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Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by puranjay on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:02AM (#19712353)
I'm an amateur musician. I have a website where I review music gear, especially MIDI keyboards (have a bunch of them).

It brings in a steady $1k+/month almost completely passively through Amazon affiliate commissions

Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by memset on Sunday April 21, 2019 @11:21AM (#19712452)
Any interest in helping a fellow HN-er? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19712205
Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by puranjay on Monday April 22, 2019 @09:29AM (#19718728)
I get around 90% of my traffic through Google, so I would recommend targeting some important keywords with long form content.
Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by youshy on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:30PM (#19713291)
Something I've been looking to do myself! AFAIK the rate is around 6%? Willing to share the website - would be mega interested in reading!
Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by puranjay on Friday April 26, 2019 @02:29AM (#19755266)
Don't want to share the website publicly, but the reason Amazon affiliate works so well is that people don't just buy the product you're referring but a ton of additional products too.

On a given day, a customer might buy 1 MIDI keyboard that I referred. But he will also buy books, CDs, home tools and anything else he needs, and I get 6% of all of that

Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by whatabackend on Sunday April 21, 2019 @01:41PM (#19713368)
Am interested in a MIDI keyboard that can be used to come up with basic tunes. Any recommendations?
Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by puranjay on Monday April 22, 2019 @09:27AM (#19718715)
Stay away from M-Audio. The newer Akais aren't very good either. Try Nektar.

It all depends on how well you already know the keyboard though. A cheap Akai LPK25 is good enough for absolute beginners. But if you have some piano playing experience, I would go for something like an Alesis VI49

Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by adamparsons on Sunday April 21, 2019 @09:43PM (#19715765)
Not op, but the alesis V ones have such a comfy key weighting and are quite cheap. Only thing I don’t like is the drumpad on the left feels cheaply made