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Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by xur17 »

thekevan wrote: post #22
xur17 wrote: post #14

http://pizzacodes.com My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.

How does it make money?

99% from ads. I have added some 'local' deals that are sourced from sites like Groupon, but I draw very little revenue from this.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by jonotron »

xur17 wrote: post #28
halcyondaze wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Love this dude - great idea!

Thanks, really appreciate it! It's been my side project for about 2 years now. It really started to take off at the beginning of this year when I started to rank well for relevant keywords. This past summer, I switched domains to make it more memorable, and my ranking suffered pretty severely. My rank in Google search never recovered, but my traffic from other sources / direct traffic has increased quite substantiall…

What was the old domain name?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by jcdavis »

investor1234 wrote: post #27

I made a nest egg of $150,000 through advanced use of the "spend less than you make" framework. I invest passively with index funds. I average about 6% annually, but this year was significantly more than that. Easily $1k/month.

Is that from dividends or growth of capital? 2013 is definitely a historical anomaly when it comes to returns, not hard to do well when the S&P 500 is up 27% YTD

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by phamilton »

drc37 wrote: post #20

I started a bag company, https://www.missionarybag.com/ , for a niche market (young adults who leave home for 18 months to 2 years). A contract sewer here in the US makes the bags and my stay-at home wife does the shipping/handling. This is our first month to hit $1,000 profit in a month in under 6 months. After spending 12 years in software development, I wanted to create something tangible. And all the ecommerce/SE…

Important to note: Missionaries are now discouraged from using backpacks, so a sidebag like this is great timing.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects - what did you make?

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Post by xur17 »

pyvek wrote: post #33
xur17 wrote: post #14

http://pizzacodes.com My goal was to break $1k / mo by the end of this year. Last month I not only broke that goal, but more than doubled my next highest month.

What did you do to promote this site?

I started it out about 2 years ago to help out people on slickdeals, and posted it in relevant threads. After the first few months, people started to find it useful enough to post it on their own on slickdeals.

Now it's almost entirely promoted by other people sharing links on twitter, reddit, slickdeals, etc. About a month back it got posted to '/r/YouShouldKnow', and got ~3k 'upvotes'. Didn't notice it was posted until I saw the big spike in traffic when looking at the stats for the day.

More recently I've been testing out reddit ads, but I need to work on my targeting (my ctr has been ~0.7%). Paid advertising is a bit challenging for a site like this since revenue per user is on the low side.

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