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Help HN: Want to build small web app for learning and side income.

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Re: Help HN: Want to build small web app for learning and side income.

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Post by RealGeek »

geek_silk wrote: post #39
RealGeek wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At it's peak, I made $15,000 per month. Then I pulled the plug, because most of the users were using it to search movies and music. I had no legal troubles, but I did not want to stay in the gray area.

Can I have URL of your service?

The name of search engine was ShareMiner, it was very popular. The website is now dead, but you can read about it at:

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/shareminer-search-web-files/

http://www.killerstartups.com/Search/shareminer-com-search-t...

http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/multimedia/2008/01/pl...

Re: Help HN: Want to build small web app for learning and side income.

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Post by dmitri1981 »

jmonegro wrote: post #19
chops wrote: post #7

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There are some very clever ideas in there. Number 4 ("A website that you can submit your design and work with vendors to manufacture your own clothes line") is something I'm sure my wife would take advantage of. I wonder how much of a market there is for something like this, or how many people want to be a micro-boutique?

That exists already. It's fairly new, but I forgot the name.

http://www.garmz.com/

Re: Help HN: Want to build small web app for learning and side income.

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Post by RealGeek »

csomar wrote: post #35
RealGeek wrote: post #24

Play with Google CSE and build niche search engine http://www.google.com/cse/ I built a nifty search engine using Google CSE API over a weekend. It got over 30,000 unique visitors per day and made $2,000 per month. It was probably one of the most advanced search engine built on Google CSE.

How did you got the traffic?

I built the search engine, then I bought a crappy website which had 20,000 visits per day. It was just a form which redirected to Google.com and it looked like this: http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1602/pl_playlis...

Then I launched my version of search engine on the same domain, the new version ran on our own platform and looked like this: http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/images/shareminer-file-search.p...

After launch of new version, I was able to grow the traffic organically and with SEO.

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