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

Post by rab_oof » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 5:17 AM UTC

ef4 wrote: post #247

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.

This pattern works all over the place . Get to know any kind of small business owner and you'll see they need good software that doesn't exist. Partly that's because they can be cheap and hard to market to at scale, which discourages deeper-pocketed software companies from going after them. But if you're solo and just interested in a lifestyle business with recurring revenue, it's a very reliable path.

Post by Justsignedup » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 5:25 AM UTC

spyder wrote: post #349

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!…

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

Post by rab_oof » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 5:29 AM UTC

mappum wrote: post #254

eloisant wrote: post #252

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It's actually totally possible with crowdsourcing, and a lot of applications actually work, like Waze. So people believing it works are not stupid, they can legitimately believe you're pulling that from a common database with an app that lets user signal radar or police cars.

The description clearly says "Your phone is able to detect strong radio signals, just like the ones directed at your car by police when measuring your speed.", and the reviews show people expect it to work by radar detection, not crowdsourcing. Many comments are police officers that tested it with their radar guns (and they of course realize it is fake).

Post by rab_oof » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 5:36 AM UTC

majc2 wrote: post #285

ishanr wrote: post #81

I wrote a book on Google Authority 2 years back and after steadily growing in sales it gives about 800USD/month now: https://gum.co/ppyJ Although I haven't spent a single penny on promotion and selling it for less than I should I guess.

Can I make a suggestion - try a month at $29 and see what happens? If it doesn't work out change it back.

Post by adzeds » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 6:56 AM UTC

patrickk wrote: post #348

adzeds wrote: post #323

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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

No worries, I like the idea, happy to help. Might pick your brains about it a bit if that's ok. Some traffic stats for that subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerBetting/about/traffic/ Email away!