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

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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 KomoD »

RileyJames wrote: post #28

I started SupeChoiceForm as a passive income project many years ago: https://superchoiceform.com.au/ It started as just a content site, with google Adsense. Making about $1200 per month from ~30k visits. It kept growing in popularity over about 2 years and I finally decided it might be worth some more effort. So I turned it into a web app that took an employee through the process of gathering/generating all the paper…

So is adsense no longer used? (cant see any ads at least)

How does it make money now?

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

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Post by bsmith »

jameshush wrote: post #4

Out of all the side projects I’ve tried, the one that’s been the most lucrative consistently is buying boring index funds. I kinda wish I just doubled down on the boring route sooner .

Just a bummer that these index funds are unavailable to expats :(

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

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Post by dchuk »

longnguyen wrote: post #34

I started working on KTool[0] in 2022. Here was the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996 It recently reached $1K MRR. Not enough for us to pay the bills, so I started 2 other projects: BoltAI[1] & PDF Pals[2] I sell traditional licenses for these app and so it's not "recurring revenue", but it's well over $500/mo and help me going full-time on these products. [0]: https://ktool.io [1]: https://bolta…

You make great products, good job (I’d love to connect offline to discuss things in more detail, let me know)

With pdf pals, can your app support time sequenced docs like sec filings? I’d love to easily drop in the last few quarters of a company’s filings and get coherent answers on its performance while not accidentally smashing all the filings together and hallucinating false stuff.

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

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Post by dchuk »

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #32

I built and recently released a UI kit for Rails - https://zestui.com Built with Phlex, styled with Tailwind with custom built Stimulus controllers. It's got - 25 themes - Dark Mode - Form Builder - Icons - Built in Flash Toast - The components are responsive or have specific mobile views - All the JS needed (Stimulus controllers) is wired up automatically Phlex is a game changer. It is simple, powerful, intuitive an…

Well this looks amazing. How easy is it to drop this into a Jumpstart Pro rails app so I can get the best of both worlds?

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

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Post by mbm »

rozenmd wrote: post #42

I've been running OnlineOrNot ( https://onlineornot.com ) since early 2021 now (almost three years). I recently wrote about how last year it grew twice as fast as I expected: https://maxrozen.com/2023-focus-single-product-pays-off It all started because I needed a weekly report for my contracting clients to prove their web host sucked to the point where it was costing them significant money. They were paying for chea…

Yeah, this is very neat. Keep going!

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

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Post by mbm »

boundlessdreamz wrote: post #32

I built and recently released a UI kit for Rails - https://zestui.com Built with Phlex, styled with Tailwind with custom built Stimulus controllers. It's got - 25 themes - Dark Mode - Form Builder - Icons - Built in Flash Toast - The components are responsive or have specific mobile views - All the JS needed (Stimulus controllers) is wired up automatically Phlex is a game changer. It is simple, powerful, intuitive an…

Nice job, styling Rails in always so painful, at least for me. Been doing it for 10+ years.

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

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Post by nicbou »

rozenmd wrote: post #50
nicbou wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is really nice. The front page tells me everything I need to know. For your consideration, I'm really struggling to find a tool like yours that expect a regular ping ("the daily build has not failed") and that support pushing a status ("the last build was green"). I have two matching use cases: one to detect when my static site generator fails to build in production, and the other to detect when my appointment f…

Ping success/failure is something I've been looking at - I'll add it to the backlog :)

In this case the server would be POSTing a status to you ("I'm not ok!"), not responding to a ping.

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

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Post by bilsbie »

rjdlee wrote: post #3

I started a travel inspired bakery with my partner in the bay area - https://kayabakerysf.com/ We do popups once a week alongside our day jobs. It's been a long journey and we would like to open a storefront at some point. The bakery makes well over $500/month, but not quite enough to sustain ourselves full time yet. It's a great way for me to learn about design and marketing as well.

What do you mean by popup? Do you get permission from the venues? Any issues with permits and regulations?

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

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Post by steelcityamir »

brcmthrowaway wrote: post #53
jameshush wrote: post #4

Out of all the side projects I’ve tried, the one that’s been the most lucrative consistently is buying boring index funds. I kinda wish I just doubled down on the boring route sooner .

Which funds?

VOO and SPY are popular ones that track the S&P 500.
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