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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 abhimir »

adzeds wrote: post #428
gedrap wrote: post #380

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Oh, so your revenue comes from affiliates? I thought that you have a monthly subscription fee :)

No monthly fee. I don't really like services that charge for this data. I prefer to make it available for free and then make the money by signing people up for bookies that they might not normally use.

Any specific reason for doing this instead of just charging people for using the tips? Are your users generally skeptical of accuracy of tips and as such not likely to pay?

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

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Post by ekr »

mappum wrote: post #395
klibertp wrote: post #390

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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 ".

One thing is is fundamentally different than your examples: the money is coming from advertisers, not the users.

Actually the fact the the users don't pay for it is not relevant. You're still making a transaction with the user, providing them with a service, in exchange for them putting up with your ads. But in reality the service you say you're providing is false.

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

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Post by adzeds »

abhimir wrote: post #441
adzeds wrote: post #428

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No monthly fee. I don't really like services that charge for this data. I prefer to make it available for free and then make the money by signing people up for bookies that they might not normally use.

Any specific reason for doing this instead of just charging people for using the tips? Are your users generally skeptical of accuracy of tips and as such not likely to pay?

Just feel it is better to provide the service for free.

Maybe at some point in the future I will consider a premium tier but it is not on the roadmap at the mo.

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

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Post by towelguy »

stickperson wrote: post #404
magnetpeep wrote: post #276

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Well, I used Ruby on Rails (I'm a Rails dev). Initially I expected to have to scrape TPB, but checked out google and found there was a PB API. I started looking into that, and was going to write a Ruby wrapper for it, but then realized if I was gong to do it that someone else probably already did it. Looked for a few minutes and found a couple of Ruby gems ready to go. So what I would do was check TPB every hour, and…

I've been toying around with this for a couple hours. Getting the links is relatively straightforward (I'm using kickass torrents). How do you go about adding the magnet links to transmission-daemon? You can setup a watch directory so that torrents will automatically start downloading when you fetch a torrent file, but that's not what's being done here. I'm assuming you're remotely monitoring the downloads true, corr…

You could use aria2, which is a command line program so no need to deal with a daemon. Also, you could make it download just parts of a torrent (the start of the torrent for example) instead of the whole thing and take the screenshots from there.

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

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Post by jere »

nickcano wrote: post #293

I made a fully autonomous bot for a 15 year old MMORPG. The bot can completely play the game with very little intervention, and I have about 2,000 people paying $5.75 monthly for it.

Interesting. Everquest? Asheron's Call? Bots were pretty big in AC, but I recall them being rather simple and using them could get you banned.

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

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Post by Obasan »

zrail wrote: post #8

I wrote a book[1] a year and a half ago that just recently crossed $42k in total revenue. These days it consistently earns $1.5k/mo without much further input from me, other than tweaks to the landing page copy and updates once in awhile when Stripe or Rails changes significantly. [1]: https://www.masteringmodernpayments.com Edit: If you'd like to read a preview, you can do so here: https://www.masteringmodernpayment…

Hi, are you an expert or at least well established in the community? Because that usually helps a lot to sell. Thanks!

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

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Post by doh »

mandeepj wrote: post #388
doh wrote: post #158

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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?

The site gives you a direct link to the file. Based on the site behavior and your browser settings, your browser will or start downloading or open the video directly.

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

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Post by IshKebab »

ekr wrote: post #442
mappum wrote: post #395

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One thing is is fundamentally different than your examples: the money is coming from advertisers, not the users.

Actually the fact the the users don't pay for it is not relevant. You're still making a transaction with the user, providing them with a service, in exchange for them putting up with your ads. But in reality the service you say you're providing is false.

> The description says that it is for novelty purposes

And common sense really.

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

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Post by sloppiiiii »

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.

Hi - how did you determine pricing for a niche?
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