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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 ronaldgl »

Osmium wrote: post #95
ronaldgl wrote: post #84

I wrote a puzzle app for iOS - https://itunes.apple.com/app/id906543727 It's free to download and try it out, but then I charge for additional puzzles. I was keen to give a complete version of the app for free (without ads) so that people understand clearly what I'm offering. This strategy seems to be working with good and returning custom. Not $1k yet but some reason for optimism ;)

What's the current situation with In-App Purchases and patent issues? I'd like to do fund a smaller project of my own but I'm put off by the problems other developers have had in the past.

This wasn't a major concern of mine, but this is the latest I could find:

http://www.androidpolice.com/2015/01/03/ding-dong-patent-tro...

Anyway "The last Lodsys patent technically expired in 2012 - the LLC had been suing based on past infringement"

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

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Post by markhall »

ClintFix wrote: post #309
redfalcon6 wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

I am a mechanical engineer full time. I make ~3k/mo on the side with both the products listed on my site above and other leadership products. I'd be happy to chat further. Hit me up on my website or on Twitter: @clintfix

Hi Clint,

This is an awesome project and it looks like the content you are providing is high quality and impactful! I would love to hear more about how you started gaining the initial content and how/why you structured the Courses (1&2) in the ways that you did.

Thanks,

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

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Post by gogetakame »

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

Thanks friend.

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Post by smhanov »

celticninja wrote: post #354
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.

Right now they only appear for people that arrive from a search engine directly to a word page. http://rhymebrain.com/en/What_rhymes_with_purple.html

My theory was that those people are looking to buy something. Also I hated ads. But I'm going to enable them universally soon, if only to stop the constant emails from ad companies.

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Post by megaframe »

lefonty wrote: post #292
megaframe wrote: post #237

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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?

Level I and Level II data from my broker's API (Interactive Brokers). It's a free service as long as you have enough trading fee's every month. TDAmeritrade has an OK API as well. Both services have some limitations on data feeds (number of symbols you can actively review). There's some lag in data (sub what a human could notice) but again these are essentially free, and unless you're trying to be an HFT or scraping stocks this shouldn't matter. Neither of those activities are recommended, the people you'd be going up against have a lot more money and much better resources. News data is aggregated from a variety of sources and paid rss news feeds.

Yes to sentiment, yes to history (though I keep my own history for the sake of granularity and not paying twice for data), and sort of for technical indicators... technical indicators are helpful for humans, but if your ML algo is using a data set that spans a multi-day window already a technical indicator of the direction of movement in the last few days is just telling your algo something it already knows.

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Post by atom-morgan »

Exuma wrote: post #355

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.

Do you have any additional details?

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Post by leesalminen »

v_ignatyev wrote: post #356
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...

Thanks for your advice!

My co-founder is currently working on a true marketing site. I'll be sure to pass this along.

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Post by loginwashere »

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.

Can you explain how does this site make money?

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Post by jaworrom »

eogas wrote: post #238
wesbos wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Get over yourself. This is part of why I hate the Reddit community-- it's a bunch of snarky, pretensious neckbeards.
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