Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2022

Project Management Employee Scheduling Uptime Monitoring

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sandspiel

Welcome, and thanks for coming by! I hope that you enjoy exploring this small game, and it brings you some calm. Growing up, "falling sand" games like this one provided me hours of entertainment and imagination.
Pricing:
- Open Source
#Games #Block-building Games #2D Simulator 10 social mentions
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OnlineOrNot

Uptime monitoring for software teams (even teams of one).
Pricing:
- Freemium
- Free Trial
- $24.0 / Monthly (30 Uptime Checks, 1 Status Page, 1 User)
I built OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) - it's a hosted Status Page, with built-in Uptime Monitoring. It supports: * Custom domains * Private Status Pages (password protection) * Automatically posting incidents to your status page based on uptime monitoring (possible to BYO monitoring via Uptime Robot) * Subscribing to incident updates via Email The uptime monitoring itself supports websites, web apps, and APIs, and can send you alerts via: * Email * SMS (BYO Twilio account) * Webhooks * Slack/Discord.

#Uptime Monitoring #Website Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 55 social mentions
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RosterBird

Automated Shift Scheduling & Rotation in Slack. Built for Engineering Teams.
Pricing:
- Paid
- Free Trial
- $1.99 / Monthly (Per User)
Running https://rosterbird.com on the side for 2 years now. It's oscillating between $800-$900 mrr for the past 3 months, too lazy to exactly figure out the problem. I originally wanted it to be a passive income project but it has grown in scope before I even realized. Building and maintaining a B2B SaaS on the side is pretty draining. There's always more features, support requests, etc. Wouldn't recommend unless it takes off immediately or it is within a nice niche or you're planning to take it full time. I've thought about either selling it (and start any other project) or properly growing it (launch in MS teams, shift capabilites, etc) for many months now. Would appreciate if anyone has any thoughts.

#Employee Scheduling #Project Management #Productivity 1 social mentions
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OpenIn

macOS native application for smart link handling

My main project was a side project 4-5 years ago. Now it pays as well as I would have salary+stock in FFANG at Principal+ levels. https://www.outcoldsolutions.com My current side project is Mac apps at https://loshadki.app making about $1,200 a month.

#Project Management #Website Testing #Webapp Testing 8 social mentions