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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

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Post by drstewart »

pakwa wrote: post #25
PostOnce wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Taxes pave roads, build hospitals and schools, keep shipping lanes free of pirates, and provide weather-monitoring radar and satellite systems. Taxes keep famine, war, and pestilence at bay. Also, not paying your taxes is an easy way to ruin your life, and paying your taxes is an easy way to improve it, assuming you live in a country with a competent government. I can't tell you how much I love not having to hike dow…

Excellent post imo. Wish more people would be ready to pay more than always wanting to pay less. Especially the 0.1%.

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

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Post by sgottit »

I'm one of the creators of Sleeve, a "now playing" desktop accessory for the Mac https://replay.software/sleeve. We charge a one time fee for the app, and average around $700/mo. We've been working on it entirely in our spare time for the last couple of years.

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

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Post by prashantsengar »

nhoughto wrote: post #23

We built a tool that does $5k/month which we are _shutting_ down today (end of 2022) after 8 years. Kind of the opposite but thought I’d share. Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8669122

Did you think of selling the business (through marketplaces like acquire[dot]com

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

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Post by Version467 »

sgottit wrote: post #32

I'm one of the creators of Sleeve, a "now playing" desktop accessory for the Mac https://replay.software/sleeve . We charge a one time fee for the app, and average around $700/mo. We've been working on it entirely in our spare time for the last couple of years.

That’s pretty cool. It’s nice to see that people are willing to pay for simple but effective utility apps on MacOS. I feel like that type of paid app is almost completely gone from Linux and Windows.

I’ve switched to MacOS last year and have been tinkering away on a few things to improve my own workflow as well as dip my toes into native Mac programming with swift. I would never have thought about polishing it up and trying to sell it had I developed it for Linux, but seeing stuff like this makes me want to give it a shot even if it’s just to see the whole process through.

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

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Post by topicseed »

offsky wrote: post #34

https://www.validbot.com A website I made to test other websites for valid configurations. Sort of like chrome lighthouse on steroids with the ability to automatically monitor and alert if some configuration changes.

Competition is fierce in that "monitoring" space. How do you market it effectively?

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

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Post by topicseed »

hakanderyal wrote: post #18
codegeek wrote: post #6

I think lately there has been this concern from many folks that copycats are taking away some market share from indiehackers. A post was made on indiehackers as well recently related to this. So I feel that people would be hesitant to share. I personally have come across couple of indie hackers who stopped "building in public".

If you are operating successfully in an obscure niche with little to no competition, sure, keep it to yourself. Otherwise, whether you build in public or not, you will be found, copied, attacked, competed, analyzed and there is no escape from that.

When you build in public, you share more than what's on your website. You tend to share tactics you used, even vaguely. It may have taken you months to get there and you're making it easier for others to catch up. Or so some people believe.

I think giving the recipe away is not a worry as 99% won't execute it, or won't do it as well anyway.

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

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Post by Jugurtha »

nhoughto wrote: post #29
Jugurtha wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why are you shutting it down? From this page: https://getsandbox.com/shutting-down > it has been running mostly on autopilot for the last few years and increasingly we don't have the time to dedicate to the maintenance or improvement of it I don't understand how it was on autopilot yet, at the same time, represented too big of a time sink maintenance wise. > and the process of selling it off too high friction for the…

Hit its effort vs scale limit and we’ve got more pressing things to spend time on. We could grow it but the result isn’t worth the effort compared to cost benefit of other endeavors we’ve got on the go (big tech jobs) and more recent time needs (young families). Learnt a bunch across so many dimensions and set us up for ongoing success with that knowledge, but this specific thing has no future and selling it appeared…

Understood. Have you looked at brokerage firms to sell your company?

I haven't used them and I'm not affiliated with them, but:

- https://microconf.com/quietlight they appear to be a brokerage partner for MicroConf, which is a conference for those who follow the self-funded/bootstrapped route such as yourself.

- https://feinternational.com that one was recommended by Patrick McKenzie here https://youtu.be/-Tg48MVnBeQ?t=3021 and how it helped him especially as he had new family obligations and had started another business simultaneously.

I don't know if it's all said and done, after all, we're 31 December, but putting this here just in case. I don't like to see a service that provided value go to the waste bin, though I don't want to overstep either.

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

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Post by offsky »

topicseed wrote: post #36
offsky wrote: post #34

https://www.validbot.com A website I made to test other websites for valid configurations. Sort of like chrome lighthouse on steroids with the ability to automatically monitor and alert if some configuration changes.

Competition is fierce in that "monitoring" space. How do you market it effectively?

Marketing is not my strong suit and is one of my 2023 goals to improve on. I have not noticed the competition in this space to be fierce. Maybe when I become better at marketing I will notice.

I have not found a direct competitor yet because ValidBot monitors more things and different things, that others don’t.

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