Tell HN: My Microstartups make $500/day while I'm sleeping

Post by powerapple » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 10:41 AM UTC

jackdh wrote: post #123

kqr wrote: post #110

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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 Would you, as a traveller, be satisfied if it's no more than two days out of date?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.

Post by dzhiurgis » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 11:16 AM UTC

1hakr wrote: post #30

beningrad wrote: post #9

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Addendum to this question, if you don't mind: How do you choose what your next microstartup will be?

I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not I pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build.

Post by 1hakr » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 11:33 AM UTC

oasisbob wrote: post #99

I miss the days when visalist wasn't full of hostile anti-patterns. Back in 2019, it was easy to recommend to fellow travelers as an accurate source of information. Not so much, now. I'm sad to see that it funnels users away from official government sites. eg, a US citizen traveling to India is eligible for a cheap e-Visa which generally issues in ~72 hours here: https://indianvisaonline.gov.in/evisa/tvoa.html The bi…

Post by seydor » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 12:18 PM UTC

melenaboija wrote: post #125

bArray wrote: post #120

Related: "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.

Post by bemmu » Tue, Jan 04, 2022, 1:20 PM UTC

catchmilk wrote: post #14

There 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…