Obviously still nice to see what people have built who missed the last post!
It syncs with Google Calendar.
To be fair, I currently does > 500$/month in revenue not earnings.
If it doesn't count let me know and I will delete my comment.
EDIT: I am currently out of stock sadly. If you want to be notified when I am back in stock, you can leave your email here: https://forms.gle/tNcCcYrNBu5nWKgJ9
I started with literally just a Lambda function that checks if static websites were still online, added an email alert if it's offline, wrapped authentication around it, integrated Stripe, and shipped it.
Eventually, I added Slack/Discord/SMS alerts, team invites, support for checking APIs for both uptime and correctness, support for checking JavaScript apps, and more.
My trick for launching into 200 competitors providing the "same" service and still getting customers?
- I work two hours a day, every weekday on OnlineOrNot, and no other side projects. I've had this streak going for about nine months now.
- I focus particularly on features that solve my customer's pain (and I ask my customers what that pain is)
- I'm ruthlessly iterative. If I can't get a feature done in two hours, I figure out how to cut scope down to a two hour block, and ship that. Then iterate on it.
I run a modded Grand Theft Auto: V roleplaying server with around 1,500 members (around 300 really dedicated MAU.) If you're not familiar with GTA RP, it tries to emulate real life as closely as possible while still recognizing that GTA is an arcade game. Players live lives as if they were real people, buying cars and houses, holding jobs, opening businesses, receiving medical treatment, being arrested, etc.
I've spent around three years working on the gamemode and spend, on average, 30-60 hours per week on it. It's really a pure passion project. Players support the project through Patreon in exchange for priority queue access (when the server is full, players are held in a queue until a slot opens up for them), custom license plates on their vehicles, custom phone numbers, and other cosmetic perks.
Linkz.ai is hyperlink auto-previews that keep visitors on your website. It's heavily inspired by Wikipedia & Google Docs link preview popups with special extras. For example, when you click on a YouTube hyperlink, it does not take you to Youtube website, instead it opens lightbox with Youtube video on your website. All with just one line of code.
$500+/m in a first month
Demo page: https://linkz-ai.webflow.io
I found that most teaching platforms for voice actors out there are run by a bunch of celebrities who are pushing edutainment, not education.
So I wanted to make something specific for voice actors. I will try to branch it out to other creators later.
Makes around $5k/month now (down from $7k/mo previously), fully passive income as I haven't worked on any new features in the app for the past 1.5 years or so.
It currently has a modest but pretty consistent 200-300 users daily, almost all of it direct traffic (my SEO skills are very lacking). I'm assuming people recommend it to their friends, and that's where the traffic is coming from.
It's not yet at $500/mo, but it's getting close. Server costs are significant though, since running an AI model is a bit expensive.
Ideas and feedback are welcome.
There are a lot of improvements I want to make, but due to life commitments it has been stuck in maintenance mode for far longer than I'm comfortable with
It just hit $500/month on Monday and it seems to be increasing by $100 in MRR per week.
I'm only charging $1 per user per month for unlimited access to all of my Power-Ups. I'm thinking about increasing this price to $2 or $3 next month (existing customers get to keep the $1 price tag).
Some of the Power-Ups I offer:
- File Manager: lets you search through and bulk download files on a board.
- Board Chat: adds a simple chatroom to your Trello board
- External Share: creates a link and snapshot of a Trello board that you can send to clients so they don't need to sign up for Trello to see the board.
- Office File Viewer: lets you preview .docx, .xlsx, and .pptx files directly in Trello
- Card Approvals: adds a "approve" and "decline" section to a Trello card
It's a job board that caters to a very specific subset of electrical engineers - specifically, ones that work with FPGAs and logic design for chips.
Need help hiring FPGA or RTL engineers? Let's talk. fpga.rtl.jobs@gmail.com
Here's my profile for example: https://oku.club/user/joe
I initially built it to route PUBG players in Australia (myself included!) onto the fastest links to overseas servers as the Australian servers did not have enough players. It was strung together with OpenVPN and a Discord bot as I never expected more than around 20 people would use it... mostly figured it would be me and my squad mates. Within three months I had around 350 users by word of mouth paying $5 per month. Most of my users came from established competitors as my service was a lot simpler to use. The user numbers died down over the following year mostly due to competitors offering an aggressive referral system and I was focused on other projects.
Last year I decided to expand to other games and regions. I rebuilt it as a standalone Electron based Windows app using a kernel network driver that can route individual Windows apps through my WireGuard VPN servers. I built everything except the network driver which was done by a Windows networking specialist - https://ntkernel.com
I currently support PUBG, DOTA 2, iRacing, Apex Legends, Rocket League, Final Fantasy XIV, Super People in Australia/New Zealand and PUBG and Rocket League in North America.
The service is stable and relatively scalable so this year I'm hoping to focus on the marketing in between other projects. Part of that will probably include a name change as I figure it doesn't make a lot of sense to people outside Australia
That said, this seems to be the extent of my marketing desire.
I screen scrape campground registration websites and alert you when someone cancels on a date you want to go camping. Fabulously successful. Now back to my day-job.
This was a test run that went surprisingly well. I paused sales so that I can focus on reworking my process (it was very manual, hoping to make it completely automated) and design more posters.
This is an entirely spare-time project on which I've been working publicly for the past year.
Here's some info about the tech stack I'm using: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26693959
It tests website forms daily (currently as a Gravity Forms plugin add on) and confirms that they were successfully submitted. I'm working to add support for general web forms in the next few months. Feel free to send me an email if you're interested in being notified when that feature rolls out — jon (at) creativeculturemedia.com
Talevideo - is a desktop application where you can create video directly from website, without screen recording. And animate any element on page, like fadeIn and etc.
Example result of video/gif at my github: https://github.com/ssleptsov
Example_2 video directly from reddit website: https://www.reddit.com/r/SideProject/comments/ra7inj/app_to_...
It's a commercial project / charityware that is turning 4 years old next month. I sell it for $5 per copy and give $3.50 to a cost-effective charity. If you go to the blog you'll see the history of sales. As of now I donated almost $13,000 to charity thanks to this project. It's averaging around 100 sales per month for over a year now.
Also open source MIT: https://github.com/whyboris/Video-Hub-App
There were no sex tracking apps on the App Store that weren't focused the menstrual cycle, so I built my own. It now includes cool features such as syncing across iCloud devices, location recording, STD/STI tests, and most importantly, stats!
I stopped producing videos in April 2018, but the site is still up, and still gets occasional new subscribers. (There's been an influx lately, in fact, and I have no idea why. Maybe because I have a new book out.) It's still netting more than $500/month, although not by a lot. But it requires nearly zero effort from me, so I'm happy with it.
Edit: To clarify, it wasn't a side project when I was producing the videos. But now it's passive income.
https://www.stillapp.de - although the page is in german the app is translated into english as well.
I've traded them with my own capital successfully since April, 2020, and I've averaged 75%+ annual returns with much lower volatility than the overall market. My starting capital was small (500k) so in addition to growing with my own capital, I'm now providing the signals (3 free, 4 premium).
105 total members, MRR is currently $1397/month, just launched exactly 1 month ago today. Still in the google sandbox so I'm not seeing much organic traffic. We have a small community on reddit, rest of users from social media, Seeking Alpha and Stock Twits.
It's the same software but the Azure offer sells a lot better. Monthly income is about $1000 from both.
Very few support requests come in, so it feels like mostly passive income. All I have to do is answer the occasional ticket and keep the images up to date.
- macOS apps: https://fadel.io/
- iOS apps: https://apple.co/3fqcWfO
At first it was around $2500 per month, but has slowly ramped down over the past 4 years to about $900 per month. Totally passive income at this point.
We help data scientists land jobs by being the Leetcode for data science.
I do it to encourage young people to use software to make a change in their and other’s lives.
Currently making $500 with 90min/week effort. I already got the syllabus material ready so I do not necessarily have to invest time here.
Right now they’re writing an exam.
1- An extremely simple habit tracker spreadsheet template that I also use myself - https://www.preetamnath.com/habit-tracker-template
Makes ~$100/mo but this month it's on track to make $200, probably due to new year's enthusiasm?
2- Learn Programmatic SEO, a straightforward course to help people identify repeatable keyword patterns and use that to drive traffic to their business, website, projects etc. SEO beginner-friendly - https://www.preetamnath.com/programmatic-seo
The course makes between $300-$500/mo.
I don't have any costs other than website hosting and Gumroad fees. I do think these projects have scope to improve and grow. Would love feedback from anyone who finds them interesting!
It's badly in need of fixes and updates, but I still do about $1500-2000 in sales and $300-400 in profit monthly.
The app is built around two small, simple features: today's date with a customizable format, and a three-year calendar so you can see what weekday dates fall on outside of the current month. It also supports several alternative calendar systems including the Islamic and Hebrew religious calendars, which I think may be another use case that drives sales.
Anyway: it's a one-time, two-dollar purchase that lots of folks are still finding and finding useful.
It's a SaaS starter kit/boilerplate written in Node.js and Vue 3. Made almost _exactly_ $500/month last year. Would have/should have made more with proper marketing, but I've been doing probably too much engineering instead. The next release should be the one to take it out of "beta" (honestly, an arbitrarily-chosen label, especially compared to some competitors with fewer features/work put into them), and then it'll be a bit easier to work with some potential partners who would prefer to promote non-beta software.
Two membership tiers, one paid, one barter: pipewrenchmag.com/backer-barter
We publish one longform nonfiction feature every quarter, surrounded by a constellation of reactions, asides, and art inspired by the core story. Our latest issue is about bringing in "outside food," and the art of smuggling snacks into movie theaters: https://pipewrenchmag.com/making-concessions-movies-and-popc...
Hopefully I can grow it more this year as all the Google Analytics related news should make more people consider self-hosting their analytics. I stopped providing any cloud-hosted version and focus purely on self-hosting.
It's passive income in the sense that I add new brands in the weekend and mostly doing this for fun.
A niche product, I gather data about anycasted IP addresses and sell the database. No idea how to market it but it makes more than $500/month
I also launched https://unlock.sh/ earlier this month.
https://instagram.com/dheeranet
People ask to buy prints from time to time. Not quite $500/month just yet but getting there.
Then there's this web-based function plotter I made in 2007:
It once made upto $900/month but since then, mobile apps have gotten better, and today it makes about $100-150/month in ad revenue.
Makes around $500/month from various subscriptions through RapidAPI. Built on a whim during the pandemic. Uses Google Cloud Run + NodeJS.
I never did any advertising and it was gaining traction, but lately plateaued at a handful of downloads / day. Not sure where would be a good place to spread the word haha.
I'm a data scientist/software engineer and I started the project 5 years ago as part of my masters thesis. Never intended for it to be gambling-oriented but that's just the best way to monetise!
Questions/feedback appreciated - cheers
I started this as a way to improve review speed at a previous position and it was well received, so I converted the prototype into a it's current form and have been running it for a few years now.
I originally made it for my long distance girlfriend (now wife) and myself. It averages $450 - $550 monthly.
Basically - everyone has a foam roller. No one knows how to use it. Pick a routine based on what your goals are (working out, recovery, general low back pain) and we show you the movements to guide you through a routine in 15 minutes or less.
It's a platform for following what's happening in kpop that we've been building for five years. It makes about $1500 a month through advertisements and subscriptions these days, but we want to expand and experiment with other revenue sources.
Real-time Online Shopping Deals by Product Category | Thoughtful Gifts for Every Occasion, Recipient, Category
Gifts:
1. Daily-updated gift products catalog 2. Direct Amazon and Etsy product links for gifts and deals 3. Browse and filter by price, category, recipient, occasion, popularity
Shopping Deals:
1. Grab online shopping deals as soon as they are available 2. Category-wise segregation of deals 3. Deals updated half-hourly
Initially, it was only web and android, but now I have released iOS app as well.
Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mysticpeak...
iOS: https://apps.apple.com/app/id1604578567#?platform=iphone
The web version was pretty basic, so I've taken it down currently. Learning Vue JS to enhance the frontend/UI.
The apps have pretty clean UI.
Dictanote is a note-taking app with built-in voice-to-text integration. Writers use it to write their books, students use it to take notes, etc. Dictanote automatically syncs your notes to the cloud and makes them available on all your devices.
Voice In is a chrome extension that lets you use dictation to type on any website in Chrome. Use it to type emails in Gmail, enter data into Teladoc, write blogs in WordPress, etc. Think of it like budget Dragon Dictation.
Currently makes about $7000/m net - somewhere between a full-time job and a hobby project. Figuring out how to grow it.
You can check it out at https://newsletterss.com
Most people see it as a teenage dance app type thing, but for techies wanting to build a personal brand or teach people it's a killer tool to rapidly grow.
I consistently make ~600/mo selling a 'newbie' TikTok course on appsumo. It's a no-frills recorded presentation and associated set of slides that I do very little marketing for with the goal of getting people to 1k followers on tiktok in 30 days or less.
https://appsumo.com/products/your-first-1000-tiktok-follower...
In 2021 the profit eclipsed my consulting income. My 2020 goal is to double revenue. Today it’s making mid 4-figure MRR but adding in one-time-license-sales the annual revenue is healthy 6-figure.
The last few months I’ve been focusing on marketing and integrations. Today you can trigger label print jobs via the command line, MQTT, and now HTTP.
If label printers are your jam you can read more here: https://label.live/features
It provides up-to-date data from Companies House, but also allows you to sort and filter businesses by:
- where they are located
- when they registered
- what SIC (standard industrial classification) code they use
- their operational status
- their accounts category
Businesses typically use this to find new businesses to try and market/sell their services to.
It’s written in Haskell and Elm, and it’s been running for about five years now. Several businesses have been happily paying to use the service every month.
https://newbusinessmonitor.co.uk/
If you’d like to sell your services to UK businesses then do write to me; I’d love to hear from you :)
Made using a mix of ML (translation and TTS) and human translators.
I've documented many of the stats here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QrN9ya-t7Vr42T-wL9q1-HX6...
It's a blog, community, and newsletter focused on useful and practical content for remote freelancers.
I'm looking to pass over the mantle to someone passionate about the freelance space and have been passively searching for a buyer. Contact information in the Google Doc above.
The assumption is that we want to minimize our interaction with umbrellas; if you buy a big umbrella, it is a hassle to drag along and you will most likely loose it after a few afterwork drinks. Other way around, a small and cheap umbrella does not cover you enough, and breaks easily.
As said, just launched, lets see how it goes. Happy to hear your feedback.
It's a customized dayplanner pdf for large eInk devices like the reMarkable 2. I built it for myself initially but realized I could provide a customized build for other folks. There's still a small amount of manual work to generate them, but I should be able to automate it end-to-end soon.
I don't expect it to make much at all over the next 10 months, but I'm already excited about other things I'm planning to add for the 2023 version
Full disclosure - $500+/month in revenue, but not profit. The majority (95%) goes to the creators I work with.
When I started the project, the category seemed quite crowded already, but I couldn't find anything good for tracking my hours in a flextime arrangement. I had no iOS experience at that time (I was a C++ developer) and now I do iOS development as my full-time job too.
We're the only service that respects your privacy and never stores your emails.
It does about 20k/mo in revenue (we are not profitable).
It's been super fun and rewarding. It's much more like building a software / tech startup than I expected it to be.
"Bite sized" polling software as a service that I use for post purchase surveys, contact us forms, and email campaigns when I want feedback on what to do next. Most customers are currently through our Shopify App but have a few SaaS businesses that integrated it independently.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26855726
Since then we’ve gotten up to $3,500/mo. and will be hiring our first salesperson soon. Exciting and nerve-racking at the same time! (If you know anyone, please have them reach out to me at ege@pricetable.io)
I have all sorts of interesting collectors using it - some guy who buys old porsche parts, a famous comic book artist who collects comics, etc etc
~$750/month lately. $32.5k lifetime and have spent <40 hours conceiving, implementing, and updating it.
Books recommended by successful and inspirational people.
It's getting around 250-300 visitors a day, and in a high paying niche
I started using "classic" ads - which were/are making next to nothing - but just signed a deal with a direct client for 400$ for 3 weeks of displaying his game on the site, on the top banner
There are so many play-to-earn games popping up at the same time that projects are fighting for visibility, which playtoearn.one can bring
So now, I've hired a designer to make a great looking UI and I'm getting motivated to turn this side project into something more than this
EDIT: Traffic for the past month:
https://simpleanalytics.com/playtoearn.one?period=month&coun...
Commotion (https://commotion.page), Forms + Mail Merge for Notion
Reslant (https://reslant.com), Discussion Boards for Customer Feedback
Visual communication tool with screen recording, screenshots and GIFs for macOS and Windows. Fully native apps without using Electron. I started Jumpshare as a side project many years ago and turned it into a full-time job.
It currently does about $500/mo from a combination of asset purchases and ethical (Carbon Ads) non-tracking advertising.
Originally I wanted to learn PWAs. At the same time, people were posting teasers on Jodel but suggestive material is banned according to Jodel's community guidelines. Hence, I decided to smash two flies at the same time by building something that people wanted.
Currently it's Finnish-only but it's making around ~200 $ / month. Have wanted to internationalize it for a while now but my day job is taking too much time.
Edit: Just noticed this thread was merged/resubmerged? Now I have a duplicate answer here. :-/
Recently, I had an old colleague of mine reach out and ask if I had the time to be a part-time contractor/advisor for his tech consulting start-up, since their client needed to do a database migration. He had remembered me because of the articles I wrote. It's a nice bit of money on the side ($500-$2.5k a month depending on how much I work) and I'm always learning something new.
a bit above $500/month ARR, stable and sticky. Started a few years ago, now have 2 other partners.
- it was four years without making any money
- with ~100k subs it's generating money
- everything grew organically
Similar to ngrok with our own differences and approach. I also publish another product called Spokes Gateway which builds on the tunneling server and includes support for service meshes, high-availability, clusters and some other features.
I'm building a separate website for Spokes and its related software, hoping to publish it soon. It's eventual home will be https://spokes.network.
Kbee turns a Google Drive folder into a searchable wiki for you and your team. We're currently doing ~$1500/month in MRR
I productized myself and made myself on-demand (easily available) to struggling SaaS businesses.
Currently doing $5K+ per month for working one day a week doing short 30 min calls with clients.
The main gimmick is that it’s a native Mac (and very soon Windows) app, so once you buy a file, you can drag it directly out of the app and into other programs as if it were file explorer.
I’m not at $500/month yet, but the project is well over 1k a month and I have a percentage of the income.
We (http://robusta.dev) are interested in sponsoring open source projects and popular Kubernetes bloggers to raise awareness about what we do. It's a rare win-win. We're mostly open source and extremely flexible if you have any special requirements.
I'm building a Search as a Service like Algolia. Currently earning $700 a month from an early customer. Anvere.net
I productized myself and operate as an on-demand marketing consultant for SaaS businesses.
Currently do $5K+ per month working one day a week taking short 30 minute calls with my clients.
I'm also working on an app that allows you to set a universal status across multiple platforms. I use it to automate my Slack statuses from my TripIt trips, but I want to add integrations for Google Calendar and WhatsApp. It's really rough right now but my future intent is to find a way to monetize it when it's cleaner.
It coded that website 8 years ago as a master's degree thesis. I am an investor myself, trying to achieve financial independence before retirement, so I kept using the site myself and hopefully will never stop. Stripe is there for the past year, I try to keep costs as low as possible. Only pay for a domain, hosting, and an affiliate program. It's a dividend growth investing tracker - digrin.com
https://deploymentfromscratch.com/
I did a SHOW HN awhile ago which sold 100+ copies in a single day:
BenkoBot is like wayscript but with a focus on making Trello automations (although you can use it for generic HTTP API interaction):
And BenkoPhone is the only virtual mobile number outside of North America that does voice, TXT and pictures:
It is a website to make US nutrition facts label which had a huge pivot from a website on learning how to cook. Website is only updated when new government regulations come out which is pretty rare considering how long it takes (in the years really)
To be fair - I did spend full time on this when it launched but it’s been a side project for the last 6 months.
The sales fluctuate a ton but usually above $500 a month, almost pure profit and almost 0 hours work.
I have a plan to increase revenue this year by going all in on SEO
It's a platform for virtual scientific and research-oriented poster session hosting. Pretty simple but desperately needed when all the conferences were cancelled!
Trying to scale up the business to cater to data and software businesses. But working in real estate industry for a while now.
Workspaces brings you inside the workspaces of entrepreneurs, designers, developers, etc.
Currently a mix of inbound and outbound work to gather the sponsors for each edition.
I guess it will leave the side project status once it gains even more traction but for now I consider it a side job.
We help SaaS CS and Product teams use product feedback from Intercom, Zendesk, Hubspot, Help Scout, etc to understand and build what customers are asking for.
Not sure where to take it next as there’s well funded competition and conversions/revenue have plateaued…
Recorded the audiobook myself too.
Web + app store purchases
Up for sale if anyone's interested
I ported the flash app Scale of the Universe to WebGL. I asked for payment as a portion of ad revenue and make about $500 a month.