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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 dowakin »

I started a mini-SaaS focused on identifying what content/scripts are blocked on websites by AdBlockers, Firefox Tracking Protection, and similar tools.

I initially aimed for an cheap monthly pricing plan and many clients, but that strategy hasn't been successful so far.

However, in the process of finding clients, I found two 'enterprise' customers. I built a custom on-premise version for them and charging $300 per month for each, which technically sums to over $500. Not sure it is what I wanted )

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

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Post by binarymax »

giarc wrote: post #85

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 tim…

Have you considered selling at a bulk discount to local merchants? They have the physical presence and would remove the hassle/danger of people coming to your house. Keep your digital presence and just point people to the local shops or accept orders for the shops and send them there.

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

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Post by duck »

Still running https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years and 60k+ subscribers. It has been hard to put a lot of focus on it the past couple years, but been finally getting some time to spend on some improvements there. Income here has always been simple sponsors which I'm very grateful for.

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

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Post by ramthehack »

I wrote a small application for a Customer which enables File Transfer, Notifies Users about files that they should have uploaded and displays some progress. The Customer is a law firm. No Recurring Renevue, But yielded 10000€ in 6 months. Is More of a second Job than a side project tho

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

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Post by nspeller »

I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month.

I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives.

It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos.

I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that initial spike in traffic has been fairly consistent over the past 8 years.

It uses Stripe for payments and for the first few years it was only Stripe. 3 years in I decided to add PayPal support... revenue doubled overnight, mostly from international customers.

https://www.lightnote.co/

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

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Post by Soupy »

I run https://pastmaps.com as a lil' solo bootstrapped labor of love. Think Google Maps, but for OLD maps. It has 185K+ fully georeferenced high-res maps covering all of America, as well as satellite, LiDAR, and 3D layers to enable exploration through space and time.

History is cool yo. And apparently lucrative - it currently makes ~$5000/mo and is slowly but surely growing through word of mouth

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

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Post by stronglikedan »

Bellspringsteen wrote: post #113

https://blog.labsbell.com/blog/SkippiesPart2 selling 4.99$ shoes, strangely fun to see the inner workings of ecommerce. I dont understand how amazon sellers make any money.

damn my wide feet. nice shoes tho. wish they'd fit me

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

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Post by snackernews »

heliographe wrote: post #4

I'm making photography software: https://heliographe.net Right now my work is Apple platforms only (revenue through App Store), but I'm actively looking into ways to expand to other platforms. As a long time photographer, my philosophy is to make tools that are useful to me first and foremost, and to build smaller scope things that compose well (UNIX philosophy). I've got some exciting new things planned for 2025. Th…

These are great.

Always a pleasure discovering a portfolio of apps from an indie developer that genuinely do one thing well, are well designed, and all have the coveted “Data Not Collected” app privacy card to boot.

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

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Post by firefax »

I play Texas Holdem.

It's not enough $$$ to be a full time role, especially considering the costs of purchasing health insurance w/o a traditional W2 employer, but it's perfectly possible to buy in for the the table max (500) and leave with between between three hundred and a thousand dollars in profit in ~8 hours of play.

(Real life, not online. "Caro's Book of Poker Tells"[1] will aid you more than fancy math, though knowing the basics of what is a good hand, what a check raise is, that sort of thing will help -- the biggest thing to remember is to play less hands, and be aggressive when you do. Fold or raise -- no calls!)

[1] https://archive.org/details/carosbookofpoker00caro

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