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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by predmijat »

https://sre.rs - DevOps course for small companies and individuals/self-hosters.

I’ve posted this previously, but it’s been more than a year since I published the course and it’s still right about $500/mon.

When I was starting all this, I had higher hopes, but it’s been difficult competing with instructors who already have tens of thousands of students and thousands of reviews - they appear on the first page when you search for a particular subject and “no one” goes past the first page.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by callalex »

thyrox wrote: post #32

Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic. I think to make it more worthwhile people posting here please write a little about your tech stack, why you made it, what are your struggles, and tips for other founders, etc.

This is the kind of content I come to HN for. If it makes you feel better, this kind of thread also serves as a lightning rod that contains the self-promoting of projects so you won’t see as many posts of this type.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by j0hnyl »

mixedsignals wrote: post #51

I run https://bonusbuddy.app . Online casinos in the US will give you daily bonuses of $0.50-$1 just for logging in, and I built a Chrome extension that automatically collects the bonuses for users every day for a bunch of different casinos. I charge $20/mo and users make roughly $200/mo in bonuses (trying to adhere to the software must provide 10x value philosophy).

Funny, I've been thinking of building this automation for myself.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by acuozzo »

thyrox wrote: post #32

Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic. I think to make it more worthwhile people posting here please write a little about your tech stack, why you made it, what are your struggles, and tips for other founders, etc.

Around these parts "ideas are cheap" is often repeated, but I've failed to come up with a marketable idea for the past ten or so years.

My hobbies & interests are too niche and the problems I have in life can't be solved by tech, so I have yet to run across an idea I'd be intrinsically-motivated enough to pursue.

With that being said, I'm hoping I'll run into someone else's idea which will help me see through the kind of blindness which prevented rsync users from seeing Dropbox as something worth building, so I find exposure to these "little" ideas useful since reading through threads like these is somewhat like speed-dating for startup ideas.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by rozenmd »

thyrox wrote: post #32

Serious question but does anyone get any value out of these threads? Most of the time it just devolves into hundreds of comments with links to random projects hoping to get traffic. I think to make it more worthwhile people posting here please write a little about your tech stack, why you made it, what are your struggles, and tips for other founders, etc.

These threads work.

Both as a seller and a buyer, I've found customers and products I wouldn't have found organically.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by kebsup »

koolba wrote: post #38
kebsup wrote: post #21

https://gifmemes.io/ Made 240 USD in December. About 9k visitors and 27k page views tracked through plausible. Spent maybe 5 hours working on the codebase in 2023, which makes a solid ((240 * 12) / 10) = 288 USD / hour. All of the money are from the watermark removal sales (10 USD). A lot of people say I could be making much more with some subscription model, but so far I'm resisting. (And the codebase is a mess :D )

This thing is awesome. I’m going to be using this near daily. For bandwidth cost reasons I’m guessing you don’t support live linking right?

I think it would be quite cheap. The only reason is that I was using Gfycat which shut down.

The reason I did not implement my own was that Gfycat was integrated with reddit, so that posting the link would automatically show the gif.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by kube-system »

nomel wrote: post #59
fullspectrumdev wrote: post #42

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They seem to handle all the more annoying parts of web scraping: bypassing anti scraping things such as rate limits and captchas.

Being tech savvy, there's no way I'm implementing that for $0.002 per request. $150 gets you 75k scrapes.

And if you're not doing it yourself, $150 does not get you very much labor.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by mixedsignals »

j0hnyl wrote: post #63
mixedsignals wrote: post #51

I run https://bonusbuddy.app . Online casinos in the US will give you daily bonuses of $0.50-$1 just for logging in, and I built a Chrome extension that automatically collects the bonuses for users every day for a bunch of different casinos. I charge $20/mo and users make roughly $200/mo in bonuses (trying to adhere to the software must provide 10x value philosophy).

Funny, I've been thinking of building this automation for myself.

Cool! It's been super useful personally and hard to describe without sounding scammy because people don't believe there's free money just sitting out there.

Need to put some more work into it, but there's so many sites that could be added and the bonuses really tally up if you collect from all of them (I have a running list and right now it's around $20/day in bonuses if you collect from every site on the list).

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