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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell

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Post by czhu12 »

SeriousM wrote: post #102
czhu12 wrote: post #20

https://canine.sh - makes it dead simple to turn your Kubernetes environment into a Heroku like PaaS. Mainly used in organizations with developers who want to deploy to a corporate Kubernetes environment, but don’t want to deal with the complexities. It’s fully open source so we’re covered by sponsors, the largest being Portainer $5k+ / m from sponsorships. Makes it possible to keep the cloud offering totally free.

Is canine for kubernetes as coolify is for docker? Lovely!

You know what, that’s a better way to describe it than I’ve ever been able to come up with!

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Post by jianzong »

I have been building an iOS net worth tracker app as a side project for more than 5 years now:

https://www.percento.app

I was an accountant for 3 years before I switched my career to be a programmer, then I kept coding for 10+ years in big tech companies and had always wanted to build a product on my own. Eventually, I found the niche to combine my finance knowledge and my iOS skills into this App and happily building for a few years.

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Post by nhatcher »

I was hesitant to add my own but I think you might find it interesting as we make money not from clients but from grants.

We have IronCalc[1]. We don't make money from customers as we don't have a finalized product yet. But we have an ongoing grant from the NLnet[2]. You can have a look at the kind of projects they are granting money. It's always a source of inspiration.

That being said IronCalc takes a lot of time from me. Way more than a side project should.

[1]: https://www.ironcalc.com

[2]: https://nlnet.nl/project/IronCalc/

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Post by cess11 »

bsnnkv wrote: post #64
pillefitz wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd buy it for a 20 USD one-time fee

The experiment is end-user mediated wealth redistribution from large corporations by leveraging reimbursement mechanisms, and so far I'm content with the results

I like this, bookmarked in case I'll ever be forced by work into MICROS~1 operating systems again.

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Post by chrismorgan »

ablanton wrote: post #112

I'm at year 1.5 and built this software for making small art books https://zine.baby The goal is to make physical books. It's still early days, but fun to see what people are creating.

I see no indications of any revenue?

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Post by viraptor »

egamirorrim wrote: post #106
djmips wrote: post #92

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This app is not available for your device I have a Pixel 6 Pro. That's not thaat old.

That's proper old

4 years. We really should support devices that old. Unless you really need features only available in newer models (which 99% of apps don't)

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Post by KellyCriterion »

agotterer wrote: post #78

A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe menu. The food is served family style and is authentic to the region we are hosting. We typically host the dinners on a Tues or Wed when the restaurants in our region aren’t too busy and could use the extra business. Since 2023 we’ve been to 4…

this actually is a great idea!

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Post by KellyCriterion »

huydotnet wrote: post #44

I started my project in 2023 and posted here, made 20k that year. The traffic has been slowly decreasing during 2024, and last October, I was officially entering losing territory, where the cost of running it exceeded the total earnings (mostly due to free trials). It's been a good journey. Thank you so much to whoever keeps running this thread!

how do you deal with continuous Google-degrading-risk?

I stopped a site lately i ran for 10 years, because Google changed the ranking so often over the years, finally traffic drowned nearly completely like 1k visitors per month, it was so frustrating so I just stopped the webserver after so many years.

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