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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 ipsi »

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…

Are you planning to deal with all the complexities that each market brings? For example, compare with one of the standard German property search websites: https://www.immobilienscout24.de/ and here are some things that I, personally, would or have used when searching for property that I don't immediately see on your site:

For apartments:

* Searching by floor (or below or above floor)

* Searching by presence/absence of elevator

For all property types:

* Searching by rented / unrented status (evicting tenants for your own use is hard)

* Searching by build phase, if you're interested in new-build properties

* Searching by build year (some people prefer Altbaus, some consider them the work of the devil)

* Searching by heating type (underfloor vs radiator)

* Searching by rooms, not bedrooms. In Germany, a 1-room flat is a Studio Apartment and doesn't have a bedroom.

* Display of and searching by fees when buying (typically this is searching for "no estate agent fee")

* Display of and searching by Warm & Cold rent when renting

* Ability to search by state & city (at a bare minimum, and note that state affects how much property tax has to be paid when purchasing)

I think most countries are going to have a lot of little quirks like this, and it's going to be a hard sell to get people to switch over until you've got a lot of these in place for each country. I know that I've used international sites like this in the past and ultimately abandoned them because they either made it too difficult to find what I wanted, or there just weren't enough properties on there.

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

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Post by pcthrowaway »

agotterer wrote: post #113
epolanski wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I “think” I understand what you’re trying to get at. But it’s an unfortunate and limited perspective. Sure, New York isnt Thailand and the restaurant didn’t source their ingredients from a Bangkok market at 4am that morning. But that doesn’t mean the chef didn’t cook, study, or live in the region previously. So does that mean the only thing that makes a dish authentic is its local ingredients and there’s no credit gi…

While I disagree with the above poster's attitude, I agree with the point about food tasting different depending on where you are.

Perhaps you can get relatively authentic Indian food (ignoring the variations in Indian cuisine for a second) in the U.S. and Canada, compared to India (I've traveled India for comparison). Because there are tons of import markets in both countries to get all the same ingredients.

But Indian food in Greece definitely has a Greek flavour to it, because it's quite hard to find the proper ingredients to make more authentic Indian food. They used feta instead of paneer!

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

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Post by Nurbek-F »

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've been looking [1] for a similar tool for a while; Just downloaded, really liking it so far! It's clean and intuitive. Thank you!

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35559469

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

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Post by FloatArtifact »

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…

What controllers you would recommend for retro games with a great d-pad and buttons? I can't find anything that's even remotely close to native controllers especially for Super NES.

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

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Post by darthcloud »

dom96 wrote: post #154
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?

People are nice? But most likely they want a good relationship with me in case they get problems. Also they benefits from being able to tell their customer they support the project.

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

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Post by shlant »

dom96 wrote: post #154
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?

Pretty sure the license means you do not have to pay royalties, not that you are disallowed from paying royalties

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

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Post by agentofoblivion »

I made an online course over a 6 month period and then did a little over $40k in revenue the first year. It’s slowed down quite a bit now. Haven’t decided if I’ll do it again or not. It was quite a bit of work, and having a full time job and young family, not sure the money is worth it.

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

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Post by hazhu »

I built a Charades-game [1] for both iOS [2] and Android [3]. Launched last year and just recently got to around 2k a month, some months like December are of course better than let's say September because of holidays like New Year etc.

It took about 10-12 months reaching those numbers, and I'd say we still have lot's of room for improvement. It's also very low maintenance, but highly scalable. What I do is basically localise the game to as many big languages as I can, and then throw some ASO on it and hold my fingers. Haven't spent any dollars at all on the marketing otherwise.

[1] https://yangmeistudios.com/games-and-apps/charades [2] https://apps.apple.com/us/app/charades-what-am-i/id159211843... [3] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.yangmeistu...

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

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Post by cloudking »

capableweb wrote: post #147
asdffdsa wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The apps have over 250k installs you can see on the Marketplace listings
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