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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 [deleted] »

Havoc wrote: post #297
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…

Interesting that people voluntarily pay. Write-up of bloggers doing the "buy me a coffee" button suggested to me that nobody pays like that. I guess software is a bit more tangible than a blog post even if both have value.

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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 xhfloz »

debesyla wrote: post #413
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…

I absolutely love the non-registration title page editing. Both impressive (haven't seen anything like that) and clear how it works. Can't wait to think of an idea what I want to build... :-D

Thank you! Let me know if you have any questions :)

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

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Post by vinyl7 »

person101x wrote: post #419
IAmGraydon wrote: post #418

Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you ha…

The economy isn't a zero-sum game. Everyone wins in the long-term when we help each other succeed.

Can't really argue that with the massive wealth gap

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

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Post by jollofricepeas »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #418

Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you ha…

Exactly this.

Every once in awhile, there are threads and comments here on HN about the various people who have had their UI, content, data or concepts stolen as well.

Unless you’re a full-time hobbyist or boast a mature project, please be cautious.

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

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Post by lovich »

person101x wrote: post #419
IAmGraydon wrote: post #418

Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you ha…

The economy isn't a zero-sum game. Everyone wins in the long-term when we help each other succeed.

The ideal version of capitalism with zero barriers to entry isn’t a zero sum game. The actual reality that is our current economy doesn’t reach that ideal and there are definitely situations where groups lose out form the benefit of others

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

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Post by lifeisstillgood »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #418

Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you ha…

Most businesses here are inspiring to me in the same way that a monkey in the jungle is inspiring to an anteater - it's great hearing how the monkey is doing but if I want to compete I have to cross half the jungle and climb a tree.

Sometimes competition ain't as easy to attract as you might think

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

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Post by sachinjain »

I started building Requestly (https://requestly.io) as a side-project back in 2014 and It took me pretty much every Saturday for 7y to hit ~$2K revenue and to get few companies paying for the product. It was slightly hard to monetize chrome extension due to lack of payments APIs support in chrome ecosystem. I actually went full time in Sep'21 and was fortunate enough to get into YC(W22). Now we are a small team based in India building Requestly.

Requestly is an open-source [1] Chrome & Firefox extension [2] that I started to help me in faster web development by capturing & modifying network requests directly in the browser without using any external tools. It eventually replaced Charles & Fiddler for many companies but now we are building a desktop version[3] too.

On a side note, Side Projects are a long-term game but the good part is you can do multiple along with your job and pick the one getting more traction. For example - I did many other side projects but continued with Requestly for 2 reasons - I was using it myself almost everyday and It was gaining organic traction.

Good luck in finding the project of your calling.

[1]: https://github.com/requestly/requestly

[2]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/requestly-redirect...

[3]: https://requestly.io/desktop

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Post by knightofmars »

pocket_cheese wrote: post #226
quantumwoke wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Often left unsaid in the "gift card" (or, "game key reseller" market) is that the items are acquired illegally and resold for a profit. This is money laundering territory, and is very easy to run afoul of the law.

Fraudulently obtained inventory is actually something I actively want to avoid. I don't want to go to jail, or risk getting banned from marketplaces - among ethical considerations.... I only go to authorized distributors where there is legal permission to resell these types of items. Incomm being the largest. Blackhawknetwork being another large player.

Do you have to deal with gift cards legally obtained but obtained anonymously using illegal money?

E.g. https://news.cybersixgill.com/how-gift-cards-are-used-to-lau...

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

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Post by AndrewPGameDev »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #418

Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you ha…

Extending the metaphor, a competitor can be good for business depending upon your strategy. If you're a hyena, you benefit from having lions around because the lions can kill a much larger animal than a pack of hyenas ever could. Maybe someone else on HN can advertise their copy of a product, but all that's doing is growing the target market for the OG product which already has a (small) monopoly.
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