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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?

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Post by tekalon »

jthurman wrote: post #67
famousactress wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

The first option is the one I've heard the most.

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Post by motyar »

benhirashima wrote: post #95

I made an Android app, Unlock With WiFi, three years ago. It has brought in about 64K over that time. The app unlocks your phone when you're connected to your home wifi. I'm currently working on a complete rewrite that will support patterns and face lock for root users. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benhirashi...

Great idea.

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Post by kerrsclyde »

I run a forum (historic vehicles) members donate to see additional content, mainly old posts and bigger images, this is the primary income. Our recurring income is in that range.

Certainly not hi-tech but valuable to our membership and increases by at least 10% each year.

We don't run any keyword advertising but in the past year I we started selling advertising space in 12 month plans which has supplemented income.

Facebook has taken a bite out of our daily posting figures but it has made no difference to traffic/income. Facebook can't compete when it comes to delivering old content.

There are several associated niches to ours which don't have a centralised web site, much potential, you do however need a good knowledge of the subject matter and time to build the community.

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Post by marktangotango »

tinco wrote: post #111
wyck wrote: post #15

A good old fashioned web site which ranks high for a resort town which has a lot of tourists who don't know where to eat so they search in the Google. My next venture is a run on sentence shortening service.

What is a sentence shortening service?

FYI, it was a joke; the first sentence in the post was excessively long.

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

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Post by 27182818284 »

chaddeshon wrote: post #97

http://www.brombone.com It's a service that solves SEO for javascript driven websites. For the most part, Google can't crawl sites that manipulate the DOM using javascript (AngularJS, Backbone.js, Ember.js, etc). The solution is to use a headless browser to make html snapshots for all your pages and serve those to Google instead of the page that requires javascript. This turns out to be a bit of a pain in practice. S…

Huh. I totally thought Google would penalize your ranking for trying something like that. Have you heard of that happening at all?
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