Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by drc37 » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 1:30 AM UTC

jthurman wrote: post #70

drc37 wrote: post #20

I 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.

Thanks for the heads up.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by anthonycerra » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 1:51 AM UTC

appbot wrote: post #53

I make ~$2.5k a month from my simple iOS apps http://www.bytesizeapps.net/

Very clever 4 in a row game! Makes me want a 5c.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by zeeg » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 2:01 AM UTC

nreece wrote: post #69

zeeg wrote: post #3

getsentry.com - saas

Good on ya! Curious to know how do you market & promote the app, considering that it's a pretty competitive market segment?

Our marketing is simply trying to build the best product and assuming that well dominate the scene die to it

Plus we are pretty lazy when it comes to that

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by jafaku » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 2:02 AM UTC

sync wrote: post #9

jsnk wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Isn't the website payment system vulnerable to MITM without without using https?

Technically, no. The payment happens within an iframe secured with https: https://www.simplegoods.co/embed/PKGTEISN

If the main page is insecure, then everything is insecure.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by jsherer » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 2:07 AM UTC

My first software product I launched on the side 5 years ago still makes quite a bit more than $1k/m (and that's in non-recurring revenue). Its best month was more than $15k while I was working full time. I was able to quit my corporate job back in February to focus on some new products.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by nobleach » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 2:19 AM UTC

jthurman wrote: post #73

I built and sell a collection of plugins for the Delphi IDE at http://www.twodesk.com . (Yes, people still use Delphi), for a consistent single-digit multiple of $1K each month.

That is AWESOME... back in 2000, I was writing a vertical app for an oil company using Object Pascal/Borland Delphi (it was still Borland... and Kylix... at that point) It got me using Interbase/Firebird/FirebirdSQL for a couple of years. Glad to hear it's still around.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by liamgooding » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 2:20 AM UTC

zeeg wrote: post #3

getsentry.com - saas

We use Sentry at Trak.io and love it :)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by halcyondaze » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 2:41 AM UTC

xur17 wrote: post #48

jonotron wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You redirect properly + submit to Google, etc? A proper redirect + submission should see a dip then recovery, not a persistent dip.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by rhizome » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 2:49 AM UTC

investor1234 wrote: post #27

I made a nest egg of $150,000 through advanced use of the "spend less than you make" framework. I invest passively with index funds. I average about 6% annually, but this year was significantly more than that. Easily $1k/month.

Ah, a nice green account to go with your bragging. You know what OP means..

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by WhiteFoxx » Wed, Dec 11, 2013, 3:26 AM UTC

xur17 wrote: post #14

http://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.

How are you going about getting the deals / codes etc into your system?