Personal blog: http://ashishb.net/
Makes money from adsense.
No where close to 1K/month but growing towards that.
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?
#62My 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)?
Interesting question. I read her post, checked out the blog, disabled Adblock but still didn't see any ads. So I disabled Ghostery as well and finally saw the source of her income. My initial thought was "who the hell clicks these ads?". I suppose the target group isn't people like me who use extensions Adblock and Ghostery. And people like me are (and probably most of you) - at least for now - a pretty small group among web users.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#63http://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.
Awesome idea and easy to use
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#64A music album I made fits that description, although it is winding down, as to be expected: http://lifeformed.bandcamp.com/ Via album sales, Spotify streams, iTunes, etc, all done through TuneCore ( https://www.tunecore.com ).
Ah that's great, thanks for linking to the album, I love video game music :)
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I'm using adsense.
Thanks for answering everybody's questions. How do you get the data on which coupons are available for which locations?
Users can submit codes, or I add them when I see them on sites like slickdeals. I built a python backend that checks where a code works for new codes. After that, I have some methods so I don't have to check as frequently.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#66I make quite a bit more than $1k a month from Duet - http://duetapp.com It's a project management app for freelancers and small businesses. Hopefully one day soon it will be more than a side project.
Good on you! Curious to know how do you market & promote the app, considering that project management is a very competitive/saturated market segment?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
I can't speak for the church or any particular mission, but from my experience as a Mormon missionary over a decade ago, backpacks 1) Make missionaries look like students, when they are not. 2) Are awkward on public transportation (and using them on transport is considered quite rude in some cultures). 3) Are more prone to being pickpocketed or losing things than a bag at your side/front that you can see more readily.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#68I 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…
I wish I'd known about this a few months ago when I was in the market for a new bag. It meets all my picky bag criteria including not being made in China.
I ended up getting a SealLine shoulder bag which are pretty pricey but excellent.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#69getsentry.com - saas
Good on ya! Curious to know how do you market & promote the app, considering that it's a pretty competitive market segment?
Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?
#70I 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…
FYI, I just tried to send you a message via the "Contact Us" link on your site, and clicking "Send" results in a classic Ruby on Rails "We're sorry, something went wrong" error page. You could be losing sales if those messages aren't going through.