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

Post by lampshades » Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 3:37 PM UTC

cleverfoo wrote: post #225

lampshades wrote: post #215

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I guess more of what I'm asking is, how did you launch? The biggest problem I have is getting word out about my product, which always ends up killing them. I'm a developer by trade, so marketing and the like isn't my forte. Did you use ProductHunt? Indiehackers? Reddit? Twitter? Word of mouth? Thanks for the reply btw, very helpful info. I've been iterating on something in my free time that fills a very small budgeti…

Got it, in that case it helps to build a product for a community you can interact with. In my case, this was connecting with folks on Stackoverflow that were struggling with integrating malware detection into their apps... that was all the marketing I did to get the product validated - but keep in mind that was 10 years or so back. Best of luck with your launch!

Post by taftster » Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 3:41 PM UTC

kube-system wrote: post #237

shlant wrote: post #167

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

Royalties are typically a contractual payment, though. Calling a voluntary payment a royalty is kind of an odd use of the word, if not plainly incorrect.

Post by yellowapple » Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 3:45 PM UTC

jntvjnvutnuvt wrote: post #153

keiferski wrote: post #144

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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.

Post by hazhu » Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 3:47 PM UTC

3dfan wrote: post #240

hazhu wrote: post #169

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…

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Post by samjett » Fri, Apr 14, 2023, 3:49 PM UTC

rwilinski wrote: post #84

I made Dynobase [1], an alternative GUI for DynamoDB. Passed 2k/mo few years ago. Runs 100% automatically now, I spend ~2h/week mostly responding to customer inquiries. I could leave my full time job but I just like it (and money) too much. [1] https://dynobase.dev