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Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by ronyfadel »

jclardy wrote: post #180
ronyfadel wrote: post #84

Mission Control Plus [1] and Batteries for Mac [2] make about $3k per month and need little maintenance. Thankfully Apple hasn’t Sherlocked them (yet). [1] https://fadel.io/missioncontrolplus [2] https://fadel.io/batteries

Wow, Mission Control Plus is one of those "super-obvious" once you are shown the idea, ideas. On an iPad you can close windows in the app switcher by swiping, the Mac does nearly the same thing but has no way to close windows. And I had to check for Batteries as well, seems so obvious that it exists on Mac coming from an iPad...but it just isn't there. Well done.

Thank you! Both had been things that had been bugging me on macOS for a long while, so one day I went out and fixed them.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by throwaway561 »

Not sure if it fits here but I run an onlyfans account with my wife as a side project. We were already into taking arty/classy pictures and sharing them for fun, so we figured why not.

I wrote a simple UI where she can drop an imgur link, select tags specific to the pic/vid, and then it generates a list of subreddits to post to and suggests a time and a title.

I made another tool where you can drop in a bunch of pictures and select a date range and it will schedule them to onlyfans and fansly at the same times. We make 500-1.5k a month which just about covers lingerie and occasional weekends away. Could probably make more but neither of can be bothered with all the baiting tactics others use to try and keep/extort fans.

It's not something we talk to anyone about for obvious reasons.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by andreilys »

bko wrote: post #174
andreilys wrote: post #159

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Scalpers buy with the intention of flipping tickets for higher prices. They are effectively rent seeking parasites that distort the market and make things worst for regular people. There’s nothing wrong with reselling tickets if something comes up, but if you buy up bulk tickets to flip them for profit that is scummy behavior.

You didn't address any of my points as to why they exist. You're just using charged language to describe people working in a system that is kind of shitty for event goers. They're providing a service for people like me that may not want to buy tickets a year ahead of time, but rather keep that optionality to go open closer to the date of the event even if it means a higher price

Reselling != scalping

The system would work fine if there weren’t rent-seeking parasites who offer no service other than taking tickets off of the market that would go to regular people.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by CamelRocketFish »

20220616 wrote: post #172
scrozier wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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I know how hard ET is and I really feel for you. My dad’s ET started getting worse at around 40 and when he reached 65 it got to the point where he couldn’t eat without much difficulty, couldn’t write a simple note, use his phone to text, and many things we take for granted and it stressed him out to the point where he started to isolate; he lost motivation completely. It broke my heart and in 2018 I decided to call…

Non-invasive wow! Could you provide more details on it?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by CamelRocketFish »

slivanes wrote: post #76

I created an online market for a game that sold in-game items with revenue at its peak of over $300k USD per month. Initially it just used eBay affiliate links, but since I would track the sellers in my database, I reached out to the big wholesalers and encouraged them to go nearly exclusive on my market for a similar cut. It was all built over a few years and it runs mostly on autopilot, all marketing, hosting, and…

Any chance of revealing the profit margin?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by CamelRocketFish »

sokoloff wrote: post #97
exceltrading wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, about half my code and effort is handling stuff that an "app store" usually would.

Things like this put the "a 30% cut is outrageous!" into a different perspective for me.

Which is even better now that it’s 15% for small business

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by Cd00d »

onetime8192 wrote: post #77

Neural net for soft porn (tasteful nudes). Android app, 5 years old: http://driftwheeler.com More than 860 users per day, on average. Continuously growing user base. Profit through Met-Art affiliation: https://partners.metartmoney.com

I have SO MANY questions?

Where does your domain name come from? How do you get people to trust that install? What's keeping you out of an app store? How do you source update material?

I expected to see pr0n related stuff in this thread, but your post struck me as super curious-inducing. Thanks.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by j0hnyl »

throwaway561 wrote: post #182

Not sure if it fits here but I run an onlyfans account with my wife as a side project. We were already into taking arty/classy pictures and sharing them for fun, so we figured why not. I wrote a simple UI where she can drop an imgur link, select tags specific to the pic/vid, and then it generates a list of subreddits to post to and suggests a time and a title. I made another tool where you can drop in a bunch of pict…

you can try to sell your tooling to other onlyfans content creators.

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by jdthedisciple »

4pkjai wrote: post #128
jdthedisciple wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

So do you make money off of it?

Yes at the moment it makes about $2000 USD per month: https://www.indiehackers.com/product/bank-statement-converte...

Wow, good job!

How'd you make people aware of it?

Re: Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?

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Post by Mwow »

xnorswap wrote: post #78
MattyMc wrote: post #14

I staked $15k, bought season tickets for my favourite baseball team, wrote an electron app to auto-price and market those tickets under face value. We ended up going to 6-7 games for free, sat in MUCH better seats than we ever could have afforded to, and had access to playoff tickets at face value. Further, my friends had access to great seats at reasonable prices and I avoided having to buy from resale sites (who I…

So you're a ticket scalper? That's nothing something to be proud of. You say your friends detest resale sites but it sounds like you just became one yourself unless I'm misunderstanding what was happening here.

I would disagree based on what their motivation was.

Borderline perhaps.

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