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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 mantenpanther »

adzeds wrote: post #214
adzeds wrote: post #67

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!

I have also just started to allow 3rd parties access to my data! I plan on expanding this functionality over the coming months as well, as there are a number of websites that keep requesting feeds and API access to the algorithm predictions.

Do you mind to disclose your data source(s)? Every now and then I've ideas in this space, but ultimately I'd need a (free or very cheap) API with history soccer results and match data - which I did not find so far.

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Post by patrickk »

adzeds wrote: post #167
gwynp wrote: post #132

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Hey, the site is: http://betalyst.com/ It is just on a stock wordpress theme at the moment as I am currently developing a better site for it. The algorithm selections can be seen here: http://betalyst.com/tips-zone/ Still a lot more work to do on it! - Feel free to share are potential improvements, I am not afraid of constructive criticism! It is very much something I threw together to get the algorithm into the wild…

Nice job! You're probably aware of this site https://betegy.com/ maybe you can get some ideas from them (not affiliated). You should discuss your site at /r/soccerbetting my email is in my profile if you want to discuss further.

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

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Post by bholzer »

stevenh wrote: post #204
doh wrote: 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…

It is possible that the site was hacked to serve malware.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

doh wrote: 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…

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Post by wangarific »

gedrap wrote: post #82

There was a number of similar active threads over the years, some great ideas in them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789

Thank you for this!

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

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Post by megaframe »

lefonty wrote: post #225
megaframe wrote: post #168

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.

I started with the open NLP packages, but I rewrote pretty much everything, including my own ML algos. Typically based on the open source one. I kept running into scaling and use case performance issues. On some occasions things I did turned out to be solutions I'd find buried in the language of some google paper, which is mildly frustrating.

Forex is a tricky space, volatility and fees can really funk you up. I do a little there because the returns tend to justify it. Be wary of smaller and or unknown names. Manually check out anything you allow your algos to trade... at least till you come up with a comprehensive set of rules you can trust.

I tend to stick to US equities. Just because my risk tolerance is low for what amounts to a side project using my personal funds. Which I'm often not looking at until all the trading is done for the day.

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Post by eogas »

wesbos wrote: post #179
eogas wrote: post #165

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You used to (still do?) spam this heavily on the programming subreddit. It annoys me to see that it's selling rather well, yet you apparently can't be bothered to buy an ad. Please see: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/faq#wiki_what_constitutes_spam.3...

I just looked at my submission history and I've only submitted it to /r/programming once - so that isn't spam. And yes - I've bought all the reddit ads I can get my hands on - they are in pretty limited quantity.

Nearly every submission you've ever made to reddit is either directly to your book, or to a post on your blog, most of which include a massive ad at the bottom for your book. That's spam. Even if there was no ad on your blog and you receive no compensation in any way, it's still spam.

Here's another good informational link that delves into this aspect: https://www.reddit.com/wiki/selfpromotion

I'm glad you've bought ads (though I don't remember ever seeing one), but that doesn't exempt you from the rules about self promotion.

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Post by magnetpeep »

stickperson wrote: post #198
magnetpeep wrote: post #108

I started thumbnailing porn torrents at http://www.magnetpeep.com , then the Pirate Bay went down (who I used to index the torrents). I need to get back on that project.

That's an interesting technical challenge, at least to me. Could you talk a bit about it? edit: Could you also talk about SEO and how you market your site?

Sure. What would you like to know?
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