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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 QuasiAlon »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #327
reuven wrote: post #57

I wrote an ebook ("Practice Makes Python", http://lerner.co.il/practice-makes-python ) for people who have learned Python basics, but want to gain fluency. I'm working on videos for a higher-tier offering, and then will start to market it more seriously. I only launched the book about 1.5 months ago, and I'm at about $1500 in revenue. I'm definitely hoping to see greater income with the higher tiers (including video)…

FWIW I just finished a beginners python course on Coursera - Programming for Everyone (PR4E, https://class.coursera.org/pythonlearn-003/ ). There's no natural follow on as the course uses a book for which only the first part has been translated in to a course. There were a lot of people on the course asking what to do as follow-up; might be a lead for you. I just signed up for your samples as 'pbhj' if you want to ge…

fwiw I was in the same situation and found taking a stab at the challenges in http://www.reddit.com/r/dailyprogrammer helpful.

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

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Post by QuasiAlon »

someotheridiot wrote: post #373

http://rebrickable.com - using your existing LEGO collection, find other stuff you can build. Thousands of custom designs with building instructions and parts lists.

awesome awesome idea. any willingness to disclose a few numbers?

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

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Post by QuasiAlon »

ralphholzmann wrote: post #186

Send to Dropbox. Allows you to email attachments to your Dropbox. Makes roughly $2,500 a month currently. More info in this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8699687

wow. kudos! pretty incredible it makes so much money today, when you can do it with ifttt

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Post by Methusalah »

IshKebab wrote: post #449
ekr wrote: post #442

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

The extent of the technological capabilities of a device like a smartphone are far from common knowledge for the typical user. An app can allow your phone to perform the functions of a gps, why can't it allow your phone to perform the functions of a radar detector? I mean even people who know enough about their devices to know that the idea of it acting as a radar detector is unreasonable may not know what their phone IS capable of. How more technologically proficient users do you suppose are there who are completely unaware of the fact that their phone might have a barometer?

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Post by trienthusiast »

rab_oof wrote: post #427
majc2 wrote: post #285

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Always experiment with pricing. It's easy to misprice ewares optimally by a magnitude of 2.

in which direction ?

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Post by MichaelCrawford »

ingen0s wrote: post #496
MichaelCrawford wrote: post #467

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why did you downvote this? It really is the case that I can't get cash out of PayPal, but PayPal does permit me to use it for online payments. A few days ago I bought a pizza with a eGift card that I bought from Newegg. What I'd really like to do is to buy coffee and food at cafes. Starbucks once did a promotion where one could buy a prepaid card with PayPal, that they don't do that anymore. I've never heard of anyon…

The cafe I goto, 'Mahtay Cafe' in St. Catharines accepts PayPal built into their pos and PayPal app Surely, all brick and mortar have this choice. It's just a matter of showing them the benefits or even building POS into their website as a complete front end and backend restaurant platform. This in my opinion should be the selling point of all payment systems and integrations with inventory tracking and customer mana…

There is a widespread problem I see - not particular to PayPal or Starbucks - that many companies feel they make enough money, so they don't need to do better.

I expect PayPal could promote itself to brick-and-mortars, but PayPal's marketing people don't feel that they need to, because PayPal makes plenty of money.

Most brick-and-mortars make enough money for their staff to be happy, so they don't look into how they could increase their sales by accepting other payment methods.

This might seem OK but "making enough money" is one of the factors than enables the lean and hungry to come from out of nowhere with a disruptive technology.

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Post by raverbashing »

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…

Rhymebrain looks cool

Just a small note: I tried http://rhymebrain.com/en/What_rhymes_with_peace.html

And it gives things like: recognise, harmonise

I know it's tough, so don't worry too much, but if it can be fixed the better :)

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Post by LordKelv »

tomrohlf wrote: post #44

I created a card game that I sell on Amazon. I have it manufactured in China and sell it though Fulfillment by Amazon. Quite a change from my day job working in software but I enjoy the diversity. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00PJKCXJC

Would you mind sharing the name of the manufacturer in China? Cheers!

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Post by agilek »

robinhood wrote: post #253

I've created five years ago http://www.totalwireframe.com , based on a hunch that it would interest people. It's a site where I sell libraries for an obscure/niche market. The first year, I sold for $0 of librairies. In 2014, I've made ~$45,000 and it's 100% passive income. I'm not proud to say that I've worked a total of 30 hours on the site last year (it sounds as if I'm lazy, and I'm not). Moreover, I've never spe…

Nice story! And you created all libraries you sell only by yourself?
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