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Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?
- chrisabrams 9y agoGPU miners
- mahdix 9y agoBitcoin? I thought there are lots of free stuff for that.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoThey might be just doing GPU mining.
- aerovistae 9y agoWhere can you mine for GPUs? Sounds fun
- mchannon 9y agoGPU's aren't used for mining Bitcoin. Bitcoin's algorithm is CPU-intensive, and is nearly exclusively done on from-the-Silicon-up purpose-built chips like Avalon and Antminer. GPU's are used for mining other cryptocurrencies like Litecoin and Ethereum. These can be traded for Bitcoin or fiat currencies.
- simias 9y agoBitcoin was GPU mined for a while (it's "just" SHA-256, it's not particularly designed to be GPU-hard unlike other PoW algorithms) but you're right that since ASIC mining became the norm it's not really cost-effective to mine BTC on the GPU. Some other cryptocurrencies have algorithms that are designed to be hard for GPUs and ASICs (cryptonote for instance) but I think it's just postponing the inevitable. If those altcoins become valuable enough I'm sure people will start making micro-optimized dedicated hardware to mine them and eventually it won't make sense to use GPUs for them either.
- client4 9y agoSame. I have a Baikal miner and a number of RX 580's and GTX 1070's.
- jbigelow76 9y agoSemi-tangent: about 2 months ago someone posted a site that listed potential SaaS eligible services requested and suggested price points, does anyone recall that url?
- mchannon 9y ago(I think there was an edit in there). The original forum question, asked a few times: 6 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14708201 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14708201 9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670731 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12670731 2 years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592
- mjlee 9y agohttps://www.demandrush.com https://www.demandrush.com https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14552615 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14552615
- jbigelow76 9y agoThread and link I was thinking of, thank you!
- spot 9y agohttps://gold.electricsheep.org/ https://gold.electricsheep.org/
- corobo 9y agoThat elevator pitch people are always waffling on about, this is a good place for it :P
- spot 9y agoThe Electric Sheep is an infinite animation created with the collective intelligence of the internet, crowdsource, AI, and distributed computing. It has been a free service for many years but now there is a premium HD version.
- shutton 9y agoGaggle Mail (https://gaggle.email/ https://gaggle.email/) Group Email SaaS
- coreymaass 9y agoThrilled this exists and monetization was figured out. Years ago, I used a similar service that shut down unexpectedly because the creator couldn't figure out how to monetize it. I've thought about rebuilding it myself twice. I even own the domains! :-)
- client4 9y agoI facilitate high value in person Bit/Alt coin transactions.
- thisisit 9y agoFascinating. How did you go about building this as a business?
- everdev 9y agohttp://indiehackers.com http://indiehackers.com is a great resource for learning about profitable side projects
- drdoooom 9y agonothing to contribute on my own, but this may interest you: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses - probably something worth reading as it goes in to ideas and their implementation. interesting to note that there is a weather app chrome extension there that seems to make 2.5k per month.
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- mikejarema 9y agoNamevine: https://namevine.com/ https://namevine.com/ Find a domain name with matching social media handles. Instantly searches as-you-type. Also provides some simple "suggestions" based on common startup prefixes and suffixes. Monetized via affiliate commissions on referred domain sales.
- donutdan4114 9y agoI built an app plugin for Shopify called Custom Fields https://customfields.bonify.io https://customfields.bonify.io I must say, if you want to build something that instantly has a market consider building plugins for existing 3rd party systems that allow you to charge a fee. It ends up being a much smaller project than trying to build your own, huge web app, and it comes with a targeted, focused audience who can easily install your app with a couple clicks (and get charged). You don't really have to market anything. Build something good and people will find it.
- k__ 9y agoYes, sounds reasonable. I know a few companies and people who make good money with shopify-, wordpress- or atlassian-plugins. There should be a directory for such systems with market places.
- coreymaass 9y agoI started looking for opportunities in WordPress a couple years ago. Anytime I found a new app, I got in the habit of checking if it existed as a WordPress plugin. I've since built a nice side business that I hope to grow into a day job.
- benjohnson 9y agoSelling Rsync/ZFS-Storage as a service at $.05 per GB - figured how to combine Cygwin Rsync and Volume Shadow Service on windows to backup locked files.