Inspired by this thread i just created this site (took me couple of hours today), monetizing by Amazon associate program. :
Will complete it by next weekend.
Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
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Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#402Send to Dropbox. Allows you to email attachments to your Dropbox. Makes roughly $2,500 a month currently. More info in this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8699687
This was another one of those ideas that popped in my head that I went to check google on. Already done. Nice job.
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#403I started a personal project last year that's currently pulling $350,000-$400,000 profit a month. Currently I'm working on scaling very hard. It was a good year, and it feels good that 15 years of insanely hard learning have paid off... It feels surreal, like I'm dreaming and I'm going to wake up.
Do you have any additional details?
I'd rather not really share. I guess that goes against the spirit of the thread - Sorry!
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm just curious how you go about doing it and how you actually index the links. Let's say you scrape tbp (or any other site) every X minutes. You see a link-- how do you know if you already saved that link? From there, I'm assuming you just have a simple model for each link which you save and render on the frontend. I'm used to building pretty simple webapps, so doing something like this is really interesting to me…
Well, I used Ruby on Rails (I'm a Rails dev). Initially I expected to have to scrape TPB, but checked out google and found there was a PB API. I started looking into that, and was going to write a Ruby wrapper for it, but then realized if I was gong to do it that someone else probably already did it. Looked for a few minutes and found a couple of Ruby gems ready to go. So what I would do was check TPB every hour, and…
I've been toying around with this for a couple hours. Getting the links is relatively straightforward (I'm using kickass torrents). How do you go about adding the magnet links to transmission-daemon? You can setup a watch directory so that torrents will automatically start downloading when you fetch a torrent file, but that's not what's being done here. I'm assuming you're remotely monitoring the downloads true, correct?
As for ffmpeg, is that automated or do you have to do some manual work every time a torrent is finished?
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#405A year ago I developed an universal video downloader site http://savedeo.com . I didn't pay much attention to it at first, but people liked the site and kept coming back. Year later the site generates around $30k a month and the operation costs are around $90 (close to nothing). The site is very lightweight as it doesn't really downloads anything. It just extracts direct links to the files. There are a great challeng…
You're pushing malware via popups. To convert one video, I was subjected to each of these popups three times: http://i.imgur.com/qqK77qp.png http://i.imgur.com/eCAtjOi.png You're probably paid per install, unless the distribution model for malware has significantly changed in the past six years. Assuming $2 per install, that would mean you're infecting 15,000 machines per month. At bare minimum, this malware you dist…
Understanding this problem--what would you say is the most "legit" way to advertise and earn money with a sight like this--? Adwords? Something else?
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#406It would be fascinating to see a complement to this thread, "Side projects that never got any traction". The tech press has a huge bias toward reporting on "what works" based on projects or companies that succeeded, without ever looking at the many projects and companies that do exactly the same things as the successful ones without ever getting anywhere.
I've been very successful in the technology world, including running my own scientific and software consulting company for many years, but as a novelist and poet I've been a complete failure, despite approaching the two in very similar ways. Maybe the markets are simply very different, or maybe it's just luck, or something else. So I think it would be interesting to see some side-by-side of projects that took off and projects that didn't.
There are lots of really interesting things people are posting here, but I bet for every success story there is a story of failure that involves a great many of the same elements, yet somehow never grew beyond the "that was an interesting way to spend my spare time for a while" stage.
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mind talking some about how you do it?
I'm happy to answer some questions... can you be a bit more specific?
Roughly how much did you have to invest in the first couple of sets? Most manufacturers have a minimum order, and I imagine that would be the case for you considering you were getting something custom made.
Thanks!
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#408Inspired by this thread i just created this site (took me couple of hours today), monetizing by Amazon associate program. : http://www.watchaisle.com Will complete it by next weekend.
Looks good! Now the tricky part-- driving traffic and SEO.
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#409This is fudging the question, but after many months of nights-and-weekends toiling, I launched https://www.land-of-nosh.com out of beta testing today and hope to be making $1,000+/month at some point!
My wife has always hated the meal planning/recipe organization and sharing process and available tools (she'd used a few different products). After asking lots of friends for recommendations and hearing enough times, "I use X, but I don't like it, so if you find something better, let me know." it seemed like a promising lead for a side project!
Worst case: I make no money, and my wife finally has the meal planning tool she's always wanted.
Re: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
#410Inspired by this thread i just created this site (took me couple of hours today), monetizing by Amazon associate program. : http://www.watchaisle.com Will complete it by next weekend.
Are you pulling the watch pictures from Amazon manually? Or have you automated it to some extent?