Still doing https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years thanks to many of you.
I subscribed last december after knowing about it in last year's version of this thread.
It is great and gives a very good summary of the HN week, I love it!
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#162Can we establish a convention? If you sold $500p/m and had costs of zero, then you made $500. If you sold $500p/m and had costs of $450 p/m then you made $50p/m I know the saas people have high margins, but some of the commenters clearly have a much lower margin
Angry Scam Altman noises who "made" 20 Billion by spending 100 Billion
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#163Building version 3 of a front-end SaaS application that services proprietary models for analyzing securities, events/catalysts, etc. I am taking what I have learned from 5 years of users asking questions and basically redoing everything.
This version will hopefully provide a bot free / pump free replacement for iHub, StockTwits, Twitter, etc. to people who manage money professionally or otherwise.
Assuming I get more free time to finish it that is.
Version 2 is live here.
www.gravityanalytica.com
The two products Chat and Horizon both make more than $500/month individually.
This is a just side project. I run a family office.
For those of you who are in your 20s keep it up. In your 40s getting free time can be a real challenge.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#164So, if these posts come at the same time each year, and IDs are consecutive, then year,id 2025,46307973 2024,42373343 2023,38467691 2022,34190421 2021,29667095 2020,24947167 2019,20899863 2018,17790306 2017,15148804 And the delta is year,delta 2025,3.9M 2024,3.9M 2023,4.2M 2022,4.5M 2021,4.7M 2020,4.0M 2019,3.1M 2018,2.6M Has HN peaked?
We're on the verge of an unprecedented economic crisis.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#165I’ve created Pixie, a platform to employ and track your kids work. For families with a business, it helps reduce tax burden and fund a child’s Roth.
I’m a physician with some 1099 income, built the platform myself because my kids help with my side projects, and have since onboarded CPAs who now offer it to their clients. I saved 5k this year on my own taxes by employing my kids and it has funded their Roth.
Soon after launching, I crossed the $500/month mark.
Link:https://trypixie.com
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#166So, if these posts come at the same time each year, and IDs are consecutive, then year,id 2025,46307973 2024,42373343 2023,38467691 2022,34190421 2021,29667095 2020,24947167 2019,20899863 2018,17790306 2017,15148804 And the delta is year,delta 2025,3.9M 2024,3.9M 2023,4.2M 2022,4.5M 2021,4.7M 2020,4.0M 2019,3.1M 2018,2.6M Has HN peaked?
Everything comes and goes. HN is no exception.
With that in mind does it matter for you? Are you here because HN is at its peak? If commenting here makes you life better a bit keep doing that. If not then just don't and go somewhere else. Or stop using the internet altogether and just became goat farmer. Do what makes you happy and not what crowd thinks will make you happy!
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#167So, if these posts come at the same time each year, and IDs are consecutive, then year,id 2025,46307973 2024,42373343 2023,38467691 2022,34190421 2021,29667095 2020,24947167 2019,20899863 2018,17790306 2017,15148804 And the delta is year,delta 2025,3.9M 2024,3.9M 2023,4.2M 2022,4.5M 2021,4.7M 2020,4.0M 2019,3.1M 2018,2.6M Has HN peaked?
Everything comes and goes. HN is no exception. With that in mind does it matter for you? Are you here because HN is at its peak? If commenting here makes you life better a bit keep doing that. If not then just don't and go somewhere else. Or stop using the internet altogether and just became goat farmer. Do what makes you happy and not what crowd thinks will make you happy!
Crafting CSVs is what makes me happy.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#168https://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.
Holy cow! That’s exactly what I’ve been looking for my homelab.
Give me a shout if you need help setting it up!
On the discord, or chris@ caninesh
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#169Humadroid ( https://humadroid.io ) - AI-Assisted SOC 2 & ISO 27001 compliance for small teams. $125/month flat (for now, during beta). Recently crossed the $500/month mark after a painful pivot from HR tech earlier this year. The whole thing started because I did ISO 27001 back in 2019 and was completely lost - overpaid for consultants, got lost with policies and controls, figured it out the hard way. Passed SOC 2 Ty…
What's the USP over something like Vanta/Drata (aside the cost being much lower currently)?
The big difference is context-awareness. Vanta/Drata give you templates and checklists. Humadroid starts by understanding your company - what you actually do, how you operate, your tech stack.
From there, the AI generates policies that are yours, not generic docs with [COMPANY NAME] placeholders. Same with control descriptions - they're specific and actionable for your setup, not "implement access control" with no context. It also identifies risks based on what you actually do and helps build business continuity plans around your real critical processes.
You still review everything (it's compliance, not magic), but you're editing 80% done work instead of staring at a blank template wondering where to start.
The price difference is real too, but honestly that's a side effect of being early and solo - not the core value prop.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
#170Earlier quoted context omitted.
But you didn’t say what you are making!
https://formester.com/ Easiest way to build powerful forms
This is huge, actually I have used this before the free version, is this a 'side-project' or do you have some staff because it seems a big operation. Nice job.