Any hints on how others can do this? I am on disability but if I can earn more with Microstartups it would be better.
Most of these 'makers' are on Twitter and I found them to be helpful in answering things there.
Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping
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#122Seems, money is your strongest motivation. Money money money. Your work is beautiful. How about emphasizing that?
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#123Hey Hari, this might be a very newbie sort of question, but i genuinely want to know. I noticed you said, "I'm now spending just 10% of my time to maintain and fix bugs", but for your website https://visalist.io , how do you make sure the info displayed on your website regarding the different travel rules stays updated, because I guess these rules change very frequently now a days with covid
Well, how would you operationally define updated? Would you, as a traveller, be satisfied if it's no more than two days out of date? How long does it take to check and update the information for one country? Let's call it 90 seconds when you have the routine in. (Maybe every tenth time you check you have to actually change something in your database and that takes 10 minutes, the rest of the time you change nothing a…
5 hours every ten days is not 10% of most people working time.
Assuming an 8 hour work day that's closer to 30%. Even at 12 hours that's 20% and that's not including weekends.
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#124Related: "Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping" (this): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790964 "AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups" (3 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561132 "Show HN: I passed up an opportunity to make $200K from my microstartup" (2020): https://twitter.com/1HaKr/status/1301142901510995969 "Show HN: My Indie Hacker goal - Earn $100 a day to k…
Looking at the OP's history over about the past year and a half, 100% of the submissions have been to his own sites and 100% of his comments are on those threads or in one case linking to one of those sites.
Your comment isn't the first one on these threads to point out the pattern, either, so it's very likely the mods have seen his pattern of using HN exclusively as a marketing channel and are okay with it.
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#125Related: "Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping" (this): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29790964 "AMA: I make $100K+ ARR from my microstartups" (3 months ago): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28561132 "Show HN: I passed up an opportunity to make $200K from my microstartup" (2020): https://twitter.com/1HaKr/status/1301142901510995969 "Show HN: My Indie Hacker goal - Earn $100 a day to k…
Also seeing the title and the upvotes tells this is one of the topics that matters to the HN community, simply how to make money.
Not saying it is bad, just an observation.
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#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, how would you operationally define updated? Would you, as a traveller, be satisfied if it's no more than two days out of date? How long does it take to check and update the information for one country? Let's call it 90 seconds when you have the routine in. (Maybe every tenth time you check you have to actually change something in your database and that takes 10 minutes, the rest of the time you change nothing a…
5 hours every ten days is not 10% of most people working time. Assuming an 8 hour work day that's closer to 30%. Even at 12 hours that's 20% and that's not including weekends.
I think we can both agree that 10 % of someone's working time is not a very well defined amount of time. 10 % of your total time seems like the more reasonable interpretation.
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#127Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, even a full time (40 hour work week) job is 24 % of your time. If this person spends 10 % of their time just on maintenance and bug fixes, I'd assume they spend just as much on marketing, customer service, etc, meaning they "work" for 20 % of their time -- which is almost a full time job at that point.
Alternatively, the OP means he spends 10% of his work time on this, not 10% of the 8760 hours in a year on it.
10 % of their work time is not a very well defined amount of time, though. If this is their only occupation, then it's 100 % of their work time. If they have a different primary occupation, then 10 % of that depends entirely on how much they spend on that!
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#128nice show of your microstartup, tech stack for visalist?
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#129Seems, money is your strongest motivation. Money money money. Your work is beautiful. How about emphasizing that?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Subjective opinions vary and when you put out art people will criticize you. Even people who like your art might question why it doesn’t sell. If your art makes money, whether that be picasso or bored ape type art, people will be far more reluctant to criticize your style and execution after all, other people are paying a lot to acquire your art, there might just be something to it, something the critic is missing, so they might shut up and look for that. Peer pressure is a thing, when other people are putting their money where their mouths are, instead of being flooded with cheap criticism, you might be drowning in demand from sycophants.
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#130There has been a few posts recently on HN where people tell us about their success with side projects/small products that actually make them a decent living. It's inspiring to say the least. What's most attractive to me is the claim that the creators now spend little to no time on maintaining or fixing the products, and it just sits there and makes money. Is this actually a realistic representation? If I just think a…
I made a fortune off two web sites that sat there and basically did their thing. I essentially did about an hour's work a week for 5 years and took home about $150,000 a year. The first was a mortgage web site. I bought a domain for $6000 that matched a top mortgage search term. The front page of the site scraped the latest mortgage rates, and the rest of the site was well-written mortgage advice written by me and Fi…
That is impressive. How much time do you think you spent on non-coding activities? I imagine that running a torrent tracker probably took a good chunk of your time.