We make about $1300/month (shared among three co-authors) from the ebook "Stratospheric - From Zero to Production with Spring Boot and AWS" and a companion online course: https://stratospheric.dev/
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#152My cofounder and I launched Kbee ( https://kbee.app ) in 2021 as a way to turn Google Drive Folders into hosted, searchable wikis. We're doing ~$2k/month and run it as a side project
Is the Google drive thing only a way to import data - or can the data be stored in Drive but edited in your service?
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#153FreeBSD on EC2: Last year between my Patreon ( https://www.patreon.com/cperciva ), private "consulting", and a GitHub Sponsors donation from AWS, I received $20k to support my open source work. It's not a lot compared to my day job (Tarsnap) but money helps to free up time to keep everything working.
Really admire what you’ve built with Tarsnap. Seems like a very durable business with a great reputation
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#154My cofounder and I launched Kbee ( https://kbee.app ) in 2021 as a way to turn Google Drive Folders into hosted, searchable wikis. We're doing ~$2k/month and run it as a side project
https://roadmap.kbee.app doesn't load for now. Will check back later! :)
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#155https://intentionallyconfusing.com
stories from two artists.
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#156I train LoRAs for diffusion models using collab. I've automated a good portion of it so I only have to deal with the customer saying yay or nay to a commission. The notebook I run takes a shared drive folder of pictures, or if a public figure... runs a crawler that grabs images from instagram and X. Run a face-scoring script that tosses out pictures with no faces, multiple faces, or non-target faces. Run the images through segment anything to annotate caption files. Then start training on cloud resources. It stashes 5 checkpoints and zips them up, and it emails the customer when done.
Best month I've done so far is about 2k, at about 30 USD per commission.
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#157I made a couple browser extensions that make over $500/month each. The key seems to be naming your extension after high-volume search terms and getting good reviews on the chrome store (and obviously having an extension that works well and solve a common problem on major websites).
I'm extremely biased (see below) so take my opinion with a grain of salt, but I think browser extensions are a pretty neat way to break into indie hacking. They cost nothing to run because they're hosted by extension stores. They're often faster and easier to build than whole apps because you can just use them to fix or modify existing websites rather than create your own from scratch. They can get organic traffic from extension stores, especially if they're well-named.
The main piece that was a pain in the ass for me was adding payments, so I made a service to do it (https://extensionpay.com), and now I can just focus on making the extensions work well. Because of all my previous work I was able to build and submit my last extension (making over $500/month now) to the chrome store in four hours — no joke! It was a really cool moment. Plus, running an extension monetization API I'm able to see all the extension that make real money and learn from what works for them.
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#158I got annoyed that my MacBook case would slightly buzz when plugged in, so I worked with a factory to make these grounded Apple adapters: https://www.amazon.com/Grounded-Duckhead-Apple-Mac-Adapter/d... They've been selling consistently to others annoyed by the problem or who want to ground their MacBook for other reasons.
It looks like you've invented British plugs.
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#159I made an Excel/Google Sheets course, hosted with smalltime Masterclass non-(competitor) called DAASS: https://learnwithyakir.com/daass. Does over $1k/month, for my commission portion.
No frills, 6.5 hours of digestible videos, 30+ functions/formulas, enough theory to help you learn on your own. Writing complex formulas in Excel was my gateway to proper software development. It's a useful skill even now as a developer, working with data in CSVs, making small tools for quick automation, things like that. (Just don't make a CRM in Excel, lol.)
Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell
#160I made an Excel/Google Sheets course, hosted with smalltime Masterclass non-(competitor) called DAASS: https://learnwithyakir.com/daass . Does over $1k/month, for my commission portion. No frills, 6.5 hours of digestible videos, 30+ functions/formulas, enough theory to help you learn on your own. Writing complex formulas in Excel was my gateway to proper software development. It's a useful skill even now as a develop…
How do you promote it? How your students learn about you?