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Ask HN: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?

by tagabek on 5/7/15, 9:45 PM with 31 comments

It can be a SaaS app, a mobile app, or any side project that is netting you recurring revenue.

  • by gtheme on 5/8/15, 1:49 AM

    I built Premium Ghost Theme marketplace http://www.gtheme.io/ to sell premium ghost themes. I designed most of the themes because I have chicken and egg problem. Now I get about $100-$300/m revenue.

    Most people still dont know what is Ghost https://ghost.org/ yet. It is CMS that like Wordpress, but built on NodeJS.

    EDIT: Added what is Ghost

  • by gamechangr on 5/7/15, 9:53 PM

    I would guess that not many are making a $1,000 a month on side projects. Most of my friends have side projects where they make $100-$300, but when they get to over $500 they consider making that the primary project.

    Some games make that but you have to continue to update them or they loose their ability to continue to sell, so it's misleading when people say "I make $1500 a month from my games" they should also say "I spend a couple hours a week making sure they are updated to the new versions".

    But you may already know that.

    I will follow you're question to see if you get much response. I would love to be surprised!

  • by Osiris on 5/7/15, 10:57 PM

    I wrote a battery laptop monitor : http://batterybarpro.com . I get about 1k uniques a day and net about $1500/mn in sales of the Pro version.

  • by galooph on 5/7/15, 10:09 PM

    There was a thread about this not so long ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844083

  • by bemmu on 5/8/15, 12:11 AM

    There's an ebook written by HN user riskish on this topic: http://www.sideprojectbook.com/

  • by gordonzhu on 5/8/15, 2:39 AM

    I made a video course that teaches you how to build apps with AngularJS.

    http://angularcourse.com

  • by eonw on 5/7/15, 11:29 PM

    I have a few games on the iOS store that still generate some money each month.

    My main side project income comes from simple sites I build using public data and my SEO skills. Essentially its all ad sales.

  • by dangrossman on 5/7/15, 11:29 PM

    This same thread from two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9423592

  • by dturnbull on 5/8/15, 2:18 AM

    I wrote a book about the Meteor JavaScript framework, which is available for free, but I also sell a video training series that's based on the book: http://meteortips.com

  • by andersthue on 5/8/15, 6:51 AM

    I (still) make >1000 on my watermarking windows program at www.watermark-image.com - yes an old skool installer that you dowbload :)

    I am using the money to stairstep (as Rob Walling talks about) into the SaaS world with my sleep and happiness improving way to work called TimeBlock (http://timeblock.com)

  • by siquick on 5/8/15, 6:50 AM

    $2-300 per quarter from affiliate sales from a vinyl record shop that is linked to from http://soundshelter.net

    It's completely automated so any time spent on it is time I want to spend (other than a few user queries).

    Should really put up some Adsense but don't want to piss of the loyal users.

  • by adzeds on 5/8/15, 9:53 AM

    I generated a football betting algorthm > http://betalyst.com/

    Gained a decent user base that gives it a strong MMR from ads etc

  • by sgnelson on 5/7/15, 11:37 PM

    Money?