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Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by gremlinsinc »

astroalex wrote: post #355
idiotsecant wrote: post #294

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If you want to restart with someone to do the grunt work let me know :P

If you're serious, send me an email at alexmiller@spacefiller.space! I would honestly love to hire someone to do a bit of grunt work.

you should do courses, maybe for free w/ a sub-license agreement or franchising thing or create some marketplace to handle sales/marketing for people who maybe create their own auto-algorithmic designs, and then you're making $, and people who might be struggling --esp. artistic types might make some $.... win/win.

Maybe something where someone uploads some sort of 'manifest' or 'starter material', that determines how the artwork comes out, the system then handles creating, selling, delivering the artwork and takes like 20% cut...

I'd love to help on something like that if you'd want, I'm a laravel/php dev mostly but familiar w/ rust, go, python, javascript.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by rozenmd »

mhaberl wrote: post #515
rozenmd wrote: post #493

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Scrappily - any way I can, whether that's content marketing (my preferred means), commenting on forums, twitter, facebook, broadcasting my domain URL via my phone's hotspot, merch/stickers, etc. I'd recommend the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg for ideas.

Is that Gabriel Weinberg that founded DDG?!

Yep

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by msimav »

buttscicles wrote: post #24

We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with. https://oku.club Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe

I believe there is a turkish speaker involved when you are naming the product :)

"Oku" means read (in imperative form)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by [deleted] »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #278

Monetizing the algotrading models I've built over the last 2+ years: https://grizzlybulls.com I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual returns with much lower volatility than the overall market. My starting capital was small (500k) so in addition to growing with my own capital, I'm now providing the signals (3 free, 4 premium). 105 total members, MRR is curren…

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by [deleted] »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #278

Monetizing the algotrading models I've built over the last 2+ years: https://grizzlybulls.com I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual returns with much lower volatility than the overall market. My starting capital was small (500k) so in addition to growing with my own capital, I'm now providing the signals (3 free, 4 premium). 105 total members, MRR is curren…

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Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by jussi666 »

pyrrhotech wrote: post #278

Monetizing the algotrading models I've built over the last 2+ years: https://grizzlybulls.com I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual returns with much lower volatility than the overall market. My starting capital was small (500k) so in addition to growing with my own capital, I'm now providing the signals (3 free, 4 premium). 105 total members, MRR is curren…

"Over the last few years we have built and refined seven algorithmic trading models. I did work on this full time for over 2 years before recently starting a new job. I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual return. Monetizing the algotrading models I've built over the last 2+ years."

Lot's of conflicts there. You need to polish up your story. Nobody, NOBODY is going to put 500k on a bot which is still in development. Also how come you had exactly 500k? Not 497K or 502K for example?

I've been developing cryptocurrency bots since 2013 and I don't see any reason to sell the signals to anyone ever if they turn out to be profitable. Last year, It seems, I finally made a few profitable bots but let's see how it goes. If they all turn out to be bad, I'm not going to start selling them like everyone else. I'm going to try again.

Beating the SPX500 on bull runs is easy. Just buy the index future with higher than 1x leverage. It will work until we get another market crash. Have you backtested your bots during 2000-2006? How does the P&L curve look?

Sorry, but I get pissed off at people who sell bots to people who doesn't understand how hard it actually is to make them profitable. Yeah, they may be your customers for a few months but then they are going to try another bot hoping it would be better.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by truculent »

montenegrohugo wrote: post #373
truculent wrote: post #339

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This is fantastic! If I may be crass, how does this make money? Just through referral links?

Not crass, I like sharing! We're all here to learn from each other. The monetization model is just referral links to Namecheap, where I get a 10% commission. I want to make that a bit more elegant (especially for people with uBlock Origin, which it doesn't track), and also add a few other referrals (logo makers and maybe hosting). Couldn't think of other ways to monetize this without making it obnoxious (I hate ads,…

Thanks! I was impressed to see the revenue figures without any ads on the site (I have similar feelings to you regarding ads and monetisation).

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by vittor1o »

Xevi wrote: post #425
vittor1o wrote: post #302

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Can you elaborate a bit? Technically rich link previews save visitors from the tab-overload.

I have nothing against the previews. However when a website hijacks the link to serve a stripped down version of the content locally, it goes against the expectations of the user, and it can really f*k up accessibility tools. This is a bad use of javascript imo. A really bad use. And unfortunately it is being pushed as a way to retain users, meaning that it prioritises profits over everything else. I don't want to be…

I do sometimes get similar first impressions, though when you look closer at the implementation - the very opposite of your comments is true.

Accessibility of the previews has been thought through & tested. The previews are clearly marked when they open in a lightbox. When you are using a screen reader, the experience improves(!) significantly; on click you get the content right away, not a website in a tab where you need to find the content, and remember that some websites were not tested for accessibility by their devs.

Separately, you can always do, CMD+Click and get the same auto-playing video on Youtube.com in a new tab to like, subscribe & comment. Or click a direct link within a preview to go to YouTube website when you feel that you need to like, subscribe & comment.

And for what it worth, Linkz.ai makes a planet a bit greener with less traffic going back & forth and less CPU & energy used to render a preview vs. a full-featured website :)

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by vbcr »

mgz wrote: post #144

I built an app to control what my kids watch on Youtube: https://kidstv.family Makes $1500/month

Interesting product. Do you play the videos from YouTube, if yes how do you embed them in your app. If no, do you host these videos on your end and how are they licensed from those content creators.

Re: Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022 – Show and tell

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Post by eg312 »

Time is money and https://reactivedoc.com/ saves me ~500 minutes/month and I also have a paying user. I made it because I needed a simple, self-hosted tool to create documentation with "parameters". The output is a self-contained html file. Coupled with an external runner, it's a great automation tool for simple tasks.
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