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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#231
I sell repackaged open source software on AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace and offer support as part of the monthly software cost.

It's the same software but the Azure offer sells a lot better. Monthly income is about $1000 from both.

Very few support requests come in, so it feels like mostly passive income. All I have to do is answer the occasional ticket and keep the images up to date.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#232
My side business, Freelancer's Handbook, currently does about $10,700 ARR.

I've documented many of the stats here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrN9ya-t7Vr42T-wL9q1-HX6...

It's a blog, community, and newsletter focused on useful and practical content for remote freelancers.

I'm looking to pass over the mantle to someone passionate about the freelance space and have been passively searching for a buyer. Contact information in the Google Doc above.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#233
I'm working on http://talevideo.com - The easiest way to create a video of your SaaS or website. It's not subscription, but got about 300$ in revenue from January.

Talevideo - is a desktop application where you can create video directly from website, without screen recording. And animate any element on page, like fadeIn and etc.

Example result of video/gif at my github: https://github.com/ssleptsov

Example_2 video directly from reddit website: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/ra7inj/app_to_...

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#234

Twitter Archive Eraser https://delete.tweets.app/ , allows users to reliably delete old tweets. Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app for the past 1.5 years or so.

Wow, this is kind of the ultimate side project for passive income.

It does one thing, that people need, and does it well, for a fair price. I assume it requires minimal maintenance, except to keep up with Twitter's API (honestly I don't know if this requires much work, I guess it depends on how much the API fluctuates).

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#235
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My side project currently grosses close to $1,400 per month through Patreon. I run a modded Grand Theft Auto: V roleplaying server with around 1,500 members (around 300 really dedicated MAU.) If you're not familiar with GTA RP, it tries to emulate real life as closely as possible while still recognizing that GTA is an arcade game. Players live lives as if they were real people, buying cars and houses, holding jobs, o…

My son plays FiveM almost exclusively when he is on the computer gaming. He has been enamored with it for years now. As a parent who is also a gamer, I can't help but chuckle when I hear the conversations going on between everyone. Although it is not my cup of tea now, when I was that age, I would have killed to have such a world available for me to engage with.

Thank you for such a killer "side" project!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#236

Twitter Archive Eraser https://delete.tweets.app/ , allows users to reliably delete old tweets. Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app for the past 1.5 years or so.

Nice work, this looks like something I need.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#237
I have 2:

BenkoBot is like wayscript but with a focus on making Trello automations (although you can use it for generic HTTP API interaction):

https://app.benkobot.com/

And BenkoPhone is the only virtual mobile number outside of North America that does voice, TXT and pictures:

https://www.benkophone.com/

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#238

I make this e-paper calendar: https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale... It syncs with Google Calendar. To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings . If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment. EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

I like how minimalistic it looks. Families might want a larger sized one to hang somewhere prominent in their home hah.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

#239
My side project, FormTester 365 https://www.formtester365.com has been doing a little over $700/mo now. Many customers are agencies who want to be alerted if a client's web forms stop working.

It tests website forms daily (currently as a Gravity Forms plugin add on) and confirms that they were successfully submitted. I'm working to add support for general web forms in the next few months. Feel free to send me an email if you're interested in being notified when that feature rolls out — jon (at) creativeculturemedia.com

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