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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 developed a service that does SSL installation for you on Heroku: https://www.expeditedssl.com

Cool service, been looking for something like this!! Mind sharing more details, i.e. time to launch, rev numbers, cost, etc?

Has heroku providing free shared SSL impacted your numbers at all?

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

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post #275

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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.

Some great tips there. Thank you very much!

Am deffo going to keep a close eye on the Reddit group so might shoot you an email about that in a couple of days

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

#324
post #69

I made http://bankofamericaroutingnumber.com It took less than a day and makes about $150/month. Not quite the 1k but not bad for minimal work.

Can someone explain what this is, is it like a UK sort-code [which identifies a particular bank branch, like a zip-code only for banks]? Why do people need to look it up [online].

Thanks.

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

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I was populating the board with jobs for companies I scored recruiting contracts with. These contracts made building the JobPosts and driving traffic worth my time(contract = collect a sizable a fee when someone you refer to a position gets hired). JobPosts drive the organic traffic to JobBoards, so make sure you take SEO into consideration when posting. I also started with a much lower rate to post on the JobBoard,…

Where did you find these recruiting contracts? Are they easy to obtain?

Call/email people in charge of hiring in your niche.

Most companies are very familiar with this type of contract.

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

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post #126
post #119

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Is it possible to extract audio out of a video file you generate?

Sure. For that reason I wrote other service, http://auderio.com ;)

This must be less legal than Savedeo (which only creates a video link), because if the extracted audio is hosted on the servers it's very likely an illegal copy. I'm not sure DMCA would help in this case.

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

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post #57

I wrote an ebook ("Practice Makes Python", http://lerner.co.il/practice-makes-python ) for people who have learned Python basics, but want to gain fluency. I'm working on videos for a higher-tier offering, and then will start to market it more seriously. I only launched the book about 1.5 months ago, and I'm at about $1500 in revenue. I'm definitely hoping to see greater income with the higher tiers (including video)…

FWIW I just finished a beginners python course on Coursera - Programming for Everyone (PR4E, https://class.coursera.org/pythonlearn-003/). There's no natural follow on as the course uses a book for which only the first part has been translated in to a course. There were a lot of people on the course asking what to do as follow-up; might be a lead for you.

I just signed up for your samples as 'pbhj' if you want to get in touch.

Incidentally, when one adds themselves to your email list for samples it takes you to https://lerner.leadpages.net/new-practice-makes-python/thank... but there's no route back other than using the back button. IME this tends to mean people will just close the tab, providing a route back or on to a related page might help conversions or give you chance to get affiliate conversions or what-have-you.

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

#328
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

This is awesome! Thanks

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

#329

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.

Is there a reason this isn't scaled out as a service?

Yeah, it seems like he could make much, much more.

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!…

This app should be reported as having a misleading description or at least it should be in the "games" category not in the "transportation".
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