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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by trungdq88 on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:07AM (#34485713)
I built a screenshot app for macOS and made ~$3k/mo from it :) https://xnapper.com

People like the app for its ability to turn a normal boring screenshot into a beautiful one that they can share on social media instantly.

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by nicbou on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:41AM (#34485885)
This is an excellent landing page. They rarely explain what a product does this well and this fast.

How to you keep those mini videos up to date?

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by trungdq88 on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:49AM (#34485918)
Thank you!

It's a pain in the ass, I have to re-record the videos every time. But I think it's worth it.

Usually I only update the videos if the app UI get too much different than the current version, which happens once every few months.

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by nicbou on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:12AM (#34486044)
Someone made something precisely for that and posted it here last week. I forgot the name unfortunately, but I share the pain.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by jedberg on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:47AM (#34486202)
Plus. Self updating screenshots:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34416386

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by booi on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:14AM (#34485751)
Brilliant
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by trungdq88 on Monday January 23, 2023 @12:51AM (#34485935)
thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by jerrygoyal on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:49AM (#34486211)
what a beautiful landing page. From where do you get most of your users?
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by xuki on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:38AM (#34487021)
GP has ten of thousand of followers on Twitter.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by trungdq88 on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:25AM (#34487230)
Mostly from my Twitter. I grew my account to ~70K followers by building this app and other products in public over the last 2 years.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by rymawby on Monday January 23, 2023 @02:29AM (#34486372)
I love this app and use it daily. (I think I got it through setapp). Awesome work.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by trungdq88 on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:26AM (#34487242)
I'm happy to hear that! Thank you!
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by rrishi on Monday January 23, 2023 @04:34AM (#34486997)
I really like the design of your website. If you don't mind me asking, any tips on how did you create it?
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by trungdq88 on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:26AM (#34487241)
I mostly use the premade components from Tailwind UI.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by tmaly on Monday January 23, 2023 @08:36AM (#34488543)
wow, that is really nice.

How long did it take you to develop the app to where it is today?

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by trungdq88 on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:01AM (#34489547)
I've been working on it on and off since July 2022.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by wingerlang on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:22AM (#34489031)
Wow this is interesting, you write "read like snapper" on the homepage. I made a screenshot tool for iOS which is actually called Snapper. I have been working on/maintaining it since 2014!

https://www.idownloadblog.com/2016/01/22/snapper-2-screensho... - video

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by trungdq88 on Monday January 23, 2023 @09:59AM (#34489504)
Interesting! I guess "snap" is quite a desirable verb for a screenshot tool name, haha.

I couldn't get snapper.com, so I replace "s" with "x" instead.

One thing I didn't know is that people tend to read it like "ex-snapper" or "znapper", which is unexpected to me (English is not my first language)

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by wingerlang on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:12AM (#34489707)
Yes definitely, over the years I've seen a few names with 'snap' as a base. It makes sense. I also tried to get snapper.com some times (although in my niche audience a website is not required at all). For the name, I think read it as ex-napper.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by dbancajas on Monday January 23, 2023 @10:19AM (#34489798)
What is the tech stack for this? I really want to build small apps like this and have a diversified portfolio but don't know where to start. Are you still earning 3K/month from this and what kind of on-going marketing are you doing?
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by egorfine on Monday January 23, 2023 @01:56PM (#34493265)
It's so good!

How did you market this app? How did you get the traction?

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by adepressedthrow on Monday January 23, 2023 @08:08PM (#34497665)
You might want to play around with the encoding on your videos. On a Windows machine with a i7-8770k (and dedicated GPU) with Firefox latest, the page was spiking up to 100% GPU usage, causing the browsing experience to slow to a crawl. It may be related due to me having a Twitch stream up on a second display.

Probably a Firefox bug, but it's preventing me from looking at this landing page that every one else seems to like :P

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by fnands on Tuesday January 24, 2023 @08:45AM (#34503445)
I really like your pricing model (i.e. use forever + 1 year of support).