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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 yamtaddle »

martin_a wrote: post #28
quickthrower2 wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I never hear that story. But I hear the 2 year one alot. The advantage of getting older is time is at warp speed so 2 years is nothing ha ha!

> The advantage of getting older is time is at warp speed so 2 years is nothing ha ha! To be honest: Realising that time is going by so fast really scared me this week. Being mid-30s I really need to get my shit together, soon... :-D

Coming up on 40. A quarter feels about as long as two weeks did when I was 10, I reckon.

If this keeps going, each year will feel like a day by the time I'm 60 or so.

[EDIT] Incidentally, I reject the "routine & boredom are what do it" thing. High school felt like it took forever and was far more regimented and regular and boring than my life is now.

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Post by warrenm »

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…

curious ... why not "just use the UF"?

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

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Post by warrenm »

warrenm wrote: post #282
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…

curious ... why not "just use the UF"?

or "just use syslog-ng"?

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

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Post by webscout »

xhfloz wrote: post #220

I built mmm.page [1] originally for personal websites, or "internet canvases." They're meant to be pages for very easy combinations of text, mixed media, embeds, etc. — let more people create fun/interesting places on the internet. [2] I started working on mmm.page in Feb 2021, and launched it that May on Hacker News [3], then it hit $2k/mo last year, and has been growing steadily since. There are roughly 30,000+ use…

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Post by xcubic »

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 source the info?

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

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Post by xcubic »

hambos22 wrote: post #193
xcubic wrote: post #177

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why not use something like shopify?

Because I want 100% control and flexibility. It would take me more time to do this in shopify as it holds a lot of custom behavior and it has many automations on the backend. Also with a custom admin dashboard we were able to scale a lot in our & employee's productivity [edit] I would use shopify for bootstraping temporary viral campaigns for niche products.

Tbh, it makes complete sense.

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Post by mikecsh »

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

Do you mind sharing what UI / component framework you use? It looks great!

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Post by DamnInteresting »

3dfan wrote: post #280
DamnInteresting wrote: post #277

I launched DamnInteresting.com in 2005, and just last year it started consistently earning $2k/month. That's gross revenue, a goodly chunk of that goes out for hosting costs, research expenses, paying writers/editors, licensing fees, etc. It's been interesting to see the changes in the audience over time. In 2005, 100% of our audience was desktop browser readers. Somewhere around 2011, mobile readers became the domin…

What's your business model?

Mostly it is asking for reader/listener donations in a non-aggressive way. For example, if one is reading on the site, the request for donations appears only if one reaches the end of the text. If listening, the request comes after the story. This is supplemented by licensing our work occasionally to magazines, other websites, etc., and a wee bit of merchandising.

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Post by chrisvalleybay »

I've built a software called Mino that creates a frontend for managing enterprise accesspoint deployments in student housings. Super niche. It allows the students to set up their own WiFi and it offers a backend system for the janitors that typically do the support out in the field.

I charge around between $20-30k everytime a new setup is created and for each customer I charge around $650 per month for the SLA. Additional development is offered at $155 per hour. Currently I have three different installations that net me around $2100 per month in addition to extra features here and there.

It took around 2-3 years before I hit $2k.

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Post by ggregoire »

Name_Chawps wrote: post #273
tomxor wrote: post #140

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> In many places (most places) You might benefit from looking more broadly (friendly suggestion).

Your "friendly suggestion" is extremely rude.

Stating that 2k/month is not enough income for "most places" is ridiculous and rude in a way too. Was an unnecessary comment.
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