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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?

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How are you guys marketing these? I'm not making anything close to that but I've worked on a side project of mine for months with no gain. At this point I'm debating if I should just move on. It's not revolutionary but but any advice would be beneficial. http://www.psswrd.io

Make the copy more benefit focused. Take inspiration from https://agilebits.com/onepassword

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

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It 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 r…

I guess there are 100 failed projects for every financially successful ones. So it could get a bit TL;DR.

Here is one that makes $5-$10 a month from admob. A lot less than I hoped: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.martincapo....

Most of the installs are from non-english speaking countries. I spent about $20 on Fiverr to get the descriptions translated into Russian, Portuguese etc, which helped me get a few more downloads. I now have 1000 downloads, 250 current installs, and about 10 new installs (and 10 uninstalls!!) per day.

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

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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!

I don't know exactly but it was no more than 3k and a decent amount of my time.

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

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I am curious where do you get your data feed for trading. Do you pay for the data or are you using a free api? The main i reason i choose forex was due to ease of API use for data and trading. Also follow up question, what sort of inputs are you using for training. Are you using mainly sentiment and price history or mostly technical indicators?

Level I and Level II data from my broker's API (Interactive Brokers). It's a free service as long as you have enough trading fee's every month. TDAmeritrade has an OK API as well. Both services have some limitations on data feeds (number of symbols you can actively review). There's some lag in data (sub what a human could notice) but again these are essentially free, and unless you're trying to be an HFT or scraping…

I am surprised to hear that your placing less importance on technical indicators. I have been going under the assumption that those should be my main focus for input as they can be easily calculated and translated into simple number inputs.

My thought process is that the more indicators i can feed in with some history the higher the possibility that unique patterns are discovered. I originally thought that sentiment and news would be to complex to break down into a simple input for the network. I want to include them but i was going to place allot less emphasis on them.

Are you simply breaking down sentiment as good vs bad by analyzing text or are you doing something more complex?

I am sorry to be asking so many questions, but i have literally just started working on this for less then a week and I find your success very interesting. At this stage i am treating this as a long experiment.

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Very cool site. There seems to be a ton of software out there for dog daycares, is there anything different yours does?

Thanks! We offer the fastest, most intuitive SaaS platform for Dog Daycares with world class support. Currently there are 2 direct competitors, one has a slow product with poor support and the other has a decade old product that's inexplicably convoluted. I wouldn't consider anyone else on the market a true competitor (and our customers agree). A couple of our favorite features are photo/video report cards over SMS,…

Do you have plans to try to scale nationally? How many doggy daycares exist in the US?

Do you think this type of software would extend into similar markets well? Maybe vets, or actual child daycare?

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

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I developed a wifi hotspot locator using NYC Open Data. It is deployed on Google App Engine: http://elemental-shine-793.appspot.com/ Source Code: https://github.com/rainmaker7/locator

I was about to make something similar but then found http://www.wifimap.io/ was a thing

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

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It 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 r…

I guess there are 100 failed projects for every financially successful ones. So it could get a bit TL;DR. Here is one that makes $5-$10 a month from admob. A lot less than I hoped: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.martincapo... . Most of the installs are from non-english speaking countries. I spent about $20 on Fiverr to get the descriptions translated into Russian, Portuguese etc, which helped me ge…

We need a thread about most revenue from least investment ($, time). :)
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