Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017... by andygor on Friday September 01, 2017 @01:42PM (#15150691)

http://datastarta.com — launched 3 months ago. The last month was $1350. I spent a month and $29 (domain + bubble) to build an MVP.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017... by RepressedEmu on Tuesday September 05, 2017 @10:43AM (#15175664)

Just curious: Did you scrape the initial dataset or did it come from personal research when looking for an investment?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017... by andygor on Monday September 11, 2017 @02:51AM (#15216513)

For 5 years i worked as an investment analyst for a global accelerator. A few months ago i left the job to ship my own products. Datastarta is the first one.

During the accelerator journey, I met thousands of startups and hundreds of investors from many countries. Some of them were looking to work with accelerators. From my experience, 50% of startups who apply to an accelerator actually need a program. Another part is strong enough, has a great team and just want to setup meetings with seed investors on a demo day. Why spend 3-6 months to do that?

I set down for a month and made a solid research on markets I know. I collect a lot of data, structured it, analyzed and decided to launch the first product as a database of angel investors from around the world.

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