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Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by nargella »

yesthisiswes wrote: post #348
nargella wrote: post #133

I acquired a side hustle in late 2022. It’s doing $1k/month. I’ve been enjoying it so far. Basic queues using http as input and http output. https://zeplo.io

I’d love to know more about what went into finding and acquiring this tool. Looks pretty cool.

I used https://acquire.com/ in this case. I looked at maybe 80 companies just from the surface. Then inquired about 15-20 of them for more details. After about a week of thinking, zeplo wouldn’t leave my mind. There was one other close contender but zeplo was more present in my mind and had better metrics.

From there it was letter of intent, due diligence, asset agreement, escrow, and asset transfer. Hopefully this helps.

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Post by MrVandemar »

lurquer wrote: post #269

I earn a bit north of $5@@ monthly writing and selling puzzle books on Amazon. (I suppose it’s relevant as, at its core, the books are made via one-off programs I write for each kind of puzzle. In addition to the LaTeX crap that turns the output of the program into a nicely formatted puzzle.)

Hey that's so cool. I have a relative into puzzle books. Are the print or digital?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by mrichman »

andyish wrote: post #347
mrichman wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice! What's your tech stack and how long did it take to build your MVP? Can you share your current revenue and expenses?

React, Java, AWS. Took us about 6 weeks to build the initial MVP, each feature we add took a similar amount of time to implement, we typically iterate over things three times. We build something, make it better, then make it perfect. So far so good.

Cool. EC2, ECS, EKS, Serverless?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by jventura »

jasonb05 wrote: post #87

Python concurrency has a super bad wrap (the gil) and I'm trying to help out even change opinions (e.g. work with it rather than throw it all out). I write short focused how-to ebooks that on the different Python concurrency APIs in stdlib. Content marketing leads to email marketing to one-off sales. Doing about $2K/mo. Might expand into third party libs this year. https://SuperFastPython.com

Congratulations for your side project! Probably quite similar to you, I'm also a PhD guy that uses Python for quite some time, and I've been lately interested in starting a side project like yours (courses, tutorials, books, etc.).

I see that you are mostly focused in processes/threads/etc., which is quite an interesting niche (for me, I teach those things in a Operating Systems class). It seems rather risky to pursue a niche as it may be too small! Do you have any tips, like why did you decide to focus on multiprocessing/multithreading? Also, any other Python niches that you think are valuable to focus (for courses, ebooks and tutorials like you do)?

I'm really interested in establishing myself an an online "educator", but I still do not know which kind of topics I should aim to. If I focus on introductory topics there's too much competition. If I focus on a too small niche, I may have no "spectators". Any tips would be greatly welcomed! :)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by Ecio78 »

sideproject wrote: post #167

I'm continuing with my project Newsy https://newsy.co A modern take on domain parking. I have ~50 un-used domains. I wanted to make some good use out of them instead of just parking them. So I built Newsy to convert them into automated content aggregators.

FYI you have a couple of sites on your home page (Vodio and Previously Live) not working.

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Post by tmaly »

trungdq88 wrote: post #252

I built a screenshot app for macOS and made ~$3k/mo from it :) https://xnapper.com People like the app for its ability to turn a normal boring screenshot into a beautiful one that they can share on social media instantly.

wow, that is really nice.

How long did it take you to develop the app to where it is today?

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

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Post by dusted »

lm28469 wrote: post #331
mjaques wrote: post #32

I sell cheap but high-quality Anki decks for language learning: https://deckmill.com Created using a mix of automation (TTS, machine translation, etc.) and human reviews. Built it with a friend, making around $500 a month, very stable over the last couple of years. Spend 1 or 2 hours a month on it, mostly customer support.

> I sell cheap but high-quality LPT: use "affordable" instead of cheap, it basically means the same thing but has a totally different connotation

I disagree, "affordable" is newspeak for "you're able to afford it", I don't want something that's merely affordable, I want something that's cheap!

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Post by dhruvkar »

https://www.fundedlist.com

Making about 1200/month right now. It's a weekly list of companies that were funded in the last 7 days with founder/ceo contact information.

I use a mix of scraping and manual validation to make the list and currently doing cold emails to sell. I'm not truly a developer or a marketer, so learning a lot while attempting to make this work.

It seems to be valuable to different types of agencies -- recruiting, design, web etc.

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Post by loyski »

Havoc wrote: post #349
loyski wrote: post #169

I started a tech blog as a side project 5 years ago. Now it's making $3,000-5,000 a month. It currently has around 600 articles. Display ads make the bulk of the income. Affiliate links are a distant second.

Which ads provider are you using?

Ezoic
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