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Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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

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Post by tessierashpool »

MichaelCrawford wrote: post #12
mrfusion wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I always assumed you had to know how to make a compelling video to succeed at kickstarter. And as a correlate be charismatic and photogenic.

I have two close friends who are professional filmmakers, Sari Gennis and Ted Arabian. Sari was the animation director for Ferngully, her sister was my boss' girlfriend back in the day. I met Ted in high school, when he and I both played Roman Soldiers in Jesus Christ Superstar. However I plan to make most of the video myself, but then to have Ted edit it. Real Soon Now I'm going to make a storyboard from digital sti…

    Consider that a homeless fellow here in Portland, not long ago said to me
    "Some of they people I find sleeping on the street, they tell me they used
    to make six figures".
    I find lots of software engineers eating at soup kitchens and sleeping in
    homeless shelters.
wait a minute, what?

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

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Post by la6470 »

zrail wrote: post #8

I wrote a book[1] a year and a half ago that just recently crossed $42k in total revenue. These days it consistently earns $1.5k/mo without much further input from me, other than tweaks to the landing page copy and updates once in awhile when Stripe or Rails changes significantly. [1]: https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com Edit: If you'd like to read a preview, you can do so here: https://www.masteringmodernpayment…

Do you mind sharing how you advertised your book or made it popular?

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

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Post by wesbos »

I wrote a book and video series on Sublime Text - https://SublimeTextBook.com

It's done about 80k in sales in 3 months - I'm in the process of writing a blog post about how I did it, what worked and what didn't. It's not inexpensive, but it pays for itself quickly so people are fine with spending the $45 on the book + videos.

Feel free to ask questions here so I have content for the post.

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

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Post by wuliwong »

brianpetro_ wrote: post #26

Create a Job Board, use the latest social routes to drive traffic and build a list. The amount you make from the Job Board post is heavily dependent on the amount social followers (drives traffic and makes purchasing more appealing). https://www.angularjobs.com started making ~$1000/month in revenue with a highly targeted social reach of ~10k followers. Technical co-founder type? Take what you know about programming…

I'd love to talk to you more about this if you have the time. You can connect to me on twitter https://twitter.com/patrickjbradley I have a website for finding tutorials about the Swift language. I've been considering adding a job board as a revenue source. Would love to hear your thoughts and advice. Even what you posted here is a big help already.

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

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Post by _kyran »

modoc wrote: post #32

10MinuteMail - http://10minutemail.com Temporary email. Got lucky with traffic, and run two Google Adsense ads.

Thanks for making that! Out of interest, are you willing to share a rough idea of how many emails have been created or how many are made a day?

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

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Post by wertop »

modoc wrote: post #32

10MinuteMail - http://10minutemail.com Temporary email. Got lucky with traffic, and run two Google Adsense ads.

How did you get approved for AdSense? I'm trying to get approval for a small app with little textual content, but it seems Google want reams of text so it gets rejected.
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