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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 jonkratz »

I built a service that makes sure your forms are always working — no more lost leads due to something breaking. Currently bringing in over 1k/mo: https://formtester365.com

It fills out the form as a human would (daily or on whatever weekly schedule you want) and then confirms it was received. It currently supports Gravity Forms on Wordpress due to their API for confirming submissions, but a new version that supports all web forms is nearly ready.

One of the main use cases is for agencies that want to make sure clients sites are always working.

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

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Post by Jabbs »

NullPrefix wrote: post #527
Jabbs wrote: post #30

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search…

I've tried searching for C++ but the search bar straight up refuses it

The search bar is for job title only at the moment. Under the "Tech" filter you can find "C++" and add it as a filter

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

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Post by s6af7ygt »

protocolture wrote: post #320

The gist I get from this thread is that if you have something on the cards you should just commit to it? How much is just survivorship bias? I have like 4-5 side hustles being worked on at any one time, but I rarely ship for various reasons. Lots of people in this thread seem to have just gone and done it without thinking. How often does that pay off?

> How much is just survivorship bias?

100%. The topic is to post side projects making $500/month. Not to post failed side projects, projects that generate little to no money, or that cost money.

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

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Post by Jabbs »

windowshopping wrote: post #402
Jabbs wrote: post #30

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search…

How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.

Yea I feel ya, I’m definitely not a good designer based on how long this stuff takes me. I think we are all not that bad but once you spend 6 hours on a component you really feel your dev skills could be much better used. Anyway here are some of the things I used on the landing page:

CSS - https://tailwindcss.com/ Components - https://tailwindui.com/ Logo - https://pixlr.com/editor/ Icons - https://heroicons.com/ - https://lucide.dev/icons/ Animations - https://www.framer.com/motion/ BG patterns - https://heropatterns.com/ - https://dev.to/bybydev/top-10-svg-pattern-generators-16h

Otherwise its just React

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

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Post by saltcod »

_hnlo wrote: post #344

I've worked on and run [link redacted] and the related subreddit and forum for 15+ years. I've generally done everything alone as an exercise in scaling utility for others with constrained time on my part. Have used AI heavily in the last few years, which has been the greatest force multiplier of my career for sure: scraping, evaluating, summarizing, organizing, indexing, moderating, writing, ... I've coded so much a…

very cool — I assume you've monetized this past 500/mo?

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

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Post by e40 »

normie3000 wrote: post #322
ipaddr wrote: post #295

Earlier quoted context omitted.

After seeing your landing page I finally understand what a landing page should be.

For me if shows: > Application error: a client-side exception has occurred (see the browser console for more information). I'm on phone so can't check the error right now.

What browser and phone? Works on iOS and safari for me.

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

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Post by ragularuban »

I built ClickConnector - a customer support platform for SaaS products.

Customer support and customer success are interconnected functions, especially for SaaS products. We took it upon ourselves to build a platform with HelpDesk, Knowledge Base Portals, Feature Requests, Bug Reports, Changelogs, Email Drip Campaigns, Product Tours, NPS, Testimonial Collection, Checklists, and everything a SaaS team needs to win over their customers.

Initially, my focus was on travel agencies. I then started building tools that I needed to support my customers (since I couldn't use another product to assist them—it would have been a shame to use an external product if we were marketing our solution as a customer support platform for travel agencies). Fast forward, with all the tools that we built, it was a no-brainer for me to pivot our product. I thought this would be a great fit since this niche has a better founder fit for me.

https://clickconnector.com/

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

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Post by soulofmischief »

idoma wrote: post #381

I buy & sell pixels (hats) in a video-game - Team Fortress 2. I'm currently making $10k-15k per month; I'm one of the largest sellers on the game's main third-party marketplace ( https://marketplace.tf ). Less of a side project and more of a part-time job, since it's ~4-6 hours of work per day.

Really curious about what kind of alphas exist in this space, if you don't mind divulging.

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

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Post by udev4096 »

fluxeb wrote: post #510
t1tech wrote: post #504

I've built https://cophone.io - your online smartphone, complete with a phone number. It is an Android system running in the cloud that you can access via a browser, even on mobiles. Things like microphone and webcam work nicely, so you can even have meetings on cophone. After iterating on it for a while, customers seem very happy and now growing day by day. No marketing so far, just being out there and posting on va…

I would love a local-run version of this on my windows machine! Same subscription price is fine.

https://github.com/remote-android/redroid-doc

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

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Post by Jabbs »

suchintan wrote: post #441
Jabbs wrote: post #30

https://www.unlistedjobs.com/ Scraper of job listings directly from company websites. I found my last day job by using a scraper that visits company websites in search of job listings. Now I've turned it into an app for others to use and access jobs that are posted on company websites (rather than paid employer ads on Indeed or wherever). This gives the job searcher an advantage to find jobs not listed on job search…

This is really cool. Do you have any interest in helping people auto apply to them? We can help you set it up with a really simple API call via Skyvern ( https://github.com/Skyvern-AI/skyvern )

Thank you, appreciate this. I'm not certain about expanding this in that direction but that is certainly an interesting thought.
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