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

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

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Post by mapster »

cx42net wrote: post #430

I've built VoilaNorbert ( https://www.voilanorbert.com ) with a friend more than a year ago just for our purpose, and got LifeHacker(ed) in September (2014) with more than 20k visitors in one day. We decided to re-write it to include a paid service and we now get around 450 € per month that we split together. Among that, I started selling Prestashop modules on May 14, and now I get around 800/1000 € per month from th…

Very nice. For the life of my I couldn't understand this Viola Norbert. What does it do?

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

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Post by ricardonunez »

withinthreshold wrote: post #432
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?

Thank you. Sorry, I only saw your comment today. I created the website in 2011, but for two years I was just doing some testing and SEO on the side. The last six months I have been more serious about it and the business have been increasing every month.

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

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Post by heliodor »

ambr wrote: post #250

How are you guys marketing these? I'm not making anything close to that but I've worked on a side project of mine for months with no gain. At this point I'm debating if I should just move on. It's not revolutionary but but any advice would be beneficial. http://www.psswrd.io

My visit to your site started with a spinner that lasted about 7 seconds before I saw any content. Might want to fix that. You can have a beautiful landing page without heavy tech or heavy content (whichever is causing this problem). Then, once the content loads, I can't read anything because the custom accelerated scrolling is sending me all over the page.

I'm guessing you could see a nice improvement in your conversion funnel if you fix these two issues.

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

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Post by heliodor »

megaframe wrote: post #237
lefonty wrote: post #225

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am working on something similar for forex. Did you use an existing neural network library for this or make your own? Also care to share any pitfalls you fell into at the start? Right now I am working on building modules with the purpose of collecting data for training.

I started with the open NLP packages, but I rewrote pretty much everything, including my own ML algos. Typically based on the open source one. I kept running into scaling and use case performance issues. On some occasions things I did turned out to be solutions I'd find buried in the language of some google paper, which is mildly frustrating. Forex is a tricky space, volatility and fees can really funk you up. I do a…

Have you considered using your bot in the cryptocurrency market? There are no high-frequency traders to worry about because the technology has not reached that level yet. Volatility is high so your algos won't be sitting on the sidelines as much.

Would you mind putting an email in your profile? I'd like to contact you privately.

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

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Post by cx42net »

mapster wrote: post #541
cx42net wrote: post #430

I've built VoilaNorbert ( https://www.voilanorbert.com ) with a friend more than a year ago just for our purpose, and got LifeHacker(ed) in September (2014) with more than 20k visitors in one day. We decided to re-write it to include a paid service and we now get around 450 € per month that we split together. Among that, I started selling Prestashop modules on May 14, and now I get around 800/1000 € per month from th…

Very nice. For the life of my I couldn't understand this Viola Norbert. What does it do?

Thank you :)

VoilaNorbert helps you find the email of a specific person in a company.

Say for example you have the full name of a person (the CEO) and his company's website. You can use Norbert to try and find his email. Using his personal email, you will have more chances to reach him than just using contact@... .

Norbert simply try and check the existence of general combinations of emails (firstname.lastname, f.lastname, etc) until one is found.

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

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Post by robinhood »

agilek wrote: post #510
robinhood wrote: post #253

I've created five years ago http://www.totalwireframe.com , based on a hunch that it would interest people. It's a site where I sell libraries for an obscure/niche market. The first year, I sold for $0 of librairies. In 2014, I've made ~$45,000 and it's 100% passive income. I'm not proud to say that I've worked a total of 30 hours on the site last year (it sounds as if I'm lazy, and I'm not). Moreover, I've never spe…

Nice story! And you created all libraries you sell only by yourself?

Yes, everything by myself. It's not that hard, really, but it's really time-consuming.

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

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Post by robinhood »

rifung wrote: post #451
robinhood wrote: post #253

I've created five years ago http://www.totalwireframe.com , based on a hunch that it would interest people. It's a site where I sell libraries for an obscure/niche market. The first year, I sold for $0 of librairies. In 2014, I've made ~$45,000 and it's 100% passive income. I'm not proud to say that I've worked a total of 30 hours on the site last year (it sounds as if I'm lazy, and I'm not). Moreover, I've never spe…

Great story! I'm also extremely curious as to how it started to gain traction. I'm wondering if it has to do with where the site appeared in search results. For example if Google changed their algorithm or if perhaps your web host somehow changed something? Do you remember when it started to gain traction?

It took off after 9 months. I have NO IDEA why. I know, it's not sexy to say this, but it's the truth.
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