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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 kjksf »

marvinblum wrote: post #271

I'm building Pirsch Analytics [0], a privacy-friendly web analytics tool. I think it took the two of us ~1.5 years to get to $2000 MRR. Currently we're setting just above $4000 MRR. It started as an experiment for my personal website and I was in the same position as you're right now. We were already working on a Notion like app to take notes, but didn't make any money and probably went into the wrong direction. As m…

A paying customer of pirsch with feature request for the dashboard: for page views stats, could you make more space for urls?

My urls aren't even that long but get truncated because they get only 30% of the space.

Make more space for links: allow me to hide some columns and persist that across sessions. I really don't care about bounce rate or percentages.

Also, a deadly sin of arrogant designers: in your infinite wisdom you decided to to limit the width of that page so even if I go fullscreen I don't see the full URL but a lot of unused space. Why do you hate me?

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

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Post by jermaustin1 »

system2 wrote: post #332
jermaustin1 wrote: post #129

I'm a little early, but this month, my side project SHOULD hit $2k, all signs point that way. Back in March, I decided to get serious with my CNC, and started designing things, dozens and dozens of things. Eventually I settled on something that felt like it had potential: Rolling trays and vape holders. I get the wood from my grandpa's mill. I use both redcedar and pine, but I'm currently experimenting with oak (much…

I have a laser/cnc shop as well. I never tried etsy. Are you using just a cnc router to create your products? Does the product price justify the time you are spending for them?

CNC is 75% of the way there, then there is sanding away most of the machine marks, then finish sanding. My current personal best is around 10 minutes per tray, and I make about $15 of each one (after fees and shipping and materials). So My time isn't exactly uncompensated, but its no where close to how much my time is worth as a software engineer with nearly 20 years of experience.

I batch out a bunch of them on the CNC at once (in fact I have to do a boatload more this evening), then while those are cutting, I have a pile of others that I need to sand. About the time I'm done with those, the next will come off the CNC, then takes me 5 minutes to set it up again and keep going. It gets tedious sometimes, but I can basically zone out while I do my sanding and listen to podcasts and music and still be able to hear the CNC start to cut something incorrectly (happens far to often).

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

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Post by marvinblum »

kjksf wrote: post #401
marvinblum wrote: post #271

I'm building Pirsch Analytics [0], a privacy-friendly web analytics tool. I think it took the two of us ~1.5 years to get to $2000 MRR. Currently we're setting just above $4000 MRR. It started as an experiment for my personal website and I was in the same position as you're right now. We were already working on a Notion like app to take notes, but didn't make any money and probably went into the wrong direction. As m…

A paying customer of pirsch with feature request for the dashboard: for page views stats, could you make more space for urls? My urls aren't even that long but get truncated because they get only 30% of the space. Make more space for links: allow me to hide some columns and persist that across sessions. I really don't care about bounce rate or percentages. Also, a deadly sin of arrogant designers: in your infinite wi…

Hey thanks for your suggestions! I think we can most of that work. A full-width dashboard is on our list already, so we can include that in the next bigger update, which will also have the option to white label your dashboard.

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

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Post by nmajor25 »

pcthrowaway wrote: post #165
djbusby wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow! Freaking monster!

That's quite high isn't it? Where does one get $25.80 per thousand impressions?

By placing an ad with a green "Start Now" button that goes to a spammy browser extension download page? Users probably think that's the button to download the desktop application.

At least that's the ad I get on that page.

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

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Post by wahnfrieden »

dom96 wrote: post #275
darthcloud wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I consider donation what random user give me on patreon/gh sponsor/itch.io I talked with the makers or manufacturer and we reached an agreement. So to me (and them) it's royalties.

What you consider and your manufacturer considers doesn't matter. The definition of royalties is what matters, it doesn't fit in this case as far as I can see. They aren't paying you money so they can use your software, they are donating money because they are nice, they could stop paying at any time and continue to use your software.

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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 chickahoona »

I have build Psono, an open source password manager. The company was founded about 2.5 years ago (during the high times of COVID) and it was generating $4k on average directly from start. One should mention that I developed the product for a couple of years before I started the company and already had customers alined before I founded the company. I was running it then for 1.5 years as a side project and then beginning of this year decided to quit my cozy WFH, well paid, not stressfull day job to work full time on it (with recession and mass layoffs in the news).

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

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Post by pwpw »

FloatArtifact wrote: post #164
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…

What controllers you would recommend for retro games with a great d-pad and buttons? I can't find anything that's even remotely close to native controllers especially for Super NES.

Something to look out for with retro gaming is a lot of modern controllers have increased latency, which can be frustrating on games that require precision. Unfortunately, the Nintendo Switch Online SNES controller isn't great in this regard. You can use this tool[0] to check latency.

Personally, I use an original Super NES controller + a Timville triple controller adapter[1], but a more modern controller that I like is the 8bitdo SN30 Pro+. I primarily play on a PVM via a MiSTer, so your use case may be quite different.

[0] https://rpubs.com/misteraddons/inputlatency [1] https://www.tindie.com/products/timville/triple-controller-c...

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

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Post by p3rls »

3dfan wrote: post #392
p3rls wrote: post #387

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Yep. We also have a subscription available https://kpopping.com/subscription/plus

The subscription costs money? I don't see any info about pricing.

Yeah, it's $30 a year, you need to sign in to be able to subscribe for it though

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

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Post by BigBalli »

pimterry wrote: post #15

I run HTTP Toolkit ( https://httptoolkit.com ) which passed $2k a couple of years back. No longer a side project, as it's made enough money for me to work on it full time for a fair while now, but it certainly started that way, and it's still a one-man show (plus many wonderful open-source contributors). I suspect that'll be a common theme in answers here though: if you have a side project making $2k a month, in most…

Love it, been using it for a long time. Much easier for 99% of use cases compared to Charles.
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