Correction, previously asked 26 days ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095</a><p>Obviously still nice to see what people have built who missed the last post!
I make this e-paper calendar: <a href="https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-calendar" rel="nofollow">https://shop.invisible-computers.com/products/invisible-cale...</a><p>It syncs with Google Calendar.<p>To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in <i>revenue</i> not <i>earnings</i>.<p>If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment.<p>EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: <a href="https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9" rel="nofollow">https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9</a>
I'm not quite there yet, but I'm up to $300/mo iteratively building an uptime checker: <a href="https://onlineornot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://onlineornot.com/</a><p>I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it.<p>Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime and correctness, support for checking JavaScript apps, and more.<p>My trick for launching into 200 competitors providing the "same" service and still getting customers?<p>- I work two hours a day, every weekday on OnlineOrNot, and no other side projects. I've had this streak going for about nine months now.<p>- I focus particularly on features that solve my customer's pain (and I ask my customers what that pain is)<p>- I'm ruthlessly iterative. If I can't get a feature done in two hours, I figure out how to cut scope down to a two hour block, and ship that. Then iterate on it.
My side project currently grosses close to $1,400 per month through Patreon.<p>I run a modded Grand Theft Auto: V roleplaying server with around 1,500 members (around 300 really dedicated MAU.) If you're not familiar with GTA RP, it tries to emulate real life as closely as possible while still recognizing that GTA is an arcade game. Players live lives as if they were real people, buying cars and houses, holding jobs, opening businesses, receiving medical treatment, being arrested, etc.<p>I've spent around three years working on the gamemode and spend, on average, 30-60 hours per week on it. It's really a pure passion project. Players support the project through Patreon in exchange for priority queue access (when the server is full, players are held in a queue until a slot opens up for them), custom license plates on their vehicles, custom phone numbers, and other cosmetic perks.
I've launched a couple months ago <a href="https://linkz.ai" rel="nofollow">https://linkz.ai</a><p>Linkz.ai is hyperlink auto-previews that keep visitors on your website. It's heavily inspired by Wikipedia & Google Docs link preview popups with special extras. For example, when you click on a YouTube hyperlink, it does not take you to Youtube website, instead it opens lightbox with Youtube video on your website. All with just one line of code.<p>$500+/m in a first month<p>Demo page: <a href="https://linkz-ai.webflow.io" rel="nofollow">https://linkz-ai.webflow.io</a>
I make about $50k/mo on <a href="https://www.closingcredits.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.closingcredits.com</a><p>I found that most teaching platforms for voice actors out there are run by a bunch of celebrities who are pushing edutainment, not education.<p>So I wanted to make something specific for voice actors. I will try to branch it out to other creators later.
Twitter Archive Eraser <a href="https://delete.tweets.app/" rel="nofollow">https://delete.tweets.app/</a>, allows users to reliably delete old tweets.<p>Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app for the past 1.5 years or so.
I start tons of projects, and it's always a bother naming them. I didn't find existing domain generators at all useful, and since my background is in AI, I made my own.<p>→ <a href="https://www.namy.ai" rel="nofollow">https://www.namy.ai</a><p>It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from.<p>It's not yet at $500/mo, but it's getting close. Server costs are significant though, since running an AI model is a bit expensive.<p>Ideas and feedback are welcome.
I made a background noise website and app<p><a href="https://asoftmurmur.com" rel="nofollow">https://asoftmurmur.com</a><p>There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer than I'm comfortable with
I started making Power-Ups (add-ons/plugins) for Trello in July last year: <a href="https://www.tinypowerups.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.tinypowerups.com</a><p>It just hit $500/month on Monday and it seems to be increasing by $100 in MRR per week.<p>I'm only charging $1 per user per month for unlimited access to all of my Power-Ups. I'm thinking about increasing this price to $2 or $3 next month (existing customers get to keep the $1 price tag).<p>Some of the Power-Ups I offer:<p>- File Manager: lets you search through and bulk download files on a board.<p>- Board Chat: adds a simple chatroom to your Trello board<p>- External Share: creates a link and snapshot of a Trello board that you can send to clients so they don't need to sign up for Trello to see the board.<p>- Office File Viewer: lets you preview .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files directly in Trello<p>- Card Approvals: adds a "approve" and "decline" section to a Trello card
I launched www.rtljobs.com in October and had my first month of $500 in revenue in December.<p>It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips.<p>Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com
We're making about $600/mo right now working on Oku, which we're building as a social book tracker (and more) and hoping to replace Goodreads with.<p><a href="https://oku.club" rel="nofollow">https://oku.club</a><p>Here's my profile for example: <a href="https://oku.club/user/joe" rel="nofollow">https://oku.club/user/joe</a>
<a href="https://bruzu.com" rel="nofollow">https://bruzu.com</a><p>API to generate images on the fly.<p>Sample <a href="https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN3" rel="nofollow">https://img.bruzu.com/?a.text=HN3</a>
I make around $500 per month running a gaming VPN service - [link redacted]<p>I initially built it to route PUBG players in Australia (myself included!) onto the fastest links to overseas servers as the Australian servers did not have enough players. It was strung together with OpenVPN and a Discord bot as I never expected more than around 20 people would use it... mostly figured it would be me and my squad mates. Within three months I had around 350 users by word of mouth paying $5 per month. Most of my users came from established competitors as my service was a lot simpler to use. The user numbers died down over the following year mostly due to competitors offering an aggressive referral system and I was focused on other projects.<p>Last year I decided to expand to other games and regions. I rebuilt it as a standalone Electron based Windows app using a kernel network driver that can route individual Windows apps through my WireGuard VPN servers. I built everything except the network driver which was done by a Windows networking specialist - <a href="https://ntkernel.com" rel="nofollow">https://ntkernel.com</a><p>I currently support PUBG, DOTA 2, iRacing, Apex Legends, Rocket League, Final Fantasy XIV, Super People in Australia/New Zealand and PUBG and Rocket League in North America.<p>The service is stable and relatively scalable so this year I'm hoping to focus on the marketing in between other projects. Part of that will probably include a name change as I figure it doesn't make a lot of sense to people outside Australia
Previously from 26 days ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095</a><p>That said, this seems to be the extent of my marketing desire.<p>I screen scrape campground registration websites and alert you when someone cancels on a date you want to go camping. Fabulously successful. Now back to my day-job.<p><a href="https://wanderinglabs.com" rel="nofollow">https://wanderinglabs.com</a>
I made ~$1000 in earnings in a weekend selling algorithmically generated posters of my art:
<a href="https://spacefiller.space/prints" rel="nofollow">https://spacefiller.space/prints</a><p>This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.
I'm running a website for people learning Japanese and currently making ~$590/month from Patreon donations: <a href="https://jpdb.io/" rel="nofollow">https://jpdb.io/</a><p>This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working publicly for the past year.<p>Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959</a>
My side project, FormTester 365 <a href="https://www.formtester365.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.formtester365.com</a> has been doing a little over $700/mo now. Many customers are agencies who want to be alerted if a client's web forms stop working.<p>It tests website forms daily (currently as a Gravity Forms plugin add on) and confirms that they were successfully submitted. I'm working to add support for general web forms in the next few months. Feel free to send me an email if you're interested in being notified when that feature rolls out — jon (at) creativeculturemedia.com
I'm working on <a href="http://talevideo.com" rel="nofollow">http://talevideo.com</a> - The easiest way to create a video of your SaaS or website.
It's not subscription, but got about 300$ in revenue from January.<p>Talevideo - is a desktop application where you can create video directly from website, without screen recording. And animate any element on page, like fadeIn and etc.<p>Example result of video/gif at my github: <a href="https://github.com/ssleptsov" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/ssleptsov</a><p>Example_2 video directly from reddit website: <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/ra7inj/app_to_create_a_website_videos/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/ra7inj/app_to_...</a>
I created <i>Video Hub App</i> - browse, search, and organize your videos - "like YouTube for videos on your computer".<p>It's a commercial project / <i>charityware</i> that is turning 4 years old next month. I sell it for $5 per copy and give $3.50 to a <i>cost-effective</i> charity. If you go to the blog you'll see the history of sales. As of now I donated almost $13,000 to charity thanks to this project. It's averaging around 100 sales per month for over a year now.<p><a href="https://videohubapp.com/en/" rel="nofollow">https://videohubapp.com/en/</a><p>Also open source MIT: <a href="https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App</a>
I built an iOS sex tracking app, Nice.<p><a href="https://nicetracker.app/" rel="nofollow">https://nicetracker.app/</a><p>There were no sex tracking apps on the App Store that weren't focused the menstrual cycle, so I built my own. It now includes cool features such as syncing across iCloud devices, location recording, STD/STI tests, and most importantly, stats!
My JavaScript screencast, letscodejavascript.com, made over $10K net profit per month at its peak. It costs $25/month for unlimited access to over 600 videos.<p>I stopped producing videos in April 2018, but the site is still up, and still gets occasional new subscribers. (There's been an influx lately, in fact, and I have no idea why. Maybe because I have a new book out.) It's still netting more than $500/month, although not by a lot. But it requires nearly zero effort from me, so I'm happy with it.<p><i>Edit:</i> To clarify, it wasn't a side project when I was producing the videos. But now it's passive income.
My wife always compained that there was no suitable time tracking app for breastfeeding our little baby. Within three weeks I developed a simple app with proposals from her which fits her needs.
After a few weeks using it we were suddenly overwhelmed with inquiries from our friends searching for such an app as well.. Within another week, I made it ready for the AppStore and the PlayStore and now it does around 400 € a month :-)<p><a href="https://www.stillapp.de" rel="nofollow">https://www.stillapp.de</a> - although the page is in german the app is translated into english as well.
Monetizing the algotrading models I've built over the last 2+ years: <a href="https://grizzlybulls.com" rel="nofollow">https://grizzlybulls.com</a><p>I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual returns with much lower volatility than the overall market. My starting capital was small (500k) so in addition to growing with my own capital, I'm now providing the signals (3 free, 4 premium).<p>105 total members, MRR is currently $1397/month, just launched exactly 1 month ago today. Still in the google sandbox so I'm not seeing much organic traffic. We have a small community on reddit, rest of users from social media, Seeking Alpha and Stock Twits.
I sell repackaged open source software on AWS Marketplace and Azure Marketplace and offer support as part of the monthly software cost.<p>It's the same software but the Azure offer sells a lot better. Monthly income is about $1000 from both.<p>Very few support requests come in, so it feels like mostly passive income. All I have to do is answer the occasional ticket and keep the images up to date.
I’m making ~$4k a month, from a small macOS and iOS app portfolio:<p>- macOS apps: <a href="https://fadel.io/" rel="nofollow">https://fadel.io/</a><p>- iOS apps: <a href="https://apple.co/3fqcWfO" rel="nofollow">https://apple.co/3fqcWfO</a>
I've made about 50 Amazon Alexa skills. The most popular 5 earn rewards: <a href="https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/grow-your-business/rewards" rel="nofollow">https://developer.amazon.com/en-US/alexa/alexa-skills-kit/gr...</a><p>At first it was around $2500 per month, but has slowly ramped down over the past 4 years to about $900 per month. Totally passive income at this point.
Originally a side project two years ago, now I'm full time on it: <a href="https://www.interviewquery.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.interviewquery.com/</a><p>We help data scientists land jobs by being the Leetcode for data science.
I built an app to control what my kids watch on Youtube: <a href="https://kidstv.family" rel="nofollow">https://kidstv.family</a>
Makes $1500/month
I currently teach computer science at a local high school. Topics range from algorithms and data structures to AI and societal impact.<p>I do it to encourage young people to use software to make a change in their and other’s lives.<p>Currently making $500 with 90min/week effort. I already got the syllabus material ready so I do not necessarily have to invest time here.<p>Right now they’re writing an exam.
I have two such side projects that run almost passively, neither is an app though.<p>1- An extremely simple habit tracker spreadsheet template that I also use myself - <a href="https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-template" rel="nofollow">https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-template</a><p>Makes ~$100/mo but this month it's on track to make $200, probably due to new year's enthusiasm?<p>2- Learn Programmatic SEO, a straightforward course to help people identify repeatable keyword patterns and use that to drive traffic to their business, website, projects etc. SEO beginner-friendly - <a href="https://www.preetamnath.com/programmatic-seo" rel="nofollow">https://www.preetamnath.com/programmatic-seo</a><p>The course makes between $300-$500/mo.<p>I don't have any costs other than website hosting and Gumroad fees. I do think these projects have scope to improve and grow. Would love feedback from anyone who finds them interesting!
I've run <a href="http://olodolo.com" rel="nofollow">http://olodolo.com</a> (it mostly runs itself) since 2018, which lets people buy things on AliExpress using crypto. I often describe it as the only non-scam crypto website :)<p>It's badly in need of fixes and updates, but I still do about $1500-2000 in sales and $300-400 in profit monthly.
I made an Apple Watch app and complication a few years ago that averages $800 a month. I don't put any money into marketing or search ads, and it's been feature-complete since 2019:<p><a href="https://www.betterday.app/" rel="nofollow">https://www.betterday.app/</a><p>The app is built around two small, simple features: today's date with a customizable format, and a three-year calendar so you can see what weekday dates fall on outside of the current month. It also supports several alternative calendar systems including the Islamic and Hebrew religious calendars, which I think may be another use case that drives sales.<p>Anyway: it's a one-time, two-dollar purchase that lots of folks are still finding and finding useful.
I make Nodewood: <a href="https://nodewood.com/" rel="nofollow">https://nodewood.com/</a><p>It's a SaaS starter kit/boilerplate written in Node.js and Vue 3. Made almost _exactly_ $500/month last year. Would have/should have made more with proper marketing, but I've been doing probably too much engineering instead. The next release should be the one to take it out of "beta" (honestly, an arbitrarily-chosen label, especially compared to some competitors with fewer features/work put into them), and then it'll be a bit easier to work with some potential partners who would prefer to promote non-beta software.
A quarterly magazine — $2K/mo: pipewrenchmag.com<p>Two membership tiers, one paid, one barter: pipewrenchmag.com/backer-barter<p>We publish one longform nonfiction feature every quarter, surrounded by a constellation of reactions, asides, and art inspired by the core story. Our latest issue is about bringing in "outside food," and the art of smuggling snacks into movie theaters: <a href="https://pipewrenchmag.com/making-concessions-movies-and-popcorn/" rel="nofollow">https://pipewrenchmag.com/making-concessions-movies-and-popc...</a>
My brother started Podcast Notes in 2015. I help out on the tech side. We now have a growing community of Premium Members, 35k Twitter Followers, 25k email subscribers.<p><a href="https://podcastnotes.org" rel="nofollow">https://podcastnotes.org</a>
We built <a href="https://tadum.app" rel="nofollow">https://tadum.app</a>, an online meeting agenda that rolls forward incomplete agenda items to the next agenda. This ends up creating a low effort paper trail, saves on meeting prep time, and keeps agendas consistently formatted/organized. It's intended for recurring weekly/monthly/quarterly meetings--we built it based on how we run meetings with our clients and are happy to see other teams jump in and have success with it.
<a href="https://cronhub.io" rel="nofollow">https://cronhub.io</a> (a project I just took over). Makes about 1k/month for now.
I make between $500 and $2000 per month with UXWizz[0], a self-hosted analytics platform that I have been working on for around 9 years.<p>Hopefully I can grow it more this year as all the Google Analytics related news should make more people consider self-hosting their analytics. I stopped providing any cloud-hosted version and focus purely on self-hosting.<p>[0]: <a href="https://www.uxwizz.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.uxwizz.com</a>
I'm trying to dispel the myth that all good dotcoms are already taken and/or unaffordable with <a href="https://zlipa.com" rel="nofollow">https://zlipa.com</a><p>It's passive income in the sense that I add new brands in the weekend and mostly doing this for fun.
<a href="https://jobs.braveclojure.com/" rel="nofollow">https://jobs.braveclojure.com/</a> - a Clojure job board! Usually #1 search result for "clojure jobs"
I built Meta Meme, an iPhone meme making app. It nets approx $3-5k monthly. <a href="https://metameme.app/" rel="nofollow">https://metameme.app/</a>
<a href="https://anycasted.io/" rel="nofollow">https://anycasted.io/</a><p>A niche product, I gather data about anycasted IP addresses and sell the database. No idea how to market it but it makes more than $500/month
<a href="https://apps.shopify.com/quotify" rel="nofollow">https://apps.shopify.com/quotify</a> nearing $1k, earnings increase every month without doing any advertising.<p>I also launched <a href="https://unlock.sh/" rel="nofollow">https://unlock.sh/</a> earlier this month.
I do a lot of landscape astrophotography which involves a TON of signal processing to get rid of various sources of noise.<p><a href="https://instagram.com/dheeranet" rel="nofollow">https://instagram.com/dheeranet</a><p>People ask to buy prints from time to time. Not quite $500/month just yet but getting there.<p>Then there's this web-based function plotter I made in 2007:<p><a href="http://fooplot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://fooplot.com/</a><p>It once made upto $900/month but since then, mobile apps have gotten better, and today it makes about $100-150/month in ad revenue.
A tiny API for embedding weather forecasts as an image: <a href="https://weatherembed.com/" rel="nofollow">https://weatherembed.com/</a><p>Makes around $500/month from various subscriptions through RapidAPI. Built on a whim during the pandemic. Uses Google Cloud Run + NodeJS.
I went super niche with an iOS vehicle counting board for civil engineers to conduct intersection studies, <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/traffic-count-tmc/id1553635289" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/traffic-count-tmc/id1553635289</a><p>I never did any advertising and it was gaining traction, but lately plateaued at a handful of downloads / day. Not sure where would be a good place to spread the word haha.
I make $3-5k a month with my golf betting algorithm: <a href="https://www.golfforecast.co.uk" rel="nofollow">https://www.golfforecast.co.uk</a><p>I'm a data scientist/software engineer and I started the project 5 years ago as part of my masters thesis. Never intended for it to be gambling-oriented but that's just the best way to monetise!<p>Questions/feedback appreciated - cheers
I run <a href="https://stickler-ci.com" rel="nofollow">https://stickler-ci.com</a> While it is not currently at 500/month but it has been there in the past.<p>I started this as a way to improve review speed at a previous position and it was well received, so I converted the prototype into a it's current form and have been running it for a few years now.
I'm building a journaling app for couples (iOS): <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/twig-journal-for-couples/id1453545808" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/twig-journal-for-couples/id145...</a><p>I originally made it for my long distance girlfriend (now wife) and myself. It averages $450 - $550 monthly.
I built an email forwarding service - not for your own domains, a lot of those exist already - instead you can choose an email at any of our 150+ domains and we forward it to your existing account, no migration required. You can even send from this address with many providers.<p><a href="https://www.mailbox.my" rel="nofollow">https://www.mailbox.my</a>
15 minute mobility routines - <a href="https://movewellapp.com" rel="nofollow">https://movewellapp.com</a><p>Basically - everyone has a foam roller. No one knows how to use it. Pick a routine based on what your goals are (working out, recovery, general low back pain) and we show you the movements to guide you through a routine in 15 minutes or less.
My team makes this <a href="https://kpopping.com" rel="nofollow">https://kpopping.com</a><p>It's a platform for following what's happening in kpop that we've been building for five years. It makes about $1500 a month through advertisements and subscriptions these days, but we want to expand and experiment with other revenue sources.
Built Shopping Saga:<p>Real-time Online Shopping Deals by Product Category | Thoughtful Gifts for Every Occasion, Recipient, Category<p>Gifts:<p>1. Daily-updated gift products catalog
2. Direct Amazon and Etsy product links for gifts and deals
3. Browse and filter by price, category, recipient, occasion, popularity<p>Shopping Deals:<p>1. Grab online shopping deals as soon as they are available
2. Category-wise segregation of deals
3. Deals updated half-hourly<p>Initially, it was only web and android, but now I have released iOS app as well.<p>Android: <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeaks.shoppingsaga" rel="nofollow">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeak...</a><p>iOS: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604578567#?platform=iphone" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604578567#?platform=iphone</a><p>The web version was pretty basic, so I've taken it down currently. Learning Vue JS to enhance the frontend/UI.<p>The apps have pretty clean UI.
Working on <a href="https://folge.me" rel="nofollow">https://folge.me</a> - desktop app for creating step by step tutorials and guides. Unlike modern SaaS businesses I decided to charge one time price, which makes revenue very unpredictable, but usually keeping around 400-500 USD per month
I run Dictanote (<a href="https://dictanote.co" rel="nofollow">https://dictanote.co</a>) and Voice In (<a href="https://dictanote.co/voicein/" rel="nofollow">https://dictanote.co/voicein/</a>)<p>Dictanote is a note-taking app with built-in voice-to-text integration. Writers use it to write their books, students use it to take notes, etc. Dictanote automatically syncs your notes to the cloud and makes them available on all your devices.<p>Voice In is a chrome extension that lets you use dictation to type on any website in Chrome. Use it to type emails in Gmail, enter data into Teladoc, write blogs in WordPress, etc. Think of it like budget Dragon Dictation.<p>Currently makes about $7000/m net - somewhere between a full-time job and a hobby project. Figuring out how to grow it.
I've been working on Newsletterss, a newsletter reader for web, iOS and Android. I'm making about $2k/m with about 30% of that going to ads and infrastructure costs.<p>You can check it out at <a href="https://newsletterss.com" rel="nofollow">https://newsletterss.com</a>
I created an enhanced multilingual T9 keyboard[1][2] for iOS in 2014 to play around with Swift. It's been doing 600$ on average since then, still going strong. Still use it everyday myself and can't live without it
[1] <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typenine-ultimate-t9-style-keyboard/id926008509?ls=1&mt=8" rel="nofollow">https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/typenine-ultimate-t9-style-k...</a>
[2] <a href="https://medium.com/porsager/a-better-iphone-typing-experience-77c6da52131" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/porsager/a-better-iphone-typing-experienc...</a>
I went from 0->40k+ followers on TikTok this year with NO prior social media experience.<p>Most people see it as a teenage dance app type thing, but for techies wanting to build a personal brand or teach people it's a killer tool to rapidly grow.<p>I consistently make ~600/mo selling a 'newbie' TikTok course on appsumo. It's a no-frills recorded presentation and associated set of slides that I do very little marketing for with the goal of getting people to 1k followers on tiktok in 30 days or less.<p><a href="https://appsumo.com/products/your-first-1000-tiktok-followers/" rel="nofollow">https://appsumo.com/products/your-first-1000-tiktok-follower...</a>
This year marks 3 years working on Label LIVE, an electron app for designing and printing labels. Think: import a spreadsheet and print barcodes to a zebra printer.<p>In 2021 the profit eclipsed my consulting income. My 2020 goal is to double revenue. Today it’s making mid 4-figure MRR but adding in one-time-license-sales the annual revenue is healthy 6-figure.<p>The last few months I’ve been focusing on marketing and integrations. Today you can trigger label print jobs via the command line, MQTT, and now HTTP.<p>If label printers are your jam you can read more here: <a href="https://label.live/features" rel="nofollow">https://label.live/features</a>
I run a B2B lead generation SaaS for the UK market.<p>It provides up-to-date data from Companies House, but also allows you to sort and filter businesses by:<p>- where they are located<p>- when they registered<p>- what SIC (standard industrial classification) code they use<p>- their operational status<p>- their accounts category<p>Businesses typically use this to find new businesses to try and market/sell their services to.<p>It’s written in Haskell and Elm, and it’s been running for about five years now. Several businesses have been happily paying to use the service every month.<p><a href="https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/</a><p>If you’d like to sell your services to UK businesses then do write to me; I’d love to hear from you :)
A friend and I made a repository for high-quality, affordable language learning flashcards around a year ago.<p><a href="https://deckmill.com" rel="nofollow">https://deckmill.com</a><p>Made using a mix of ML (translation and TTS) and human translators.
My side business, Freelancer's Handbook, currently does about $10,700 ARR.<p>I've documented many of the stats here: <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrN9ya-t7Vr42T-wL9q1-HX654nzPrhBeZAFGjBpGPk/edit?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrN9ya-t7Vr42T-wL9q1-HX6...</a><p>It's a blog, community, and newsletter focused on useful and practical content for remote freelancers.<p>I'm looking to pass over the mantle to someone passionate about the freelance space and have been passively searching for a buyer. Contact information in the Google Doc above.
Just launched <a href="https://umbrellatoday.app" rel="nofollow">https://umbrellatoday.app</a>, which is inspired from my personal frustration with umbrellas. The tool allows you to create alerts for rainy days, warning you to bring an umbrella.<p>The assumption is that we want to minimize our interaction with umbrellas; if you buy a big umbrella, it is a hassle to drag along and you will most likely loose it after a few afterwork drinks. Other way around, a small and cheap umbrella does not cover you enough, and breaks easily.<p>As said, just launched, lets see how it goes. Happy to hear your feedback.
Made around $1500 in a month from <a href="https://hyperpaper.me/" rel="nofollow">https://hyperpaper.me/</a><p>It's a customized dayplanner pdf for large eInk devices like the reMarkable 2. I built it for myself initially but realized I could provide a customized build for other folks. There's still a small amount of manual work to generate them, but I should be able to automate it end-to-end soon.<p>I don't expect it to make much at all over the next 10 months, but I'm already excited about other things I'm planning to add for the 2023 version
Web comic newsletter: <a href="https://funnies.page" rel="nofollow">https://funnies.page</a><p>Full disclosure - $500+/month in revenue, but not profit. The majority (95%) goes to the creators I work with.
I've been making $500-1000/month on an iOS app for work time tracking – <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flexishift-work-hours-pay/id1146576087" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/flexishift-work-hours-pay/id11...</a><p>When I started the project, the category seemed quite crowded already, but I couldn't find anything good for tracking my hours in a flextime arrangement. I had no iOS experience at that time (I was a C++ developer) and now I do iOS development as my full-time job too.
I've been making a pretty consistent amount off my open-source side-project Pterodactyl through company sponsorships.<p><a href="https://pterodactyl.io" rel="nofollow">https://pterodactyl.io</a>
Offtopic: funny to see the first five or so links I followed were all marketing websites made with TailwindUI. It’s a bit like a decade ago when all websites looked like a Bootstrap website.
Forward Email - Email Forwarding Service<p>We're the only service that respects your privacy and never stores your emails.<p><a href="https://forwardemail.net" rel="nofollow">https://forwardemail.net</a>
I started a wholesale bakery.<p>It does about 20k/mo in revenue (we are not profitable).<p>It's been super fun and rewarding. It's much more like building a software / tech startup than I expected it to be.
I build products to help improve my main e-commerce businesses so I think this counts as a side-hustle. The latest (earliest stage one is):<p><a href="https://www.zigpoll.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.zigpoll.com</a><p>"Bite sized" polling software as a service that I use for post purchase surveys, contact us forms, and email campaigns when I want feedback on what to do next. Most customers are currently through our Shopify App but have a few SaaS businesses that integrated it independently.
I previously posted about PriceTable (<a href="https://pricetable.io" rel="nofollow">https://pricetable.io</a>), where I’m the cofounder:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855726" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855726</a><p>Since then we’ve gotten up to $3,500/mo. and will be hiring our first salesperson soon. Exciting and nerve-racking at the same time! (If you know anyone, please have them reach out to me at ege@pricetable.io)
I'm not an engineer outside of the occasional WP site, but that's enough. Cold email is my bag and I'm a good (and proficient) writer. In October I started cold emailing internet, marketing, and SW companies asking if they needed any help with their blogs. In the intervening months I've added 7 clients that pay, on average, $700/month for various help with content. MOst of it is blog posts but I also do press releases, eBooks, etc.
Make between $500-$1000 per month from <a href="http://www.auctionsieve.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.auctionsieve.com/</a> - old school desktop app I started in 2003. It's a front-end for eBay to quickly filter search results.<p>I have all sorts of interesting collectors using it - some guy who buys old porsche parts, a famous comic book artist who collects comics, etc etc
I made an incredibly simple Safari content blocking app for iOS: <a href="https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liberate-website-blocker/id1214636633" rel="nofollow">https://apps.apple.com/us/app/liberate-website-blocker/id121...</a><p>~$750/month lately. $32.5k lifetime and have spent <40 hours conceiving, implementing, and updating it.
<a href="https://www.goodbooks.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.goodbooks.io</a><p>Books recommended by successful and inspirational people.
Does it count as a side project if I have been in grad school full time while I proposed and developed this application?: Environmental flow monitoring application: <a href="https://dkhydrotech.com/entry/11/" rel="nofollow">https://dkhydrotech.com/entry/11/</a>. I wish I could share more info / visuals but alas.
My side project <a href="https://playtoearn.one/" rel="nofollow">https://playtoearn.one/</a> is not making $500/month yet, but it's getting there: a tiny bit more than $400 for this month<p>It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying niche<p>I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner<p>There are so many play-to-earn games popping up at the same time that projects are fighting for visibility, which playtoearn.one can bring<p>So now, I've hired a designer to make a great looking UI and I'm getting motivated to turn this side project into something more than this<p>EDIT: Traffic for the past month:<p><a href="https://simpleanalytics.com/playtoearn.one?period=month&count=1" rel="nofollow">https://simpleanalytics.com/playtoearn.one?period=month&coun...</a>
AI that explains code, at a high business logic level. I originally designed it while working on a complex physics system for a game engine, and needed to understand it myself and also explain it to non-technical people. Try it on your own code: <a href="https://denigma.app" rel="nofollow">https://denigma.app</a>
I am currently at around $300/mo so still a bit off the $500 unfortunately. My side project, ErgStudio[0], allows people to use their rowing machine to do remote workouts together. I had the idea already a while before the pandemic started but when it hit I finally pushed myself to implement a MVP. My wife helped a lot doing the admin and as a photographer (we took all the promotion pictures ourselves to save money). This was also the first project for me which I took from greenfield to people-can-pay-for-this, which I am pretty thrilled about. At the moment, a bunch of university clubs in the US and smaller rowing clubs in Europe are using it. As a gimmick, when you see the meters rowed counter changing on the website, someone is actually working out somewhere in the world, using our app.<p>[0] <a href="https://erg.studio/" rel="nofollow">https://erg.studio/</a>
Working on a few projects, but the ones that actually took off and make money are:<p>Commotion (<a href="https://commotion.page" rel="nofollow">https://commotion.page</a>), Forms + Mail Merge for Notion<p>Reslant (<a href="https://reslant.com" rel="nofollow">https://reslant.com</a>), Discussion Boards for Customer Feedback
Recently launched a website where users can design their own Desktop Garden. Only a few sales so far but hoping to slowly scale for some decent side income :)
Please check it out <a href="http://gardensofkyoto.design" rel="nofollow">http://gardensofkyoto.design</a> and open to any feedback!
<a href="https://jumpshare.com" rel="nofollow">https://jumpshare.com</a><p>Visual communication tool with screen recording, screenshots and GIFs for macOS and Windows. Fully native apps without using Electron. I started Jumpshare as a side project many years ago and turned it into a full-time job.
I make this video to printed flipbook online shop. flpbk.io: <a href="https://flpbk.io" rel="nofollow">https://flpbk.io</a>
I've done nothing to promote it (except posting this comment) for more than a year. It's around $500/m revenue
I run a design asset generator based on my open source library, Trianglify:<p><a href="https://trianglify.io/" rel="nofollow">https://trianglify.io/</a><p>It currently does about $500/mo from a combination of asset purchases and ethical (Carbon Ads) non-tracking advertising.
I launched Vilke (<a href="https://vilke.co/" rel="nofollow">https://vilke.co/</a>) back in 2018. It's an anonymous, adult-oriented, NSFW website where people can post teasing pictures or videos of themselves, and engage with others. Think Jodel or Yik Yak with an adult twist.<p>Originally I wanted to learn PWAs. At the same time, people were posting teasers on Jodel but suggestive material is banned according to Jodel's community guidelines. Hence, I decided to smash two flies at the same time by building something that people wanted.<p>Currently it's Finnish-only but it's making around ~200 $ / month. Have wanted to internationalize it for a while now but my day job is taking too much time.
I'm working on an event based stock portfolio/investment tracker. Currently at 10k MRR.<p><a href="https://stockevents.app" rel="nofollow">https://stockevents.app</a><p>Edit: Just noticed this thread was merged/resubmerged? Now I have a duplicate answer here. :-/
I have a fondness of writing summary articles on to cap off a big work project (for instance, completing a database migration). A few of them get 'traction', but mainly I like the challenge of eloquently describing my problem/solution and giving myself a zitgeist of work I've done. It's satisfying.<p>Recently, I had an old colleague of mine reach out and ask if I had the time to be a part-time contractor/advisor for his tech consulting start-up, since their client needed to do a database migration. He had remembered me because of the articles I wrote. It's a nice bit of money on the side ($500-$2.5k a month depending on how much I work) and I'm always learning something new.
I just sell this calendar puzzle online: <a href="https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1012906584/wooden-calendar-puzzle" rel="nofollow">https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/1012906584/wooden-calendar-p...</a>
I retrofit old phone-based intercoms with software-only solution: <a href="https://www.DropBy.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.DropBy.io</a><p>a bit above $500/month ARR, stable and sticky. Started a few years ago, now have 2 other partners.
im an embedded software developer, and would love to get a side hustle going. does anyone on here do embedded development freelance? are there any embedded developers that have a side hustle going, that wouldnt mind sharing what they do?
I wrote and maintain Lacona, a Mac productivity App (<a href="https://lacona.app" rel="nofollow">https://lacona.app</a>). The majority of my revenue comes from being a part of the Setapp subscription service.
We're doing an newsletter dedicated for Android developers:<p><a href="https://androidweekly.net/" rel="nofollow">https://androidweekly.net/</a><p>- it was four years without making any money<p>- with ~100k subs it's generating money<p>- everything grew organically
I build a secure tunneling service called Packetriot ($2k/mo) <a href="https://packetriot.com" rel="nofollow">https://packetriot.com</a>.<p>Similar to ngrok with our own differences and approach. I also publish another product called Spokes Gateway which builds on the tunneling server and includes support for service meshes, high-availability, clusters and some other features.<p>I'm building a separate website for Spokes and its related software, hoping to publish it soon. It's eventual home will be <a href="https://spokes.network" rel="nofollow">https://spokes.network</a>.
We launched this last year: <a href="https://kbee.app" rel="nofollow">https://kbee.app</a><p>Kbee turns a Google Drive folder into a searchable wiki for you and your team. We're currently doing ~$1500/month in MRR
I got something better. Trade crypto derivatives after learning elliot wave. Turn 500 into 50,000 in 3 months. Quit day job. Do it full time now. High 6 figures 10 months later.
I run getrhys.com<p>I productized myself and made myself on-demand (easily available) to struggling SaaS businesses.<p>Currently doing $5K+ per month for working one day a week doing short 30 min calls with clients.
I made a platform for publishing and purchasing photoshop files/effects, music, high res images etc. <a href="https://crate.as/" rel="nofollow">https://crate.as/</a><p>The main gimmick is that it’s a native Mac (and very soon Windows) app, so once you buy a file, you can drag it directly out of the app and into other programs as if it were file explorer.<p>I’m not at $500/month yet, but the project is well over 1k a month and I have a percentage of the income.
If anyone has a devops/Kubernetes related project that <i>isn't</i> making money but has decent traffic/users, please consider messaging me!<p>We (<a href="http://robusta.dev" rel="nofollow">http://robusta.dev</a>) are interested in sponsoring open source projects and popular Kubernetes bloggers to raise awareness about what we do. It's a rare win-win. We're mostly open source and extremely flexible if you have any special requirements.
Not really a side project, but I haven't quit my job for it so..<p>I'm building a Search as a Service like Algolia. Currently earning $700 a month from an early customer. Anvere.net
I run getrhys.com<p>I productized myself and operate as an on-demand marketing consultant for SaaS businesses.<p>Currently do $5K+ per month working one day a week taking short 30 minute calls with my clients.
I made two LinkedIn courses. One has paid off its royalties; the other is on its way there. Should be >$500/month combined soon!<p>I'm also working on an app that allows you to set a universal status across multiple platforms. I use it to automate my Slack statuses from my TripIt trips, but I want to add integrations for Google Calendar and WhatsApp. It's really rough right now but my future intent is to find a way to monetize it when it's cleaner.
RemedyBG, a from-scratch Windows debugger. <a href="https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg" rel="nofollow">https://remedybg.itch.io/remedybg</a>
I have a $200 in MRR side project.<p>It coded that website 8 years ago as a master's degree thesis. I am an investor myself, trying to achieve financial independence before retirement, so I kept using the site myself and hopefully will never stop. Stripe is there for the past year, I try to keep costs as low as possible. Only pay for a domain, hosting, and an affiliate program. It's a dividend growth investing tracker - digrin.com
Time is money and <a href="https://reactivedoc.com/" rel="nofollow">https://reactivedoc.com/</a> saves me ~500 minutes/month and I also have a paying user. I made it because I needed a simple, self-hosted tool to create documentation with "parameters". The output is a self-contained html file. Coupled with an external runner, it's a great automation tool for simple tasks.
I wrote an ebook on web application deployment. It does over $1000/month, but obviously it's not recurring revenue.<p><a href="https://deploymentfromscratch.com/" rel="nofollow">https://deploymentfromscratch.com/</a><p>I did a SHOW HN awhile ago which sold 100+ copies in a single day:<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540808" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29540808</a>
I have 2:<p>BenkoBot is like wayscript but with a focus on making Trello automations (although you can use it for generic HTTP API interaction):<p><a href="https://app.benkobot.com/" rel="nofollow">https://app.benkobot.com/</a><p>And BenkoPhone is the only virtual mobile number outside of North America that does voice, TXT and pictures:<p><a href="https://www.benkophone.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.benkophone.com/</a>
I wrote a tool for replacing text in multiple files with regular expressions under Windows. Currently, it's making less than $500/month, but there were months when it made more. It's one of the first regex tools that displays the search results immediately, without pressing a Search button.<p><a href="https://www.abareplace.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.abareplace.com/</a>
We have built a remote job search <a href="https://app.careersaas.com/portal" rel="nofollow">https://app.careersaas.com/portal</a> that scrapes and indexes more than 2 million jobs. Currently offering sponsored listings - lets a user define a location for their job and whomever is searching near that geocode will see the result, according to their job experience, etc.
I make about $1,000 - $1,500 a month passive income with <a href="https://www.menutail.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.menutail.com</a><p>It is a website to make US nutrition facts label which had a huge pivot from a website on learning how to cook. Website is only updated when new government regulations come out which is pretty rare considering how long it takes (in the years really)
I sell random generators for Dungeons & Dragons games.<p><a href="https://www.herebetaverns.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.herebetaverns.com</a><p>To be fair - I did spend full time on this when it launched but it’s been a side project for the last 6 months.<p>The sales fluctuate a ton but usually above $500 a month, almost pure profit and almost 0 hours work.<p>I have a plan to increase revenue this year by going all in on SEO
Getting close with <a href="https://www.onward.ly/" rel="nofollow">https://www.onward.ly/</a>. A course + journal for getting clearer on yourself. Helps form mental models and habits around being present, leaning into what you want, and saying no to the rest. Basically show up as yourself not what other people expect you to be.
Things have tapered off quite a bit since 2021, but it's still over the threshold:
<a href="https://virtualpostersession.org" rel="nofollow">https://virtualpostersession.org</a><p>It's a platform for virtual scientific and research-oriented poster session hosting. Pretty simple but desperately needed when all the conferences were cancelled!
Not a product or something exciting, it is a service. I run a VA firm (tbh I work as the VA) and I kinda almost make $500/month. <a href="https://www.ITNAdigital.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.ITNAdigital.com</a><p>Trying to scale up the business to cater to data and software businesses. But working in real estate industry for a while now.
I am currently making >$1,000 per month with sponsorships for my twice-weekly newsletter <a href="https://www.workspaces.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://www.workspaces.xyz/</a><p>Workspaces brings you inside the workspaces of entrepreneurs, designers, developers, etc.<p>Currently a mix of inbound and outbound work to gather the sponsors for each edition.
I made a p2p NFT trading webapp that's totally free & open-source over the course of a month or so of evenings and weekends, and I've received a couple thousand $ in various cryptos as donations from my in-site donation link.<p><a href="https://vaportrade.net/" rel="nofollow">https://vaportrade.net/</a>
I am working on a multiplayer adult metaverse game that's running on two blockchains, and so far it has earned me over 1000$. <a href="https://coomiverse.xyz" rel="nofollow">https://coomiverse.xyz</a><p>I guess it will leave the side project status once it gains even more traction but for now I consider it a side job.
I design and sell ultra-high end mechanical keyboards <a href="https://instagram.com/handengineering" rel="nofollow">https://instagram.com/handengineering</a>, <a href="https://hand.engineering" rel="nofollow">https://hand.engineering</a>
I have a side business that does payment processing. I clear an extra $2k-$3k a month. Currently looking for outside sales reps while I develop open source payment options that aren't available yet.
If you are a developer, good at sales, or want to try it, let me know.
Helps students find the best-fit Graduate programs. Guaranteed to find the right college, else money back.
Net revenue around $400 a month
<a href="https://www.collegehippo.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.collegehippo.com/</a>
Made an WordPress based affiliate site couple of years ago (took couple of evenings) with no additional upkeep. The affiliate deal brings in money as long the customers who registered through me use it. Thanks to one big customer made avg $720 last year.
I make <a href="https://www.savio.io" rel="nofollow">https://www.savio.io</a>.<p>We help SaaS CS and Product teams use product feedback from Intercom, Zendesk, Hubspot, Help Scout, etc to understand and build what customers are asking for.
Made this Amazon product ideas search engine: <a href="https://amalytics.com" rel="nofollow">https://amalytics.com</a><p>Not sure where to take it next as there’s well funded competition and conversions/revenue have plateaued…
I wrote a book about adult ADHD last year & make ~$500/mo from it between Amazon, Audible, & Gumroad: <a href="https://adhdpro.xyz/" rel="nofollow">https://adhdpro.xyz/</a><p>Recorded the audiobook myself too.
<a href="https://loshadki.app" rel="nofollow">https://loshadki.app</a>, between $800 to $2000 a month. Year ago decided to learn macos development. Made 4 apps, two of them make the most OpenIn and ShellHistory.
I have been running a Gematria website in Hebrew called <a href="https://gimatria.co.il" rel="nofollow">https://gimatria.co.il</a> - reaching just a bit more that $500 USD per month from Google Ads.
I make visualization tools for bicycle wheelbuilding and I'm making >$500 profit but not enough to live on. My site is <a href="https://www.islandix.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.islandix.com</a>
I built <a href="https://blunders.io" rel="nofollow">https://blunders.io</a>, a profiling tool for JVM applications. I think that I have a decent product but I'm not a great salesman :)
I sell an game development tool on the Unity Asset store. Since the peak died down, it's now somewhat under $500/mo, but still does well in occasional sales.
Personalized kid's e-books <a href="http://www.littleheroes.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.littleheroes.com</a><p>Web + app store purchases<p>Up for sale if anyone's interested
Stock market and crypto currency bot for Slack and Discord <a href="https://beeper.fyi/" rel="nofollow">https://beeper.fyi/</a>
Https://htwins.net/sotu2<p>I ported the flash app Scale of the Universe to WebGL. I asked for payment as a portion of ad revenue and make about $500 a month.
sshreach.me - a Zero-Configuration, remote-controlled, secure tunnels to your computers.<p><a href="https://sshreach.me/" rel="nofollow">https://sshreach.me/</a>
I made two webapp:
<a href="https://www.alovez.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.alovez.com</a> and <a href="https://www.snapfeel.com" rel="nofollow">https://www.snapfeel.com</a>
about $300~600/month