Ask HN: What’s your side project? (June 2020)
Please post a link to your project. But more importantly, share a story behind it. I think that’s the more interesting part!
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Re:Ask HN: What’s your side project? (June 2020)
on Sunday June 07, 2020 @02:01PM (#23449220)
dang mentioned in this thread[1] about a monthly side project thread. But I haven’t seen one for June, so I thought I’d post one.
Re:Ask HN: How much money does your iOS app make?
on Friday October 15, 2010 @09:17PM (#1797008)
Ask HN: How much money does your iOS app make?
Just came across to a post by the developer of River Of News, Dylan Ginsburg, disclosed the amount he earned so far (http://blog.riverofnewsapp.com/2010/10/how-much-money-can-you-make-on-app.html). I couldn't agree any more when he says "I don't know why this should be such a secret. I'm going to tell you how much money I make."So if you are an iOS developer like Dylan that wants to reveal your...
Ask HN: Should I invest in country top-level domains?
I've heard so many successful story on people selling short, single-word country top-level domain names. I just want to find out is it worthy to spend few hundred bucks into investing those domains and sell it later on. What are the success rates looked like?
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @09:56PM (#1774116)
That was very impressive. Did you guys just spread the word through friends and do a lot of marketing at first?
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @07:07PM (#1773791)
I saw you've got a good amount of advertisers on the site already (as well as the cabin). Is it because the cost of hosting & S3 that makes it still not profitable?
Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from just 1 app?
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:32PM (#1773019)
Just curious, how did you find your initial paid customers?
Re:Ask HN: Anyone making a living from just 1 app?
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:31PM (#1773013)
Yeah, I think if your app is listed on top 10 of all paid apps, you can make a lot of income very quickly.
Just some math: $2.99 * 2500 copies/day * 30 days * 70% to LB = That is a whopping $156975 a month!
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:19PM (#1772970)
Wow. That is impressive. Few questions:
1. How long did it take to write the plugin? 2. How did you find your paid customers? From what I heard, most WordPress users don't want to pay for themes or plugins. 3. And why did you decide to sell it for that kind of high price? Were there troubles at the beginning because it was a free download before?
Thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:15PM (#1772956)
The site looks great! Just curious, how did you find your initial paid customers? Is it just through word-of-mouth or did you do anything more specific?
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:11PM (#1772948)
For MailFinch, does it take a lot of time to operate since you have to print the paper out and mail it?
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:09PM (#1772936)
How long did it take for Basecamp to take off and become profitable?
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:08PM (#1772928)
Yeah, that's what makes the internet a great place to start business. You don't have the risk to lose tons of money if your business falis.
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:06PM (#1772918)
Just created a related discussion: Side Projects Gone Deadpooled http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772903
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:04PM (#1772911)
That was a great topic to discuss. I've created an extra HN thread, Side Projects Gone Dealpooled, for those of you who are interested: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772903
Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Deadpooled
As eps pointed out in the previous thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1772224) about side projects gone big, there were also an enormous amount of side projects that just went dead. I am sure many of HNers are curious to hear and learn from them.So feel free to list what the project is, how did you come up with the idea, and of course, when and how did it go deadpooled.
Re:Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
on Friday October 08, 2010 @02:59PM (#1772891)
Great to hear that! Just an extended question:
For both Gravatar and GitHub, did you put in any marketing efforts and money while they were still in the "side project" stage?
Ask HN: Side Projects Gone Big
I've heard many of you love to create side projects for fun, but I also heard that few of them actually took off and grow into a profitable business. So feel free to list if you have any. Statistics will be welcomed as well!
Ask HN: Anyone making a living from just 1 app?
If you have a desktop/mobile/web application that is sustainable and you can be able to live on its profit, list them here. Thanks!