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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...

interesting - can you help me understand how much it represents in terms of revenue ?

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

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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

I love this because it combines my favourite things! Nice work. Can you share what your income is from the sites combined roughly? Is this your side job or is it your main income now?

It's always been a side job/income, but comfortably more than the $500/month listed in the thread title.

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

#193
We've been working on an AI portrait generation tool that creates strikingly lifelike depictions of people from just a few photos. By leveraging self-supervised models trained on billions of publicly available images, our site kahma.io allows anyone to generate high-resolution portraits of themselves, loved ones, or historical figures with just a few clicks. Early feedback has been very positive - people are genuinely amazed at the level of detail and realism achieved. While still prototyping monetization strategies, we think tools that can bridge connections to memory have valuable applications. We're always looking for technical co-founders or beta users interested in pushing the boundaries of AI-generated imagery.

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

#194

https://convertcase.net/ - Approx $20k/month. Been going for years and keep on building on it.

I am scratching my head on how you are making $20k/month on this. Are that many people searching for “how to convert my text to uppercase”? and other variations. Can you explain where the majority of your traffic is coming from.

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

#195

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Looks really well done! What did you build it with?

The app is built with Tauri

Could you please explain how did you make the UI of the application very modern and startup vibe. I am really into UI like that and I have no idea how its built. this is beyond bootstrap UI, is it true?

I geniuely thought after looking at the screenshot, I would need to learn Swift and understand how apps are made in Mac to make an app to look like that.

My background is in Java and C Sharp. Looking at Microsoft UI framework, it does not look at all what you made.

Could you please show a good place to start to make and mock UI like that ? I find your work more interesting since your background appears to be backend/cloud!

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

#196

We've been working on an AI portrait generation tool that creates strikingly lifelike depictions of people from just a few photos. By leveraging self-supervised models trained on billions of publicly available images, our site kahma.io allows anyone to generate high-resolution portraits of themselves, loved ones, or historical figures with just a few clicks. Early feedback has been very positive - people are genuinel…

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

#197

https://convertcase.net/ - Approx $20k/month. Been going for years and keep on building on it.

I am scratching my head on how you are making $20k/month on this. Are that many people searching for “how to convert my text to uppercase”? and other variations. Can you explain where the majority of your traffic is coming from.

Exactly it, over 2 million vists a month, mostly coming from organic searching for text conversion, etc

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

#198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I love this because it combines my favourite things! Nice work. Can you share what your income is from the sites combined roughly? Is this your side job or is it your main income now?

It's always been a side job/income, but comfortably more than the $500/month listed in the thread title.

Cool! Nice work!

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

#200

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…

How can I get in touch with you? T2axie@pm.me is my email
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