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Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
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Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#152Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going. I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job. People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a d…
What's the project? or what problem does it solve? So curious
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
I love these stories also but I am genuinely curious how you were able to work 8 hours a day on it and also work your regular job. I assume you don't work a full time job, otherwise it seems unhealthy. I put a lot of time into my side projects but that is mostly the whole saturday and sunday, but even then I obviously don't feel so well rested on monday.
The reality is that some people can just do more per day than others. It's very common in academia that many professors spend their entire lifetime in 60-80hr work weeks their entire life. I remember going to conferences,especially the really small ones, the professors and students would spend all day listening to extremely draining lectures; this one particular conference started at 8.30 am, went till 1 pm, you get…
The trick is that if coding is your passion it doesn't feel like work, more like oxygen...
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#154This is awesome! I dabble in music sometimes and I think this'd be a cool tool for sharing. Don't know if I have any super detailed feedback, but just wanted to say congrats and that's exciting!
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#155Really great example of how to build indie projects. You built a solution to a problem you've personally experienced, and you solve it for others who may face the problem. Congratulations, good work! Also, site is very clean. I would give a try if I were making music.
You maybe able to target a wider audience given your product is now mature. If you are willing and able to scale, maybe a SEO / Marketing specialist will be helpful in taking it to the next level.
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#156I love seeing tenacity start to pay off. The way I view things like this is if you like doing it, keep at it. The slow growth over time models is one that gets buried in the flashy SV-style startup stories, but they are equally (if not more) important. I love the site and I only have two points of feedback: 1. I’d move the example player up higher. I suspect many artist will want to know what their link or embeded tr…
Great feedback 1. Yeah I'm gonna re-think the whole sample player thing. That's not a representation of what the pages look like, that's an embed. And I think I'm gonna kill embeds 2. 100%!! I toiled for days over "semi pro" VS "amateur"
Up and coming :D
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#157That's awesome. I applaud anyone who sticks with a project for that long.
I've got a similar side project that makes some money, but isn't profitable yet. I'm in the "almost given up" point, considering shutting it down, but would be letting people down and frankly, letting myself down.
Props to you for sticking with it and it sounds like it's been worth it!
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#158I'm always curious how do people come up with these ideas. I assume that to be in a position to make something like this you need to have a very good understanding of the problem space.
As tech people i often feel that while we may have an advantage in being able to execute, finding a problem can be quite tricky if all you know is IT!
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#159Very nice. Congrats. Keep on going. I remember that I started with my side project back in 2011. A small app. It made like 1 dollar a month. I spend like 8 hours on it every day and night next to my normal day job. People were thinking I was insane. After 1 year, it made like 1 dollar per day. Then few months later I got 20 dollars in one single day. Another few months later it made for the first time 100 dollars a d…
I absolutely love these stories.
Sticking with something when you're bored of it, and it's not providing much return, aint easy.
Re: Show HN: After 2.5 years on my side project, it has hit £500/month revenue
#160Earlier quoted context omitted.
The reality is that some people can just do more per day than others. It's very common in academia that many professors spend their entire lifetime in 60-80hr work weeks their entire life. I remember going to conferences,especially the really small ones, the professors and students would spend all day listening to extremely draining lectures; this one particular conference started at 8.30 am, went till 1 pm, you get…
The trick is that if coding is your passion it doesn't feel like work, more like oxygen...
Unfortunately for some of us, passions fade. I still love coding, but it's not the kind of thing I'm likely to enjoy spending 16 hours a day doing anymore.
I've been there, done that, seen it all (server, web, mobile, firmware, games). It's routine now, but not something I can lose myself into like I used to be able to. I get bored far faster.