Obviously still nice to see what people have built who missed the last post!

It syncs with Google Calendar.

To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings.

If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment.

EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.

CE mark isn't actually required in the US, but you'd need it for Europe and other locations. It's more involved, but all-in testing can be done for <$5K for EU if you're careful.

> Did you have some investor or paid from your own pocket?

> Asking as somebody who thought making some embedded / HW projects, but the initial cost seems to much to be paid by myself.

Crowdfunding is how it's done for HW products. Investors aren't going to be interested in anything small time (less than $10-100mm potential revenue + recurring subscriptions) unless they're friends and family or something like that.

It's a lot of money, but it's not out of reach for someone with a tech job who uses crowdfunding for the major production push.

(For crowdfunding you need a good campaign and probably some ads / self-promoting which also could be expensive.)

I’ve done a lot of research on CE/FCC and while it seems possible to do CE yourself (since you can self-certify) you are on the hook if you miss something, like certain required tests (and doing some tests can be very expensive).

But if this thing just emit in a wrong RF band, it could mean insane fine fine from the local-frequency-band-office. And this is a very likely scenario (not like what happens if it catches fire and kill somebody...).

Anyway, I heard you should aim (at least) to the US market, which needs FCC. (eg. 300+ million people with one language vs. 30+ language in Europe.)

E-paper is a perfect use case for a dynamic shelf calendar

https://lengrand.fr/complete-setup-epaper/

It's definitely something I am having in the backlog, but I cannot promise if and when it will be implemented.

What's the profit margin like?

E-ink displays are expensive. That price point seems not enough to generate decent income.

I was curious... from what I can find online the wholesale price of an e-ink display is not that much cheaper (if any) than buying an equivalently sized Kindle. What is the viability of a business model that involves rooting a Kindle, loading whatever calendar display software you need, and shipping it inside a pretty wooden frame?

I've only read that here (repeatedly!) on HN and blogs that then cited throwaway HN posts which never respond to my requests for at least some verifiable evidence. Have a look through my comment history.

There seem to be 8-inch e-ink displays for sale on AliExpress for $20-$40, actually much cheaper than I expected. No idea about the quality though.

Any idea what could be causing this? I am at a loss.

It doesn't expand on any of those points, that's all it says.

[0] https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/c20f7917192a4f9ea1e1c74f4...

[1] https://urlscan.io/result/231cca00-86ee-4c57-b99e-0a76a4b269...

a) the wood frame seems to be too large (probably there is a technical reason for this), but still. Not much too large though, just maybe 25%?

b) the wood (at least from the pictures) looks cheap (plywood?)

Multiplex is actually nice since it's cross laminated and thus retains its shape. I experimented with solid wood and it started arching after a few weeks.

I’m curious about the enclosure, do you cut it out of wood yourself or are you using a supplier for it that cuts it/glues it for you?

"Oh, that's not working today. I guess I need to charge it."

Corded seems a good fit for a static location device.

https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9

There’s a decent market for vaguely similar artworks, https://shop.madgallery.ch/products/clockclock-24

https://shop.madgallery.ch/products/nixie-time-zone-clock-v2

https://qlocktwo.com/us/qlocktwo-large-creators-edition-glin...

https://clockforward.com/etch-clock/

I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it.

Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime and correctness, support for checking JavaScript apps, and more.

My trick for launching into 200 competitors providing the "same" service and still getting customers?

- I work two hours a day, every weekday on OnlineOrNot, and no other side projects. I've had this streak going for about nine months now.

- I focus particularly on features that solve my customer's pain (and I ask my customers what that pain is)

- I'm ruthlessly iterative. If I can't get a feature done in two hours, I figure out how to cut scope down to a two hour block, and ship that. Then iterate on it.

I've been ferociously learning game dev and have allowed myself unlimited time to jump down rabbit holes. Now that I'm actually building a game I need to remind myself to just build it with what I know.

It's an interesting switch in mind set. Still learning obviously, only now I'm pulling together knowledge buried deep within rather than from tutorials.

I'll keep in mind scope and remember your inspiring diligence next time I'm tempted to peek in a rabbit hole.

I've also spent a year or two consistently writing about React and building an audience, and the service can monitor React apps too.

I'm going to try building a similar discipline with my side projects. Not much would get done in 1 day obviously, but the amount of things that can get done over a longer timeframe like 6-12 months is huge!

Thank you and wish you the best!

Especially worth noting how things can snowball after several months of consistent shipping.

You're not just starting from scratch every two hours, you've already got work to build on top of, to keep you growing.

I feel like this wasn't really answered. I think its just a big space and you market well and have a solid landing page.

I have different experiences to others on the market, thus I resonate with some more than others.

How do you market it?

Going to sign up now.

It's Next.js, so React + Node.js, written in TypeScript.

I'd recommend the book Traction by Gabriel Weinberg for ideas.

I run a modded Grand Theft Auto: V roleplaying server with around 1,500 members (around 300 really dedicated MAU.) If you're not familiar with GTA RP, it tries to emulate real life as closely as possible while still recognizing that GTA is an arcade game. Players live lives as if they were real people, buying cars and houses, holding jobs, opening businesses, receiving medical treatment, being arrested, etc.

I've spent around three years working on the gamemode and spend, on average, 30-60 hours per week on it. It's really a pure passion project. Players support the project through Patreon in exchange for priority queue access (when the server is full, players are held in a queue until a slot opens up for them), custom license plates on their vehicles, custom phone numbers, and other cosmetic perks.

Thank you for such a killer "side" project!

Roleplaying games are really great for exercising your social skills and creative expression though, that's for sure.

If you check out https://nopixel.hasroot.com/, they maintain a list of all Twitch streamers currently streaming nopixel.

nb: I have no affiliation with nopixel.

Great idea!

Linkz.ai is hyperlink auto-previews that keep visitors on your website. It's heavily inspired by Wikipedia & Google Docs link preview popups with special extras. For example, when you click on a YouTube hyperlink, it does not take you to Youtube website, instead it opens lightbox with Youtube video on your website. All with just one line of code.

$500+/m in a first month

Demo page: https://linkz-ai.webflow.io

Example here: https://blog-545pd1vjp-sambroner.vercel.app/

Technically rich link previews save visitors from the tab-overload.

I don't want to be served a fullscreen auto playing video in a pop-up window when I click on a YouTube link. I want to go to YouTube and view it there, where I can like, subscribe, comment, and so on. It breaks my expectations in a bad way, and I can see why people are growing increasingly frustrated with javascript on websites due to this.

Sorry for being so negative about this. It's a cool concept, but I also really hope that this never becomes the norm. And that's coming from a web developer, someone that's usually cheering on all advancements in the web.

Accessibility of the previews has been thought through & tested. The previews are clearly marked when they open in a lightbox. When you are using a screen reader, the experience improves(!) significantly; on click you get the content right away, not a website in a tab where you need to find the content, and remember that some websites were not tested for accessibility by their devs.

Separately, you can always do, CMD+Click and get the same auto-playing video on Youtube.com in a new tab to like, subscribe & comment. Or click a direct link within a preview to go to YouTube website when you feel that you need to like, subscribe & comment.

And for what it worth, Linkz.ai makes a planet a bit greener with less traffic going back & forth and less CPU & energy used to render a preview vs. a full-featured website :)

Oh, I didn't realize that because I was on mobile.

> on click you get the content right away, not a website in a tab where you need to find the content

This is quite nifty for sites like Soundcloud and YouTube that offer an embeddable version of their content

> Separately, you can always do, CMD+Click

This isn't working for me (Firefox, MacOS)

I would _love_ a world where this kind of thing is closer to a first-class feature of the web -- thinking of Xanadu-style transclusions or even Google's abandoned(?) <portal> element. I would love deep-linking from Github->Jira->Github in the same tab, and this points the way towards that. But if there are a dozen implementations of it floating around, and users have no control or warning over when a link behaves this way, it's just another way to wrest control of the browsing experience away from them.

Please be mindful about how you advertise this, is what I'm saying.

- Participating in the web dev communities

- "Powered by Linkz.ai" footer in the Link preview popups

- Campaigns on Product Hunt, Reddit & similar

- Soon: Affiliate, LTD, targeted ads for Webflow/Squarespace ecosystems

I found that most teaching platforms for voice actors out there are run by a bunch of celebrities who are pushing edutainment, not education.

So I wanted to make something specific for voice actors. I will try to branch it out to other creators later.

I've got so much more that I'm afraid to publish. Might have to reconsider.

i'd love to read more of your work so i say do it! if not, [email protected] and i promise not to share them ;)

"Make decisions that will give you more choices, not fewer."

I was the founding engineer and Head of Eng at Reforge the past 4+ years while I was building Closing Credits. I left in August 2021. So, it was a side project for nearly 5 years.

If I have 3 side projects and no full time job at this exact moment, where do I stand? I'll delete my post if I'm violating the side project rule.

Have you ever had any pushback from legal? Presumably to the effect of "What if you take our IP and put it into that project?"

Tech choices: I never reinvent the wheel. I just take working pieces from other work that I've done and glue it together. Anything custom, I'll read how others do it.

Lessons: I probably should've chosen a different market. If I had targeted companies and taught their employees professional education rather than poor amateur voice acting hobbyist, I'd probably be making $20M ARR. But I don't mind, this is still fun.

Read your blog, hopefully you aren't telling yourself that right before you fire yourself! In seriousness thanks for the insightful reply. I agree w/tech choices, I'm always thinking about reusability as I piece together my own projects.

p.s. I would love to fix the audio on your intro video - the hum and echo is killing me. I used to be married to a voice actor and I set up her studio and recording pipeline. [Audacity and Audition both have a quick filter to remove background noise]

It really can solve or at least, begin to solve, every problem in an individual's life.

Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app for the past 1.5 years or so.

It does one thing, that people need, and does it well, for a fair price. I assume it requires minimal maintenance, except to keep up with Twitter's API (honestly I don't know if this requires much work, I guess it depends on how much the API fluctuates).

Twitter is a perfect example: removing "some" of your tweets is purposefully made cumbersome for users so that they get discouraged to manage their tweets. Searching through your tweets by date range or by keyword, and a button to delete all results? "Nah, too complicated for us silicon valleyers" :)

One thing to remember with GDPR is that it is not a law that protects customers. It is a legal framework that specifies a set of requirements, which companies must abide to in order to do whatever they need/want with your data. Once you understand this, GDPR becomes much clearer :)

→ https://www.namy.ai

It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from.

It's not yet at $500/mo, but it's getting close. Server costs are significant though, since running an AI model is a bit expensive.

Ideas and feedback are welcome.

On the same line of thought, it would be awesome (but probably difficult/expensive) if you could show the price of each domain directly in the results.

Otherwise, it seems like a neat tool!

Good problem to have I suppose ^^

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...

https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results/?doma...

The monetization model is just referral links to Namecheap, where I get a 10% commission. I want to make that a bit more elegant (especially for people with uBlock Origin, which it doesn't track), and also add a few other referrals (logo makers and maybe hosting).

Couldn't think of other ways to monetize this without making it obnoxious (I hate ads, and making it pay-to-use also seems restrictive to me). If you have any ideas, I'd be open to hear them!

* not currently a real business plan

Haven't done it myself (looking into it right now!), but my impression is that model quantization (and possibly prunning) can give you a palatable model size that doesn't affect performance too much.

https://asoftmurmur.com

There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer than I'm comfortable with

I really liked your app. We had a construction project going on for the longest time and I would mix up your rain, storm, sea and the singing bowl sound everything together and blast it on my soundbox!!

Thank you.

Revenue breakdown is roughly equal between android, ios and web, somewhat surprisingly. Android converts worse but has higher user numbers. Web converts much worse, but converts at a higher price (justified by the fact that hosting/maintaining the web stuff take a lot more time and money)

Can you talk about how you advertise and got traction enough to get to $500/month?

Pure dumb luck. I made the site to scratch my own itch many years ago, and then it took off because there were few similar sites at the time (that let you mix together different sounds). Only promotion I did was mention the site on reddit a few times. Users were prepared to tolerate a lot of rough edges at first.

There has been zero advertising. The site gets a regular influx of new users because it's been featured on a number of discover-interesting-website portals (the modern versions of StumbleUpon). This happened with no input from me. I assume it's a good match for these kinds of portals because it's immediately usable without any kind of instruction, signup etc.

I only made the decision to monetize after a long period of the site getting lots and lots of organic traffic with no input from me.

Such as? Besides HN, of course.

When I started the site, I mainly used CC0 licensed sounds others had recorded.

Then I started recording my own sounds. How much work it is is very situational - if you regularly find yourself in an environment which has the sound you want to record, and not many other sounds around, then it's pretty trivial. For example, you want to record rain in the forest, and you regularly walk in a forest where it rains and there aren't many other noise sources (e.g. other people, planes overhead, singing birds, etc). The actual recording itself doesn't take much work, because I shoot for a level of sound quality that will satisfy 80%-90% of people, rather than a real "audiophile" quality level.

On the other hand, if you want to record something that only happens occasionally and with lots of other noise sources nearby, it can be a ton of work. For example, you want to record the sound of thunder, but you only get occasional storms, you live in a city with lots of other background noise, and it usually rains when it storms and you want rain on the recording. In that scenario, you might have to travel far and burn a ton of time trying to get the right conditions for recording.

It just hit $500/month on Monday and it seems to be increasing by $100 in MRR per week.

I'm only charging $1 per user per month for unlimited access to all of my Power-Ups. I'm thinking about increasing this price to $2 or $3 next month (existing customers get to keep the $1 price tag).

Some of the Power-Ups I offer:

- File Manager: lets you search through and bulk download files on a board.

- Board Chat: adds a simple chatroom to your Trello board

- External Share: creates a link and snapshot of a Trello board that you can send to clients so they don't need to sign up for Trello to see the board.

- Office File Viewer: lets you preview .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files directly in Trello

- Card Approvals: adds a "approve" and "decline" section to a Trello card

It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips.

Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. [email protected]

Today, HR teams usually post jobs on LinkedIn and perhaps one or two more platforms. A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.

I don't care about People and Recruitment teams. I care about People and Recruitment teams for a very, very specific subset of electrical engineers.

My thesis is that HR and Recruiting for the sorts of roles I care about isn't very effective to begin with. The lack of specificity in existing platforms is a contributing factor to the problem I'm trying to solve. Indeed, ZipRecruiter, and whatever other generic job boards are just that - generic job boards. They have no reason to care about this niche any more than the other thousands of job categories out there. LinkedIn is becoming Facebook for wackjobs in work influencer clothing. Even StackOverflow Jobs tends to equate this type of work to general software engineering, when it requires very specific, critical knowledge you typically don't get until you're pretty deep into an EE curriculum.

Add value to the Users - the job seekers - and you start to build trust and aggregate supply. The savvy recruiters follow that. Our clickthru metrics already reflect this.

A world of fragmented job boards would be difficult to navigate for non-specialists.

That the crux of my point. I don't care about non-specialists. I care about recruiters who need to find people to write Verilog or VHDL. If I can become one of their "one or two more platforms" besides LinkedIn, I've made it.

I don't need to do anything to create artificial supply crunch. The talent market has taken care of that for me.

What I'm doing is providing a cost effective means for specialist recruiters to directly speak to a highly relevant subset of engineers.

No idea what LeetCode has to do with that lol.

I see that name pop up on all sorts of queries and I'm shocked it's not in the db. Digging into that presently. Thanks for the suggestion.

https://cushychicken.github.io/grow-your-mailing-list-by-bei...

We're seeing a steady and growing trickle of organic traffic, too.

https://oku.club

Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe

Just read that the meaning of oku [1] is 1) private, intimate, and deep; 2) exalted and sacred; and, 3) profound and recondite

anyway, your brazilian users will find this funny since oku has the same sound of "o cu" that literally means "the butt hole".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oku_(theory)#:~:text=3%20Bound....

The defunct social network Orkut is a good example of this. It's Órkut, not Urkut.

Of course, none of this matters :)

Similar story with csv imports, it's half supported but not in the UI yet.

"Oku" means read (in imperative form)

API to generate images on the fly.

Sample https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN3

Your FAQ is great hahaha!

It's the maintenance, support, training, operations, and documentation that will kill you, if you think you can "just" write some service and then move on to other tasks.

Q: I am a developer, Do I need this API?

A: No, if you can build your own rendering system with all these features and able to make it run this fast. You don't need this API.

I understand your service does more that this. I map the POST JSON to GM params to allow the caller to do nearly anything GM CLI can do.

This is good for social media managers that want to automate a lot of account posts.

But you need API for the things that happens off browser. Like if you want to create images inside your code.

I initially built it to route PUBG players in Australia (myself included!) onto the fastest links to overseas servers as the Australian servers did not have enough players. It was strung together with OpenVPN and a Discord bot as I never expected more than around 20 people would use it... mostly figured it would be me and my squad mates. Within three months I had around 350 users by word of mouth paying $5 per month. Most of my users came from established competitors as my service was a lot simpler to use. The user numbers died down over the following year mostly due to competitors offering an aggressive referral system and I was focused on other projects.

Last year I decided to expand to other games and regions. I rebuilt it as a standalone Electron based Windows app using a kernel network driver that can route individual Windows apps through my WireGuard VPN servers. I built everything except the network driver which was done by a Windows networking specialist - https://ntkernel.com

I currently support PUBG, DOTA 2, iRacing, Apex Legends, Rocket League, Final Fantasy XIV, Super People in Australia/New Zealand and PUBG and Rocket League in North America.

The service is stable and relatively scalable so this year I'm hoping to focus on the marketing in between other projects. Part of that will probably include a name change as I figure it doesn't make a lot of sense to people outside Australia

The other thing the VPN does is allows people to choose which region they want to play on. For example, in PUBG, when you launch the game it pings all of the different available regions and selects the one with the lowest latency. This is not always ideal as there may not be any players on the closest servers and you end up playing against a bunch of bots.

- 308ms from my landline ADSL2+ (not on the NBN yet, hopefully soon),

- 350ms over 0-bar 4G (house in blind spot, yay),

- 300ms from EC2 running in ap-southeast-2, and

- 312ms from Oracle Cloud in ap-sydney-1 (okay the x86-64 one was 309, the ampere one was 314-317)

which sorta highlights the sore-thumb reality of transatlantic cables: I'm 16,267km/10,108mi away, and there's very very little I can do about it.

The only thing I do really wonder about is if Starlink does p2p backhaul between the satellites, or if they're just floating mirrors... but after just clarifying that radio waves can't go faster than light I'm now unsure whether that would actually make a difference. Hm.

That said, this seems to be the extent of my marketing desire.

I screen scrape campground registration websites and alert you when someone cancels on a date you want to go camping. Fabulously successful. Now back to my day-job.

https://wanderinglabs.com

This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.

It's a very early draft, but hopefully provides a glimpse into the techniques I use.

(tl;dr: it's way more low-tech than ML generated art.)

Maybe something where someone uploads some sort of 'manifest' or 'starter material', that determines how the artwork comes out, the system then handles creating, selling, delivering the artwork and takes like 20% cut...

I'd love to help on something like that if you'd want, I'm a laravel/php dev mostly but familiar w/ rust, go, python, javascript.

Might I ask what you built it with?

This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working publicly for the past year.

Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959

I ended up linking to my Google account, but I spent a long while trying to "sign up" with my email only to be given an message about failing to meet the password requirements (no mention of character limit and no special characters allowed). At first I thought I just needed to adjust my password generator to get a valid password (usually 64 chars with alpha-numerics and special characters), but even the simplest passwords failed with the same error message.

This is strange; I don't really have any special password requirements. What's the exact error message you were getting? The only requirements are that it's at least 6 characters long and different than your username, and in each case it should tell you exactly what's wrong.

My main complaint is that I haven't known about this until now. I frequently search for Japanese resources and specifically did searches to find pre-made decks of Japanese content from Japanese language media, but never encountered your site.

Thank you for the effort to revamp the Heisig kanji keywords - makes me wish I didn't already learn it the RTK way. The way to teach new kanji by introducing the enclosed primitives first is smart - it's a good compromise between "primitive first" and "usage first" approaches.

Yeah, it's still pretty much a very niche resource that many people do not know about. (:

Indeed, Heisig's keywords can be janky. Mine are not perfect, but in general they should be better than Heisig's. Well, at least for most of the really common kanji; I still need to change/improve the keywords for some of the more rare kanji and tweak a few more common ones. (As you can imagine doing that manually for a few thousand characters is a lot of work, so it has been slow going.)

jpdb looks really cool, but will it work for somebody who is a complete beginner?

I want to learn Japanese, and intend to commit time to doing so sometime in the upcoming 2-3 months. However, right now, I'm literally at zero.

Is there somewhere else I should go to learn things like basic grammar and sentence structure first, or will jpdb help with that sort of thing too?

Eventually I do want to make it a one-stop-shop which will teach you everything and take you from a complete beginner to someone who can immerse in native media as soon as possible. We're not there yet, and the site works best if you're at least an advanced beginner. The bare minimum requirement is that you know hiragana and katakana already.

Your best bet would be to start with a textbook of some kind and/or some actual lessons with real teachers to learn the basics. The more of a beginner you are the more the human touch helps; the more advanced you are the more you can depend on apps.

Sorry, I'm a little confused? The pronunciation is listed for every word; that's the hiragana next/on top of the words. (:

> Do you know of something similar for Chinese by any chance?

Alas, I do not. Maybe I'll make something like that in, like, 20 years if I'll ever be able to make a living off of this. (:

I don’t follow his book but I do refer to it when studying and sometimes his keywords really can be far out. If I remember correctly he never clarifies if the kanji for “can” is “can do” or “can of soup”.

There's nothing extra running on the server; no reverse proxy (the app itself automatically fetches/renews the HTTPS cert), no database, nothing. Just the app, the SSH server and the default system services.

It tests website forms daily (currently as a Gravity Forms plugin add on) and confirms that they were successfully submitted. I'm working to add support for general web forms in the next few months. Feel free to send me an email if you're interested in being notified when that feature rolls out — jon (at) creativeculturemedia.com

Talevideo - is a desktop application where you can create video directly from website, without screen recording. And animate any element on page, like fadeIn and etc.

Example result of video/gif at my github: https://github.com/ssleptsov

Example_2 video directly from reddit website: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/ra7inj/app_to_...

It's Electronjs with vue3/typescript, threejs, tailwind2 and konvajs for timeliner(because canvas render much faster then html update, so it's keep high FPS on edit mode). And vitejs for tooling.

It's a commercial project / charityware that is turning 4 years old next month. I sell it for $5 per copy and give $3.50 to a cost-effective charity. If you go to the blog you'll see the history of sales. As of now I donated almost $13,000 to charity thanks to this project. It's averaging around 100 sales per month for over a year now.

https://videohubapp.com/en/

Also open source MIT: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App

https://nicetracker.app/

There were no sex tracking apps on the App Store that weren't focused the menstrual cycle, so I built my own. It now includes cool features such as syncing across iCloud devices, location recording, STD/STI tests, and most importantly, stats!

I stopped producing videos in April 2018, but the site is still up, and still gets occasional new subscribers. (There's been an influx lately, in fact, and I have no idea why. Maybe because I have a new book out.) It's still netting more than $500/month, although not by a lot. But it requires nearly zero effort from me, so I'm happy with it.

Edit: To clarify, it wasn't a side project when I was producing the videos. But now it's passive income.

Now all I get in support requests is the occasional account management email, and those are pretty streamlined at this point. (I could eliminate nearly all of them by creating a proper account management page, rather than directing people to email me, but given the number of requests I get, the cost of doing that is way higher than just handling it by email.)

It helps that the screencast is aimed at more advanced developers. But that's also why it didn't end up being viable in the long term, I think. That and the "long play" format, I suspect.

The “Lessons Learned” channel was more elaborate. The video at objectplayground.com [1] is my most popular example. For those, I would make slides and animations in Keynote, then record while playing the slides. I had an outline, but not a script, as I felt that made the narration less stilted. Sometimes that resulted in minor mistakes going into the video. For more serious ones, I would record a new line and edit it into the video.

In all cases, I would edit out pauses, and if I misspoke or stumbled over my words, I’d just repeat myself and edit out the mistake. I got pretty good at editing—because there was no video of my face, I could make cuts that were basically invisible. My livecoding videos each had hundreds of cuts, typically just half a second or so. It would take a 20 minute recording down to a 15 minute final video. It took about 4 minutes of editing per minute of final video.

[1] The video on objectplayground.com isn’t showing up on my phone for some reason. You can find it here instead:

http://www.letscodejavascript.com/v3/comments/lessons_learne...

Not to say that this is your issue, but I find it helps if I dress up a lot.

I have nice, embroidered pearl snaps, custom cowboy boots, fancy hats, and a couple nice vests.

That is to say, it's pretty easy for folks to confuse me with panhandlers. I have no problem with folks panhandling, but my tips are way better if I look like a performer.

This was well before Patreon, and PayPal was pretty much the only API game in town. Since then, I've felt like Venmo handles 9/10ths of the live performance problem (unleash the appreciation (money) locked in digital form).

Anyway, accordion OP you should get a QR code for tips :)

I should probably look into that... it seems like a reasonable idea.

I will say, the one time that someone asked me directly about it, when I told them I didn't have venmo they gave me a $100 bill. Not to say that will ever be repeated.

https://www.stillapp.de - although the page is in german the app is translated into english as well.

I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual returns with much lower volatility than the overall market. My starting capital was small (500k) so in addition to growing with my own capital, I'm now providing the signals (3 free, 4 premium).

105 total members, MRR is currently $1397/month, just launched exactly 1 month ago today. Still in the google sandbox so I'm not seeing much organic traffic. We have a small community on reddit, rest of users from social media, Seeking Alpha and Stock Twits.

Lot's of conflicts there. You need to polish up your story. Nobody, NOBODY is going to put 500k on a bot which is still in development. Also how come you had exactly 500k? Not 497K or 502K for example?

I've been developing cryptocurrency bots since 2013 and I don't see any reason to sell the signals to anyone ever if they turn out to be profitable. Last year, It seems, I finally made a few profitable bots but let's see how it goes. If they all turn out to be bad, I'm not going to start selling them like everyone else. I'm going to try again.

Beating the SPX500 on bull runs is easy. Just buy the index future with higher than 1x leverage. It will work until we get another market crash. Have you backtested your bots during 2000-2006? How does the P&L curve look?

Sorry, but I get pissed off at people who sell bots to people who doesn't understand how hard it actually is to make them profitable. Yeah, they may be your customers for a few months but then they are going to try another bot hoping it would be better.

My models do not use any leverage, and they perform better in volatile markets than stable ones. In fact, the only way they can gain alpha is from avoiding drawdowns because during long signals they get exactly the same returns as SPX.

And yes, you are right, it is incredibly difficult to make a profitable bot. 2020 isn't the full story, that's when I decided to give it my full time effort of 80+ hour weeks.

As long as the bots continue to perform near the backtest, yes eventually I would become wealthy with them without other monetization, and as mentioned in other posts, a net worth in the high 8 figures, probably dwarfs what I can make with this website and service so I make no guarantees that it will always be around. That said, I'm enjoying running it and having real people use my product, and it does not hinder my own returns, at least not at our current scale.

Side note: FWIW I think it's probably harder to make a successful crypto bot than equity bot because crypto is far more speculative and doesn't have as much fundamental and macro backing it up--would have to be mostly TA, sentiment and there's bound to be more inherent randomness to the movements since it is so new and speculative.

Smells fishy.

Lastly, the 75% is a bit of an anomaly. As you can see, the top model is only expected to return about 60% pre-tax. It's unusual that in live trading we have exceded the back test--2020 was a bizarre year and we also started after a big bear market so we benefited for a huge bull that year + nailed the June and September crashes (check the trade history). 2021 was a below average year by contrast, and over the long term, any algotrader should expect the live results to be a bit under the backtest as despite our best efforts (and I consider my anti-overfitting engine to be the biggest accomplishment here), all systems are to some degree overfit to past data.

Lastly, as I mentioned in another comment, I make no guarantees of always publishing this site and signals. If I decide in the future (perhaps once my account is to that 50-100M range) that the site is more of a liability for me than an asset, I may close it, with or without grandfathering. However, obtaining 1% of Seeking Alpha's userbase would be 5M+ per year in revenue from the site which is a few multiples of my current net worth. Even with a hypothetical 50M net worth 10 years from now from 40% post-tax, post-living expense returns, 5M is still meaningful. If we fail to gain that much traction, or the bot does so well that I hit that kind of figure much earlier than expected, I may halt the publishing.

As of now, and for the forseeable future, the site makes financial sense to me, and it's been a lot of fun, so it also makes pleasure sense for me. Life is about more than money of course.

I'd like to offer to take care of it and manage all aspects of it if you ever get annoyed by it. These algorithms are life-changing and the more (and especially lower income) people have access to them, the better.

1. These are not HFT models. They trade once every 2-4 weeks on average. They scale to billions in capital, so selling them does not inhibit my own returns. 2. There's a lot of demand. Part of the reason I decided to launch is I had some friends IRL begging me to let them use my models as well. Seeking Alpha has over 15M MAU and hundreds of thousands of premium subscribers, and in my opinion this service provides more direct value and wastes less of your time with noise. 3. All the money I make from this goes back into my own bot and compounds. Sure the $1400/month doesn't add up to much right now, but 1000+ premium subscribers one day would make a huge difference to me financially. 4. I believe we are at a precipice with passive investing, and the next bear market which could be right around the corner will dishearten a lot of folks. The more money investing smartly in the market at a reasonable fee makes the markets and overall economy less fragile. More automated smart investing saves society the drag of lots of suits on wall street mostly playing a big marketing game without producing much alpha or liquidity or any other measurable benefit in contrast.

Also, on a lighter note, running a business is just a lot of fun. I love seeing people use my product and get value from it.

1. Active investors who like to pick individual stocks and want to know when is a good time to hedge for beta for macro downturns.

2. Other algotraders who want to either set up their own fully automated system using my models (either in full or as part of the input to their own proprietary model).

3. Average folks who are mostly passive investors but want to be just active enough to avoid the biggest downturns that can take years or decades to recover from. They don't want their retirement savings to potentially stagnate for 13+ years like March 2000 to March 2013. Our models have low signal frequency compared to most competitor systems which make them easy to execute on almost passively by following our email notifications.

4. People who already have 6 figure+ investment accounts and want to grow it more aggressively than SPY or VTI, but don't want to 1. spend the time and energy managing their portfolio themselves and/or 2. pay very high hedge fund / PE / VC fund fees for dubious benefit

On another but related note, are you familiar with Robert Carver’s books? If so, any thoughts? I’ve been going through his Leveraged Trading book.

I've heard good things about Carver's work but I haven't read them myself. However, I got started reading similar books by Ernest Chan

I'm interested in running the Gold Plan, are there any resources on how to set up a fully automatic trading system with it? I'd love to connect.

By contrast, our models only send out signals on average of once per 2-4 weeks depending on the model. Our signals are always macro signals--they have an opinion only on where they see the overall market (S&P 500) heading next. The signals are irregular. During extremely calm times like in 2013 or 2017, there can be months without a signal. On the other hand, during highly volatile times like the COVID crash in 2020, there can be multiple signals per day, but there will never be more than 1 per hour.

Naturally, their drawdowns will be worse because individual stocks are inherently more risky than the index. As far as which will be the best absolute performer over the long term? I guess we'll have to wait and see :)

One last note about ours that could make a difference depending on your account type and country of residence. Since our models are macro models, if you live in the USA and implement them exactly by trading the S&P 500 Futures, you'll save money in taxes as all gains are taxed at 60% long term and 40% short term regardless of holding period. Alphahub gains will be taxed always at 100% short term rates unless held for more than a year which is unlikely with their systems.

I'm glad to hear you are interested in setting up your own automatic trading system! I'm in the process of writing some docs on exactly how it works, but in essence, we'll give you an access token for the API and then you can call it from your bot locally or in the cloud to get the live signals for all the models you have access to.

The alphahub.us strategy has execution problems because some of the smaller companies in the NASDAQ have low trading volume, so it doesn't scale as easily as a macro strat. I've talked with people who run it and it runs into scalability issues even with limited amounts of capital. Still trying to find the catch with your offer because it looks amazing.

As mentioned, I'm not rich (1.4M in bot, ~2M total net worth), a SWE job paying 400-600k is quite meaningful to me even with 40-60% returns on my portfolio for the time being, just as potential profits from this website (also perhaps in that range within a year or two?) are also meaningful. If the website fails to generate significant revenue, I may shut it down. Also, I enjoy working on satisfying things, and now that the models are mature and the website is mostly finished except minor details, I'm happy to have a team and a project for now :)

That's also a good call out on the scaling problems--another reason our models trade the SPX futures, literally the most liquid financial instrument in the world. By my slippage calculations, the models don't need significant scaling updates until at least 1B+ is being traded.

It's the same software but the Azure offer sells a lot better. Monthly income is about $1000 from both.

Very few support requests come in, so it feels like mostly passive income. All I have to do is answer the occasional ticket and keep the images up to date.

Ultimately somebody needs to provide these images and if nobody else does it I guess you can make okay money from it!

It's probably automatable with some effort!

- macOS apps: https://fadel.io/

- iOS apps: https://apple.co/3fqcWfO

At first it was around $2500 per month, but has slowly ramped down over the past 4 years to about $900 per month. Totally passive income at this point.

Bark Like a Dog -- https://www.amazon.com/Iguana-ASD-Bark-Like-Dog/dp/B07C1BKWK...

Truth or Dare -- https://www.amazon.com/Mitchell-Harris-Truth-or-Dare/dp/B073...

The Song that Never Ends -- https://www.amazon.com/The-Song-That-Never-Ends

and my personal favorite, but doesn't make much is Rap Battle -- https://www.amazon.com/Mitchell-Harris-Rap-Battle/dp/B0742JQ...

We help data scientists land jobs by being the Leetcode for data science.

No advertising except for $20/month for Apple Search Ads… I guess I should advertise more.

I do it to encourage young people to use software to make a change in their and other’s lives.

Currently making $500 with 90min/week effort. I already got the syllabus material ready so I do not necessarily have to invest time here.

Right now they’re writing an exam.

My advice if you want to use our service but in a region besides Chicago: use our service and email us the region you'd prefer. In the mean time, the extra 20ms round trip latency probably won't bother you and we'll let you know when we expand in the future (and your voice will help decide where!).

It is more like we provide you a network interface that, instead of being plugged into your modem for Comcast/AT&T/etc, it's plugged into a datacenter.

You get a public static IPv4/IPv6 connection with Reverse DNS - just located somewhere else.

Making your machine publicly routable is the primary use case (e.g., for email, web, whatever you want if you have trouble with NAT/CGNAT or simply don't want your home IP associated with the service), but it also encrypts your traffic between your PC and our datacenter such that your ISP can't snoop - which is not to say we're a good privacy solution - that is not what our product is designed to do.

1- An extremely simple habit tracker spreadsheet template that I also use myself - https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-template

Makes ~$100/mo but this month it's on track to make $200, probably due to new year's enthusiasm?

2- Learn Programmatic SEO, a straightforward course to help people identify repeatable keyword patterns and use that to drive traffic to their business, website, projects etc. SEO beginner-friendly - https://www.preetamnath.com/programmatic-seo

The course makes between $300-$500/mo.

I don't have any costs other than website hosting and Gumroad fees. I do think these projects have scope to improve and grow. Would love feedback from anyone who finds them interesting!

It's badly in need of fixes and updates, but I still do about $1500-2000 in sales and $300-400 in profit monthly.

I try not to think about the exchange rate difference compared to now :^)

https://www.betterday.app/

The app is built around two small, simple features: today's date with a customizable format, and a three-year calendar so you can see what weekday dates fall on outside of the current month. It also supports several alternative calendar systems including the Islamic and Hebrew religious calendars, which I think may be another use case that drives sales.

Anyway: it's a one-time, two-dollar purchase that lots of folks are still finding and finding useful.

It's a SaaS starter kit/boilerplate written in Node.js and Vue 3. Made almost _exactly_ $500/month last year. Would have/should have made more with proper marketing, but I've been doing probably too much engineering instead. The next release should be the one to take it out of "beta" (honestly, an arbitrarily-chosen label, especially compared to some competitors with fewer features/work put into them), and then it'll be a bit easier to work with some potential partners who would prefer to promote non-beta software.

Two membership tiers, one paid, one barter: pipewrenchmag.com/backer-barter

We publish one longform nonfiction feature every quarter, surrounded by a constellation of reactions, asides, and art inspired by the core story. Our latest issue is about bringing in "outside food," and the art of smuggling snacks into movie theaters: https://pipewrenchmag.com/making-concessions-movies-and-popc...

https://podcastnotes.org

[1] https://cronbeats.com/

About the logo – I'll take it as "imitation is the sincerest form of flattery" ;-)

Hopefully I can grow it more this year as all the Google Analytics related news should make more people consider self-hosting their analytics. I stopped providing any cloud-hosted version and focus purely on self-hosting.

[0]: https://www.uxwizz.com

It's passive income in the sense that I add new brands in the weekend and mostly doing this for fun.

A niche product, I gather data about anycasted IP addresses and sell the database. No idea how to market it but it makes more than $500/month

I also launched https://unlock.sh/ earlier this month.

https://instagram.com/dheeranet

People ask to buy prints from time to time. Not quite $500/month just yet but getting there.

Then there's this web-based function plotter I made in 2007:

http://fooplot.com/

It once made upto $900/month but since then, mobile apps have gotten better, and today it makes about $100-150/month in ad revenue.

Personally I am going to probably focus less on getting the perfect processing (generally I just do a few stacks for noise and sometimes combine with a star tracker) and more on getting to unique locations most people do not have the skills to get to. That is more my personal preference though given I really enjoy backpacking and mountaineering already.

Have you ever messed around with the automated pano heads? I was recently looking at buying a used gigapan (one of the smallest ones) given that mirrorless cameras are so much lighter now. Shooting stacks + a manual pano head can get a bit tedious when you are already far out into the backcountry and tired and just want to relax. I believe Daniel Stein uses them and his work is pretty spectacular!

What I really want though is something that is both a star tracker AND can automate the panos themselves. As far as I know that does not exist and one basically has to put something like a gigapan on top of a star tracker and of course make sure that its all capable of controlling the camera itself.

edit: Now that I think about it you might even be able to make a decent side hustle providing a "processing as a service" type thing to other astrophotographers

https://dheera.net/projects/4x5/

My original intention for this is gigapixel images, but I ran into some issues cancelling the CRA correction that the Pi HQ cam does, and also, my newly bought Sony A7R4 can shoot 240 MP shots with pixel shift so it's suddenly less interesting again since it's already within an order of magnitude of a gigapixel, and if I got a shift adapter mount and shot with a medium format lens I could probably easily exceed a gigapixel with the A7R4. I might try to shoot 4x5 film some time though.

Makes around $500/month from various subscriptions through RapidAPI. Built on a whim during the pandemic. Uses Google Cloud Run + NodeJS.

for all the three endpoints.

I never did any advertising and it was gaining traction, but lately plateaued at a handful of downloads / day. Not sure where would be a good place to spread the word haha.

I'm a data scientist/software engineer and I started the project 5 years ago as part of my masters thesis. Never intended for it to be gambling-oriented but that's just the best way to monetise!

Questions/feedback appreciated - cheers

I started this as a way to improve review speed at a previous position and it was well received, so I converted the prototype into a it's current form and have been running it for a few years now.

I originally made it for my long distance girlfriend (now wife) and myself. It averages $450 - $550 monthly.

https://www.mailbox.my

You should know your way around Linux (if you already know Ubuntu, you can use it on the server as well).

You need some software: - For receiving and routing mails: I use postfix - For authenticating: Dovecot - For serving mails via IMAP: Dovecot is a popular choice

There are some good guides on the net how to set up these on Ubuntu or Debian (which is pretty similar), just google for e.g. "postfix ubuntu".

It's critical that the mail you route arrives at the other end, so you must prevent spammers from abusing your systems. Otherwise you get blacklisted. As a start you need to implement state-of-the-art things like: SPF, DKIM, DMARC. MTA-STS, TLS-RPT are also useful. None of these are hard and there are also good tutorials out there, it's just a bit of work.

Basically - everyone has a foam roller. No one knows how to use it. Pick a routine based on what your goals are (working out, recovery, general low back pain) and we show you the movements to guide you through a routine in 15 minutes or less.

It's a platform for following what's happening in kpop that we've been building for five years. It makes about $1500 a month through advertisements and subscriptions these days, but we want to expand and experiment with other revenue sources.

Real-time Online Shopping Deals by Product Category | Thoughtful Gifts for Every Occasion, Recipient, Category

Gifts:

1. Daily-updated gift products catalog 2. Direct Amazon and Etsy product links for gifts and deals 3. Browse and filter by price, category, recipient, occasion, popularity

Shopping Deals:

1. Grab online shopping deals as soon as they are available 2. Category-wise segregation of deals 3. Deals updated half-hourly

Initially, it was only web and android, but now I have released iOS app as well.

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeak...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604578567#?platform=iphone

The web version was pretty basic, so I've taken it down currently. Learning Vue JS to enhance the frontend/UI.

The apps have pretty clean UI.

Dictanote is a note-taking app with built-in voice-to-text integration. Writers use it to write their books, students use it to take notes, etc. Dictanote automatically syncs your notes to the cloud and makes them available on all your devices.

Voice In is a chrome extension that lets you use dictation to type on any website in Chrome. Use it to type emails in Gmail, enter data into Teladoc, write blogs in WordPress, etc. Think of it like budget Dragon Dictation.

Currently makes about $7000/m net - somewhere between a full-time job and a hobby project. Figuring out how to grow it.

You can check it out at https://newsletterss.com

Let me know if that's possible, thanks!

So far the best way I’ve found for growing subscribers is trading shoutouts with other newsletters but I didn’t experiment much with paid ads.

If you were looking for news then sUASnews is great for some catching up on drones. For robotics I often find articles on IEEE Spectrum and The Robot Report interesting.

Most people see it as a teenage dance app type thing, but for techies wanting to build a personal brand or teach people it's a killer tool to rapidly grow.

I consistently make ~600/mo selling a 'newbie' TikTok course on appsumo. It's a no-frills recorded presentation and associated set of slides that I do very little marketing for with the goal of getting people to 1k followers on tiktok in 30 days or less.

https://appsumo.com/products/your-first-1000-tiktok-follower...

In 2021 the profit eclipsed my consulting income. My 2020 goal is to double revenue. Today it’s making mid 4-figure MRR but adding in one-time-license-sales the annual revenue is healthy 6-figure.

The last few months I’ve been focusing on marketing and integrations. Today you can trigger label print jobs via the command line, MQTT, and now HTTP.

If label printers are your jam you can read more here: https://label.live/features

It provides up-to-date data from Companies House, but also allows you to sort and filter businesses by:

- where they are located

- when they registered

- what SIC (standard industrial classification) code they use

- their operational status

- their accounts category

Businesses typically use this to find new businesses to try and market/sell their services to.

It’s written in Haskell and Elm, and it’s been running for about five years now. Several businesses have been happily paying to use the service every month.

https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/

If you’d like to sell your services to UK businesses then do write to me; I’d love to hear from you :)

Do you have a source to support your perspective?

I don't handle the fulfilment myself. I wrote a software integration that connects NewBusinessMonitor with a direct mail company in the UK. They have special machines that can print, envelope, and send all the letters automatically, at large scale. The letters are printed in colour (on rather nice quality paper), trimmed by guillotine (for full-bleed printing), folded in half and inserted into a windowed envelope, before being dispatched 2nd class, usually the following business day.

I typically don't need to manually intervene in any part of the process; I just try and do hand-holding with people when I onboard them, because I think good business is about building relationships with people, and many (most?) of my users specialise in areas outside of computing.

Are you making $500/month, or I'm guessing a little more than that?

Incidentally, NBM does pretty close to $500 MRR baseline with spikes appearing when a client decides to go on a sending spree. Payments are handled by a combination of Stripe and GoCardless. I initially added the GoCardless integration because some businesses in the UK really prefer Direct Debit payments. It looks to me like the Direct Debit accounts pay their subscription fees much more reliably than those paying by credit card. At some point, I might consolidate on just Stripe because they also support Direct Debit now.

https://deckmill.com

Made using a mix of ML (translation and TTS) and human translators.

I've documented many of the stats here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrN9ya-t7Vr42T-wL9q1-HX6...

It's a blog, community, and newsletter focused on useful and practical content for remote freelancers.

I'm looking to pass over the mantle to someone passionate about the freelance space and have been passively searching for a buyer. Contact information in the Google Doc above.

The assumption is that we want to minimize our interaction with umbrellas; if you buy a big umbrella, it is a hassle to drag along and you will most likely loose it after a few afterwork drinks. Other way around, a small and cheap umbrella does not cover you enough, and breaks easily.

As said, just launched, lets see how it goes. Happy to hear your feedback.

It's a customized dayplanner pdf for large eInk devices like the reMarkable 2. I built it for myself initially but realized I could provide a customized build for other folks. There's still a small amount of manual work to generate them, but I should be able to automate it end-to-end soon.

I don't expect it to make much at all over the next 10 months, but I'm already excited about other things I'm planning to add for the 2023 version

Full disclosure - $500+/month in revenue, but not profit. The majority (95%) goes to the creators I work with.

When I started the project, the category seemed quite crowded already, but I couldn't find anything good for tracking my hours in a flextime arrangement. I had no iOS experience at that time (I was a C++ developer) and now I do iOS development as my full-time job too.

https://pterodactyl.io

We're the only service that respects your privacy and never stores your emails.

https://forwardemail.net

It does about 20k/mo in revenue (we are not profitable).

It's been super fun and rewarding. It's much more like building a software / tech startup than I expected it to be.

How did you tackle this at the beginning? What were your demand/cost projections when you started out?

https://www.zigpoll.com

"Bite sized" polling software as a service that I use for post purchase surveys, contact us forms, and email campaigns when I want feedback on what to do next. Most customers are currently through our Shopify App but have a few SaaS businesses that integrated it independently.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855726

Since then we’ve gotten up to $3,500/mo. and will be hiring our first salesperson soon. Exciting and nerve-racking at the same time! (If you know anyone, please have them reach out to me at [email protected])

I have all sorts of interesting collectors using it - some guy who buys old porsche parts, a famous comic book artist who collects comics, etc etc

~$750/month lately. $32.5k lifetime and have spent <40 hours conceiving, implementing, and updating it.

Books recommended by successful and inspirational people.

It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying niche

I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner

There are so many play-to-earn games popping up at the same time that projects are fighting for visibility, which playtoearn.one can bring

So now, I've hired a designer to make a great looking UI and I'm getting motivated to turn this side project into something more than this

EDIT: Traffic for the past month:

https://simpleanalytics.com/playtoearn.one?period=month&coun...

[0] https://erg.studio/

Commotion (https://commotion.page), Forms + Mail Merge for Notion

Reslant (https://reslant.com), Discussion Boards for Customer Feedback

Visual communication tool with screen recording, screenshots and GIFs for macOS and Windows. Fully native apps without using Electron. I started Jumpshare as a side project many years ago and turned it into a full-time job.

https://trianglify.io/

It currently does about $500/mo from a combination of asset purchases and ethical (Carbon Ads) non-tracking advertising.

Originally I wanted to learn PWAs. At the same time, people were posting teasers on Jodel but suggestive material is banned according to Jodel's community guidelines. Hence, I decided to smash two flies at the same time by building something that people wanted.

Currently it's Finnish-only but it's making around ~200 $ / month. Have wanted to internationalize it for a while now but my day job is taking too much time.

https://stockevents.app

Edit: Just noticed this thread was merged/resubmerged? Now I have a duplicate answer here. :-/

Recently, I had an old colleague of mine reach out and ask if I had the time to be a part-time contractor/advisor for his tech consulting start-up, since their client needed to do a database migration. He had remembered me because of the articles I wrote. It's a nice bit of money on the side ($500-$2.5k a month depending on how much I work) and I'm always learning something new.

a bit above $500/month ARR, stable and sticky. Started a few years ago, now have 2 other partners.

What happened when you git Sign up?

Thanks a bunch for the feedback!

uBlock Origin, which is installed by my IT department, seems to be blocking the load of a JavaScript file from fast.appcues.com, not sure if that's the cause or not.

https://flightsketch.com/store/catalog/flightsketch-mini_1/

he went from idea to prototype in 6 months i think. Pretty amazing if you ask me.

Edit: oh i was just looking at the images scroll by and saw a screenshot. I did a rework of the mobile app for him, i totally forgot about that. (i used ionic)

Embedded is a broad term though, say a bit more about your experience and interests and maybe someone will pop up with pointers.

https://androidweekly.net/

- it was four years without making any money

- with ~100k subs it's generating money

- everything grew organically

Similar to ngrok with our own differences and approach. I also publish another product called Spokes Gateway which builds on the tunneling server and includes support for service meshes, high-availability, clusters and some other features.

I'm building a separate website for Spokes and its related software, hoping to publish it soon. It's eventual home will be https://spokes.network.

Kbee turns a Google Drive folder into a searchable wiki for you and your team. We're currently doing ~$1500/month in MRR

I productized myself and made myself on-demand (easily available) to struggling SaaS businesses.

Currently doing $5K+ per month for working one day a week doing short 30 min calls with clients.

The main gimmick is that it’s a native Mac (and very soon Windows) app, so once you buy a file, you can drag it directly out of the app and into other programs as if it were file explorer.

I’m not at $500/month yet, but the project is well over 1k a month and I have a percentage of the income.

We (http://robusta.dev) are interested in sponsoring open source projects and popular Kubernetes bloggers to raise awareness about what we do. It's a rare win-win. We're mostly open source and extremely flexible if you have any special requirements.

I'm building a Search as a Service like Algolia. Currently earning $700 a month from an early customer. Anvere.net

I productized myself and operate as an on-demand marketing consultant for SaaS businesses.

Currently do $5K+ per month working one day a week taking short 30 minute calls with my clients.

I'm also working on an app that allows you to set a universal status across multiple platforms. I use it to automate my Slack statuses from my TripIt trips, but I want to add integrations for Google Calendar and WhatsApp. It's really rough right now but my future intent is to find a way to monetize it when it's cleaner.

Everyone’s path is different, but generally speaking, if you publish enough blog posts (especially on LinkedIn), someone from a content shop will notice and ask you to write a book or create a course. Both flows are similar, but I’ve only done courses and can speak to that in detail.

You propose a course. The content manager you work with decides if it fits their learning plan or whether there is demand for that kind of material. If they think people will view the course, you’ll be asked to come up with a course summary. DevOps and Kubernetes are super hot right now, so these were easy for me to think up.

Here, you’ll pitch the course. What is it? Who’s meant to view it? What will you cover? This gets reviewed. If it looks good, you’ll be given a producer, and they will ask you to write scripts.

Sometimes the content manager will ask for a demo of how you’d present a course. Here, they want to see whether you have enough “presence” to instruct. Sometimes they’ll provide feedback for you to fix, but this didn’t happen in my case.

You’ll also get an advance, with the first half being paid out around this time. These advances aren’t like the music industry where you use the money to pay for production and marketing. It’s literally money in your pocket.

Script writing can take FOREVER. especially the first time. It took me three months to write enough scripts for a two hour course. There’s a lot of back and forth. Since my courses are very hands-on, I also write lots of code and test everything while putting the scripts together. Very difficult to do all of this with a full-time job, doubly so when that job is demanding!

Once the scripts are cleared, you’ll be asked to record. There are lots of different ways this can go. Mine are audio-only with a terminal walkthrough, so I just recorded and screen capped everything. Some courses have live-action and acting. These require studios. I haven’t done one of these yet, so I can’t speak to it.

Beta testing happens after recording. People internally go through your course and make sure that everything gels. Sometimes you’ll need to fix stuff after this.

Once beta tests complete, your course goes live and starts racking views! You also get the other half of your advance.

You get paid royalties for every learner who views your course. I don’t know the specifics of this, but it’s kind of like YouTube’s ad platform. However, you don’t earn anything until the grand sum of your royalties exceeds the advance you were given. Depending on how your course performs, this can either never happen or it can happen very quickly.

It coded that website 8 years ago as a master's degree thesis. I am an investor myself, trying to achieve financial independence before retirement, so I kept using the site myself and hopefully will never stop. Stripe is there for the past year, I try to keep costs as low as possible. Only pay for a domain, hosting, and an affiliate program. It's a dividend growth investing tracker - digrin.com

https://deploymentfromscratch.com/

I did a SHOW HN awhile ago which sold 100+ copies in a single day:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540808

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095

BenkoBot is like wayscript but with a focus on making Trello automations (although you can use it for generic HTTP API interaction):

https://app.benkobot.com/

And BenkoPhone is the only virtual mobile number outside of North America that does voice, TXT and pictures:

https://www.benkophone.com/

https://www.abareplace.com/

It is a website to make US nutrition facts label which had a huge pivot from a website on learning how to cook. Website is only updated when new government regulations come out which is pretty rare considering how long it takes (in the years really)

https://www.herebetaverns.com

To be fair - I did spend full time on this when it launched but it’s been a side project for the last 6 months.

The sales fluctuate a ton but usually above $500 a month, almost pure profit and almost 0 hours work.

I have a plan to increase revenue this year by going all in on SEO

It's a platform for virtual scientific and research-oriented poster session hosting. Pretty simple but desperately needed when all the conferences were cancelled!

Trying to scale up the business to cater to data and software businesses. But working in real estate industry for a while now.

Workspaces brings you inside the workspaces of entrepreneurs, designers, developers, etc.

Currently a mix of inbound and outbound work to gather the sponsors for each edition.

I recently added a "call for sponsors" blurb in the intro of one of my newsletters once I felt I hit a level of subscribers where it made sense. I immediately had a few readers reply with interest that ultimately led to my first few sponsors.

From there, I did some cold outreach via Twitter DMs and email. My newsletter is very workspace item/tools centered so I put thought into what sort of sponsors made sense there and it led to the next batch. Think: companies who would organically be featured by a guest anyway... show them the value.

I'm pretty transparent with the growth/numbers on Twitter as well so I think that helps when doing the Twitter outreach for sponsors. They are easily able to look back at the Twitter engagement if they don't already know what Workspaces is.

https://vaportrade.net/

I guess it will leave the side project status once it gains even more traction but for now I consider it a side job.

We help SaaS CS and Product teams use product feedback from Intercom, Zendesk, Hubspot, Help Scout, etc to understand and build what customers are asking for.

Not sure where to take it next as there’s well funded competition and conversions/revenue have plateaued…

Recorded the audiobook myself too.

Also, what did you use to write your book? And how long did it take to write?

I wrote it with Microsoft Word. I initially tried a few different apps but all of the organizational tools they provided got in the way. I broke most conventions and just wrote the book straight from start to finish, and re-read it countless times until I felt satisfied. Then I sent it to a ton of friends who helped me edit. A professional editor would've been a better idea, but I didn't really have the money for that at the time.

Web + app store purchases

Up for sale if anyone's interested

I ported the flash app Scale of the Universe to WebGL. I asked for payment as a portion of ad revenue and make about $500 a month.

This year they lowered that $20,000 to $600. So anyone who receives more than $600 in one calendar year will trigger Venmo/Paypal or whoever to send the IRS the proper tax forms. If it is for personal use of course you are still not required to pay any tax.

As far as I know none of the loopholes for taxing the uber rich have been changed so this is really just going along with the IRS' current policy of increasing revenue from small time outfits vs going after the bigger fish (who can often afford to hire expensive accountants and lawyers to fight the IRS)

I am not against paying taxes but having to wrangle the info from a bunch of different sources and then also deal with manually adjusting for other factors just makes this whole thing a huge pain.

The argument of them not taxing the rich is sad, but also irrelevant; they didn't add a new tax on side-hustles, just re-inforced an existing one. You technically should've been paying this anyway.

They're just reinforcing an existing tax that you should be paying anyway. If going though your orders to figure out your tax is too much of a hassle, then maybe your side hustle wasn't worth it in the first place.

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