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

#81

Filestash [1] was born from the infamous top comment of the Dropbox launch [2] as it got me wondered if we could make a Dropbox like UI that is based on this interface: type IBackend interface { Ls(path string) ([]os.FileInfo, error) Cat(path string) (io.ReadCloser, error) Mkdir(path string) error Rm(path string) error Mv(from string, to string) error Save(path string, file io.Reader) error Touch(path string) error }…

how long did it take you until this point ?

I prefer not to calculate but in the range of 20 to 40h a week from 2017 but a big part of that time doesn't go in creating code but talking with people, supporting them, write stuff, improving other bits and bolt.

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

#82
post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

So how do you withdraw the funds? Or do they sit in the online casino's site for you to put a bet on or something?

It sits in the online casino's site. Some sites require you to play through the bonus once, while others allow you to withdraw directly once you reach a certain balance. For the ones that require you to play through, I just play the bonus through low-volatility slots.

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

#84
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.

Absolutely. I love seeing people find success with their creations.

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

#85
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 )

Ok, I'm gonna need you to break down the motion tracking for me. Are you using MediaPipe?

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

#86
post #70

Free online sudoku sites supported by minimal ads have produced steady income since 2005: https://www.samurai-sudoku.com https://www.fiendishsudoku.com https://www.extremesudoku.info https://www.sudokuhints.com https://www.sudokuprintables.org

How have you gotten traffic to these? Genuinely curious.

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

#87
I wouldn't consider this a startup.. but my co-founder and I built a model-based algorithm that uses maritime trade activity to predict inconsistencies in shipping company performance, and we use that information to buy/sell options in those companies. We make some money off of it, and we've sold a few "subscriptions" to our close friends and stuff to kinda help them out financially. It's nowhere near finished but it makes close to 500 a month including our gains (we don't have much money lol).

btw I had to make a new account for some reason so this is technically my first post but i've been using HN for a while now.

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

#88

I am making an uncountable amount of money with my side project of being a ‘gentleman of the night’.

Ha! I've considered this, and would really value pointers, if you're able to share?

I haven’t managed to make ends meet yet. It really is uncountable.

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

#89

I built https://www.CheckYourList.app originally for myself for spontanous checklists that I go through regularly. Happy to say it just passed $500 a month recently :)

Nice!!

I've been thinking about doing an iOS app for awhile now.

Does this have a backend of some kind? What's your tech stack? All SwiftUI, or Expo/React Native?

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

#90
I built https://bankstatement2csv.com It's a pdf bank statement to csv converter (which seems like an increasingly popular niche for solo devs), making $550/month as of today.

Marketing is challenging, and have only really had some minor success using ppc. Also, I have a fairly high churn rate (like 30%). From talking with users, it's mostly from individuals or small business owners that convert their statements from the year and then are done. Book keepers and CPAs tend to keep their subscriptions, which makes sense.

Tech stack: Java, Javalin, Jooq, PdfBox, JavaScript, React, Tailwind

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