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Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers? by gsylvie on Monday June 19, 2017 @01:13AM (#14584736)
If you're in tech, you've probably used an Atlassian product (e.g., JIRA, Confluence, Bitbucket).

Make an Atlassian add-on!

It's been a (mostly) solo gig for me so far. Two months ago my own add-on happened to do $8K in sales within a 30-day window. That put me around the 150th position on this ranking (add-ons ranked by last 30 days of sales):

https://marketplace.atlassian.com/addons/top-selling

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Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers? by Romajashi on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:05AM (#14585063)
That's turned out to be effectively a waste of time for me.
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Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers? by gsylvie on Monday June 19, 2017 @09:27PM (#14591607)
What's your add-on? It took me almost 12 months of working on mine (probably 500-600 hours) before it started to make money.
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Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers? by iDemonix on Monday June 19, 2017 @05:24AM (#14585588)
I guess that depends on the plugin?
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Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers? by seanjregan on Friday June 23, 2017 @01:32AM (#14617209)
Niiiiice one. They don't all make money but there has been around $225-250m in revenues in the marketplace so someone is making money.
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Re:Ask HN: Passive income ideas for solo developers? by gsylvie on Thursday July 06, 2017 @05:09PM (#14713985)
Oh you work at Atlassian! I wonder if the PR I recently had accepted into "Auto Unapprove Plugin" will affect you! (I get the sense Atlassian uses that add-on internally).

https://bitbucket.org/atlassian/stash-auto-unapprove-plugin/...

(Issue #15 in particular - base unapprove on: git diff target...source | git patch-id).

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