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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 tevon »

nghiatran_uit wrote: post #48

If you have iOS/Android development experience, you can look at the Developer sector, which is relatively niche IMO. I've developed the iOS/iPadOS app, Proxyman for iOS [0], which gains steadily ~2k recurring revenue every month. Basically, it's an iOS app that helps you to capture and decrypt HTTP/HTTPS traffic on your phone. The app is needed if you need to inspect traffic from your app. Because it's an iOS app, pu…

You built Proxyman?! What a great project. This can't just be a side project though right?

Even if its with a small team thats impressive, the UI is polished and full of features.

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

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Post by tevon »

tevon wrote: post #251
nghiatran_uit wrote: post #48

If you have iOS/Android development experience, you can look at the Developer sector, which is relatively niche IMO. I've developed the iOS/iPadOS app, Proxyman for iOS [0], which gains steadily ~2k recurring revenue every month. Basically, it's an iOS app that helps you to capture and decrypt HTTP/HTTPS traffic on your phone. The app is needed if you need to inspect traffic from your app. Because it's an iOS app, pu…

You built Proxyman?! What a great project. This can't just be a side project though right? Even if its with a small team thats impressive, the UI is polished and full of features.

We use daily as a team

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

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Post by duck »

I started Hacker Newsletter [1] almost 14 years ago and sent out the 647th issue today [2] to 58k folks. It took over a year to break 1k subscribers and a few more years to get to that type of revenue. I could do a lot more with it and plan to one day, but really only focus on it a couple hours each week when I build the issue and talk to sponsors.

1: https://hackernewsletter.com 2: https://mailchi.mp/hackernewsletter/647

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

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Post by NicoJuicy »

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…

This actually made me happy, considering all the bad news lately:

> I even got a Chinese company, notorious for selling "clone" of OSHW projects, to support the SW development as well via GitHub sponsor.

I suppose that's RetroScaler?

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

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Post by uptown »

mateuszbuda wrote: post #43
kouteiheika wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Just curious, so how exactly do you source your IPs? I clicked on the "How IPs for web scraping are sourced" page expecting an answer on how you do it, but it doesn't actually tell me that; it just tells me how they're not sourced. You said that "it involved working with hardware", so did you source your own mobile SIM cards in various countries, hook up your own phones to that and use those as proxies?

Good question. Here we explain, with a few simplifications, how we source our IPs: https://scrapingfish.com/blog/byo-mobile-proxy-for-web-scrap...

Wouldn't this mean that you're bandwidth constrained by the data plan associated with the SIM from the mobile carrier?

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

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Post by yarrak »

I run Ekofi Nova (https://nova.ekofi.capital). We are building & validating your dream SaaS product, as an MVP.

Plans are: $1500/mo, $2000/mo, $2500/mo. The difference is the effort - we're more into the highest priced projects. Currently have 2 customers.

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

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Post by nghiatran_uit »

tevon wrote: post #251
nghiatran_uit wrote: post #48

If you have iOS/Android development experience, you can look at the Developer sector, which is relatively niche IMO. I've developed the iOS/iPadOS app, Proxyman for iOS [0], which gains steadily ~2k recurring revenue every month. Basically, it's an iOS app that helps you to capture and decrypt HTTP/HTTPS traffic on your phone. The app is needed if you need to inspect traffic from your app. Because it's an iOS app, pu…

You built Proxyman?! What a great project. This can't just be a side project though right? Even if its with a small team thats impressive, the UI is polished and full of features.

Thanks. It's not a side project anymore. We've established a legal company in the US, have a small team, and commit full-time to it. Currently, we've working on the Windows & Linux version.

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

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Post by agotterer »

kentlyons wrote: post #195
agotterer wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 Ma…

Very cool story! How did you grow the group? Was it all through word of mouth from your initial seed group of friends?

The first dinner was all 1st degree friends. Then it turned into friends of friends of friends. The 4th or 5th dinner was a big turning point. We had a minimum of 55 to hit for a popular restaurant we wanted and we were trending short (we actually would have ended up hitting it) and for the first time opened the dinner up to people who weren't directly connected. We posted an invite in a popular Long Island food Facebook group and after that we never had a problem selling out a dinner again. Last month Newsday wrote an article about us which added hundreds of Instagram followers and close to 100 new applications for membership. We sold out 48 seats for our April dinner in under and hour and ended up working with the restaurant to add a second night.

https://www.newsday.com/lifestyle/restaurants/dead-chefs-soc... (https://archive.is/w9Z1A)

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

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Post by wufufufu »

I'm at about $700/mth but I don't see why I can't make it to $2k monthly. It's a Slackbot [1,2] that assists user story refinement for Jira. If you're a SWE that uses agile methodology this may be interesting to you.

[1] https://slack.com/apps/A01EL1SR7V4-groomba [2] https://groomba.ai

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

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Post by csomar »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #180
hambos22 wrote: post #89

I don't know if that counts, but I see it as a tech side project. Last year I've built for my gf, a custom D2C (direct to client) ecommerce webapp [0] for her handmade products. Then I started looking into PPC, tracking, social advertisement & marketing etc.. Now we are profitable avg ~8k / month only on retail. [0] https://yuma.gr

I always wonder who "owns" the property such as this in the event of a breakup

This is not a large company or a fully established business. The value could be derived from both, or only from one side. If the value is derived from the metrics setup that OP has implemented, he can re-produce this with another creator. Think about it as two partners (one developer and one designer) starting a freelancing business. There is no "business" to own.
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