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

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Ohh that is interesting, how did you end up on that page, it should be https://homestra.com/list/houses-for-sale/?amount-of-bedroom... might have an old link somewhere :( Ill add the elevator filter, thanks for your input!

followed your map link, changed the filter and hit `apply`. can reproduce it now too

Looks like the search model doesn't take the map into account when filtering, thanks for letting me know, will fix this ASAP

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

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post #260

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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.

This.

I'm already doing kinda the same work with 2 established ecommerce B2B industry businesses, one in US and one in my country, and I'm getting payed a percentage of the gross profit from online sales & leads.

We have a competitive advantage because no competitor on these sectors has an "in-house" dev for ecommerce ops.

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

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I built https://www.withphoton.com that helps people overlay multiple calendars in any timezone, and quickly format a message that contains your availability to save time and eliminate typos.

It's a simple keyboard-first electron app that hooks up with your Google / Outlook cal. Target market is folks who schedule meetings outside their org like founders, CSM, biz dev, sales, EAs, etc.

E.g. Do any of these times (CT) work for you?

April 13 (Thursday) * 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm

April 14 (Friday) * 2:00 pm - 2:30 pm

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

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I run a site for people learning Japanese ( https://jpdb.io ) as a side project. I'm currently at exactly ~$1996/month from Patreon donations. (It's not an aggressively monetized project.) I've been doing this for over 2 years now. You can take a look at my changelog to see most of the updates (at the beginning I did not maintain a changelog so it doesn't start exactly when I started the site): https://jpdb.io/change…

Can you share with us the main differentiator your product has over some behemoth like Google translate? I'm personally an occasional tourist to Japan only and wish I could find a course in "tourist essentials" or "Tourist fluent" Japanese

> Can you share with us the main differentiator your product has over some behemoth like Google translate?

You might as well ask how a screwdriver is different from an apple. (:

Google Translate, is, well, a translator. You give it text, and it translates it. That's it. My site's for people who want to actually learn Japanese to fluency, with a particular focus on media-based immersion.

For example, is there a Japanese anime you'd like to watch without subtitles? I can probably help with that; I have vocabulary lists for many shows, and the site can teach you (through flashcards/spaced repetition) most of the words you'll need to be able to understand it.

I also have a plugin for the mpv video player where (if you load appropriate Japanese subtitles for the show you're watching) the plugin will color-code all of the words according to whether you know them or not, and you'll also have access to a popup dictionary where you can just hover your mouse over any of the words and see their definition. You can also use the plugin to make vocabulary flashcards with the screenshot + audio from what you're watching; demo video by one of my users: https://streamable.com/ww6x0e

I can keep on going as there's a lot more, but I'll stop here! It's probably not appropriate for someone who just wants to learn a little bit of Japanese for tourism purposes.

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

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I built https://www.withphoton.com that helps people overlay multiple calendars in any timezone, and quickly format a message that contains your availability to save time and eliminate typos. It's a simple keyboard-first electron app that hooks up with your Google / Outlook cal. Target market is folks who schedule meetings outside their org like founders, CSM, biz dev, sales, EAs, etc. E.g. Do any of these times (CT)…

Since your pricing is a one-time fee, I assume you need to keep finding new customers to hit $2k / month.

Just curious, how do you market your product?

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

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post #345

I built https://www.withphoton.com that helps people overlay multiple calendars in any timezone, and quickly format a message that contains your availability to save time and eliminate typos. It's a simple keyboard-first electron app that hooks up with your Google / Outlook cal. Target market is folks who schedule meetings outside their org like founders, CSM, biz dev, sales, EAs, etc. E.g. Do any of these times (CT)…

Since your pricing is a one-time fee, I assume you need to keep finding new customers to hit $2k / month. Just curious, how do you market your product?

Yep - that's correct. My hunch was that people are tired of paying for subscriptions but would drop $20 on something that makes their life slightly better.

GTM is the hardest but mostly through referrals / word of mouth. I want to do more Twitter/LI ads.

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

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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.

What was the course?

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

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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…

> I am building a Zillow for Europe [1]

As a European, I (at least) don't understand what this means - and therefore don't understand your offering, your USP?

What does/will Homestra offer, and how will it be different from e.g. Immobilienscout?

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

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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…

Wow this is lovely! Really reminds me of the Mac apps from the power PC era.

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

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post #345

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Since your pricing is a one-time fee, I assume you need to keep finding new customers to hit $2k / month. Just curious, how do you market your product?

Yep - that's correct. My hunch was that people are tired of paying for subscriptions but would drop $20 on something that makes their life slightly better. GTM is the hardest but mostly through referrals / word of mouth. I want to do more Twitter/LI ads.

Sorry, what is GTM?
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