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Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue.
- gamechangr 11y agoI would guess that not many are making a $1,000 a month on side projects. Most of my friends have side projects where they make $100-$300, but when they get to over $500 they consider making that the primary project. Some games make that but you have to continue to update them or they loose their ability to continue to sell, so it's misleading when people say "I make $1500 a month from my games" they should also say "I spend a couple hours a week making sure they are updated to the new versions". But you may already know that. I will follow you're question to see if you get much response. I would love to be surprised!
- galooph 11y agoThere was a thread about this not so long ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844083 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844083
- vijayr 11y agoLike the hiring/looking for jobs threads, may be this should be a monthly thread.
- Osiris 11y agoI wrote a battery laptop monitor : http://batterybarpro.com http://batterybarpro.com . I get about 1k uniques a day and net about $1500/mn in sales of the Pro version.
- CyberDildonics 11y agoHow do you get the word out on a utility like this?
- Osiris 11y agoI started with a free version that I posted on various freeware software sites and as many forums about laptops as I could find. I also watched referral URLs can tried to engage users. Eventually users started spreading the word themselves. I've tried AdWords a few times but the ROI hasn't been great.
- Jayd2014 11y agoWhat stack did you use?
- Osiris 11y agoIt's written in C# with PInvoke code to call the underlying Win32 APIs for the battery status.
- eonw 11y agoI have a few games on the iOS store that still generate some money each month. My main side project income comes from simple sites I build using public data and my SEO skills. Essentially its all ad sales.
- dangrossman 11y agoThis same thread from two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592
- sgnelson 11y agoMoney?
- bemmu 11y agoThere's an ebook written by HN user riskish on this topic: http://www.sideprojectbook.com/ http://www.sideprojectbook.com/
- gtheme 11y agoI built Premium Ghost Theme marketplace http://www.gtheme.io/ http://www.gtheme.io/ to sell premium ghost themes. I designed most of the themes because I have chicken and egg problem. Now I get about $100-$300/m revenue. Most people still dont know what is Ghost https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/ yet. It is CMS that like Wordpress, but built on NodeJS. EDIT: Added what is Ghost
- CyberDildonics 11y agoA ghost theme market place you say? I went to the site and sure enough, it's ghost themes. Premium ghost themes in fact. I still have no idea what the fuck ghost themes are though.
- gtheme 11y agoMost people still dont know what is Ghost https://ghost.org/ https://ghost.org/ yet. It is CMS that like Wordpress, but built on NodeJS.
- dturnbull 11y agoI wrote a book about the Meteor JavaScript framework, which is available for free, but I also sell a video training series that's based on the book: http://meteortips.com http://meteortips.com
- gordonzhu 11y agoI made a video course that teaches you how to build apps with AngularJS. http://angularcourse.com http://angularcourse.com
- glitch273 11y agoHow did you do the reddit quote thing? Custom made or is there a website that formats it for you?
- mattchamb 11y agoLooking at the source, its an iframe for this site: //www.redditmedia.com/r/angularjs/comments/2f7ziz/i_quit_my_job_to_teach_you_how_to_launch_a_full/ckbhk0m?embed=true&context=0&depth=1&showedits=true&created=2015-05-04T04:25:24.511Z&showmore=false
- gordonzhu 11y agoClick embed under a comment and it will generate embed code for the comment. Example: http://www.reddit.com/r/angularjs/comments/2f7ziz/i_quit_my_job_to_teach_you_how_to_launch_a_full/ck7sar0 http://www.reddit.com/r/angularjs/comments/2f7ziz/i_quit_my_...
- glitch273 11y agoInteresting, thought it looked pretty cool. Something to keep in mind for future projects. :)
- alaskamiller 11y agoI used this last winter to learn AngularJS! Make a React course if you can!
- gordonzhu 11y agoOh wow small world. That's awesome. Email me at gordon[at]watchandcode[dot]com. Would love to get your feedback on what I can improve and what other things you'd like to learn! BTW This is the fourth time today someone has asked if I'm doing a React course. I am thinking about it :)
- siquick 11y ago$2-300 per quarter from affiliate sales from a vinyl record shop that is linked to from http://soundshelter.net http://soundshelter.net It's completely automated so any time spent on it is time I want to spend (other than a few user queries). Should really put up some Adsense but don't want to piss of the loyal users.
- danuker 11y agoYou could place Adsense if the IP/user/user agent is one you've never seen before (or seen rarely).
- andersthue 11y agoI (still) make >1000 on my watermarking windows program at www.watermark-image.com - yes an old skool installer that you dowbload :) I am using the money to stairstep (as Rob Walling talks about) into the SaaS world with my sleep and happiness improving way to work called TimeBlock (http://timeblock.com http://timeblock.com)
- adzeds 11y agoI generated a football betting algorthm > http://betalyst.com/ http://betalyst.com/ Gained a decent user base that gives it a strong MMR from ads etc