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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell

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Post by TheJoeMan »

vegesm wrote: post #10

I have an android app ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.algeo.alge... ). It brings in right around $500 a month. It is fun to develop, especially that I can dabble into frontend and UI design which is quite far away from what I'm doing daily. Interestingly, it used to bring in much more but the heydays of apps are over.

I also have an app. It’s interesting I read here on HN about how it would be nice for companies to not sell private data to 3rd parties. I don’t collect data, yet it seems most people aren’t willing to pay even a few $ for software.

On the other hand, the Ti-89 still selling for >$100.

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Post by SJMosley »

crobertsbmw wrote: post #25

My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates. I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon em…

When I backed this, It is the first book I ordered for my future kid. The day the campaign ended my wife told me she was pregnant!

Very much looking forward to it. Great work!

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Post by sshine »

crobertsbmw wrote: post #25

My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates. I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon em…

Kudos for providing jobs. If I were to create a successful company, making others busy doing something nicer than what they would otherwise have given themselves would be the greatest accomplishment I could think of, professionally. But starting with oneself on exactly that is not a bad starting point, at all.

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Post by adossi »

I mine cryptocurrency and make about $110/day. I have two L3++s, an AvalonMiner 1246, six RTX 3080s, an RTX 3090 and a couple older cards. It more than pays for the mortgage, and after electricity (residential rate) my profit is about $100/day.

I also have the GPUs in a grow tent (designed for growing marijuana) with an 8 inch in-line fan hooked up to the supply of my home’s HVAC system. I’m heating my whole house with cryptocurrency and saving about $80-100 per month on gas (furnace has been off all winter).

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Post by newsbinator »

londons_explore wrote: post #6

I do pretty well out of serverthiefbait.com, despite having built it in a weekend and not touched it for 1+ year...

> Plant a crypto-wallet amongst your files and get an alert when someone takes the bait.

This is brilliant.

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Post by seanwilson »

This grew out of a side project of mine:

https://www.checkbot.io/

> Checkbot for Chrome finds SEO, speed and security problems before your website visitors do. Test 100s of pages at a time for broken links, duplicate content, missing titles, invalid HTML/CSS/JavaScript, insecure pages, redirect chains and more.

I started working on it for myself to help automate common checks I was having to do manually when working on websites. I wanted something that checks many pages at once, works on localhost as you develop, and will let you scan again after you've made changes to see if you've fixed problems.

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Post by candiddevmike »

Homechart (https://homechart.app) is my solution to "app fatigue": too many productivity apps (todos, calendar, recipes, shopping, budget, etc), no integrations, few self hosted, painful monetization.

Take every personal productivity app and put it into an all in one, integrated experience. Available for free (self-hosted container) or in the cloud. No ads, written in Go/Typescript.

I look at working on Homechart as slowly whittling (coding) a large piece of wood (backlog) into a finished product. Thankfully the piece of wood grows in size every month, I really enjoy the whittling aspect. The thought of selling it or bringing in corporate processes (product managers, sprints, etc) would kill my enjoyment of working on it.

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Post by jeffwass »

jawns wrote: post #27

I'm an author. I write books of science projects you can perform on your loved ones. For each of my four books, I got paid a decent advance. One of the books has been quite successful and has earned back its advance, so I now get royalty checks. An audiobook deal and half a dozen foreign-rights deals have sweetened the pot. It's not what I would call a passive income method, however, because a lot of work goes into i…

Congrats on earning out your advance!

What’s the work that goes into one of your books years after publication?

Or, since you mentioned your advance, I assume you have traditionally published. In that case I thought your publisher would handle all the operational issues, eg marketing.

Or do you mean the work goes not into the older books but into drafting and editing the newer ones?

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Post by heystefan »

Made a Rubik's cube kind of game for phones (http://eclidus.com) with my buddy and sales were at that level for a while. Then they died down, I couldn't be bothered to market it so I made it available for free. :)

I'll probably try something similar again. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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