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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 doh »

ccleve wrote: post #116
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…

How does savedeo.com actually make money? It isn't obvious.

There are pop-up ads whenever you click somewhere. It's crazy intrusive, but unfortunately google like services are generating barely 1/3.

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

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Post by k__ »

wesbos wrote: post #79
k__ wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you get into writing? I tried to write blogs and had to write papers for university, but I always struggle. I have the feeling that some people can produce much text from nothing, where I put my ideas into a few sentences...

It was really hard to write - took me 1.5 years, tons of research and re-writing. This isn't something I slapped together over a weekend. Far from passive income. Creating content for me is always hard, but once it's done, I love to deliver it (via talks, teaching, videos or books...)

Well, the passiveness of that income probably depends on how timeless your book is.

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

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Post by sfteus »

brianpetro_ wrote: post #26

Create a Job Board, use the latest social routes to drive traffic and build a list. The amount you make from the Job Board post is heavily dependent on the amount social followers (drives traffic and makes purchasing more appealing). https://www.angularjobs.com started making ~$1000/month in revenue with a highly targeted social reach of ~10k followers. Technical co-founder type? Take what you know about programming…

If you don't mind me asking, do you populate the initial listings on the job board by your self (by finding job listings and posting them), or leave it empty upon launch and just offer a period of free listing to get started?

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

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Post by doh »

eob wrote: post #106
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…

That's pretty awesome. I just tried it out to see how you make money and noticed that you have both banner ads and also open popup-tabs. Are you comfortable sharing how much of the revenue is from the banners versus the popups? Are those the only two streams?

There are no banners only pop-up ads. There are two different providers, one generating around 1/3 the other the rest. I get probably one inquiry a week to test new ad system, which I mostly do. This way I went up from 6-7k a month to beyond 30k.

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

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Post by doh »

hpagey wrote: post #119
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…

Is it possible to extract audio out of a video file you generate?

Sure. For that reason I wrote other service, http://auderio.com ;)

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

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Post by leesalminen »

I spent all of 2014 building a SaaS for dog daycare/kennel owners. The MVP turned out beautiful. Went to a few trade shows towards the end of last year and people went crazy over the software.

0 outbound marketing yet, and already have 22 customers at $100/month. This year my goal is to scale up to 200 customers.

It's a really weird market niche where no one has built software for in 10 years. Pretty neat.

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

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Post by poopsintub »

razius wrote: post #107
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…

How are you generating revenue? I don't see any ads.

Clicking around pops-up ads in a new window.

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

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Post by corobo »

razius wrote: post #107
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…

How are you generating revenue? I don't see any ads.

Disable popup blocker and click one of the download links - it opens up the download link [I assume to convince you to disable popup blocker] and (for me on this attempt) a bet365 advert in popups

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

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Post by eli »

hpagey wrote: post #119
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…

Is it possible to extract audio out of a video file you generate?

That's not to hard to do on your end, but it would be asking a lot of a free website: they'd have to actually download and pick apart the file.
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