Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020? by saradhi on Saturday December 05, 2020 @04:07PM (#25318369)

I started a SaaS service [1], in Aug 2019, to extract tables from images and scanned PDFs. Launched with a post on hacker news. I added couple of contractors who share the development on-demand. Last month, for the first time, we hit 10K users, no paid advertising, hitting 170K requests per month. Not expecting to cash out any profits now, investing them in the development. Now, I'm dealing B2B contracts and taking customizations for the businesses. The goal is to hit at least 3K in profit by next year end. Also, releasing a light weight version of the current published version as a new SaaS [2] at low cost.

[1]: https://extracttable.com

[2]: https://imagetoexcel.com

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020? by tikkotikki on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:27PM (#25319020)

Looking at your post history tells me that you took another person’s open source software and trying selling it as pro version without credit. Why did you do that? Do you have any ethical sense when building or selling software?

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020? by saradhi on Saturday December 05, 2020 @05:33PM (#25319059)

That was the wrong assumption, as we released a library that imitates to be a pro version from the contributors of open sourcem We sorted it out by unpublishing the library. That's nothing to do with their tech in backend. Feel free to make comparisons on the output quality.

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020? by dahx4Eev on Saturday December 05, 2020 @07:29PM (#25319787)

Which OSS?

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Re:Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020? by catacombs on Sunday December 06, 2020 @11:08AM (#25324363)

Tabula

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