http://www.shipadick.com - no joke. They sell themselves.
Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#42http://pizzacodes.com My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.
I was going to ask how you make money with that site, but then I disabled ghostery and saw the ad. Are you using adsense or something else?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#43getsentry.com - saas
How long has the sentry app been live? It looks pretty useful.
The company I work at uses it across all products - Javascript and PHP. It's super handy and has helped us find bugs before our users! Definitely recommend giving it a shot since you can have Sentry logging your Javascript errors in 2 lines of code.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#44I started a bag company, https://www.missionarybag.com/ , for a niche market (young adults who leave home for 18 months to 2 years). A contract sewer here in the US makes the bags and my stay-at home wife does the shipping/handling. This is our first month to hit $1,000 profit in a month in under 6 months. After spending 12 years in software development, I wanted to create something tangible. And all the ecommerce/SE…
Important to note: Missionaries are now discouraged from using backpacks, so a sidebag like this is great timing.
Tangential curiosity: Why discouraged from using backpacks?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#45http://pizzacodes.com My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.
I was going to ask how you make money with that site, but then I disabled ghostery and saw the ad. Are you using adsense or something else?
Yeah, I'm using adsense.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#46https://coderpad.io is a SaaS product I built that provides the highest fidelity experience out there currently for interviewing other programmers over the phone.
I got to my current rev with a mix of self service plans and enterprise deals.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#47Adult comics - http://www.8muses.com
How did you obtain the right to distribute jab comix for free?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks, really appreciate it! It's been my side project for about 2 years now. It really started to take off at the beginning of this year when I started to rank well for relevant keywords. This past summer, I switched domains to make it more memorable, and my ranking suffered pretty severely. My rank in Google search never recovered, but my traffic from other sources / direct traffic has increased quite substantiall…
What was the old domain name?
http://abiteofpizza.com
Google analytics showed a decent amount of traffic from users searching for asliceofpizza, abitofpizza, etc, and I talked to some users that indicated they had trouble remembering the domain. Bought the new domain for ~$600 over the summer.
My direct traffic has increased a lot since then, so I'm inclined to say it helped.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#49My blog at http://erica.biz makes more than $1,000/mo in advertising and affiliate commissions. I built the blog after I bootstrapped and sold my first tech company. I talk a lot about growing your business/startup, and especially about all the failures I had while building my businesses. It became popular (1.2 million unique visitors last year alone.) I've now been blogging there for just over 6 years. Today I'm mor…
Have you noticed a decline related to the rise of AdBlock (and related)?
Good question. I don't have a good ad stats program right now, and I charge a flat rate for banner ads on my site, so the honest answer is...I haven't checked!
My ad service provider is going out of business on 12/31, so over the next few weeks I'll pick a different ad software program and/or ad service provider, and I'll then be able to track stats better.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#50I started a bag company, https://www.missionarybag.com/ , for a niche market (young adults who leave home for 18 months to 2 years). A contract sewer here in the US makes the bags and my stay-at home wife does the shipping/handling. This is our first month to hit $1,000 profit in a month in under 6 months. After spending 12 years in software development, I wanted to create something tangible. And all the ecommerce/SE…
Important to note: Missionaries are now discouraged from using backpacks, so a sidebag like this is great timing.
Why are backpacks discouraged?