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

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Kbee

#Customer Service #WiKis #Help Desk 5 social mentions

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Scraping Fish

#Data Extraction #Web Scraping #Web Scraping API 33 social mentions

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Aptakube

During my previous job, when we were migrating to Kubernetes I couldn’t really find a GUI app that I liked, and most importantly, that could connect to multiple clusters simultaneously. We had 6 clusters and having to switch context constantly was annoying I ended up building one [1] to use myself, shared with a few people and they loved it. I asked if they’d pay for it and to my surprise, a lot of people said yes. I’ve put up a website and a “pre-order” button with a regressive monthly discount. Sales were going up month after month, and a few months later I decided to quit my job to go all in on it. Today, I’m averaging on ~€5k/mo from this app, but I’m still doing some part time freelancing, as well as building other products that are not as successful, but are making >€1000/mo The latest one is open source, privacy friendly analytics for apps [2] that I’m still very actively working on. This is my current “side project” as the previous side project became my main job :) There’s also an open source upvote site [3] that I haven’t had much time to work on lately, but still generating $$ monthly. [1] https://aptakube.com.

#Developer Tools #Kubernetes #DevOps Tools 11 social mentions

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Gifmemes

#App #Meme #Tool 31 social mentions

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OnlineOrNot

I'm coming up on three years of running OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com) in 3ish weeks. In short, I wrote about React from my own perspective for a year (despite thousands out there doing the same thing), made money, and got inspired to do the same thing with an uptime monitoring tool (200th alternative to pingdom when I released it). I turned a tool I used for convincing contracting clients to not cheap out on hosting into a proper product, 2 hours a day at a time, and kept adding features since. Here's how I got my first 10 customers: https://onlineornot.com/how-to-get-your-first-ten-customers.

#Uptime Monitoring #Website Monitoring #Monitoring Tools 68 social mentions

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ScanRepeat

We started https://scanrepeat.com to enable companies of any size to introduce continuous security scanning of their web apps with direct reporting to Slack, Trello, Teams, etc. We also cover a few more misc cases like detection of potential GDPR/CCPA personal data leaks.

#Security Monitoring #Security #Security & Privacy 2 social mentions

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Littler Books

I'm making some money by putting all my nonfiction book notes on https://littlerbooks.com/.

#Education #LMS #Reading 15 social mentions

8

Hacker News Search

Yup, my bad. The Algolia search on HN defaults to "Popularity", and the 2024 version from earlier was 20+ links down on the page. So I missed it. And I don't read so good. Sigh. Buuuut, it seems like we're getting different people sharing their side projects, so that's a win!! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=making%20%24500&sort=byPopularity&type=story.

#Search Engine #Web Search #Internet Search 2468 social mentions

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Convert Case

Https://convertcase.net/ - Approx $20k/month. Been going for years and keep on building on it.

#Text Editors #Writing Tools #Text Tools 49 social mentions

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Civitai

Soz, I don't like to cross link my accounts, especially with all this TSWift shenanigans going around. But, if you look at https://civitai.com/ plenty of people have links to their ko-fi accounts where you can commission them (heck you may even find me somewhere on there).

#AI #Art #Writing Tools 148 social mentions