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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Post by Traubenfuchs »

VectorLock wrote: post #337
Traubenfuchs wrote: post #226

I don‘t know if I should really say it, but here I go. You can order certain pills that are meant for men for like 50c a piece online from India and sell them for 10€ a piece face to face to normies. Handing out a few freebies ALWAYS leads to the guys becoming frequent future customers. Because those damn pills, while not considered addictive, make things so, so much better. And not every country already has easy, ch…

Off-label Viagra or something else?

All of this is „open label“ and „on label“.

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Post by windowshopping »

kmoser wrote: post #423
windowshopping wrote: post #402

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How did you design and build your homepage? I find that building the landing page and making it look like a professional, beautiful design is one of my biggest hurdles. I'm an experienced web developer but without a design to work off of - and especially accounting for mobile and dynamic sizing - I really struggle with this part of the work so I'm wondering what other people's workflows are for it.

Not OP but I have two solutions for this: 1) find an existing site and mimic their design, or 2) hire a designer

Yes, I know, that's very easy to say, but in my experience:

1.) Imitating a good design can take a lot of developer hours. Many landing pages have fancy css effects and support many screen sizes and it can take quite some time to build.

2.) Finding a good designer is not easy. I have tried hiring on most freelancer sites with very poor results. The applicant pool is typically of low quality.

So I am wondering if others have found efficient/effective ways of going about #1 or #2, either by using certain tools or templates or by having a more clever hiring method.

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Post by jfoster »

rcfox wrote: post #449
jfoster wrote: post #446

Among some related tools, I run Batch Compress ( https://batchcompress.com/en ), an online image compressor. It converts images to WebP or JPEG with a lot of compression applied in order to shrink file size by a lot. There is a lot of competitors, but usually they have limits requiring accounts & payment if the images are too large to begin with or if you want to compress a lot of images. Batch Compress is free for u…

How do you make money with this? I tried disabling uBlock Origin and didn't even see any ads on the landing page.

There is ads. Perhaps they didn't load or uBlock Origin isn't actually disabled?

I know that some people find ads distasteful, but I think they're the best way to make a tool like this sustainable without being annoying; limits, accounts, payments, etc. I figure that anyone who dislikes ads enough will be running an ad blocker anyway.

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Post by quartesixte »

mettamage wrote: post #172
firefax wrote: post #120

I play Texas Holdem. It's not enough $$$ to be a full time role, especially considering the costs of purchasing health insurance w/o a traditional W2 employer, but it's perfectly possible to buy in for the the table max (500) and leave with between between three hundred and a thousand dollars in profit in ~8 hours of play. (Real life, not online. "Caro's Book of Poker Tells"[1] will aid you more than fancy math, thou…

How is it not enough $$$ for a full-time role if you make 1300/2 = 650 per 8 hour session? Is it because of CA?

Variance can suck out any profit from cash games and can get you deeply stuck for months on end (see: any full time poker youtuber). Tournaments are even higher variance.

And if you switch to doing this full time, you become self-employed, which drastically increases the cost of taxes, healthcare, social security, etc. Medicare tax doubles. Social Security tax doubles. You must buy your own healthcare, which drastically increases in premiums (unless you have a spouse who can add you as a dependent on their W-2 sponsored plan).

This really goes for any self-prop business/freelancing. In exchange for freedom of being your own boss, you pay in stress, variance, and taxes.

To make this work, you'd probably have to make double that per 8 hour session. Which is insanely difficult to do as a poker pro and sustain as a "full time job".

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Post by lucasfdacunha »

duck wrote: post #114

Still running https://hackernewsletter.com/ after 15 years and 60k+ subscribers. It has been hard to put a lot of focus on it the past couple years, but been finally getting some time to spend on some improvements there. Income here has always been simple sponsors which I'm very grateful for.

I love your newsletter and created https://www.thegamingpub.com/ heavily inspired by it. It's basically the hacker newsletter but for the gaming world.

Any tips on how to acquire more subs? I have been slowwwwly getting subs organically. I even have some patreons now.

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Post by gcanyon »

arahman4710 wrote: post #219

I built a tool called Canyon to help jobseekers land their dream job by helping them perfect their resume, be much faster at applying to jobs, and practicing with our mock interview tool. https://www.usecanyon.com/

My last name is Canyon -- do I get free access? :-)

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Post by woutr_be »

I have developed about 20 mobile apps for the KaiOS ecosystem, which does around $500-$750 a month.

I also run https://monitorprices.org, which is just a list of available monitors on Amazon, but provides a bit more filters. Does about $125 a month, maybe double if there’s a creator reward campaign running.

Nothing splashy or exciting really, but it gives me motivation to keep trying things.

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Post by dietervds »

I write a newsletter on cybersecurity every week. Usually a summary of interesting articles and a list of known breaches and software issues.

It's been going for seven years now I think? It makes about 25k in sponsorships each year, although it could be more if I actually got myself to sell a bit more.

Either way, it's been a great way for me to keep learning. Nothing beats having to summarize a thing to thousands of people to make sure you really understand it :-)

https://securitynewsletter.co

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