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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 qumpis »

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.

It's a spectrum and OP offers to get closer to one end of the spectrum when it comes to authenticity. What's the fuss about?

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

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Post by lampshades »

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…

Would love to learn more about this. What type of SMBs do you target? How did you acquire your first customer?

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

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Post by jntvjnvutnuvt »

keiferski wrote: post #144
dffdsa432 wrote: post #135

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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, d…

Have you asked them about the food here vs. back home? Will you return here when they tell you the food tastes different just like what the person said?

The guy said two sentences. You may think it's rude but it's probably the language barrier and he's just trying to give his honest perspective and there was no rudeness intended.

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

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Post by dom96 »

darthcloud wrote: post #34

I'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 per…

If it's Apache 2.0 how are you getting royalty payments from it?

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

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Post by rubymamis »

fm2606 wrote: post #118
rubymamis wrote: post #4

I'm the founder of the open-source and cross-platform note-taking app https://www.get-notes.com (written in Qt C++). I earn about $2000 a month from ads on the landing page (organic SEO), but very soon plan to add a subscription for pro features (while people could still compile it from source and get the full experience without paying, if they wish). I started the project 8 years ago to create a slick looking note-t…

Congrats on your accomplishments. I did not see any ads on your landing page. Am I missing something? In the early 00's when I was debating if I should pursue software dev (again) I wrote a couple of Win32 native apps in C and absolutely loved writing them. One of the apps was a workout timer which I submitted to Freewarefiles.com. It peaked around 48K downloads. Unfortunately freewarefiles is no more so I can't show…

There is a small one on the landing page, but most of the revenue comes from the ones on the download page, actually.

Awesome story! Come back to the light (literally) side.

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

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Post by lampshades »

HermanMartinus wrote: post #145

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

What do you find your customers are looking for that other blogging platforms don't provide?

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

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Post by agotterer »

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?

I'm happy to share my experience and lessons, but its a bit too much to type. If you are serious about starting one feel free to shot me an email (address in my profile).

What I will say is that I think the timing was right. My co-host and I lived in Manhattan pre-pandemic and regularly took advantage of the restaurant variety there. Our dinners are hosted on Long Island and our theory is that people who move from Manhattan to Long Island over the last 20 years started to expect higher quality food and a larger variety of ethnic options. Over the past decade or so the variety and quality of Long Island restaurants has greatly improved from what was here 25 years ago when I was growing up.

Post pandemic we saw an appetite (pun intended) for people to just get out of the house, be around other people, and have an experience. Quite a few people who come to the dinners say that they keep coming back because their partner/family aren't adventurous eaters so they never get to try new foods or typically wouldn't order some of the things we put on the menu. We aren't going for a fear factor vibe, but we do try to get people out of their comfort zone. We have a large number of solo guests who enjoy meeting new people and sharing a like-minded experience. Initially the group skewed heavily towards males in their 30's, which was our friends. Today its a very diverse group of people.

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

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Post by pawurb »

Glench wrote: post #120
pawurb wrote: post #39

Sorry 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.

This is cool, thanks for sharing. How did you find or form the mastermind group you mentioned in the post?

Friends from local IT communities that are also into "indie" stuff. But I believe it should be possible to reach out to people from online communities like indiehackers to form a group. There's also YC startup school https://www.startupschool.org/ that does matchmaking for founders.

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

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Post by lampshades »

cleverfoo wrote: post #105

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/m…

Congratulations on your success!

> get it out there quick

What did "getting it out there" consist of for you? How did you get it out there in the beginning?

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