Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 ... by solution-finder on Sunday November 01, 2020 @06:24AM (#24958740)

Awesome, the UX is beautiful.

I’ve got a couple Saas ideas for building as side projects but as the common startup advice goes - I need to validate the idea first. Would you like to share how did you validate the idea, or was it a project for a customer which was later productised? thanks!

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2020 ... by jwho82 on Sunday November 01, 2020 @12:28PM (#24960980)

Thanks.

I originally created the site back in 2011 mostly just freshen up my PHP skills, and I needed a way to keep track of my work hours. It was just a basic free to use timesheet tool for for around 4 years. It was super ugly but it was still getting people signing up but only a handful would stick around.

I decided rebuild it all and launch it was a proper SaaS in 2015.

If I had to start over today, I'm not sure what I would do. I just like to build things I would use. I'd try to find an existing tool and see if I it's something I feel I could do better.

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