Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

Post by acuozzo » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 5:27 AM UTC

WhackyIdeas wrote: post #104

acuozzo wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Likely a joke, but prostitution.

I believe it’s more P.C. to say ‘sex worker’ these days.

Post by Swalden123 » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 5:55 AM UTC

program247365 wrote: post #89

Swalden123 wrote: post #83

I built https://www.CheckYourList.app originally for myself for spontanous checklists that I go through regularly. Happy to say it just passed $500 a month recently :)

Nice!! I've been thinking about doing an iOS app for awhile now. Does this have a backend of some kind? What's your tech stack? All SwiftUI, or Expo/React Native?

Post by goenning » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 6:01 AM UTC

monroewalker wrote: post #97

goenning wrote: post #10

During my previous job, when we were migrating to Kubernetes I couldn’t really find a GUI app that I liked, and most importantly, that could connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. We had 6 clusters and having to switch context constantly was annoying I ended up building one [1] to use myself, shared with a few people and they loved it. I asked if they’d pay for it and to my surprise, a lot of people said yes. I…

Looks really well done! What did you build it with?

Post by berington » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 6:16 AM UTC

Post by cbluth » Wed, Jan 24, 2024, 7:17 AM UTC

predmijat wrote: post #61

https://sre.rs - DevOps course for small companies and individuals/self-hosters. I’ve posted this previously, but it’s been more than a year since I published the course and it’s still right about $500/mon. When I was starting all this, I had higher hopes, but it’s been difficult competing with instructors who already have tens of thousands of students and thousands of reviews - they appear on the first page when you…