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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

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https://leetcodewizard.io I released this fairly simple ChatGPT/Claude wrapper a few months ago. Currently it’s doing about 15K/month. It’s an invisible Electron app that can be used to cheat in coding interviews / OA’s.

What a great idea! Honestly probably one of the better uses of LLMs that I’ve seen. Wishing you continued success.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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It's not really that sad. Young guys with a bit of disposable income could do a lot worse than subscribing to someone's onlyfans and chatting with a bot. I don't charge subscribers directly and don't do any pay-per-message scheme, it's free for the user (provided they're subscribed to my client's page). The conversations aren't even overtly sexual in nature, mostly just guys sending "hey hope you're having a good day…

> The conversations aren't even overtly sexual in nature, mostly just guys sending "hey hope you're having a good day" during work hours. I actually think that's worse. Ed: but props to you for filling a technology niche.

I think it's worse too.

They aren't even getting any sexual gratification from it. Just lonely little unrequited missives. Hoping and failing to make a connection and not even realizing they haven't.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

#293

I guess if you spread this over 12 months it counts? https://www.esp32rainbow.com/ I’d really like to build on this and start a hardware company.

That’s a great project, there seems to be a small but persistent market for well crafted retro systems.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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https://achromatic.dev - Next.js SaaS starter kit that is not crap. That's it in a nutshell haha

It become the #3 selling one (after Shipfast and Makerkit) in under 3 month.

I know the website itself is not the most descriptive, but I do prio feature and customer requests over website/marketing. Soon the starter kit will also have multi-organization support :)

2025 is gonna be interesting since I plan to add multiple boilerplates to the same package deal. Realized I'm not a business that needs to be greedy and grow, just helping others is enough.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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I built an interactive Music Theory course 8 years ago over a winter break and it continues to bring in enough to pay my rent each month. I just thought there had to be a more intuitive way to learn music theory than the very boring and jargon-heavy alternatives. It uses Tone.js to include little interactive pianos, guitars, and other demos. I've done no marketing, it hit the HN front page for a day, and after that i…

After seeing your landing page I finally understand what a landing page should be.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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https://FreeSolitaire.win brings around $500/mo in advertising revenue. It’s a Klondike Solitaire PWA (progressive web application). I started making it in 2016 and I’ve been slowly iterating on it over time. It has stayed minimal & lightweight, on purpose. No framework, no cruft, no obtrusive ads. Fun fact: because it’s so lightweight, it was included in 2020 in Moya ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=n…

Great app, everything seems to work well. The only thing I noticed was that the suit symbols on the cards are a little odd because they're all the same size (almost?) so a 3 looks like it has 5 symbols on it, etc. But that's minor!

“But that's minor!”: minor maybe, but that’s an issue. Yes, both the central and corner symbols (“pips”, as they are called) are almost the same size.

It’s even worse with the court cards (aka “picture cards”: jack, queen, king). Out of laziness and for space-saving, they all share the same design: their suit symbol, in big, in the center (and the two corner pips). Not easy to distinguish between them easily/quickly, especially if your sight isn’t good.

I should do something about all that, one of these days. Thank you for your feedback!

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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I made an AI chatbot for OnlyFans models. Their fans can speak to "them" via a third party messaging app. It's currently pulling ~15k USD MRR. I built my own GPU infra for inference and I run Llama 3 with a fewshot prompting to get the model to respond like a given OF model, typically using their actual DMs with fans. I don't have a website for obvious reasons, but if you're in the biz you've no doubt heard about my…

Shame on you.

I could see why'd you say that, but I think it's a case of hate the game, not the player. We have crafted a society that has a dearth of compassion and companionship, that's the unfortunate reality.

There are lots of sad, lonely guys out there and that's not GaryNumanVevo's fault, he's just catering to them.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Building https://canine.sh, which is a platform to make any Kubernetes cluster as easy to use as Heroku for deploying web apps, cron jobs, etc.

The >$500 is basically by offering it for free to everyone and having support to 3 small corporate customers.

I found this is a really great way to get feedback and bootstrap the roadmap of a project. Little usability / quality of life features, that I never would've worked on myself, turned out to be sizable pain points for others.

And since they're paying at least something for it, the few beta customers are a lot more committed to making the thing work.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Thanksgiving last year, after GPT-4 was released, I realized large language models were finally good enough to bring my idea to life: an AI book generator. Over the holiday weekend, I built the prototype for https://instabooks.ai, to allow anyone to instantly generate 200+ page books on any topic. I sell them in pdf, epub and print form and they take about 30 minutes to complete.

Since launch, over 10,000 books have been generated on topics ranging from niche hobbies to advanced research. The system runs almost entirely on its own, requiring only occasional updates and customer support. The best part of it: as new LLM models come out, the books get better written as well, so each year it improves without much effort on my end.

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