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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?

#131

I created a card game that I sell on Amazon. I have it manufactured in China and sell it though Fulfillment by Amazon. Quite a change from my day job working in software but I enjoy the diversity. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PJKCXJC

Good job! Which card manufacturer are you using?

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

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I created a soccer app that provides information on betting. It trickled along nicely and then in November it jumped to £3k (~$4.5k) then December it jumped to £7.7k (~$11k) and looks to be on that line still as it is on £2k after 5 days of January!

link please ? I'd really like to try it.

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

#136

I wrote an Android app based on a blog post of mine which got popular: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jasmcole.w... http://jasmcole.com/2014/08/25/helmhurts/ It reached the reddit front page for a day, and earned £3,000 during that day. Since then, it's averaged ~£150 per month, with only small input from me (minor updates)

I could have used this last month. I went through 4 crap routers before caving and buying a 250$ router to cover my home.

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

#137

I spent all of 2014 building a SaaS for dog daycare/kennel owners. The MVP turned out beautiful. Went to a few trade shows towards the end of last year and people went crazy over the software. 0 outbound marketing yet, and already have 22 customers at $100/month. This year my goal is to scale up to 200 customers. It's a really weird market niche where no one has built software for in 10 years. Pretty neat.

That's awesome! Congrats on your success.

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post #106

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That's pretty awesome. I just tried it out to see how you make money and noticed that you have both banner ads and also open popup-tabs. Are you comfortable sharing how much of the revenue is from the banners versus the popups? Are those the only two streams?

There are no banners only pop-up ads. There are two different providers, one generating around 1/3 the other the rest. I get probably one inquiry a week to test new ad system, which I mostly do. This way I went up from 6-7k a month to beyond 30k.

Any thoughts towards allowing people to promote their videos to that top list you've got there on the homepage? I'm er.. asking for a friend!
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