16 ms·

Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell

• rundavidrun 9y ago
  Me and my husband had been developing our own Android apps published to Google Play for a while and never made much money. But when Android Wear first came out, we started developing watch faces (mostly ones we wanted for ourselves) and persistence finally paid off. Income varies, but we've been steadily making between $500 and $1500/month. These are the top two: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sparkistic.justaminute https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sparkistic... and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sparkistic.photowear https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sparkistic...
• lukebyear 9y ago
  I built Strum Machine (https://strummachine.com https://strummachine.com) which is a music practice tool aimed at players of bluegrass, old-time, folk, etc (the music sub-culture I grew up in). I started working on it only after having failed to find an existing product like it and wanting one to be available for my music students. Development began in Jan 2016, launch was May 2016. Built with the Meteor Javascript platform as a mobile-friendly website; native apps still in (very slow) development. About 300 paying users, mostly through word of mouth; it's been hard to figure out how to do marketing otherwise. Just cracked 1k MRR. Minimal ongoing costs and maintenance, although I still have a looong list of improvement-related TODOs. It's been an extremely rewarding project to be working on, and the extra income has been a very nice bonus as well. :-)
• christilut 9y ago
  Check out https://www.indiehackers.com https://www.indiehackers.com. Lots of side projects (and bigger) there with full interviews.
• giarc 9y ago
  I co-founded a childcare management software business here in Canada. We now have customers in both US and Canada. We were on IndieHackers a few months ago.[0] Our main product is KidGenius[1] that helps childcare centres run their day to day operations as well as connect with parents. Becoming a bit of a crowded space but we are doing what we can to rise to the top. 0 - https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/kidgenius https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/kidgenius 1 - https://kidgenius.daycareiq.com/ https://kidgenius.daycareiq.com/
• verroq 9y ago
  [deleted]
  • treyfitty 9y ago
    Have you been worried about taxation? I've always been reluctant to purchase bitcoins, because exchanges don't send 1099s... so I'm wondering how everyone is doing this so frequently. Any advice?
    • deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
  • askmike 9y ago
    Can confirm, not sure if investing it specifies as a "side project". But I guess automated trading does (which can earn much much more).
    • deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
  • aerovistae 9y ago
    Trade, as in "buy"?
    • deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
  • icedchai 9y ago
    Care you explain your strategy?
    • deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
• eulid55 9y ago
  Started https://dotlayer.com https://dotlayer.com like 2 years ago, it was initially called wpzoan, I started it when my friends would message me about issues they were facing with WordPress, at that time I totally hated WordPress, I guess that was the developer in me. But I later saw all the issues people were facing and it's worked out well.
  • Jeremy1026 9y ago
    So how does this work. Do I give your anonymous "expert" access to my server for them to do the fix? Or do I provide database and codebase dumps? Where is the security in your service to not have my code stolen along the way?
  • gleenn 9y ago
    Also, using Brave browser on Android, I get a stack of Zeroes on your landing page for "Tasks Completed"... Pretty sure that's a bug or a fail as a selling point. Glad you got a project going and generating revenue!
• timmaah 9y ago
  I screen scrape camping reservations and send out notifications when a campsite becomes available. http://reserve.wanderinglabs.com/ http://reserve.wanderinglabs.com/ Currently working on integrating the new CA reserve website. It is a shit show.
  • giarc 9y ago
    I can see this being a nice little side project. I work with a bunch of people that camp and in my province (Alberta) we have a rolling reserve window. People will book a campsite for a week prior to their intended trip just so they can get a spot. Provincial parks have since put an end to it by forcing someone to occupy the site within the first 24hrs or they cancel your entire reservation. It's cut throat here.
    • timmaah 9y ago
      I'm really surprised how popular it has become. Reserving 11 months in advance leads to a lot of plans being canceled and sites popping up at random times.
      • giarc 9y ago
        True. In AB it's a 3 month rolling window I believe. People will sell their reservation online if they can't make it rather than outright cancel it. Perhaps a new feature for your site? Rental sales (?)...or sub-rentals? Not sure what you would call that :)
  • joeax 9y ago
    Awesome tool. But I wish your site monitored Zion NP. One of the busiest parks in the US. I can never score a campsite, and the first-come ones fill up by 7am.
    • timmaah 9y ago
      It does. You will want to search for "Watchman Campground"
• askmike 9y ago
  I made ~500 euro a month by running ads on my a visualization website[1] I made a few years back (in a weekend). I've earned that until a month ago, when I changed the Google AdSense ads to a static ad (which I don't get commission for). [1] https://blocks.wizb.it/ https://blocks.wizb.it/
  • Jeremy1026 9y ago
    The IP always 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1, looks like you may have a bug.
    • askmike 9y ago
      Ah darn, will have a look soon. I think an API I am consuming updated some stuff.
• buf 9y ago
  Looking for a voice actor, look no further than https://www.castingcall.club https://www.castingcall.club Strong network effect so far, about 65k users
  • RikNieu 9y ago
    This is pretty interesting! Why/how did you get it started?
    • buf 9y ago
      I'm an amateur voice actor and felt like I knew my audience pretty well.
      • RikNieu 9y ago
        And how did you market it initially? Did you market it to voice artists or clients? How?
        • buf 9y ago
          I had about 10 years worth of voice acting contacts that I reached out to.
• malchow 9y ago
  I offer web publishers a stack that enables client-side removal of programmatic ads when users pay a small subscription fee. Lots of law blogs, economics blogs, etc., are using this now. [1] [1] https://subscriptions.publir.com/ https://subscriptions.publir.com/
  • sgslo 9y ago
    This is an awesome project, nice job! If you don't mind sharing, how did you land your first few law/economics blog customers? Seems like they might be a tough market to get into. Do you run into onboarding issues with them around the script setup? One small nitpick - your three section links in the header ("How it Works", "Analytics", "Why Publir") need a "cursor: pointer;" rule on them.
    • malchow 9y ago
      To be honest, my partner and I just made a Sheets doc of all the blogs we read, and emailed the writers (usually professors) letting them know that they can give their readers a fair way "out" of the ad ecosystem. They loved it. Figuring out how to remove ads client-side while not getting the site "charged" for policy violations by the ad networks was tough, though.
      • pdimitar 9y ago
        So how did you do the last exactly? Very interesting.
• pilom 9y ago
  I've cut my expenses and invested the extra in index funds. Currently at a nest egg of around $300k which spews off dividends of around $500/month and is currently appreciating a bit faster than that.
  • aerovistae 9y ago
    Curious~ age income occupation? I'm seeking to do this as well.
    • pilom 9y ago
      30, ~125k household income for two adults no kids, IT and teacher. Our income made it a little easier to get here but the $200k hole of combined student loans we started with (now fully paid off) probably counters that pretty evenly.
      • aerovistae 9y ago
        Nice to hear, I guess I'm on track. Thanks for the open answer!
      • iopuy 9y ago
        Is there more to the story? Started with -200k and now sit on +300k with a 125k salary? House? Came into a windfall of cash in addition to salary?
        • jajern 9y ago
          In a LCOL area and putting out 50% of income over 8 years would do it. FIRE people are a lot more aggressive than that.
        • PizzaDeOntem 9y ago
          Think he meant 125k combined between him and his partner.
        • pilom 9y ago
• mikejarema 9y ago
  My domain name and social media handle search tool has been humming along nicely for 5+ years now and produces a modest amount of profit each month. https://namevine.com/ https://namevine.com/ It makes money from domain name registrations it refers via affiliate links. I've been playing with the idea of adding "pro" features for a couple of years now but I worry anything that detracts from its simplicity may hurt sales.
  • Toadsoup 9y ago
    I'm a fan of namevine. I use it when I'm brainstorming projects or figuring out names. As for a pro feature - I think that notification when something becomes available or a domain/account marketplace might be useful.
    • mikejarema 9y ago
      Thanks, I'm glad you like it and use it. If you've got a moment, I have a few Qs that would help me understand what you're describing here. What would be an example of the notification you're thinking of here? Like domains matching a keyword? Or a specific one? The idea of a marketplace definitely does make sense. Were you thinking as a buyer or seller?
  • justboxing 9y ago
    I didn't know of your site. Very cool and useful idea. I just tried it for 'boxing' and your suggestion engine came up with quite a few .com name that are still available!
    • mikejarema 9y ago
      Thanks. The domain suggestion engine was a fun component. It's not all that complicated... it really just tries a bunch of prefixes and suffixes on your keyword (plus some geo suggestions, if it can "find" you) and shows you what is (probably) available. I've also found some gems using it as well.
  • Toadsoup 9y ago
• peacetreefrog 9y ago
  Planning a 'Show HN' on this as we get closer to the season, but I built a model for Fantasy Football that works pretty well and has done over $500 this month. Takes into account correlations across same-opposing team players to give a slight edge. https://fantasymath.com https://fantasymath.com Modeler by trade, had to learn all the back and frontend stuff myself, been really fun so far.
  • giarc 9y ago
    Might want to remove the Edelman example given his recent injury... no one is going to be starting him ;)
    • funtober 9y ago
      First thought that I had also when pulling up the website.
    • peacetreefrog 9y ago
      Ha, yes that's on my to do list!
  • nether 9y ago
    Selling pickaxes. Nice.
    • peacetreefrog 9y ago
      Ha, I think it's a really good pick axe though. That is a good analogy for Daily Fantasy Sports though, where you do weekly games and tournaments ect to win real money. My model has some very useful features that might make it valuable there, but the sites take anywhere from 6-8% off the top, so yeah, on average when it comes to Daily Fantasy, selling pick axes certainly has a higher EV than actually playing yourself.
• kring462 9y ago
  I built https://www.parrotqa.com/ https://www.parrotqa.com/ because overseeing non-deterministic selenium tests at my day job was such a hassle. It turned into a small (around $1k/mo) side project.
  • pilom 9y ago
    How did the rights for that work out? If I were an employee when I built a tool to solve a problem like that I would expect the employer to own it. Can you talk to how that conversation went?
• donutdan4114 9y ago
  I launched an app for Shopify about a year ago called Custom Fields: https://customfields.bonify.io https://customfields.bonify.io Currently it's making about $5,000 / month. It's been a very interesting process dealing with building the app, marketing it, and dealing with support. The app is $19/mo for regular Shopify stores, and we have about 700+ total customers (only some are paying). We get A LOT of support requests for misc things and have been trying to build up a knowledge base of articles and help guides in our ZenDesk. We have recently been running into an issue with file hosting storage fees (we allow people to upload files, no additional charge). We have a couple of Shopify stores that are costing us about $70/mo each in file hosting fees (we don't charge them extra). I absolutely LOVE building apps for 3rd party providers. We don't really market the app, it's found organically in Shopify's app store. The first 8 months were filled with lots of little bugs needing fixing, but that has since slowed down as I've fixed things. At this point, it's a pretty stable application that doesn't require much maintenance, mostly just user support.
  • jv22222 9y ago
    I really like what you've done. > We don't really market the app Well, what you did _is_ marketing (via integration), it's a great strategy when done well and looks like you did an awesome job. I've heard it said that marketing is basically doing anything that exposes your product to more people.
    • donutdan4114 9y ago
      Yea, that's why I love 3rd party integrations.. Just need 10 more of them and be raking in $50k/month would be nice :)
  • 1123581321 9y ago
    Well done! A few years ago I assumed it was way too late to get into selling Shopify apps. I am glad to have been proved wrong, and you have me re-evaluating some newer marketplaces I presume to be mature.
    • 9y ago
• jaypaulynice 9y ago
  I'm working on RESTfender: https://restfender.com https://restfender.com to connect and secure IoT devices. Show HN link: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15106959
• jv22222 9y ago
  I've been working on a side project that sends startup ideas to developers and entrepreneur for the past year. Revenue high point has been $4k/month. https://nugget.one https://nugget.one Within the next few months I'll be pivoting to The Nugget Startup Academy and will focus on training entrepreneurs instead of sending out ideas.
  • itbeho 9y ago
    That sort of has a "those who can, do. Those who can't, teach" ring to it :) I enjoy your podcast Justin. I'd keep swinging for the fences unless you just have a passion to teach.
    • jv22222 9y ago
      Well it's because I've found it quite unfulfilling watching hundreds of entrepreneurs struggling to get to revenue. Since I've done it three times I wanted to see if I could help switch up things for them. Basically, I do have a passion to teach right now, because it's annoying the hell out of me! ;)
• tony584 9y ago
  Nearing $1500/mo on ads and affiliate links, been running since 2009, did not monetize until 2015: https://worldoftea.org/ https://worldoftea.org/
  • rkuykendall-com 9y ago
    Nice! I have a similar but much younger / smaller site for comic books. I would love to hear what you did to pay your early contributors, as right now it's just me, and I think that's the next step. I have no issue finding writers, but I'm not sure what I should pay them, how I should structure that relationship, or if there's any legal stuff I should look out for. Any information would be greatly appreciated.
• gnicholas 9y ago
  My main startup [1] launched a side project called Read Across The Aisle [2] earlier this year. Even though the iOS app and Chrome extension app are free, we've actually seen several thousand come in through donations and whatnot. Lots of traffic comes from Google, since we are apparently the first result for "read WSJ free" (we have a partnership with the WSJ that gives free access through our tools). 1: http://www.BeeLineReader.com http://www.BeeLineReader.com 2: http://www.ReadAcrossTheAisle.com http://www.ReadAcrossTheAisle.com
• karcass 9y ago
  I wrote an in-browser CAD tool for theater lighting and sound design: https://drafty-app.com/ https://drafty-app.com/. I have a partner who does that for a living. We've just hired (part time, 5-10h/wk) a tester and a salesperson.
  • hamfisted 9y ago
    I will show my wife. She is a theatrical lighting designer. Seems like the go to for that is vector works, so an alternative would be welcome.
• colinbartlett 9y ago
  https://statusgator.com https://statusgator.com StatusGator aggregates the public service status pages for all the cloud services you use. You can get automatic notifications when services go down and up, and you can query the service status from things like Slack. It makes about $1,000 month right now.
  • jackweirdy 9y ago
    Out of interest, what made you choose the fixed-price tiers? $80/mo is a big jump to go from 30 to 31 services. What made you rule out pricing per service?
  • ihaveajob 9y ago
    This is pretty neat, and I'm surprised I haven't seen it on HN earlier.
• guohuang 9y ago
  I have been working on a side project to show all the most mentioned books from hacker news, stackoverflow, reddit. http://toptalkedbooks.com http://toptalkedbooks.com we are still struggling on marketing, no revenue yet.
  • rcarrigan87 9y ago
    I'd recommend you create a blog where you write interesting posts on different trends, analysis, etc. from all the data you're collecting. I'd be interested to know if current events drive the frequency of certain book recommendations in different forums. This will help bring people to the site, build links to improve SEO, etc. Also, make the email capture more prominent.
    • guohuang 9y ago
      Thank you so much for your advise, this is a great idea! we are currently busy on cleaning up the data.(comics books) we want to keep our focus on tech related books. After that we will be creating more analysis to the community. stay tuned.
  • Jeremy1026 9y ago
    I don't intend to be mean or anything, but why did you post this here? The prompt was for $500+/mo income projects. "No revenue yet" is not $500+/mo.
• vital101 9y ago
  I've been working on https://kernl.us https://kernl.us for a little over 2 years now. It's currently making $650 / month and growing. Something I "knew" but never really understood about growing a business is how long it can take. Granted this is completely on the side, but it still takes a long time to find your market, grow, get customers, etc. Learning that this is actually a marathon was valuable. The other thing I have to actively manage is building things that are valuable -vs- things that I find interesting. As a developer I LOVE tinkering with new technology, but when I'm wearing my business hat upgrading to the new hot frontend framework doesn't make that much sense.
• arekkas 9y ago
  I make over 700$ per month through patreon for my open source work, primarily https://github.com/ory/hydra https://github.com/ory/hydra . Hydra started as a side project for a work-for-hire project. After getting bashed by people for it being trash (it was, mostly due to bad dependencies but also due to bad architecture), I rewrote it (and the libraries enabling it) and now it's one of the go-to services for getting an OAuth2 server up and running. I am very stubborn and spent a ton of time on auth* questions while building other projects, and it seems like people like my approaches to it! :) It's come so far now that I'm starting to consider this my full-time thing (I'm in the final stages of completing my MSc computer science) and I'm currently running evaluation on an API security platform based on that technology. Basically, I spend most of my time on it and I even got a small team helping me - but it's not what earns my living at the moment. Before that I gathered a lot of experience from running and building https://en.serlo.org/ https://en.serlo.org/ which is basically a Wikipedia for learning (I built the whole CMS from scratch) that serves over 1m MAUs in Germany (the english page is very sparse, most of it is on https://de.serlo.org https://de.serlo.org ) and is thus on the most popular learning platforms in Germany. The company behind it is an NGO (= no profits) I cofounded and the platform is ad-free and doesn't cost anything. We get money through donations and other funds. It's an exciting journey, I'm now at a point where I need to figure out how to actually make money on the web that doesn't come through donations and goodwill, but I think I can do it - why not, right? By the way, you may also like the WYSIWYG editor I wrote - I also plan a static site generator based on it with a themeforest-y market place. Feel free to check those out: * https://www.ory.am/sites/ https://www.ory.am/sites/ * https://github.com/ory/editor https://github.com/ory/editor ps: It took me almost 2 years to get to 700$ at patreon and most of it comes from one sponsorship I'm very glad of. Their CTO texted me one day because he saw hydra on HN frontpage and he works in the identity space.
  • edem 9y ago
    So why don't you have a public profile on Patreon? I mean I can't see how much you make on your Patreon page.
• fernandohur 9y ago
  Working on https://apibot.co https://apibot.co, a testing and monitoring tool for REST APIs. Many of our customers come from word of mouth plus talking to people. Its been very interesting to see the kind of tests that people built with our tool. We're still technically in BETA although sales are going slow but smoothly. Send me a message if you are interested (fernandohur at apibot.co).
  • johns 9y ago
    Good luck!
    • fernandohur 9y ago
      Thanks John, I'm a big fan of your work :)
  • yeezul 9y ago
    FIY: I get an HTTPS certificate error on Chrome reply
    • gremlinsinc 9y ago
      same
    • stevekemp 9y ago
      Confirmed: The certificate is only valid for the following names: *.github.com, github.com, *.github.io, github.io
• plantain 9y ago
  https://skysight.io/ https://skysight.io/ Soaring (gliding) weather forecasts for EU/NA/SA/AU. My side project has now become my main gig. Took approximately 3 years to build, 2 before I started making any money from it.
  • gbacon 9y ago
    What are potential benefits to power pilots? Have you considered approaching, say, ForeFlight about licensing and integration?
• funtober 9y ago
  Fall event directory and costume store launched in 2012: https://www.funtober.com https://www.funtober.com Basically a one-stop shop for fall festivals, Oktoberfest, haunted houses, pumpkin patches, etc. Still have a long way to go to make it what I would like but traffic last year was roughly 1 million in the month of October. Anticipate it will double to 2 million/October this year. Still working on the right revenue model.
  • shanecleveland 9y ago
    There's something to be said for seasonal niches. It seems to me there's a bit of a reset in terms of search rankings that can mitigate the authority bigger players may have. Do you find that be true?
    • funtober 9y ago
      I could talk about the SEO behind it for days but: We did use the reset to our advantage to pick up rankings, but I don't think it mitigates the authority of bigger players much. The reset tends to wash out small-time players in the space and bigger players who can't niche effectively more so than it does committed players. Now that I have traffic, I don't worry too much that we are going to get bounced in the reset. I am much more worried that someone will beat us with better content for the next year. Everfest is another startup that I have seen that appears to have pretty much conquered the reset at this point. Funtober had a very hard time displacing a couple mid-sized players in some of our seasonal niches that were established. Even with the reset, it can take years for their information to become truly out of date and people to look for alternatives. There are also a few things that they can do to keep their information current with little effort. We're just about even now with two in particular that I have in mind, but it took 5 years to get there. Black Friday would be an obvious example of an area where the reset should be biggest if your theory is true. I think the players there have been pretty consistent and my internal estimate is that even with the reset it will take 5+ years to crack it.
• jwho82 9y ago
  Launched https://logmyhours.com https://logmyhours.com 2 years ago. Hour tracking and invoicing. I actually log all my hours working on it :). Launched an iOS and Android app last year that syncs up with the website. Currently making over $700/month and growing. Hoping to go full time on it early next year.
• geerlingguy 9y ago
  https://hostedapachesolr.com https://hostedapachesolr.com - since 2013, started with intention of just hosting my own search indexes (since cheap shared hosting didn't allow java apps to be installed), then ballooned from there. Minimal maintenance, almost every process is automated with Ansible + Jenkins + tiny bits of PHP glue code. https://servercheck.in https://servercheck.in - since 2012, same as Solr, I started it to do SMS messages for my own site outages... then realized I could scale it easily using cheap ~$10/year VPSes and Node.js, currently have a few hundred clients monitoring ~1000 servers and websites. https://www.ansiblefordevops.com https://www.ansiblefordevops.com - book I started writing during the process of automating both of the above SaaS products—and now the book generates more monthly revenue than both of the above :) I've written extensively about all three projects, but continue to devote more time to the Ansible for DevOps book / project. Here are some posts with history/reflection on self-publishing: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/search/self-publishing https://www.jeffgeerling.com/search/self-publishing
  • jwitko 9y ago
    Very inspiring. Coming across a "geerlingguy" ansible repo in my searches for pre-existing ansible roles is always a treat as I know it will be solid quality.
  • tonetheman 9y ago
    Your book is great!
  • tuananh 9y ago
    I believe anyone use ansible is probably came across your name once :). Thanks for sharing.
  • zapperdapper 9y ago
    Very nice! I was just reading your blog post on lessons learned from self-publishing. Your first point is spot on and actually applicable to all side projects, and probably your main job too - be passionate about what you do. There's nothing worse than having to grind something out when you really don't give a hoot about it (I've done it a few times - never again!). Well done on seeing the process through to publishing!
• deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
• nickswan 9y ago
  I started charging for https://www.sanitycheck.io https://www.sanitycheck.io in July and am at $970 per month. $800 of this is from 2 customers going for the 'done for you' option though - which is kinda productised consulting.
• adamqureshi 9y ago
  https://onlyusedtesla.com/ https://onlyusedtesla.com/ $150/day around that! A used tesla marketplace.
  • wonderous 9y ago
    Home page of your site appears to currently say it's free [1] - how're you making $150 a day? [1] "FREE DURING BETA: Our site is always free for buyers, but right now it’s free for sellers too."
    • adamqureshi 9y ago
      Yup. $150 sold vehicle. Its a hassle right now its all manual i run everything off FB messenger. I do plan to flip it soon. Trying to grab a slice from cars, auto trader for used tesla listings.
      • ew 9y ago
        How are you convincing anyone to pay $150/car when your site says it's free for everyone?
        • adamqureshi 9y ago
          I don't know. I just tell'em there a fee: $150 if we find you a lead / buyer from our site. They say stuff like, ok cars sucks and they get spammed to hell with craiglist and some say autotrader charges them a fee upfront. Then i gotta track them down, its not easy but i am making money. Next move is to figure out a upfront price. I just want to grab a slice from cars, auto trader, craiglist ONLY for used tesla cars.
• justboxing 9y ago
  http://www.visaok.in/ http://www.visaok.in/ - Since late 2016. Soft-launched in April 2017. Made 700$ in June, been fluctuating since then, but I'm not doing it for the money though. When I first came to America on a H1-B visa, I remember job searches were super-annoying because I'd find a position that I was a good fit for, only to find "Sorry we can't sponsor your Work Visa" in Bold H2 font. I am now an American Citizen, but even now, I find these exclusions on several popular websites like dice.com, indeed.com and even here on @whoishiring So I decided to create this curated job board listing jobs with employers who are willing to sponsor or transfer your work visa in over 30 countries around the world. Lot of countries in Europe (ex: Germany, UK, Netherlands etc) have recently launched "Startup Visa" programs that lets entrepreneurs come to their country and live and work on exciting new technologies and eventually get permanent residency. A new modern UI, email alerts for jobs matching your search, and a Visa application / help community site is in the works. Meanwhile if you have feedback please shoot me an email. theblogdoctor [@] gmail
• uakiki 9y ago
  http://www.soulidstudio.com http://www.soulidstudio.com - since 2009, Mosaico started as a side project to help me handling dozens of windows on my desktop. Now it's a commercial product appreciated by thousands. It's C++ and Qt, I also wrote the licensing system in .NET and C++.
• znq 9y ago
  We've developed an internal tool to remotely access iOS and Android log files (NSLog and logcat). We work remotely, so we always had issues debugging problems that we couldn't reproduce. Initially it was just an internal experiment at Mobile Jazz and at some point we even thought killing it, but now after 3 years we're at €7300 MRR (~$8600/month) and growing consistently. That said, we still haven't reached our break even point (also because we decided to invest more in marketing and supporting additional platforms) and it'll take us some more years to recuperate the time (=money) invested. We've written about our story here: https://bugfender.com/blog/three-years-bugfender-9-5m-users/ https://bugfender.com/blog/three-years-bugfender-9-5m-users/ and have provided an updated to revenue numbers and other statistics here: https://bugfender.com/blog/updates-from-bugfender-q2-2017/ https://bugfender.com/blog/updates-from-bugfender-q2-2017/
• rathboma 9y ago
  Making ~$500/month from a combination of things: https://blog.matthewrathbone.com https://blog.matthewrathbone.com - Articles about Hadoop, Hive, and Spark with Amazon book and Coursera course affiliate links https://www.99inbound.com https://www.99inbound.com - Forms and form-endpoints for close.io, add a form to your website and have entries sync to Close.io as new leads. Made this as a side-project when I needed this functionality and didn't want to pay out the nose for Zapier. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matthewrathbone.simplecheckin https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.matthewrat... - Android app to check-in to foursquare/swarm in one click. Used to be more popular when checking in was more of a thing. Revenue comes from an in-app upgrade that adds minimal features, so is more of a 'thank you' upgrade. Built in a weekend. And of course, investments in index funds like VTI and BND. When I launched Simple Check-in upgrade payments it did about $400/day for a week which was very exciting.
• eljamon 9y ago
  I made ~$4000 last month by arbitraging crypto currencies on 3 markets. I use a bot to do the work for me, but I monitor it very closely and I spend a lot of optimizing the old code. I don't have much money on the exchanges because I don't trust them but I could make much more if I wanted to risk more.
  • graedus 9y ago
    Cool. What's the bot written in, just out of curiosity?
  • sillysaurus3 9y ago
    You could make much more now, since it's a bull market. Careful for the downswing. Also it seems unlikely that the same algorithms would work at larger scales. How much did you need to get started? I assume you have to risk much more than $4k to make $4k.
  • et-al 9y ago
    When you say 3 markets, do you mean between 3 currencies, or actual exchanges?
  • nylonstrung 9y ago
    How much capital did you need to put in to generate that 4K?
    • thisisit 9y ago
      This. Arbitrage is something which has real potential in cryptocurrency markets but the problem remains on the capital front.
  • nexus2045 9y ago
    Impressive, how did you get started doing this?
  • zupreme 9y ago
    How are you dealing with the liquidity problem though? Are you just leaving the coins in your wallet(s) or are you actually cashing out regularly (i.e. selling the coins for $)?
• Swizec 9y ago
  https://swizec.com/reactd3js https://swizec.com/reactd3js Classic content with attached sales funnel play. The aim is to help people become better engineers. Been hammering away at the React visualizations niche for a bit over two years now and it’s time to make something new. Product sales make around $20k/year and are slowly trending up, and I’m experimenting with coaching which makes around $1k/month but is hard to scale due to time/focus. Also doing some influencer marketing type deal with https://school.shoutem.com https://school.shoutem.com makes about $1.5k/month and I build React Native apps for them and write about it. All in all, going to come up to around $50k in sidehustle this year. Been 2x-ing YoY steadily for the past 3 years since I got serious about it. I write posts about all this stuff on my blog if you’re interested —> swizec.com/blog
  • zapperdapper 9y ago
    Very nice website and blog. You obviously love what you do. I enjoyed the piece on reverse engineering HN too!
• khuknows 9y ago
  UI design newsletter (https://uimovement.com/ https://uimovement.com/) - still making over $500 a month on average from sponsorships and Carbon ads on the site. Going steady for a couple of years now - but requires very little time from me. Shameless plug: Currently working on a service (https://letterfuel.com/ https://letterfuel.com/) that makes building daily/weekly newsletters like UI Movement super-easy.
• deleted 9y ago
  [deleted]
• joeax 9y ago
  I wrote a science fiction novel, The Final Six Days. I had been kicking around the idea for 5 years, working on technical side projects until I decided to shift course toward writing. I'm in the process of writing out the rest of the series (books 2-4). As far as money, I've made close to a thousand on months that I am promoting it heavily. Right now I have pulled all advertising and promotion until book 2 is in pre-order. http://timecrossers.com/ http://timecrossers.com/
  • RikNieu 9y ago
    How do you go about promoting it? I've been kicking the idea of writing fiction on the side too for quite some time.
    • joeax 9y ago
      I bought Mark Dawson's SPF course, which focuses on running targeted Facebook and Amazon ads. I also ran ads on Goodreads that were mildly effective. The most effective approach though for me so far is Freebooksy/Bargain Booksy. Give away your book for a few days, then for a month or so after your sales and KDP page reads will skyrocket (you should invest in a really good cover). Email me if you have any further questions.
• Xixi 9y ago
  Two side projects: Tomotcha and Requires.io. Tomotcha (https://tomotcha.com https://tomotcha.com) is a Japanese green tea subscription service (inspired by Bemmu's Candy Japan). Requires.io (https://requires.io https://requires.io) is a spin-off from a now defunct Continuous Integration service to track python dependencies. As a software engineer Tomotcha is more challenging to work on, as it doesn't involve much tech at all: it's all about logistic, customer service and marketing. I will admit that I'm not very good at it yet, but improving slowly. I think a side project is the perfect opportunity get outside of one's comfort zone. For instance we are currently completely reviewing the packaging of our tea shipments... It should be ready for either November or December.
  • ehben83 9y ago
    Are you on touteslesbox.fr yet ? If not, it's a great place to acquire qualified leads.
    • Xixi 9y ago
      Thanks for the link! We are not yet registered on it...
• billwear 9y ago
  Making ~$500+ per month designing handbags, word of mouth / text / facebook posts. Not just sewing bags mind you, unique bags designed to fit each person. Problem is throughput -- I'll have to hire soon or keep it smallish.
  • zild3d 9y ago
    Or raise prices...
• donohoe 9y ago
  https://article.rocks https://article.rocks Started it in 2014 or 2015 and just keep rebuilding it every 3-6 months. Its a curation of news and articles that I personally like. Its a mix of scraping, automated curation, rough sentiment analysis, randomness. I built it for my commute, eventually giving it its own domain. Its no longer hitting that per month since I intentionally scaled back the custom ads that earned referral fees. Its just Amazon now. Money is not a goal. This side project is more focused on keeping my coding skills going and playing around with ideas in media/publishing and ads. For example, I redid things so it would get a 99 or 100 PageSpeed score: https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=https%3A%2F%2Farticle.rocks&tab=mobile https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/?url=...
  • sillysaurus3 9y ago
    For me it's just a single photo. http://imgur.com/a/lHASw http://imgur.com/a/lHASw Is there more to it?
    • donohoe 9y ago
      Sorry, should have said; I only tested on mobile. Swipe/drag to go between stories.
      • deleted 9y ago
        [deleted]
      • vidarh 9y ago
        The lack of a non-mobile UI aside, I love the idea of just stripping it down to one image / one headline at a time.
    • deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
• lxmorj 9y ago
  DonaldTrumpDogPoopBags.com pulls in about $500 in revenue per day after some FB ad tuning. I acquired the site from a client when he decided to shut it down. It's moreorless break even until his earn-out is complete after a few hundred more orders. Fortunately running the site break-even supports main business, and e-commerce fulfillment company (MonthlyBoxer.com)
  • donohoe 9y ago
    Can you talk a bit more about the fulfillment company. How exactly does it work with your setup, and pros/cons you've noticed?
    • lxmorj 9y ago
      Often the pros and cons are two sides of the same coin. For example - we have a 10k sqft warehouse - which is fairly expensive, and required a 5-year lease commitment. On the other hand, it's awesome to have so much customizable space completely to ourselves. The lease commitment also helps me keep focused on long-term success - which is especially nice during a rough month. Our focus now is on growing our Shopify e-commerce businesses. Subscription boxes are great, but in order to support a high-quality staff, we need daily volume. Supporting WooCommerce and the myriad other platforms was too much to handle well. Shopify has a huge footprint, so we've just decided to say no to anyone who doesn't use it. Our goal is to make our clients never have to worry about their physical items after they are purchased/manufactured. We tie into the Shopify API, download and ship orders automatically, push tracking numbers back to Shopify, and keep their inventory updated. We try to act as much like their internal logistics lead as possible. Too many fulfillment centers have adversarial, garage-mechanic-esque relationships with their clients. I like every business owner we work with, which is a huge benefit for me.
      • justboxing 9y ago
        This (MonthlyBoxer.com) is awesome! You've solved a "pain-point" on a large ecommerce service. I suggest just focussing on this one instead of the poop bags, because, solving "pain points" to real world problems trumps hate-products, plus the latter could expose you to lawsuits that will distract you from your main venture.... wishing you the best to grow and succeed!
• BacktestMarket 9y ago
  https://www.backtestmarket.com/ https://www.backtestmarket.com/ - since 2015, we started a service collecting historical financial data to help retail traders getting high quality information. In 2016 we started offering Expert Advisors we started for personal necessity, and now we are earning around 1.5k per month. BacktestMarket will come out with a new version of the website on October 2017 with new products and new services
• vladdanilov 9y ago
  Getting close with Optimage for Mac [1], a visually lossless image optimization tool. [1] http://getoptimage.com http://getoptimage.com
• FloayYerBoat 9y ago
  https://www.planeol.com https://www.planeol.com I wrote a subscription service that notifies IT administrators when software they have purchased is coming up on End of Life. Helps plan and manage budget and for security reasons.
  • gremlinsinc 9y ago
    Cool idea.. name could use some work.. .I read it as PlaneOl not Plan-EOL.
• billwear 9y ago
  ~$500+ per month making custom-designed handbags; not just sewing bags, mind you, but one-offs for individuals : word-of-mouth, facebook, friends, etc. Can't afford to advertise, couldn't handle the demand without hiring, don't want it to get too big.
  • IAmGarrett 9y ago
    I'm curious what they look like. Is there a place online I could see your work?
  • deleted 9y ago
    [deleted]
• jonandersense 9y ago
  I've been working on my app Leap Second, it generates somewhere around 1-3k per month. https://www.leapsecond.co https://www.leapsecond.co I created the app after using 1 Second Everyday crashed on me and deleted a few years videos. The app stores everything in the Photos app which made it very fast and easy to develop (a weekend). Now I spend a few hours a month mostly improving the UI and doing bug fixes as I find them. Initial traction was very slow as I didn't do any marketing. I started using App Store ads and it gave me a good help of getting small user base that could grow on it's own.
  • rundavidrun 9y ago
    Have you considered making -- or outsourcing :) -- an Android version?
  • notjackson 9y ago
    Very nice app, awesome concept UI/UX. Very well done, congratz on your current success.
    • jonandersense 9y ago
      Thanks for the kind words!
  • RikNieu 9y ago
    Pretty sweet. How do you generate income? Ads?
    • jonandersense 9y ago
      Haven't added any ads. Just In App Purchases to unlock some more advance features.
• aarondf 9y ago
  I have an accounting tutoring website for students at specific colleges. You can see one of them here: https://acct229.com https://acct229.com. It makes > 500 a month, but the bulk of it (obviously) comes in two waves: middle of fall semesters and middle of spring semesters. There is no activity at all during summers and christmas breaks, which really is quite nice.
  • pdm55 9y ago
    So your tutoring is all done through your videos, or separate online individualised instruction (1-to-1, or 1-to-many?), or through visits to your tutees for in-person sessions, or tutees come to you, ...? I am a tutor here in Australia. I visit people's homes, or they come to me. I am interested in online tutoring, but I am unsure what exactly to try; or even what software and hardware to use to create the videos. I market myself through Gumtree (not sure if you have that in the US). Any advice more than welcome.
    • aarondf 9y ago
      Hey good questions. All the tutoring I do is in the form of recorded video. I don't do any live tutoring except for very rarely when someone needs extra help. Because the content never changes, I recorded the videos a couple years ago and haven't had to record any more since. I still do a lot of work in terms of marketing it, but the hard work was definitely recording the material. Happy to help in any way I can
• docsapp_io 9y ago
  DocsApp https://www.docsapp.io/ https://www.docsapp.io/ - Started ~ 2 years ago but only profitable since few months ago. I built DocsApp to provide platform to publish documentation easily. Instead of spending time to build your documentation site, DocsApp allow you to start publish documentation in minutes. The challenges to build a profitable SaaS is marketing, especially for people with only technical background. No extensive marketing done yet so users growth slowly. A lot improvement to be done especially on UX side.
• cddotdotslash 9y ago
  I wrote an eBook[1] on AWS Lambda when it first came out. Still brings in a decent monthly revenue. I'm working on an updated version as well, since a lot of new features have been added. [1] https://www.amazon.com/AWS-Lambda-Guide-Serverless-Microservices-ebook/dp/B016JOMAEE https://www.amazon.com/AWS-Lambda-Guide-Serverless-Microserv...
• marketvulture 9y ago
  https://marketvulture.com https://marketvulture.com - Monitors dramatic events around the world and spots the opportunities that lie beneath. Using machine learning, we track global happenings, business downturns, logistic delays, breaking news, disasters, market conditions, macroeconomics and more to find interesting and profitable ways to leverage current events. We've been open to the public for about 5 months; php7/python/redis/mariadb/workers/queues, NLP, tons of machine learning, etc. Cleaning and normalizing hundreds of feeds from different sources and formats is definitely a pain for us, as well as all the machine learning fun (training, feature selection and normalization, etc.)
  • vanderreeah 9y ago
    Well that's fucking unpleasant.
  • ixacto 9y ago
    Reminds me of https://twitter.com/botus?lang=en https://twitter.com/botus?lang=en hah, good idea. Wonder if anyone has tried this for cryptocurrency markets?
• encoderer 9y ago
  Three years in, Cronitor.io is finally paying both of our (SFBA) mortgages. My co-founder August did a great write up for IndieHackers if you're interested in learning more.
  • coffee 9y ago
    Well done! Here's the IndieHackers link for those interested: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/cronitor
• mitchellbryson 9y ago
  https://workroll.com https://workroll.com - started in June, turns over $2k a month. Built whilst automating my own freelance sales work flow and figured others could make use of it too. It saves me about a week a month from doing my own lead generation. Been trying to get funding but had no luck. Too early. Also started a blog to help freelancers grow: https://medium.com/workroll https://medium.com/workroll
  • kilroy123 9y ago
    How did you find people who were looking to hire? I want to create something similar for a niche industry.
    • mitchellbryson 9y ago
      I monitor hundreds of job boards, social searches e.t.c. More info here: https://medium.com/workroll/find-5-freelance-design-development-leads-every-day-985f59aa0cac https://medium.com/workroll/find-5-freelance-design-developm...
• par 9y ago
  Meta Meme: https://itunes.apple.com/zw/app/meta-meme/id1173783944?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/zw/app/meta-meme/id1173783944?mt=8 Doing around $500-700/month in revenue right now, all through in app purchases. Still growing and a lot of work to do.
• jadeydi 9y ago
  ICO, we raised more than $15M in 9 minutes, we only built a website with homepage, lol
  • onesneakymofo 9y ago
    Really? Looking at your Twitter, you work at toptalkedbooks.com which according to your associate that posted in this exact thread a few posts below (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149593 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15149593) isn't even making any money. Hmmmm?
    • deleted 9y ago
      [deleted]
    • toptalkedbooks 9y ago
      toptalkedbooks.com is a side project of my friend and me. I'm not talking about toptalkedbooks.com here. ICO is true and $15M (50,000.0 ETH) in 9 minutes is true.
  • gremlinsinc 9y ago
    what was the ICO?
• feralmoan 9y ago
  I don't do side projects or open source any more and run some bots for cryptocurrency trading instead. The bots continue to grow their positions and has been several times more lucrative than anything else I've tried to monetize at a fraction of the effort ¯\_(シ)_/¯ I guess it still counts
  • senatorobama 9y ago
    where do you get started with trading algos?
• 02thoeva 9y ago
  Went full time on our side project, https://emailoctopus.com https://emailoctopus.com, last year when we hit the $5k a month mark. We'd been working on it for 3 years and had some steady growth - contracted a few days a week alongside until I could afford to go full time. In hindsight should have done it sooner, a year on we've grown so much more by taking it seriously as a business. We value our time more and as such charge more, yet growth has only accelerated.
• nickjj 9y ago
  Anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000 per month selling video courses for software developers. Details are in this Indie Hacker interview: https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/nick-janetakis https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/nick-janetakis
• wanqu 9y ago
  https://wanqu.co https://wanqu.co - A San Francisco engineer (me) curates 5 English articles on tech & startup for Chinese makers everyday. Started on August 6, 2014. It's a side project of mine. I built a website (Django), a native iOS app (Swift), a native Android app (React Native), and some automation tools. It brings around $1200/month via iOS in-app-purchase, sponsorship, affiliate links etc. I keep a full time job while doing this content curation thing at night (2~3 hours per day). So far, I've curated 5000+ articles and I've written over 1 million Chinese characters for comments -- The Chinese translation of all Harry Potter books consist of 2 million Chinese characters :) Over 3 years, it accumulates over 140,000 followers across 10 content distribution channels as of today (Sep 1, 2017), including iOS push notifications, android push notifications, Weibo, Twitter, chrome push notifications ... It's in Chinese, so it's pretty much unknown to the English-speaking world. Hacker News and Product Hunt are English only. Non-English projects are not allowed :( I hope my side project can fill the gap between Chinese-speaking makers and the English-dominant tech world. I believe doing good is the best business model. Checkout my Indie Hackers interview (in English, of course): https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/wanqu https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/wanqu
  • insighter 9y ago
    I spent years in China and lamented that I couldn't keep up with my Chinese and tech at the same time, so this is awesome to see.
  • ethbro 9y ago
    Good and useful idea! Sounds useful! I feel there's a huge pattern of "proficient in X and Y" opportunities that people underappreciate. There may be a million people better than you at X, another million better at you than Y, but only 10 better than you at X and Y. So if an idea requires expertise in both, the chances of success increase substantially. Or at best, there's simply no one who's ever done it!
    • wanqu 9y ago
      Thanks! This reminds me of an article that I'm going to curate today: "Being Different Beats Being Better" http://dariusforoux.com/being-different-beats-being-better/ http://dariusforoux.com/being-different-beats-being-better/
• andygor 9y ago
  http://datastarta.com http://datastarta.com — launched 3 months ago. The last month was $1350. I spent a month and $29 (domain + bubble) to build an MVP.
  • RepressedEmu 9y ago
    Just curious: Did you scrape the initial dataset or did it come from personal research when looking for an investment?
    • andygor 9y ago
      For 5 years i worked as an investment analyst for a global accelerator. A few months ago i left the job to ship my own products. Datastarta is the first one. During the accelerator journey, I met thousands of startups and hundreds of investors from many countries. Some of them were looking to work with accelerators. From my experience, 50% of startups who apply to an accelerator actually need a program. Another part is strong enough, has a great team and just want to setup meetings with seed investors on a demo day. Why spend 3-6 months to do that? I set down for a month and made a solid research on markets I know. I collect a lot of data, structured it, analyzed and decided to launch the first product as a database of angel investors from around the world.
• joelrunyon 9y ago
  http://movewellapp.com http://movewellapp.com Built this as a home physical therapy coach after I busted my ankle running an ultra marathon. It's grown quite a bit in hte last few months.
  • 2triggers1 9y ago
    This is great. Is there an android version on the radar?
• pypetey 9y ago
  We've started https://gdprapp.com https://gdprapp.com - a piece of software for data protection officers / it auditors - to help with compliance and auditing process - it's focused at the moment on General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) but we will be integrating it with other security standards. It was an internal project in the beginning and after some time and reworks we've decided to open it up to public.
• markfer 9y ago
  https://www.recapped.io https://www.recapped.io is what I actually launched 2 months ago since I was frustrated by the lack of existing solutions for my sales team. Around $600/mo now, but believe I should hit $2,000+ MRR by next month. TL;DR: Sales-enablement that helps sales reps communicate, collaborate, and engage with potential customers.
  • TamDenholm 9y ago
    Looks cool, one suggestion, in your homepage, change the screenshots to have actual text in them, it provides a lot more context to understand the app.
• GoLocalApps 9y ago
  We launched AppToolkit.io earlier in the year and it's now breaking $500 monthly. Since we use it in-house, we don't judge it quite the same as if it needed to support itself. It isn't profitable yet, but as more app developers sign up for our Super User and Cloud Config service, we're seeing faster revenue growth. Our original goal was to cover the AWS bill and pay for all the in-house dev work and I think we'll have that by the end of the year. If you're interested in the background to AppToolkit and where it came from, we did an interview on Indie Hackers here - https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/apptoolkit https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/apptoolkit
• ryandrake 9y ago
  This is a great Ask HN, and it would be even better to specify whether $500+/month is in revenue or profit. I can't imagine most of these things listed so far could actually make $500 in profit a month!
• archiolidius 9y ago
  http://livereacting.com/ http://livereacting.com/ - SaaS app launched about 8 months ago. Currently $3k/mo. I automated everything. Last 3-4 months it works almost on autopilot I just do customer support
  • kposehn 9y ago
    This is quite cool. How do you get this to work with FB? Are these streams you run via their Live API?
    • archiolidius 9y ago
      I have a quite complicated tech for streaming under the hood. And yes, I use Live API to be able to stream it to Facebook.
• Schweigi 9y ago
  https://www.ganttplanner.com https://www.ganttplanner.com - April 2015. A tool to turn your Google Calendar into a Gantt chart. Its currently running on autopilot and making ~$1200/month. Its all running on Heroku and barely requires any maintainance.
  • ErikBjare 9y ago
    Seems hugged to death?
    • Schweigi 9y ago
      I don't see any issues on the server side. What exactly isn't working for you?
  • maheshj 9y ago
    Interesting. I'm curious, how did you market this? I might be the wrong audience but I don't see this gaining traction naturally through SEO.
• jgimenez 9y ago
  I built https://localname.io https://localname.io as an excuse to learn some Swift and node.js. It helps server side development by giving a publicly accessible URL to your computer. I needed it for development and testing of mobile applications together with the backend. Also works well for webhooks. Didn't reach the $500 yet, but it's getting there!
  • maheshj 9y ago
    You probably get asked this a lot, but why would anyone use this when ngrok is available for free? Cool homepage btw...
    • jgimenez 9y ago
      Yes, that's a common question. Our offering is a nice, easy to use user interface. Ngrok is a strong competitor though.
  • ScottWRobinson 9y ago
    Your landing page looks great. Did you hire out the design work or do it yourself?
    • jgimenez 9y ago
      The implementation of the software I did myself, but the design and the coding of the landing page has been done by the amazing people at mobilejazz.com (disclaimer, I'm a co-founder)
• petecodes 9y ago
  Well I've made $480 since 25th august with www.techpresslist.com Attention from top 10 on Product Hunt definitely helping.
• manavo11 9y ago
  I've been working on https://doorbell.io https://doorbell.io since 2013, and although it had a slow start in terms of revenue it is making just shy of $2,800/month at the moment, still as a side project.
  • RabbitmqGuy 9y ago
    Hi, cool site. You might want to consider redirecting requests for your IP address to go to your domain name. Something like: server { listen 443 default_server ssl http2 reuseport; listen [::]:443 ssl http2 reuseport; server_name doorbell.io; # redirect IP address requests to https domain if ($host = '192.241.177.143') { return 301 https://doorbell.io$request_uri; # you might want to use code 307 in place of 301 if you care about POST requests etc } ## more stuff here }
    • manavo11 9y ago
      Good point, thanks for letting me know! (and leaving a message on Doorbell itself) :)
• RabbitmqGuy 9y ago
  https://www.amqphosting.com https://www.amqphosting.com - started just over a year ago. It is a RabbitMQ as a service company. I started it because I wasn't satisfied with the few RabbitMQ SaaS companies that were already there. Currently doing about $1k/month
• pramit 9y ago
  The Success Manual Guides https://www.thesuccessmanual.in https://www.thesuccessmanual.in.
• craigcherlet 9y ago
  http://www.craigcherlet.com http://www.craigcherlet.com - started writing how to articles and promoting SaaS applications as an affiliate on my blog. Already doing over $1,000 a month in recurring revenue and growing. Focusing on value and it seems to be working.
• ygerasimov 9y ago
  https://backtrac.io https://backtrac.io, visual regression tool for websites. Started two years ago and it is doing 500$+ a month after all expenses. Has great potential for growth. https://turbohiring.co https://turbohiring.co, built a year ago. Database for recruiting IT specialists in Ukraine. After only one year it already generates $3k+ in revenue and growing. Finding a right sales person was a key.
• ohashi 9y ago
  http://reviewsignal.com http://reviewsignal.com - ~$3,000/month I run the largest web hosting review site. It uses twitter comments as the data source. I wrote nearly the entire thing from scratch in PHP/MySql with a couple libraries for twitter streaming api, templating, WordPress blog. I did a long interview at IndieHackers if people are really curious with full monthly revenue disclosed (https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/reviewsignal https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/reviewsignal)
  • senatorobama 9y ago
    how does it make money?
    • ohashi 9y ago
      affiliate links with companies that have programs. But that doesn't influence the rankings. You'll notice companies without programs like Amazon, Azure listed. Also companies like Digital Ocean who don't offer cash, but only credit rated quite well. I let the data sort it out, it's nice when they do have affiliates because it's a business after all, but the existing shitshows of affiliate garbage just pumping the highest paying companies has done tremendous harm to thousands if not millions of people over the last decade+.