Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by fodoj on Friday October 14, 2016 @03:54PM (#12710637)

I made a platform where people can hire a mentor to learn programming (ruby/rails, frontend, devops, big data). I've focused on mentorship with a per-week payment, so not a 1hour tutor or 15min "solve concrete task" service, but a real, long-term mentor dedicated to sharing all the knowledge with students.

Initial customers base grew from the free ebook I wrote and various blog posts available on the website. Lots of success are due to email newsletter, which I'm trying to keep useful and rarely send any ads there.

I'm taking 20% from each payment and that's be growing quiet well so far, especially after entering english-language market. Website is https://mkdev.me/en

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by touchingwood on Friday October 14, 2016 @08:34PM (#12712060)

Love this idea. How do you vet the teachers and how do you make sure they keep going through your site (and not just go direct)?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, wha... by fodoj on Saturday October 15, 2016 @01:23PM (#12714795)

I am very careful with picking mentors and I generally just trust them to do their job. :-) It might not scale well long term, but that's the problem I don't need to solve right now. Right now if some lead tries to go directly to mentor, mentor always 1. Reports it to me; 2. Tells this lead to pay through mkdev.me.

It's simply much more convenient to mentor through mkdev.me than to do it on ones own.

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