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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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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

Mind talking some about how you do it?

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I've been trying to understand the full remote supply chain, going directly from the offshore supply chain directly to FBA.

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

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post #208

An Android app I made in a few hours makes $500/m from ads, and has 1M+ downloads on Google Play. It claims to be a radar detector for your phone, but that's not even possible (it's actually just completely random). The description says that it is for novelty purposes, but the reviews show people believe it works and it has a placebo effect. Most reviews say things like "I drove past a police station and it went off!…

Funniest thing I've read all day.

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

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Is this your self-made content, or are you essentially an affiliate for someone else's course? Mind sharing a bit more how this works? Very interesting!

Affiliate, but I know all of the creators personally. We have a smattering of other leadership/personal development products as well.

Nice! Is this full time and you're making more than stated above - or are you part time and you are making ~1K / month as a side biz? Just curious about order of magnitude?

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

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post #201

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I mean the pop-up ads are sometimes ads to online casinos, sometimes very popular mobile games, etc. To be honest, I am very frustrated with the ads, but I have to make money somehow and I never found a better way how to do it.

Cool! If you're willing to share, what is the most popular site people download videos for? I was thinking NSFW sites as well, but you said they only account for 0.65%.

Youtube (64.08%), Soundcloud (11.37%), Vimeo (9.94%), Mixcloud (3.84%) and then everything else is less than 1%

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

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Combination Machine Learning, NLP, Neural Networks, stock analyzer. Does automated day trading. Not HFT style stuff. More what a bank pays an analyst to do, type of trading, but smaller scale since it's only my personal funds.

I am working on something similar for forex. Did you use an existing neural network library for this or make your own?

Also care to share any pitfalls you fell into at the start? Right now I am working on building modules with the purpose of collecting data for training.

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

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Combination Machine Learning, NLP, Neural Networks, stock analyzer. Does automated day trading. Not HFT style stuff. More what a bank pays an analyst to do, type of trading, but smaller scale since it's only my personal funds.

This is really interesting, I would love to hear more about how you are going about doing this.

There's a whole world of people doing this. Some even package it up into solutions to sell you as though it's this black box solution you can plop down and just make money out of it. The combination layers of machine learning and quirkiness of the market, often require some small hand holding, and if you venture into certain areas of the market HFT's and other traders smarter than you will take advantage of your algorithmic trading by placing orders ahead of you.

Point is, it's not without some heavy risks, and regular attention.

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

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You're pushing malware via popups. To convert one video, I was subjected to each of these popups three times: http://i.imgur.com/qqK77qp.png http://i.imgur.com/eCAtjOi.png You're probably paid per install, unless the distribution model for malware has significantly changed in the past six years. Assuming $2 per install, that would mean you're infecting 15,000 machines per month. At bare minimum, this malware you dist…

That's weird, I'm not seeing these popups, and Google says the site is OK: https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=savedeo....

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

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You're pushing malware via popups. To convert one video, I was subjected to each of these popups three times: http://i.imgur.com/qqK77qp.png http://i.imgur.com/eCAtjOi.png You're probably paid per install, unless the distribution model for malware has significantly changed in the past six years. Assuming $2 per install, that would mean you're infecting 15,000 machines per month. At bare minimum, this malware you dist…

That's weird, I'm not seeing these popups, and Google says the site is OK: https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=savedeo....

If indeed the claim is true (I have not verified it), it is possible that the malware creators don't offer up these popups to Google's bots.

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

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post #102

A year ago I developed an universal video downloader site http://savedeo.com . I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but people liked the site and kept coming back. Year later the site generates around $30k a month and the operation costs are around $90 (close to nothing). The site is very lightweight as it doesn't really downloads anything. It just extracts direct links to the files. There are a great challeng…

You're pushing malware via popups. To convert one video, I was subjected to each of these popups three times: http://i.imgur.com/qqK77qp.png http://i.imgur.com/eCAtjOi.png You're probably paid per install, unless the distribution model for malware has significantly changed in the past six years. Assuming $2 per install, that would mean you're infecting 15,000 machines per month. At bare minimum, this malware you dist…

I don't see any popups, it's probably just you.

Though I like how you based ALL of your reasoning around a probably false alarm, and you just kept going on and on with conclusions.

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