Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by sanityinc » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 9:20 AM UTC

patmcc wrote: post #277

mappum wrote: post #208

An Android app I made in a few hours makes $500/m from ads, and has 1M+ downloads on Google Play. It claims to be a radar detector for your phone, but that's not even possible (it's actually just completely random). The description says that it is for novelty purposes, but the reviews show people believe it works and it has a placebo effect. Most reviews say things like "I drove past a police station and it went off!…

Your app description is highly misleading - the first three lines strongly give the impression it works. Even your "disclaimer" says "do not rely on it" rather than "this is complete bullshit". Worst case this probably encourages people to slow down when driving and doesn't actually help them avoid tickets, but you're still being quite dishonest.

I'd say the worst case is that it might encourage people to drive faster, if they assume that the app will warn them of speed traps.

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

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Post by withinthreshold » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 9:23 AM UTC

ricardonunez wrote: post #134

http://tailoredwp.com/ Recurring revenue is from hosting services plus some affiliate commissions. It started as a side project, and I think this year will become my main source of income.

Congrats! When did you start?

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

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Post by vijayr » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 9:32 AM UTC

dynofuz wrote: post #69

I made http://bankofamericaroutingnumber.com It took less than a day and makes about $150/month. Not quite the 1k but not bad for minimal work.

you are using "bank of america" in the url - no trademark problems?

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

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Post by ozh » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:28 AM UTC

jafingi wrote: post #149

ozh wrote: post #27

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Is there any potential for improvement? Like, devote more time to it and make more? 1 hour a day = 31 hours a month = $80/h, roughly put.

Sure! And I have big plans for 2015. Both being bigger in my home country, and expand to other countries with the same concept. In Q3 of 2015, I hope to have tripled the monthly revenue!

Time to team up with someone abroad... What's the niche about? :)

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

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Post by meir_yanovich » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 10:55 AM UTC

doh wrote: post #201

philipDS wrote: post #194

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What do you mean income from some casinos? Are casinos downloading videos, or what does that traffic source look like?

I mean the pop-up ads are sometimes ads to online casinos, sometimes very popular mobile games, etc. To be honest, I am very frustrated with the ads, but I have to make money somehow and I never found a better way how to do it.

Hey , can you share which hosting you are using ? and what backend tech you are using ? only high-level. thanks.

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

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Post by kelv » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 11:01 AM UTC

leesalminen wrote: post #127

I spent all of 2014 building a SaaS for dog daycare/kennel owners. The MVP turned out beautiful. Went to a few trade shows towards the end of last year and people went crazy over the software. 0 outbound marketing yet, and already have 22 customers at $100/month. This year my goal is to scale up to 200 customers. It's a really weird market niche where no one has built software for in 10 years. Pretty neat.

Sounds like you had success at the trade shows, I'm about to embark on that route too. Can I ask how you went getting the word out at the shows, and any tips converting to a sale? Did they mind that it was still an MVP?

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Post by patrickk » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 11:48 AM UTC

adzeds wrote: post #429

patrickk wrote: post #348

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No worries, I like the idea, happy to help. Might pick your brains about it a bit if that's ok. Some traffic stats for that subreddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/SoccerBetting/about/traffic/ Email away!

That links does not seem to work. There is a Useful Resources section on the sidebar of the reddit page. How would I go about requesting a link to my site in there?

Pretty sure that link was public before... the mods must have made it private.

Your site would not be accepted into the Useful Resources section (lots of spam in the gambling industry, affiliate stuff etc). You have to be careful about how you get links, otherwise your domain will be quickly banned from the sub. A better suggestion would be the daily picks thread, perhaps auto posting the picks....

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Post by nitinsingla0999 » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 12:26 PM UTC

mlwarren wrote: post #410

nitinsingla0999 wrote: post #401

Inspired 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?

No pulling from Amazon manually. I'm doing lot of research manually and trying to find very best watches. Not sure if this can be automated but great point!!

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

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Post by nitinsingla0999 » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 12:28 PM UTC

stickperson wrote: post #408

nitinsingla0999 wrote: post #401

Inspired 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.

Thanks! yea driving traffic is the hard part. If it was more of a blog writing reviews you could get good SEO but since my goal is to keep the site simple for users I don't want to add text. Let's see I will have to do some research on SEO - I'm just a beginner. But if you have any pointers on those, I will highly appreciate.

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Post by PedroBatista » Wed, Jan 07, 2015, 12:37 PM UTC

magnetpeep wrote: post #240

stickperson wrote: post #198

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That's an interesting technical challenge, at least to me. Could you talk a bit about it? edit: Could you also talk about SEO and how you market your site?

Sure. What would you like to know?

I'm sure there are plenty of technical challenges, but i'm more curious about the bureaucratic ones.

Where do you host your site and how do you get paid? Systems like Google AdSense and payment gateways run from anything related to porn like it's the devil.