Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 ... by DanHulton on Thursday December 23, 2021 @08:22PM (#29668863)

I made Nodewood (https://nodewood.com/), a SaaS starter kit/boilerplate. An unlimited-app license is around $500, so a single sale a month puts me into this territory.

It could probably be higher, if I were any better and/or more persistent about marketing, but right now I'm focusing on the last two releases I have scheduled on the roadmap before releasing "1.0" (easy scripting and an easy deploy system), then I'll switch much harder into marketing for it.

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 ... by e-_pusher on Friday December 24, 2021 @01:41AM (#29670991)

Cool! What is the tech stack behind it if you don’t me asking?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 ... by DanHulton on Friday December 24, 2021 @10:45AM (#29674507)

I don't mind at all!

The back-end is Node.js, Express, and MassiveJS for DB access, while the front-end is Vue 3.

I'm really happy with my choice of MassiveJS especially, instead of an ORM, since it allows me to make Models in Nodewood as simple JavaScript objects that can be populated either from the database or from API responses. This means that you can use the same model in the front-end and the back-end, with the same business logic, the same validation logic, etc. Saves a lot of time writing (and maintaining) a lot of code in two or more places!

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 ... by roberto-digital on Friday December 24, 2021 @08:20PM (#29679413)

I'm close to $500/m with KatLinks (https://katlinks.io/)

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