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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?

#471
I created a videotutorial course to teach people how to design and code trading robots - udemy.com/build-your-trading-robot.

It's doing about 1.5k/mth. Launched it 2 months ago. Took me 6 months to create it. Still adding content to it though, will probably take about 1 year more before I complete it.

The site that hosted the course did most of the marketing for me so I just focused on the product. Startup cost was about $150. Spent it on microphone and digital writing pad.

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

#473

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> Just a couple days ago, I read that three times as much money is raised from crowdfunding than from VC. Citation required. That doesn't sound possible.

I found the cite in an article by a VC, linked from HN. I'll post it for you but not just now as it will take me a while to dig up my bookmark, also I need to get some sleep. I'm skeptical too, but that's what the VC did claim.

According to Kickstarter's own metrics (and I'm sure we agree that they're the clear winner in this space), there's been a total of about $1.5B in funds raised TOTAL, over the lifetime of the site: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/stats

Conversely, there was nearly $30B in VC money committed in 2013 alone: http://www.pwc.com/us/en/press-releases/2014/annual-venture-...

So it's not even close to being close. Maybe there's 3x more crowdsourced projects funded than companies backed, but most KS projects are funded for a few thousand dollars.

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

#474
My site with totally free photos. I made it because no stock photo agency/site want my photos.

http://www.picjumbo.com

Today it has 1mio pageviews/month, PREMIUM Membership, Photoshop Plugin, AdSense and some "30-days" ads.

And photos are still FREE :)

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

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This is fudging the question, but after many months of nights-and-weekends toiling, I launched https://www.land-of-nosh.com out of beta testing today and hope to be making $1,000+/month at some point! My wife has always hated the meal planning/recipe organization and sharing process and available tools (she'd used a few different products). After asking lots of friends for recommendations and hearing enough times, "I…

It looks REALLY nice, congratulations.

It's something I could see myself using, but it seems too US-centric at the moment :) . Still, I'll give it a try :)

Do you have an e-mail or something for feedback?

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

#476

My site with totally free photos. I made it because no stock photo agency/site want my photos. — http://www.picjumbo.com Today it has 1mio pageviews/month, PREMIUM Membership, Photoshop Plugin, AdSense and some "30-days" ads. And photos are still FREE :)

Viktor, do you take all the photos? Does the site pay for your travel? Great idea, it is all free but get someone to pay for convenience.

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

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post #409

This is fudging the question, but after many months of nights-and-weekends toiling, I launched https://www.land-of-nosh.com out of beta testing today and hope to be making $1,000+/month at some point! My wife has always hated the meal planning/recipe organization and sharing process and available tools (she'd used a few different products). After asking lots of friends for recommendations and hearing enough times, "I…

It looks REALLY nice, congratulations. It's something I could see myself using, but it seems too US-centric at the moment :) . Still, I'll give it a try :) Do you have an e-mail or something for feedback?

Thanks! :) Fair critique for being too US-centric. I see you're from Uruguay! My wife grew up in Ecuador, is fluent in Spanish and still has family there, so there could be some I18N on the horizon!

Feel free to e-mail me directly (in my profile) or there's a feedback form on the site (in the profile navigation dropdown). I'd love to hear your thoughts!

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

#478

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.

Looks awesome, do you mind expanding a bit on how the GUI/animations were built?

Thanks! GUI and animations are all custom. I wanted very specific multitouch capabilities that would not be practical by using standard gesture recognizers. So a lot of work went into imitating the rubber banding and momentum scrolling of the all-familiar scroll view. It was definitely worth it in my view. Said gestures manipulate two base values; origin, and scale (1D scroll and zoom.) Values on each side are defined as a multiple and an offset of the base (linear function.) All numbers on screen are basically entities of a particle system and are spawned, positioned, and destroyed according to their relation to origin and scale.

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

#479

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Is there a reason this isn't scaled out as a service?

SEC rules. To do that you need become a trading advisor (similar to a hedge fund), which requires that you have made over $200k/yr for the last 3 years or that you have $2.5Mil in your own assets. While I've done consistently well so far, I've only been at it full force a few years, and I started with my own cash which isn't nearly that much. The followup is usually turning this into a business and getting investors.…

Can you contact me (check my profile for email). This is fascinating and I would love to discuss it further but communication via hackernews is pretty limited.

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

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post #477

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It looks REALLY nice, congratulations. It's something I could see myself using, but it seems too US-centric at the moment :) . Still, I'll give it a try :) Do you have an e-mail or something for feedback?

Thanks! :) Fair critique for being too US-centric. I see you're from Uruguay! My wife grew up in Ecuador, is fluent in Spanish and still has family there, so there could be some I18N on the horizon! Feel free to e-mail me directly (in my profile) or there's a feedback form on the site (in the profile navigation dropdown). I'd love to hear your thoughts!

Don't optimize prematurely, there's probably a lot of people in the U.S. that can use your site first ! :)

Best of luck :)

Edit: also, U$ 8 / month is a huge barrier for international adoption.

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