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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 pythonbase »

henrygabby wrote: post #25

Unsexy tech business making roughly $6-7k/mo. I partnered with a local janitorial company that targets industrial clients with recurring nightly cleaning needs and I make roughly 7% of gross revenue as a recurring weekly payment as long as the client stays on w/o much work. I help do some client support, SEO, and pay for things like Apollo.AI to reach out to customers but other than that it is pretty hands off. I fee…

Very interesting. I thought about a lot of projects over the same lines, providing similar services to various professions like the barbers, lawn mowers, painters etc. As I am not physically in the US, marketing and support has to be done virtually which seems bit of a blocker at this point.

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

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Post by raptorraver »

Started selling pasture raised eggs last summer. First we had a flock of 150 but soon we ordered 150 more. We kept them in the Susckovich style chicken tractors[1] and sold directly to customers through Reko-rings (Facebook based farmers market). We gross around 3k€ per month with around 2000 euros profit per month. The chores take 1-2h per day and the deliverys around 3h per week. Our web page is at www.paivarinne.farm It's in Finnish but at least the pictures are nice :)

1: https://farmmarketingsolutions.com/stress-free-chicken-tract...

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

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Post by samteeeee »

raptorraver wrote: post #782

Started selling pasture raised eggs last summer. First we had a flock of 150 but soon we ordered 150 more. We kept them in the Susckovich style chicken tractors[1] and sold directly to customers through Reko-rings (Facebook based farmers market). We gross around 3k€ per month with around 2000 euros profit per month. The chores take 1-2h per day and the deliverys around 3h per week. Our web page is at www.paivarinne.f…

but how much does it cost to feed 300 chickens?

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

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Post by DocSavage »

nspeller wrote: post #116

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 i…

Very nice. I'd suggest adding another deluxe bundle for non-Guitarists without the guitar theory. I'd pay extra for the ear training + the base package.

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

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Post by DocSavage »

Soupy wrote: post #117

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

Nice collection. I'd suggest adding an unsubscribe option to your initial email, particularly if people reflexively login via Google, etc.

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

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Post by palsecam »

KomoD wrote: post #778
palsecam wrote: post #124

https://FreeSolitaire.win brings around $500/mo in advertising revenue. It’s a Klondike Solitaire PWA (progressive web application). I started making it in 2016 and I’ve been slowly iterating on it over time. It has stayed minimal & lightweight, on purpose. No framework, no cruft, no obtrusive ads. Fun fact: because it’s so lightweight, it was included in 2020 in Moya ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=n…

That's cool, even with 40% of players being from ZA, I'm guessing most of your revenue doesn't come from them? (unless the other 60% are even lower RPM countries) Curious what % of revenue they account for

ZA (South Africa) is 15–20% of revenue.

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

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Post by CosmosSeb »

nspeller wrote: post #116

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 i…

I've been building something in a similar space over at https://muted.io/. It's been just about paying out my rent and food in the past year.

I've been pretty impressed at Lightnote and how its executed and actually tried to reach out to the creator a couple of times for potential collaborations. Not sure if my messages made it through.

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

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Post by duck »

fraXis wrote: post #444
duck wrote: post #114

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.

I remember when you launched this, and I signed up for it right away. I still read it every day. I can't believe it's been 15 years already! Thanks for this awesome service.

Awesome, thanks for being a subscriber from the beginning, that is great to hear! Time flies!

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Post by duck »

cx42net wrote: post #494
fraXis wrote: post #444

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I remember when you launched this, and I signed up for it right away. I still read it every day. I can't believe it's been 15 years already! Thanks for this awesome service.

Yeah! Me too! Been an avid reader of this newsletter for quite some years now! Thanks @duck !

So cool, glad you've liked it all these years.

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

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Post by d--b »

palsecam wrote: post #124

https://FreeSolitaire.win brings around $500/mo in advertising revenue. It’s a Klondike Solitaire PWA (progressive web application). I started making it in 2016 and I’ve been slowly iterating on it over time. It has stayed minimal & lightweight, on purpose. No framework, no cruft, no obtrusive ads. Fun fact: because it’s so lightweight, it was included in 2020 in Moya ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=n…

It should be forbidden to post a game of solitaire on hacker news. This has a direct impact on the world's GDP!
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