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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 yitchelle »

wesbos wrote: post #79
k__ wrote: post #68

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How did you get into writing? I tried to write blogs and had to write papers for university, but I always struggle. I have the feeling that some people can produce much text from nothing, where I put my ideas into a few sentences...

It was really hard to write - took me 1.5 years, tons of research and re-writing. This isn't something I slapped together over a weekend. Far from passive income. Creating content for me is always hard, but once it's done, I love to deliver it (via talks, teaching, videos or books...)

Thanks for sharing. Writing for a 1.5 years is a long time. How did you stay motivated to keep going?

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

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Post by ClintFix »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #350
ClintFix wrote: post #173

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Interesting. It is not supposed to do that. I will look into it. Thank you for bringing it to my attention!

Whilst you're on it can you fix the LLR logo roundel not to have floating pixel cruft in the transparent areas (and poor cropping) and maybe provide a properly scaled WP logo - that anti-aliasing gives me the jitters ... just saying ...

Thanks! I have that stuff on my list already. I appreciate the feedback!

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

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Post by tekromancr »

fuckall wrote: post #178

I sell drugs. It's a lot harder than you might think. My clients give pretty reliable recurring revenue, so much so that it's gone from a side project to a full time gig for me.

How do you scale customer acquisition? That seems very risky the moment you move outside of friend-of-a-friend networks.

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

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Post by celticninja »

smhanov wrote: post #310

I have three side projects that together became my "full-time" job. I'm able to spend a lot of time with my kids since I can work fewer hours. I'm tired all the time due to a 4 month old baby, so I'm not doing a lot of things I should. My method is simple and has only four steps. 1. Write something cool and put it online for free. 2. Wait 4 to 5 years. 3. Gather all the emails asking if they can license it or pay you…

how does rhymebrain generate income? i dont have adblock and i am not seeing any ads when i view the site, not even after a number of searches.

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

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Post by Exuma »

I started a personal project last year that's currently pulling $350,000-$400,000 profit a month.

Currently I'm working on scaling very hard.

It was a good year, and it feels good that 15 years of insanely hard learning have paid off... It feels surreal, like I'm dreaming and I'm going to wake up.

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

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Post by v_ignatyev »

leesalminen wrote: post #127

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.

Could you introduce your service better? Your landing page says what the purpose, not what it is...

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Post by raptormissle »

mappum wrote: 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!…

Thanks. Reported to Google.

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

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Post by yitchelle »

smhanov wrote: post #310

I have three side projects that together became my "full-time" job. I'm able to spend a lot of time with my kids since I can work fewer hours. I'm tired all the time due to a 4 month old baby, so I'm not doing a lot of things I should. My method is simple and has only four steps. 1. Write something cool and put it online for free. 2. Wait 4 to 5 years. 3. Gather all the emails asking if they can license it or pay you…

Thanks for sharing. Just wondering where the adsense ads are for rhymebrain.com, I was not able to see it when I visited it. btw, great idea!

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

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Post by simi_ »

baudehlo wrote: post #313
modoc wrote: post #70

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As zrail mentioned below, it's not that much traffic from a load perspective. It's a Java app, so it uses some RAM, but honestly the hardest load to tune for was the inbound spam. I have a massively overspecced server that I use for this, and many other sites/projects - 24 GB RAM, dual X5670 CPUs, etc... Typically runs at a load average of only 0.5-0.6. Like I said, overspecced:)

You probably need a better mail server that can more easily handle that load. Check Haraka out (shameless plug, but it's designed for high loads and this kind of app).

I'm writing some plugins for Haraka _right now_. Definitely recommended!
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