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

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Post by laurentiurad »

aembleton wrote: post #175
laurentiurad wrote: post #135

I built and run several SaaS platforms: - https://dave-bot.com -> a full-stack AI platform where you can generate videos, images, music, code, 3d objects with frontier Gen AI models. - https://headsnap.io -> a platform that you can generate images of yourself based on 4 selfies. - https://quantiq.live -> a service providing financial and historical data for stocks, as well as government trades. - https://aivestor.tec…

I get 404 when I look for pricing of headsnap - https://headsnap.io/pricing

thanks a lot for the heads up! That menu shouldn't be available for users that are not logged in. I just pushed a change to hide it. You can check the prices at the bottom of the landing page, before I add a dedicated page for unauthenticated users.

LE: I just added the pricing page for unauthenticated users too.

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

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Post by binsquare »

I run a keywords research tool, it scans posts across social media sites like bluesky, mastodon, hackernews, etc.

KeywordsPal.com

It's actually super interesting the technical aspects to scan 50k posts a day for as cheap as possible. I write about it here: https://keywordspal.com/blog/building-multi-platform-content...

I also built it as a result of being unsatisfied with f5bot

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

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Post by thelittleone »

mlitwiniuk wrote: post #147

Humadroid ( 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…

Not clear on site if it integrates third parties for test automation.

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

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Post by tda »

nhatcher wrote: post #124

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 f…

The friction to try it out is already really low, I like that! But it could be even lower if instead of an image the interactive version is served right on the landing page. Great project!

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

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Post by IanCal »

skwee357 wrote: post #145

I run a dead-simple, one-time, online fax service called JustFax Online[0]. While I don't have a recurring revenue as I operate one one-time payment, for the past months I have been consistently grossing over €500/mo. This also brings tears to my eyes, as I remember[1] browsing these threads and being amazed (still am) by all the people who make side projects and make money from them, and at the same time thinking th…

Thanks for making a service where people can pay for a thing to happen, rather than an account and subscription and …

I often get frustrated at how hard it can be to give someone money to perform a service I want them to do and they want to be paid to do.

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

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Post by mlitwiniuk »

thelittleone wrote: post #183
mlitwiniuk wrote: post #147

Humadroid ( 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…

Not clear on site if it integrates third parties for test automation.

Not yet - but literally finishing this week. Promised a customer I'd ship it before Christmas, so that's been my deadline.

AWS and GitHub integrations first. It auto-fetches and verifies the data (where applicable), creating read-only evidence snapshots. No manual screenshots or "I swear this config was set correctly" moments during audits.

Part of the standard price - no integration tier upsell.

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

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Post by Sammi »

laurentiurad wrote: post #160
laurentiurad wrote: post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When did you do it? The minimum package is $8. If you did this in the past, why didn't you reach out for support? I get more than 100 customers per day and rarely have issues.

ah now I see you generated your pics 8 minutes ago. You can now see them on your account page. I have a clear disclaimer that says it can take up to 30 mins to generate the photos and that you will get an email once the photos are ready.

You probably need to add some visual indicator that the generation is ongoing. A progress bar is ideal, but those can be hard to feed with real data.

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

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Post by hemmert »

3eb7988a1663 wrote: post #116
hemmert wrote: post #100

About 8 years in, Escape Team steadily keeps growing, which surprises me (I didn’t add any new missions for about 5 years): https://www.escape-team.com It‘s making about $700 on iOS and $300 on Android, solely from $2.99 IAPs for the later missions in the game (the first 2 missions are free). I think a main reason for this is that escape rooms (and games) don’t „saturate“: you play them only once, because then you kn…

The link to your community built missions is down.

Uh-oh, thank you!

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

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Post by markdown »

yboris wrote: post #7

Occasionally $500/month, but more reliably $300/month in sales of my Video Hub App - lets users browse, search, tag, and organize videos on local / network drives. Aiming to have an 8th anniversary release February 2026. $5 per copy (Windows, Max, Linux; keep forever) https://videohubapp.com/ MIT open source (build your own copy) https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

Intel macs only?

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

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Post by tow21 »

mlitwiniuk wrote: post #147

Humadroid ( 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…

Really cool stuff, I thought about launching something similar earlier this year, there's definitely a market there. I see a lot of AI-ative startups coming up against compliance requirements way earlier than before, with much smaller teams, and most existing solutions just need too much from you as you engage.

How do you see yourself against someone like delve.co?

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