Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell

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Mockoon

#API Tools #Developer Tools #APIs 26 social mentions

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40 Hadiths

1500$ MRR (or ~1000$ after taxes and operating costs) with a (native) Plex audiobook player for iOS and Android. Android accounts for 85% of the userbase and has been the focus last year with a 2.0 release so it's in much better shape than the iOS version, which is still in 1.0 today. MRR is growing 5-10% per month, not sure how big the niche is yet. It's a lot of efforts to maintain both platforms as native apps with a high level of quality, but trully convinced crossplatform solution are not worth it either. -> <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.bookcamp.android">https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.bookcamp.a...</a>.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1162 social mentions

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PDF Pals

I started working on KTool[0] in 2022. Here was the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996 [1]: https://boltai.com [2]: https://pdfpals.com.

#PDF #PDF Tools #AI Tools 3 social mentions

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KTool.io

I started working on KTool[0] in 2022. Here was the Show HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32637996 [1]: https://boltai.com [2]: https://pdfpals.com.

#Reading #eBook Reader #eBook Manager 33 social mentions

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Nice Sex Tracker

I have a simple sex life tracking app that fills a niche many users are willing to pay for. (iOS only) https://nicetracker.app.

#iPhone #Dating #Health And Fitness 3 social mentions

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ChatGPT Writer

I built a Chrome extension that integrates with Gmail (and other sites) to write emails, messages, etc using ChatGPT. This is my full time work and I'm living comfortably from it (for now). https://chatgptwriter.ai.

#Email Marketing #Email Productivity #Sales Tools 7 social mentions

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OnlineOrNot

I've been running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) since early 2021 now (almost three years). I recently wrote about how this year it grew twice as fast as I expected: https://maxrozen.com/2023-focus-single-product-pays-off It all started because I needed a weekly report for my contracting clients to prove their web host sucked to the point where it was costing them significant money. They were paying for cheapest tier WordPress hosting at the time, and didn't believe me when I said random 5 min blocks of downtime throughout the day were adding up. I built a dirt-simple form that takes a URL and sends a notification when the site goes down/up, with a weekly summary email. Then, I kept adding features every day, responding to customer requests and fixing bugs 2 hours at a time, even after I stopped being a contractor. Since then I also added status pages (example: https://hackernews.onlineornot.com/) and cron job monitoring, to ensure database backups and whatnot run when I expect.

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