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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 jermaustin1 »

system2 wrote: post #435
jermaustin1 wrote: post #403

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Thank you for your detailed response. I just purchased a laser marker (50W) and planning to utilize it for the customized items. I think it might justify my cost eventually. I am also thinking about the software engineering with experience vs handmade wooden / metal things to sell. But I realize I also waste time doing weird hobbies and why not make money while having fun so that would be the justification. Last ques…

Sorry for the late response, had to batch out a couple dozen trays yesterday... The answer to metal, is no. I never learned metal. It's not that I don't think I can, but I have always loved wood. It is warm and soft, and I've been a hobbyist furniture maker for almost 20 years in my spare time.

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

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Post by islanderfun »

es7 wrote: post #292

I built a few mobile games for iOS and Android. I launched my first game in 2015 which took 6 months to even reach $100/month. From there it earned around $500/month for the last 7 years. It required a huge upfront investment, ongoing updates to keep relevant and a significant fraction of revenue going into advertising. I launched a few additional games that were low quality and ended up removing them. I started anot…

> Also needs regular updates and promotion to stay relevant.

Are you able to share details on both aspects?

Awesome results!

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

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Post by overrun11 »

kouteiheika wrote: post #20

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…

$2000/m in two years is amazing. How are you marketing it? Is most of your traffic just from Google Search?

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Post by dom96 »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #406
dom96 wrote: post #275

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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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Post by DonsDiscountGas »

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 this logic, you should never tell anybody anything about anything. Which is clearly not true, nor how humans work.

One simple reason to post: For every potential competitor reading about your project, there are thousands of potential customers.

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Post by DonsDiscountGas »

iambateman wrote: post #22

Depending on your goals, have you considered freelancing? If your purpose is cash flow, freelancing can quickly generate $2000++ with much less risk than starting a SaaS. That’s not to say starting a SaaS is a bad idea…but if pure short-term cash production is your goal, I’d consider finding clients who trust you to pay you hourly on the side. FWIW, I’ve started 2 SaaS companies with a collective revenue of $0, and m…

All of the projects listed were clearly a lot of work to build, but a) have the potential to scale up a lot in revenue and b) have the potential to scale down a lot in terms of active effort. I couldn't quit my job for a $2k/month project, but if I could spend some months of hard work building it and then just have a passive income stream, that would be super cool.

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Post by mr_o47 »

rubymamis wrote: post #4

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…

Woah i never heard of this. I’m the type of person who loves trying out different notes app

This looks incredible I’m definitely going to use it

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Post by tomcam »

tultra wrote: post #390
klaaz0r wrote: 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…

That's super interesting! I actually started developing 'Zillow for Brazil' a couple of years ago for the same reason (Brazil realstate websites are a total mess - there's no option to show locations on a map!), but dropped the project due to lack of knowledge (I was just starting my journey in computer science) and also because I thought that tackling such a project would require a gargantuan amount of work (externa…

Brazillow

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Post by mr_o47 »

duck wrote: post #253

I started Hacker Newsletter [1] almost 14 years ago and sent out the 647th issue today [2] to 58k folks. It took over a year to break 1k subscribers and a few more years to get to that type of revenue. I could do a lot more with it and plan to one day, but really only focus on it a couple hours each week when I build the issue and talk to sponsors. 1: https://hackernewsletter.com 2: https://mailchi.mp/hackernewslette…

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