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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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I started the Coding Challenges newsletter March 2023 to share the real-world projects I use to learn a new programming language. It's evolved from then and now has 40+ real-world projects you can build to level up as a software engineer. You can find the coding challenges here: https://codingchallenges.fyi/challenges/intro After many requests I built a few paid courses, which I'm slowly adding to around the day job.

How are the course sells going?

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

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I made a minimal Android launcher called Olauncher during the pandemic. It now has a million downloads with 4.8 rating. A year ago (Jan, 2023) I launched the pro version, called Pro Launcher, and it's doing well.

Both available on my Play Store account called Digital Minimalism: https://play.google.com/store/apps/dev?id=719880784008107493...

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

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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.

I do. I don't care about the tech stack, but I'm always curious about what got people started building something. What opportunity did they see and what led them to that point.

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

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post #18

I have a serious question to those making money and I am hoping to learn here. How did you acquire customers? We have a startup going on for 3.5 months but it is incredibly hard to acquire customers. People don't respond to email or LinkedIn. We have not tried SEO and Ads yet.

Build an audience first, then build the product that they want.

This isn't repeated anywhere often enough!
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