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Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by is_true »

ihorm95 wrote: post #497
SoftTalker wrote: post #300

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If you are a one-man shop, no you probably don't. Enterprise customers seem very lucrative and in rare cases can be, if you are working with a small department or individual with autonomy. If you find yourself being asked to make a sales presentation to an IT steering committee, run away.

Hmm,can you elaborate a bit? I know lots of people are saying that b2b is the greatest model, since businesses often are willing to pay way more than regular people. There are lots of people who make a decent living from micro-SaaS/SaaS with this business mode. From my personal experience working for companies, they often pay tons of money for quite simple software.

It depends on the business. I sell to a couple of companies and have multiple experiences.

One of my clients is a team that has a budget and that team makes the decision without involving other parts of the co.

In another one of my clients the decision is taken by multiple depts, first the team that is gonna use the product gets in touch and we create a contract for them, then the legal dept is involved, after it's all clear the dept in charge of payments is involved. In that last step they tried to renegotiate the amount of the contract saying they didn't have that kind of money. I told them no problem and just went silent, a couple of weeks later they approved the contract.

Sometimes it takes 1 year 'til the client starts using (paying) the product, other times they are good to go in 1 week, most of the times it takes 1 month.

Re: Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?

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Post by pocket_cheese »

knightofmars wrote: post #429
pocket_cheese wrote: post #226

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Fraudulently obtained inventory is actually something I actively want to avoid. I don't want to go to jail, or risk getting banned from marketplaces - among ethical considerations.... I only go to authorized distributors where there is legal permission to resell these types of items. Incomm being the largest. Blackhawknetwork being another large player.

Do you have to deal with gift cards legally obtained but obtained anonymously using illegal money? E.g. https://news.cybersixgill.com/how-gift-cards-are-used-to-lau...

What happened to Cardpool was pretty messed up! I knew some people in the industry who knew the people in charge and mentioned that one day they just started getting a bunch of complaints, and then bam - out of business.

But yes! especially in b2b sells. I always try to be super anal about kyc with selling to business buyers in bulk, and avoid buying from them. I straight up stick to institutional suppliers to avoid this issue :(

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Post by dnvr »

desmondrd wrote: post #343

I built https://www.withphoton.com that helps people overlay multiple calendars in any timezone, and quickly format a message that contains your availability to save time and eliminate typos. It's a simple keyboard-first electron app that hooks up with your Google / Outlook cal. Target market is folks who schedule meetings outside their org like founders, CSM, biz dev, sales, EAs, etc. E.g. Do any of these times (CT)…

Hey, I had bookmarked this and finally just took a look... and now realizing it's Mac-only, but nice work regardless. I think you are really on to something here... perhaps even more so if you could also include others internal to your company (where you can see availability) and then craft a similar copy/paste block of your broader team's availability (I must do this 10+ times/week!). Do you have any plans to port over to Windows?? :)

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Post by shrimpx »

hambos22 wrote: post #337
shrimpx wrote: post #321

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This is great. Curious, have you scaled the "making" operation, as in have you hired people to make products, or does your gf still make all the products?

Thank you! Yes she still makes all the products (with help though now) as she finds a lot of enjoyment doing it and as we're trying to find shortcuts for our work, she found her ways on becoming more productive on the making process. At some point this whole thing became unmanageable, especially on Christmas. Now the business operates with 3 people on board, me for the digital part, she for the art behind the brand a…

Sounds really cool. Best of luck moving forward and scaling out.

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Post by treexs »

kouteiheika wrote: post #20

I run a site for people learning Japanese ( https://jpdb.io ) as a side project. I'm currently at exactly ~$1996/month from Patreon donations. (It's not an aggressively monetized project.) I've been doing this for over 2 years now. You can take a look at my changelog to see most of the updates (at the beginning I did not maintain a changelog so it doesn't start exactly when I started the site): https://jpdb.io/change…

Thanks for making jpdb! Even without your srs system, just the catalogue of media and difficulty ratings has been monumental for immersion.

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Post by epolanski »

pimterry wrote: post #108
epolanski wrote: post #79

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Hey, I've used your tool many times to debug SSR applications! It was actually a Google engineer that recommended me it. Like it a lot. Cheers.

Awesome, thanks! Glad it's working well for you :D

It's awesome.

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Post by XCSme »

I built and run UXWizz (https://uxwizz.com), the revenue varies, but averages around $2k per month in a year.

It is not a service, but has one-time payments, so there is no stable MRR figure. It was initially sold through CodeCanyon, here's a graph with my earnings there: https://i.snipboard.io/7lubPE.jpg

Being a one-man-team, I tried to keep operation as simple as possible and automate the processes that could be automated.

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Post by TheHappyOddish »

IAmGraydon wrote: post #418

Threads like this one always baffle me. You have to think of the competitive landscape like a jungle. All of the creatures in the jungle are looking for food, and some have far more competitive advantages than you. If you find a food source that no one else has happened to stumble upon, would you scream out that you've found it? No. If someone is asking you, it's because they want to know how they can get what you ha…

The world is significantly larger than you think. Most of the people posting here are from the US, which makes up ~5% of the population.

If your idea is so fragile that anybody else with a similar idea can knock you out of the market, it's probably not very good.

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Post by sethlivingston »

duck wrote: post #253

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