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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 novelco »

I launched a side project in 24 hours last month (which I documented here: justinmcgill.net/24-hour-product-challenge-twist/).

It is called LeadFuze (www.leadfuze.com) and it's an email prospecting and outreach service that generates leads via email. Good for B2B businesses and startups, or even companies looking to validate ideas.

I've managed to hit $1k/mo ($1,100) in recurring revenue within 30 days. Going to be a much bigger focus of mine now that it is gaining traction.

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

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Post by eblanshey »

leesalminen wrote: post #459
kelv wrote: post #436

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sounds like you had success at the trade shows, I'm about to embark on that route too. Can I ask how you went getting the word out at the shows, and any tips converting to a sale? Did they mind that it was still an MVP?

The trade shows were a great start. We signed up a few folks right away, and people are still calling us 2 months later. It was a really interesting story though... My co-founder and I had the smallest possible booth in the very back corner of the room. Our biggest competitor had a triple sized booth manned with 4 people and 2 42-inch TVs in the center of the room. We had 5 competitors within a 6 booth radius. Everyo…

Thanks for sharing.

> I had practiced my spiel for that a hundred times by then.

Mind sharing what that was?

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

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Post by JDiculous »

Exuma wrote: post #355

I started a personal project last year that's currently pulling $350,000-$400,000 profit a month. Currently I'm working on scaling very hard. It was a good year, and it feels good that 15 years of insanely hard learning have paid off... It feels surreal, like I'm dreaming and I'm going to wake up.

Care to elaborate? Sounds like you've struck gold.

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

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Post by tryx »

doh wrote: post #102

A year ago I developed an universal video downloader site http://savedeo.com . I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but people liked the site and kept coming back. Year later the site generates around $30k a month and the operation costs are around $90 (close to nothing). The site is very lightweight as it doesn't really downloads anything. It just extracts direct links to the files. There are a great challeng…

I was wondering if you can point to me where and how you can get information of how to extract/download audio/video files.

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

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Post by yogodoshi »

ersiees wrote: post #385
deanclatworthy wrote: post #188

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?

He explained it in its FAQ: http://www.sadlyunfriended.com/faq.php

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

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Post by mapster »

novelco wrote: post #522

I launched a side project in 24 hours last month (which I documented here: justinmcgill.net/24-hour-product-challenge-twist/). It is called LeadFuze (www.leadfuze.com) and it's an email prospecting and outreach service that generates leads via email. Good for B2B businesses and startups, or even companies looking to validate ideas. I've managed to hit $1k/mo ($1,100) in recurring revenue within 30 days. Going to be a…

Very interesting app. How did you launch and gain users?
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