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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 bosie »

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…

A filter for elevators would be super-helpful. I tried [1] but it seems broken.

after applying a filter i get a 404 (only fitler was bedroom size): https://homestra.com/houses-for-sale/?amount-of-bedrooms=2

On the note of filtering, why do you not have upper bounds on bedrooms/bathrooms? it seems like filtering for a 2 bedroom isn't possible because "2+" would give me a ton i am not interested in

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

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Post by h4ch1 »

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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That depends on what your definition of authentic is. If it means ingredients sourced from their host countries, then that's going to make it extremely hard for any restaurant to start; considering the logistical cost and generally things not being fresh enough. The appropriate definition should be authentic methods. If I want to cook dum biryani and market it as dum biryani, I should be cooking it in the traditional method of using a bread sealed handi; but calling it unauthentic if my chicken wasn't born in Hyderabad makes no sense.

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

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Post by 3dfan »

pqvst wrote: post #109

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).

How do you earn money? Affiliate links?

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

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Post by keiferski »

dffdsa432 wrote: post #135
keiferski wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, you are missing the point. Saying the OP’s comment, as stated, is just rude and socially inappropriate. In person, it would come off as being standoffish, nitpicky, and hostile. It’s not a good way to make friends and influence people. This doesn’t exist online, where it’s acceptable to post “drive by” snarky putdowns that add nothing to the conversation and don’t actually address the issue at hand - in this case…

I am not missing the point. The person is giving an actual answer from his own lived experience and you are saying they are rude for it. I encourage you to expand your network of foreign friends so you can ask them about the food here vs at home. They will almost certainly say the exact same thing. The tase and the smell of the food here even if they make it will not have the same taste and smell back home.

I have a huge network of foreign friends and have lived abroad for the last decade.

Again; you are missing the point. It has nothing to do with whether the food is “authentic” or not, which is itself a highly debatable question. It has everything to do with the way you communicate to people when disagreeing with them or criticizing their ideas.

If you don’t care that people will immediately think you’re a pedantic, difficult person, as long as you get to be “right”, then sure, feel free to disregard what I wrote.

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

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Post by HermanMartinus »

I run Bear Blog [1] an opinionated, simple, and speedy blogging platform.

It runs as a freemium SaaS and is turning a healthy profit. There area about 15k blogs running on the platform right now.

I ran it completely free for about 2 and a half years. When I added the "upgrade" with some add-ons it jumped to $2k a month in a matter of weeks.

[1] https://bearblog.dev

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

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Post by kouteiheika »

kiru_io wrote: post #137
kouteiheika wrote: post #20

I run a site for people learning Japanese ( https://jpdb.io ) as a side project. I'm currently at exactly ~$1996/month from Patreon donations. (It's not an aggressively monetized project.) I've been doing this for over 2 years now. You can take a look at my changelog to see most of the updates (at the beginning I did not maintain a changelog so it doesn't start exactly when I started the site): https://jpdb.io/change…

Wow, this is great! Love the simplicity of the website (focused on the essentials, no fancy design). Do you share the number of visitors / regular users?

A few thousand daily.

Not everyone uses every feature though; some people only use the dictionary, some people use the SRS, some people look at my difficulty lists, some people look at my vocabulary lists, some people only upload their Anki decks to see which shows/books/etc. have the most known vocabulary, etc.

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

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Post by capableweb »

asdffdsa wrote: post #121
capableweb wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When did you launch? Seems like very good revenue if you launched recently and already reached 2000/month considering the low price and high cost of the OpenAI API. Edit: Your T&C says it was written in 2019, you can't possibly been running the project since then right? https://gpt.space/terms-of-service

Don't trust any numbers here blindly sir. Without verification you don't know if any of them are marking $2k+

Hence the additional questions :) Making $2k+ in just a month (GPT4 API access opened for invite-only) would mean a ton of users quickly, which is hard to believe.

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

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Post by dffdsa432 »

pc86 wrote: post #104
epolanski wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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.

If you know anything about cooking, water affects the taste of food. The water in Turkey vs America taste very different. Therefore it is very difficult for restaurants to achieve the same "authentic" taste in foreign countries.

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

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Post by lampshades »

outcoldman wrote: post #134

7 years ago I started a site project for forwarding logs and metrics from k8s, docker, openshift in Splunk. It is enterprise offering, and I started making money pretty quick. After 6 months I already made 40k, and quit my employer. Tight now this company generates 7 figures, and still run by me with one more person helping with accounting. https://www.outcoldsolutions.com Now I also started macOS development for the…

Would love to get into enterprise software. How did you get your first customer?

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

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Post by keiferski »

StephenSmith wrote: post #25
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…

Very cool! Any advice for someone who would want to replicate this endeavor?

Not the poster but I used to host potlucks on a semi-regular basis. No money involved but I imagine the skills are basically the same; inviting people, managing the incoming food, etc. I would probably start by hosting a potluck for 5-10 people and then scale up from there.
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