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

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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?

Yes, but we have so many plans and actually many of them are unlimited. We also track data usage and can either add extra data package or a SIM card gets excluded from our proxy pool.

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

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

Props to you guys for putting a complete tutorial on that and not keeping it for you. Cheers!

Thanks! Internally we use more sophisticated system required by larger scale to support higher volume and concurrent connections from multiple clients, but for smaller scale limited to one person or a small team, everything described on our blog should be enough.

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

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I'm slowly building some success in Android and iOS games (most revenue comes from iOS!). I've got a paid game that is a yahtzee-inspired poker game with just a touch of cosmic horror [1] and a free-to-play word game [2]. I've been fortunate to get some featuring by Apple which has driven most of my sales. I'm hopeful the daily word game, Well Word, will start to take off because it's the best game I've made and I'm…

Not sure if you’re interested in feedback, but I found well world intimidating and didn’t understand the objective/affordances. Clicked it and had a bunch of letters and no idea what to do. Closed it. Looks pretty though.

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

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https://getoutline.com – A team knowledge base, hit $2k MRR a couple of months after turning on paid plans, has always been steady growth since then. A few years in and almost reached what I'd consider v1 feature complete.

Your website is also really pretty, what did you use to make it?

https://github.com/outline/website has the source

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

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learnpython.org Generates ~10k/month. Plus, teaches a bunch of people how to code for free :)

Where’s the money coming from? Subscription? Also how much time it took to reach that point?

Probably from ads. I just wonder whether those 10k are coming from learn python alone or all 'learn' websites combined. I'm actually developing a Codecademy 'clone' for Brazil and have looked at these sites for reference.

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

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I'm the founder of the open-source and cross-platform note-taking app https://www.get-notes.com (written in Qt C++). I earn about $2000 a month from ads on the landing page (organic SEO), but very soon plan to add a subscription for pro features (while people could still compile it from source and get the full experience without paying, if they wish). I started the project 8 years ago to create a slick looking note-t…

Is this a fork of (open source but paid-value-add) Standard Notes?

Nope, I started it by myself 8 years ago. Now the project is getting many wonderful contributors.

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

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learnpython.org Generates ~10k/month. Plus, teaches a bunch of people how to code for free :)

That's super nice, mate! I love teaching and am building a website to teach programming myself. Now, if its ok for you to disclose, how do you manage the evaluation/testing of user submitted code in the backend? Thanks and congratS!

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Overall, I love Qt. I started studying QML 2 weeks ago to implement a Kanban view based on the underlined Markdown styled todo items in the text editor, and it's been really great so far. Property bindings, signals & slots, integration with C++, it all makes so much sense, much more than other declarative languages/frameworks (looking at you, React) imo. Qt has been around for years, the documentation is extensive an…

I was able to build things with Qt and Qt3D I wasn't sure would even be possible before starting (a very narrow-scoped robotics automation planner/simulator). It was remarkably easy to get moving with. Ironically the first version was mocked in Unity, thinking the tooling and ecosystem would make the MVP easy to build. It wasn't terrible, but it wasn't particularly easy either. The end result was extremely heavyweigh…

I haven't got my hands on Qt3D, so that's nice to know. I agree, Qt is underrated.

There are some really good courses for beginners by Voidrealms - Bryan Cairns[1] on Youtube, if anyone is interested.

I think QML definitely deserve a better reputation. I even saw it being used for websites[2] although I'm still sticking with React for that.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@VoidRealms/playlists

[2] https://pureqml.com/

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

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Doing about 5k/mo passive income on my addon for a popular children's game. Took about 4years to get here though, COVID was massive for the genre. Only costs are time and file hosting, which comes out at about $50/mo.

roblox?
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