Posted by cvbox 7 days ago
Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2025 – Show and tell
2024 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42373343
2023 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38467691
2022 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34190421
2021 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095
2020 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167
2019 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20899863
2018 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17790306
2017 → https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15148804
https://aieasypic.com - 3k per month (declining cause not working on it a lot, just maintenance) https://bestphoto.ai - 2k per month (increasing cause of better SEO)
Now trying my hand at an actual non-consumer product, not that b2b but something to make making ads easy because that’s where I find myself getting stuck on when doing fb ads or TikTok organic stuff : https://admakeai.com
I made Whenish cause i was frustrated with apps taking you outside of group chats to schedule events and find out dates when people are available. Whenish is an iMessage extension app and it works pretty nicely so far.
recently got my first user feedback email which was really exciting!
hope to figure out how marketing works to get some more users and hopefully double downloads + sales next year.
This version will hopefully provide a bot free / pump free replacement for iHub, StockTwits, Twitter, etc. to people who manage money professionally or otherwise.
Assuming I get more free time to finish it that is.
Version 2 is live here.
www.gravityanalytica.com
The two products Chat and Horizon both make more than $500/month individually.
This is a just side project. I run a family office.
For those of you who are in your 20s keep it up. In your 40s getting free time can be a real challenge.
no ssl?
The site is 15 years old now and pretty solid. I dreamed much more for it, but I still can't figure out the marketing.
The front-end is open-source: https://github.com/CommunityAlly/CommunityAllyWebApp
My assumption would be the best marketing, given you are a team of 1, would be demand capture campaigns. And it seems that your Capterra results bear that out.
But, your SEO agency would probably have focused on high intent keywords for demand capture, and presumably that didn’t work so well.
Anyway, seems like an interesting marketing challenge targeting a niche market that frankly I don’t know much about.
I wonder if you could target HOA management agencies rather than the association presidents. I know that many HOAs are managed externally at least from an operational perspective. That said, I know so little about the market…
SFX Engine: https://sfxengine.com/ - ~1.2k MRR
I launched another two and hoping to get these scaled up as well
Sparkpod.ai: https://sparkpod.ai/ - $20 MRR
Disstrack AI: https://aidisstrackgenerator.com/ - $0 MRR
When I've looked, a sole trader with liability and cyber insurance seemed reasonable (maybe $2k/yr), but a Pty ltd with the same would probably be safer ($5k/yr).
It all comes down to what the risk of being sued is though. I'm sure selling games wouldn't require this.