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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 a side project with my older brother called NanaGram.co that makes it easy to text message photos to a unique phone number, then once a month they get printed and shipped to your loved ones. If you have kids, it makes a good holiday gift for the grandparents if you're stumped on what to get them. I've since moved on from it, but my brother makes enough to work on NanaGram full-time now. It's also just been…

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Thanks for sharing brother!

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

#82
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

What are you using to for the scraping? Playwright…selenium? I wanted to do something as a hobby but my IP kept getting reported lol. Also when you say companies…where are you getting the information from? Data brokers? Anyway, it is an interesting topic to me.

Selenium, although I'm using a wrapper library that uses it. I only query each company every few days or so which probably helps to not get banned IP-wise but also rotate them. But many of the company job links are through external sources too (lever, greenhouse, etc.) which don't seem to mind The company data was gathered online for a long time until I found https://www.thecompaniesapi.com/ (which now is the source…

I tried to use my own desktop machine to process some of these tasks. I can see my fans go jet mode when the scraping was being done lol. Do you have discord or any way to connect? Would love to chat around this topic. Feel free to drop any social media handles. I’ll ping you.

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

#83
I'm building a better calorie/macro tracker called FitBee: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/fitbee-calorie-counter/id64439...

Tracking my food has helped me get into much better shape but the leading apps in this space IMO are all quite clunky. I wanted to built something that was fast and lets you get on with your life.

A few stand out features:

- Nutrition label scanning if I don't have the food you're looking for - Photo Logging for restaurant meals or complex meals you don't want to manually track - It's light weight & fast - Interactive widgets for things like water tracking.

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

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post #81

I started a side project with my older brother called NanaGram.co that makes it easy to text message photos to a unique phone number, then once a month they get printed and shipped to your loved ones. If you have kids, it makes a good holiday gift for the grandparents if you're stumped on what to get them. I've since moved on from it, but my brother makes enough to work on NanaGram full-time now. It's also just been…

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I hope F5Bot is on this list. Been using for free for years. just works. Reached out a while back and owner is very responsive.

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

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I laser cut wall art and sell over Facebook marketplace. Making $2000-5000/month.

I have a website, but most sales are done over FB and customers pick up at my house. I either purchase designs on Etsy, pay a designer to create dxf file or do it myself (if it's easy). To be honest, I don't like the position I'm in with this. It makes too much to give up, but not enough to be a "real thing". Plus, I'm still trading time for dollars.

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

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I have two! https://gifmemes.io , haven't touched the code for years, makes between 100-300$ a month, depending on the season. https://vocabuo.com - a side project I hope to turn into a business, so I work on it around two days a week, made around $3.5k in revenue last month but most of it went back into ads.

Wow! So both projects revenue come from ads?

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

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post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

But what does the business actually do?

Sounds like brings leads to the janitorial company

But also saves the janitorial company from having to hire people to do customer management/support.

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

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I made an AI chatbot for OnlyFans models. Their fans can speak to "them" via a third party messaging app. It's currently pulling ~15k USD MRR. I built my own GPU infra for inference and I run Llama 3 with a fewshot prompting to get the model to respond like a given OF model, typically using their actual DMs with fans. I don't have a website for obvious reasons, but if you're in the biz you've no doubt heard about my…

Interesting! How it works? I am a bit confused.

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

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I made an AI chatbot for OnlyFans models. Their fans can speak to "them" via a third party messaging app. It's currently pulling ~15k USD MRR. I built my own GPU infra for inference and I run Llama 3 with a fewshot prompting to get the model to respond like a given OF model, typically using their actual DMs with fans. I don't have a website for obvious reasons, but if you're in the biz you've no doubt heard about my…

How much are you saving running your own GPU infra? What are the total monthly costs for the service?

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