Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project?

Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by matthewarkin on Saturday December 19, 2015 @08:00PM (#10765593)

Commencepayments.com, costs me $40 a month to run (though if I wasn't lazy I could drop it significantly - $20 for heroku + ssl and $20 for cloudflare) launched last February and just hit the $1000 mark!

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by tixocloud on Monday December 21, 2015 @09:46AM (#10771259)

Very nice. Very cool! How did you start getting customers in the first place?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by matthewarkin on Monday December 21, 2015 @11:43AM (#10771929)

a lot of time spent in Stripe's IRC chat room, recommendations from Stripe support to users

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by znpy on Saturday December 19, 2015 @08:13PM (#10765629)

What Heroku services are you using ?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by matthewarkin on Saturday December 19, 2015 @09:16PM (#10765761)

Their SSL endpoint, I plan on just moving to an ec2 instance

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by rowofpixels on Saturday December 19, 2015 @10:46PM (#10765978)

I'm pretty sure you can use cloudflare's free ssl with heroku at this point.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by matthewarkin on Saturday December 19, 2015 @11:21PM (#10766044)

yeah, but I wanted SSL for the complete trip, free SSL would terminate at Cloudflare leaving the connection from Cloudflare to Heroku not-protected (which would be questionable from a PCI perspective). And then for some reason, I couldn't get the connection from Cloudflare to Heroku to work under the *.herokuapp.com ssl cert.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by kirankn on Saturday December 19, 2015 @11:27PM (#10766058)

@matthewarkin You may want to use letsencrypt.org for SSL and save further on costs

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by matthewarkin on Sunday December 20, 2015 @12:49AM (#10766194)

the ssl itself was only $10/year, the $20/month heroku charges you to use a custom ssl cert.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by nambante on Sunday December 20, 2015 @04:35AM (#10766583)

and why wouldn't I use Stripe directly?

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Re:Ask HN: What is your most profitable side project? by matthewarkin on Sunday December 20, 2015 @07:48AM (#10766897)

You can, just not everyone has access or the ability to write server-side code. For instance if you used Wix, Squarespace, some generic website builder you often have no access to the underlying server-side code.

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