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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 ... by nils-m-holm on Thursday November 30, 2023 @05:04AM (#38471703)
Writing books which generate revenues of about $500 per month (all of them combined, not every single one). See http://t3x.org
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 ... by solution-finder on Thursday November 30, 2023 @08:32AM (#38473264)
How do you market or spread the word about them?
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 ... by nils-m-holm on Thursday November 30, 2023 @10:50AM (#38474961)
Sometimes I post here, sometimes on reddit. Mostly I have no idea how people stumble across my books, though.
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 ... by usgroup on Thursday November 30, 2023 @06:18AM (#38472159)
would you mind me asking what motivates you to write as much as you have? just writing one book is bucket list item for me, yet here you've written >= 13! do you write for an audience or is it perhaps primarily to consolidate your thoughts?
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 ... by nils-m-holm on Thursday November 30, 2023 @11:00AM (#38475081)
I have written much more, more like 20, but not everything is still available. Then with a few books I ran out of motivation, so they just sit in my archive.

At the beginning writing somehow fascinated me, but right now it is probably just habit/momentum/karma that keeps me going.

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 ... by 1oooqooq on Friday December 01, 2023 @04:17PM (#38492546)
Is "lisp from nothing" the sequel to the buddist practice book?
Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2023 ... by marttt on Tuesday December 05, 2023 @03:17AM (#38528243)
As a former Vipassana practicioner, I bought and enjoyed the Mental Development book. Short and to the point; helped me to start meditating again after several years of hesitation or a "dead end" of sorts. The tone and style of your writing have an interesting "math-y" feel -- but it also feels very clean and somehow calm.

Same goes for the Klong book, which I bought and enjoyed thoroughly. Haven't mastered the language, though, but I'm hoping to; it definitely is really interesting, especially for a person like me who loves the build-your-own-tiny-tools-with-tiny-languages-for-your-own-use-and-prefer-low-end-computers philosophy. I'm definitely a fan of your work; your webpage and entire way of life has been an inspiration for me for years already.

If you don't mind me asking -- are you working on any upcoming books these days as well?