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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 jwmoz » Fri, Jun 24, 2022, 10:31 AM UTC

I pivoted to algorithmic trading crypto a couple of years ago. Now have some really good live results nearly a year and a half long, beat the market massively with a 300% return since start of 2021. Have been working on a pitch and sent to a few angels and VCs but not heard anything back yet. Have some private clients and one trading firm and also had a call with a quant related company last week about a credit-line.

Never intended to pitch for seed or anything it's just happened naturally and as a result of the live performance.

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

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Post by holgersindbaek » Tue, Jun 28, 2022, 7:39 AM UTC

I'm a bit late to the game on this thread, but here goes.

For the longest time I had a solitaire app for Mac that I ran as a side-hustle. A couple of years ago I programmed solitaire from scratch for the web. Fast-forward a few years and the site starts to generate some actual traffic. I then decide to put ads on it even though I thought you couldn't really earn money on ads anymore. It didn't generate a lot of money, but enough that I wanted to keep working on the site.

Today the site is earning $10.000/month from ads. It wasn't until the site started to earn $5.000/month or so that I actually started to talk to people about it.

You can try out the site here if you want: https://online-solitaire.com/.

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