Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside programming?

Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by dyarosla on Sunday April 21, 2019 @02:08PM (#19713533)

After material costs, time, shipping, advertising, & customer support, how much margin do you think there is to make on a part that already sells at £5-15 (ESP in an environment where spending £15-30 to get a new one is an accepted norm already)?

This is def not viable from my view- at least not for parts that are this cheap already.

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Re:Ask HN: What is your money-making side project outside pr... by NeedMoreTea on Sunday April 21, 2019 @07:45PM (#19715275)

lol. 99% of it is margin - it's 50% of the whole retail item cost for <1% of the material or complexity.

That's most of it left for promotion. Domestic appliances, large and small, regularly have small spare parts that attract 25 or 50% of the price of the entire item. Never used to.

That they're already doing well with small appliances in the niche of non-available parts says enough about pricing floor.

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