Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018... by justaj on Saturday August 18, 2018 @08:50PM (#17791828)

It's interesting to see a counter-example to the otherwise ever-present HN credo of "Ideas are cheap, execution is everything".

On one hand you have execution that can get you an advantage of a difficult-to-reproduce technology stack for solving a problem, but on the other hand, information that other players might not have discovered (yet) also can get you an advantage in the market. Although I find the latter to be less rigid and prone to disruption.

If I'm understanding you correctly, you have found a niche that is not at all in the tech sector, but through technology gets augmented into a proven market-fit? Can I ask you what your process was in finding that niche? You can leave out the specifics of course.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018... by fipple on Saturday August 18, 2018 @11:00PM (#17792312)

I basically have a shitty Rails app that solves a particular problem for a completely non tech industry (there are millions of such problems). It’s easy for me to find the people who need it. But if I ever had to compete with high quality software my app would probably die.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018... by nloa on Sunday August 26, 2018 @04:28PM (#17847708)

How are you monetizing your app?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2018... by rootusrootus on Monday August 20, 2018 @06:29PM (#17804623)

Sounds like you should find someone to write you better software.

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