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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 iurisilvio »

wuliwong wrote: post #105
iurisilvio wrote: post #43

Small niches are cool, but you probably can't live from ads. Choose a lame subject with lots of users and make a clean and easy to use website. I have a small directory website. It's pretty boring stuff, but it is a good source of almost passive income. Never published it. I just created the website and sent the sitemap to Google Webmasters. It's 8 months old and I have 400k pageviews/month. I have lots of projects i…

What is the url?

Sorry, never published the URL of this service and really don't want to do it now. To be honest, this is the first time I wrote about it.

One of my goals to 2015 is a better project to publish here.

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Post by lefonty »

megaframe wrote: post #237
lefonty wrote: post #225

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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…

I am curious where do you get your data feed for trading. Do you pay for the data or are you using a free api? The main i reason i choose forex was due to ease of API use for data and trading.

Also follow up question, what sort of inputs are you using for training. Are you using mainly sentiment and price history or mostly technical indicators?

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

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Post by iurisilvio »

joshdance wrote: post #99
iurisilvio wrote: post #43

Small niches are cool, but you probably can't live from ads. Choose a lame subject with lots of users and make a clean and easy to use website. I have a small directory website. It's pretty boring stuff, but it is a good source of almost passive income. Never published it. I just created the website and sent the sitemap to Google Webmasters. It's 8 months old and I have 400k pageviews/month. I have lots of projects i…

With 400k page views what does your Adsense look like?

I don't send all my traffic through AdSense, some go to other services, which give me less profits with less rules. I have a CPM around $2. depending on the ads platform. AdSense is definitely the best one for me.

I started with AdSense 3 months ago and I'm still afraid of being banned and lose all my revenue. I don't explicitly violate any terms, but it is not original content and can easily be framed as doorway pages.

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Post by stickperson »

magnetpeep wrote: post #276
stickperson wrote: post #264

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I'm just curious how you go about doing it and how you actually index the links. Let's say you scrape tbp (or any other site) every X minutes. You see a link-- how do you know if you already saved that link? From there, I'm assuming you just have a simple model for each link which you save and render on the frontend. I'm used to building pretty simple webapps, so doing something like this is really interesting to me…

Well, I used Ruby on Rails (I'm a Rails dev). Initially I expected to have to scrape TPB, but checked out google and found there was a PB API. I started looking into that, and was going to write a Ruby wrapper for it, but then realized if I was gong to do it that someone else probably already did it. Looked for a few minutes and found a couple of Ruby gems ready to go. So what I would do was check TPB every hour, and…

Wow, cool stuff. Thanks for the info.

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Post by patrickk »

adzeds wrote: post #275
patrickk wrote: post #232

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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.

Thanks for the heads up on reddit. May ask for some feedback in there!

Ya good idea. I'm a moderator there so if you need tips about promoting it correctly without being spammy let me know. Also, posting your picks to oddsportal picks (e.g. http://www.oddsportal.com/profile/DPT/), certain facebook groups, reddit, relevant forums and so on would be good to raise your profile.

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Post by joeyspn »

programminggeek wrote: post #279
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

Well, there goes my afternoon.

The afternoon and some hours a day once you pick a nice idea for a side project... this thread is inspiring!

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Post by billyhoffman »

stevenh wrote: post #288
discardorama wrote: post #228

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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.

The directrev.com malware installation popups I provided screenshots of were triggered by this script embedded in savedeo's post-conversion page: http://cdn.directrev.com/js/gp.min.js?s=S0004793 Checking that script, we see a lot of "gunggo" references, which is the ad network doh admits to using. Gunggo apparently owns directrev.com, and both are considered pretty shady from what I can gather: https://nodpi.org/foru…

I'm interested in how you are extrapolating daily visitors from Alexa rank. You mention having a 2000ish ranked site and knowing the page views from there. I imagine its not a linear relationship. Do you have other data points you are using? Any other information you could be provide would be super appreciated.

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Post by MichaelTieso »

sarciszewski wrote: post #56
MichaelTieso wrote: post #46

I'm bringing home about $2,500 a month on my side project. This year I plan on doubling it. The issue is that this is really starting to becoming another full-time job.

That was a little vague. Care to share more details?

You're right. I'm Sorry.

I run a membership site called travelblogsuccess.com. My full-time job is at WooThemes for WooCommerce. I'm a firm believer of "eating your own dog food" thus we use WooCoommerce and several other plugins on my own side project. This has given me a better understanding of the products we sell at WooThemes as an actual customer on a live site. I learned more about our own products using it for my side project than learning and testing our plugins on a local development server.

As for the site itself it does require maintenance so not quite passive. It's important that we communicate with our community and update our lessons and courses often. We just introduced a public Slack community yesterday for example. We're now a team of four and could easily need more help. 2014 saw huge growth.

Initially I was concerned that my side project was going to take up too much of my time resulting in having two full-time positions. It did take some lifestyle changes in the beginning to free more time like spending less time messing around Facebook or Twitter and optimizing my time spent on my side project. In the end everything has worked very well. I spend on average an hour or two each day on my side project. Sometimes more if I'm simply watching TV while working on a few tasks during my downtime.

Sorry for the initial vague comment. Please do feel free to ask me any questions.

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Post by [deleted] »

doh wrote: post #211
raphinou wrote: post #206

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How did you get those visitors in what i see as a crowded market? That's always been my problem....

Never did anything special. After a month got promoted by Lifehacker which crashed the site so the traffic went back to the original. Everything is WOM.

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