyingq »

Quite a long time ago, I had some success with finding things that were custom made and making tools to better model/simulate what the end product would look like. So, for example, some place that sells custom pendants/necklaces with a name on it. A front-end that lets people enter the name and produces a photo-realistic rendering of the necklace can drive sales they wouldn't otherwise get. I got past $1k/mo in revenue, but then had to put it aside for reasons unrelated to the work.

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

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Post by pimterry »

epolanski wrote: post #79
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…

Hey, I've used your tool many times to debug SSR applications! It was actually a Google engineer that recommended me it. Like it a lot. Cheers.

Awesome, thanks! Glad it's working well for you :D

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

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Post by pqvst »

Started AwardFares (https://awardfares.com) back in 2018. It's a search engine for finding flights to book using your airline miles. Started as a side-project, completely bootstrapped and self-funded.

We hit $2k monthly revenue after about 1.5 years. Growth completely stopped during COVID, but is now growing very well (more than 10x that).

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

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Post by keiferski »

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…

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One of the best things about meeting people in person is that no one is rude enough to make this kind of comment to your face. Unfortunately the internet removes that barrier.
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