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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?

#381
I created http://builds.io and http://udid.io/ The first one is the store destributing iOS apps removed from AppStore. And the second one is the service to get UDID of iPhone in one tap. Together they generates revenue around $1000 month on subscriptions and AdSense.

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

#383
I created an iOS app http://ideon.co/theconverted/ as a side project. I've had hopes to be able to survive entirely on revenue from my own projects instead of relying on client work. I'm very far from that goal at this point, but the extra income is nice.

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

#385

I run http://unfriend.io - I used to make over 1000e a month with an un-named advertiser who decided to revoke my account without appeal. Now my money comes from donations.

Please Tell me do you really find ihr who Unfrieded whom on fb? Or is it Fake? Do you use people's data maybe sell it or something?

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

#388
post #158

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are there any legal implications associated with this site, as in is it legal to download videos from those sites?

Well, this is a kind of a gray zone. The data hosted on sites like Youtube don't belong to them but to the creators. The site itself doesn't download anything, in a way it simulates what your browsers does. As a user, that's more complicated. In European Union it's legal. Everywhere else? Hard to say.

>The site itself doesn't download anything, in a way it simulates what your browsers does

Don't you arrange the download and provide a way for the user to "actually" download the video?

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

#389

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.

Very cool site. There seems to be a ton of software out there for dog daycares, is there anything different yours does?

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

#390
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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!…

No wonder you make money: charlatans often do. Take homeopathy for example, magic shops, so-called "healers" who manipulate your aura to make your cancer go away. Not to mention all the churches which have a very long tradition of exploiting by promising impossible things, just as you do.

You really should add something like "WARNING: this is just a simulator, it doesn't work in real world at all".

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