I frequently think about doing writing an app or web service, but then talk myself out of it by thinking that the effort is much greater than it sounds and those efforts would be better off trying to progress my career. Is anyone here actually enjoying a few hundred dollars a month from an app or web-service that was worth it after your initial effort and ongoing maintenance?
Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
#2I have been building a job board for more than a year now. It makes decent money, more than I expected it to. It's somewhere around 1.000€+ on good months.
On the other hand, it's not quite so passive. I constantly work on it, because I really enjoy working on it. Be it sales, marketing, SEO, building it - love it.
This is also my way of putting the work in to progress my career. I'm learning a lot; experimenting with tools and languages that I want - although I keep it to a bare minimum.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
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Re: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
#4I built and run a Minecraft server hosting service for parents to enable young kids to play online safely and with less hassle (https://minecraft-playdates.com). Been slowly growing it while adding features, and it's bringing in about $150/mo now. Potential for much more if I were focused on it.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
#5I have been building a job board for more than a year now. It makes decent money, more than I expected it to. It's somewhere around 1.000€+ on good months. On the other hand, it's not quite so passive. I constantly work on it, because I really enjoy working on it. Be it sales, marketing, SEO, building it - love it. This is also my way of putting the work in to progress my career. I'm learning a lot; experimenting wit…
We should collaborate! I've also been building a job board but for the north american market mostly. I have an engine that scrapes and organizes job listings automatically. I haven't worked on it in months but it's still going strong scraping and archiving. It also has a backend to subscribe, apply, save, sort listings & companies etc, has a few minor things to finish up otherwise it fully works. Let me know how to contact you if you wanna chat. I haven't quite had the motivation to launch/do anything with it.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
#6I have been building a job board for more than a year now. It makes decent money, more than I expected it to. It's somewhere around 1.000€+ on good months. On the other hand, it's not quite so passive. I constantly work on it, because I really enjoy working on it. Be it sales, marketing, SEO, building it - love it. This is also my way of putting the work in to progress my career. I'm learning a lot; experimenting wit…
We should collaborate! I've also been building a job board but for the north american market mostly. I have an engine that scrapes and organizes job listings automatically. I haven't worked on it in months but it's still going strong scraping and archiving. It also has a backend to subscribe, apply, save, sort listings & companies etc, has a few minor things to finish up otherwise it fully works. Let me know how to c…
Which sites do you scrape from?
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
#7I have been building a job board for more than a year now. It makes decent money, more than I expected it to. It's somewhere around 1.000€+ on good months. On the other hand, it's not quite so passive. I constantly work on it, because I really enjoy working on it. Be it sales, marketing, SEO, building it - love it. This is also my way of putting the work in to progress my career. I'm learning a lot; experimenting wit…
We should collaborate! I've also been building a job board but for the north american market mostly. I have an engine that scrapes and organizes job listings automatically. I haven't worked on it in months but it's still going strong scraping and archiving. It also has a backend to subscribe, apply, save, sort listings & companies etc, has a few minor things to finish up otherwise it fully works. Let me know how to c…
Interesting, thanks. I'm only focusing on Europe / Remote and will reach out if I come up with something.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
#8Recently had some success with a service where I collect about 4 cents per item. This is only feasible because Algorand fees are like 1/10th of a penny. People mint hundreds or thousands at a time so it's adding up a little bit.
It's really more my main thing along with a few tiny contracts but those are hopefully also spawning two other services with per-transaction fees.
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#9For years I created many different apps in any niche I found. My idea was building these apps very quickly but lightweight, so I created my own WebView/JS interface instead of using Phonegap/React/Electron. Received lots of spam from ads/marketing/design companies, youtubers, and others. Last year got one of these emails from an affiliate marketing company, but seemed honest. I tried it out and for the first few months didn't receive a penny. I just forgot about them, but suddendly started receiving $200-$500/month. Guess these actually work if they match your niche.
Re: Ask HN: Has anyone here successfully earning side income from an app?
#10Recently had some success with a service where I collect about 4 cents per item. This is only feasible because Algorand fees are like 1/10th of a penny. People mint hundreds or thousands at a time so it's adding up a little bit. It's really more my main thing along with a few tiny contracts but those are hopefully also spawning two other services with per-transaction fees.
I am curious, can you share a link to the dapp?