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Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

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Post by patrickk »

adzeds wrote: post #263
adzeds wrote: post #249

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, I am away of the Betegy site. They offer a paid service. That is not something I am looking to do, I would prefer to hand out all my tips for free. I have on two occasions run my predictions vs theirs and have beaten them on both occasions which is good. I may set up a tracker between both algorithms over a longer timescale to see which is more accurate.

All tips are in a database. In my new template there is a section that will have a graph of stats on performance and ability to check how the algorithm has performed across segments (leagues, etc). I am planning on using a Betfair bot in the future. Once I am happy that I have everything in place I will create this.

Cool! Shoot me an email if you'd like to chat further, myself and a friend had a betting tips site and facebook group going at one point, I like talking about this topic.

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Post by mcguire »

stevenh wrote: post #204
doh wrote: post #102

A year ago I developed an universal video downloader site http://savedeo.com . I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but people liked the site and kept coming back. Year later the site generates around $30k a month and the operation costs are around $90 (close to nothing). The site is very lightweight as it doesn't really downloads anything. It just extracts direct links to the files. There are a great challeng…

You're pushing malware via popups. To convert one video, I was subjected to each of these popups three times: http://i.imgur.com/qqK77qp.png http://i.imgur.com/eCAtjOi.png You're probably paid per install, unless the distribution model for malware has significantly changed in the past six years. Assuming $2 per install, that would mean you're infecting 15,000 machines per month. At bare minimum, this malware you dist…

I'm seeing them as well.

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Post by jonoalderson »

bnzelener wrote: post #268
jonoalderson wrote: post #241

I run https://www.daysoftheyear.com , a calendar website which lists all of the weird, funny, odd etc national days, holidays events. Alternative celebrations, like 'Ferris Wheel Day' on Feb 14th (vs Valentines Day). They're all real celebrations researched, described, etc. It was built (and rebuilt several times, and constantly iterated) by me, from scratch, on WordPress, in my spare time over a period of years. The…

This is a cool project - must have been fun to do the research on and build. Are you using any optimization techniques for AdSense? Would love to hear them if you don't mind sharing.

It's great fun, and the research is never-ending. Up to ~1,300 unique 'Days' at the moment, and tons more to research. Loads of months, weeks and years to do too, which have taken a back-burner.

No AdSense optimisation at all; barely touched the account. The most sophisticated it gets is that it's using the async code (which we got access to quite early on), and there's a bit of conditional logic which fires to determine which size to serve based on the viewport width. Love to hear any ideas you have - though AdSense is really a temporary cost covering measure while we grow the email database, develop the app, etc. We'll bin it when we're large enough to move reliably to other methods.

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Post by rk0567 »

~$1k+ per month from few side projects.

+ pc builder site http://assembleyourpc.net (I created ~1.7 years ago, generates revenue from Adsense and few affiliate programs, 2-6 hours of work (per month))

+ other niche tools : http://portchecker.co and http://signature-maker.net (weekend side projects, 0-2 hours of work(per month))

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Post by majc2 »

ishanr wrote: post #81

I wrote a book on Google Authority 2 years back and after steadily growing in sales it gives about 800USD/month now: https://gum.co/ppyJ Although I haven't spent a single penny on promotion and selling it for less than I should I guess.

Can I make a suggestion - try a month at $29 and see what happens? If it doesn't work out change it back.

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Post by rk0567 »

gedrap wrote: post #82

There was a number of similar active threads over the years, some great ideas in them: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094402 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8107588 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8246255 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4639271 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5903868 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2358111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387789

Thanks.

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Post by groktor »

doh wrote: post #102

A year ago I developed an universal video downloader site http://savedeo.com . I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but people liked the site and kept coming back. Year later the site generates around $30k a month and the operation costs are around $90 (close to nothing). The site is very lightweight as it doesn't really downloads anything. It just extracts direct links to the files. There are a great challeng…

Would you mind sharing your traffic numbers? Daily page impressions & unique visitors would be interesting...

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Post by stevenh »

discardorama wrote: post #228
a_bonobo wrote: post #218

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's weird, I'm not seeing these popups, and Google says the site is OK: https://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=savedeo....

If indeed the claim is true (I have not verified it), it is possible that the malware creators don't offer up these popups to Google's bots.

The directrev.com malware installation popups I provided screenshots of were triggered by this script embedded in savedeo's post-conversion page:

http://cdn.directrev.com/js/gp.min.js?s=S0004793

Checking that script, we see a lot of "gunggo" references, which is the ad network doh admits to using. Gunggo apparently owns directrev.com, and both are considered pretty shady from what I can gather:

https://nodpi.org/forum/index.php/topic,5379.0.html

Savedeo.com is ranked 49,679 on alexa. I'm guessing it gets around 9,000 visitors per day. With such little traffic, and no legitimate product or paid services being offered, there is absolutely no remaining way to earn 30k per month other than to spray hapless visitors with the most aggressive/malicious advertisements known to man.

Here are the stats from his ad network which he showed off earlier: http://i.imgur.com/LfgWL7D.png

I'm assuming those numbers are ad impression counts. There is no possible way savedeo.com is receiving anything close to that many page views per day. If it were, his alexa rank would be closer to 1,800; certainly not 49,679. I run a site approaching the alexa 2000 range, and it only gets half as much traffic as his ad network statistics screenshot boasts. Since the numbers in this ad network screenshot cannot possibly represent savedeo.com's traffic, we are left to guess what they actually do represent.

Here's my guess: It's the number of ads served to infected machines per day via the malware he helped install through popups like these. Assuming he's infected 25,000 machines, each infected device would only need to maliciously replace 20 legitimate advertisements on victim sites per day for him to reach this absurdly high impression count. If that is indeed what is happening, he's earning roughly $1.50 per thousand ad impressions which is fairly standard.

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Post by not_kurt_godel »

modoc wrote: post #32

10MinuteMail - http://10minutemail.com Temporary email. Got lucky with traffic, and run two Google Adsense ads.

HTTPS link for those who care about security: https://10minutemail.com/10MinuteMail/index.html (Which should be everyone; I find it disappointing you would have posted the HTTP link at all, to be honest.)

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Post by mandlar »

brianpetro_ wrote: post #255
sfteus wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you don't mind me asking, do you populate the initial listings on the job board by your self (by finding job listings and posting them), or leave it empty upon launch and just offer a period of free listing to get started?

I was populating the board with jobs for companies I scored recruiting contracts with. These contracts made building the JobPosts and driving traffic worth my time(contract = collect a sizable a fee when someone you refer to a position gets hired). JobPosts drive the organic traffic to JobBoards, so make sure you take SEO into consideration when posting. I also started with a much lower rate to post on the JobBoard,…

Where did you find these recruiting contracts? Are they easy to obtain?
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