Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?

Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by robric on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:14AM (#25581368)

I turned part of my personal site into a membership site for aspiring remote workers.

On the membership landing page is a free signup. You get access to a 12-lesson course with tutorials and tactics I’ve used to land three FT remote jobs in my career.

The upsell was group coaching. Some people got excited about this. Only a few people paid.

I learned that unemployed people are not usually willing to pay for a service (especially if there are no video testimonials).

I’m confident that if I persevered this could have become something but I lost interest. Many people are still registering for the membership. I may return to the project soon and find a way to turn the content into a paid, self-paced course—-without paying for SaaS.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by ptd on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @08:18AM (#25581387)

This business sounds like it would lend itself well to an ISA model.

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by robric on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @02:49PM (#25585257)

I Googled ISA model but it didn't make sense to me in the context of monetizing this site. May you expound on this?

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by mrud on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:17PM (#25586229)

Income Sharing Agreement. I think they are mostly used by coding boot camps. The idea is to pay a percentage of the salary for a fixed time/amount. It probably depends on the price of the sessions if this makes sense

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Re:Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money tha... by daanlo on Wednesday December 30, 2020 @04:28PM (#25586332)

I assume by ISA they mean this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_share_agreement

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