Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue what's your project?

Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by duck on Friday April 14, 2023 @11:54AM (#35570952)

I started Hacker Newsletter [1] almost 14 years ago and sent out the 647th issue today [2] to 58k folks. It took over a year to break 1k subscribers and a few more years to get to that type of revenue. I could do a lot more with it and plan to one day, but really only focus on it a couple hours each week when I build the issue and talk to sponsors.

1: https://hackernewsletter.com 2: https://mailchi.mp/hackernewsletter/647

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by ayewo on Friday April 14, 2023 @01:17PM (#35572022)

Thanks for starting it and keeping it going.

It is one of the few newsletters I look forward to so I can “catch up” with topics that were popular during the course of a week on HN.

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by biztos on Friday April 14, 2023 @01:17PM (#35572033)

I'm a happy subscriber! Funny thing is, I ignore it most weeks because I'm checking HN a lot anyway; but if I have so much as a long weekend offline then your newsletter is the answer to my FOMO.

I love the simplicity and I don't mind the ads.

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by ansc on Friday April 14, 2023 @02:47PM (#35573229)

Thanks for doing it. Love receiving this.

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by gnrlst on Friday April 14, 2023 @03:17PM (#35573536)

What's the current MRR out of curiosity? I think about it every time I get it in my inbox :)

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by dave333 on Saturday April 15, 2023 @12:52AM (#35577706)

Hmmm... all the stories on the 647 sample issue are ones I had already read here on HN. So you are just curating the HN feed?

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by duck on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:09AM (#35587441)

Yeah, all links come from HN (I use the API to pull them into my tool). I'm not just grabbing the highest voted items though, but rather a mix. Basically I'm taking the ~1500 posts that got at least 5 votes and picking ~70 for each issue. If you saw all 70 of those then you're on HN all the time and it probably isn't much use to you.

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by dansult on Saturday April 15, 2023 @08:37PM (#35586101)

I don't have HN open all day so I love this newsletter. I'm also in Australia so sometimes I miss posts as they slide away during US work hours. Love your work

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by duck on Sunday April 16, 2023 @01:11AM (#35587455)

Thanks Dan, glad to hear it is useful. Mudmap looks very cool!

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by sethlivingston on Friday April 21, 2023 @09:05AM (#35653113)

Your newsletter is the best part of my Friday mornings. Thank you.

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Re:Ask HN: Side project of more that $2k monthly revenue wha... by passedpawn on Friday April 21, 2023 @10:18PM (#35662749)

I love it. I read it while having coffee on Saturday mornings.

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