Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by hydershykh on Monday January 23, 2023 @05:49AM (#34487373)

Started trading back in 2020 and realized how bad I was it, and how much I needed a strict system to eliminate emotions! Had a degree in CS so spent a few months reading up on quant related stuff and realized how negligent I and other retail traders were, and how much data driven insights could help (ran over a million backtests the last 2 years)!

Built a simple analytics tool to show dozens of correlations & analytics between a wide variety of financial data points, and bootstrapped it to $120k/month! We grew from 0 to 54k users in two years, all organic. Has completely changed my life.

tradytics.com

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by BMorearty on Monday January 23, 2023 @11:58AM (#34491501)

So, 13 months ago [0] you said on HN that you were making $120k/month with 3000 users. How come you're still making the same amount but with 18x more users than you had more than a year ago? What's the disconnect?

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29671480

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023... by hydershykh on Thursday January 26, 2023 @07:23AM (#34530826)

Fair comment.

Retention during downtrends is pretty hard, so although we've gained a good amount of new users, old ones have left too.

3000 were paid users at that time, the total users were about 35k. We now have 54k total and about 3500 paid!

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