Posted by cvbox 12/18/2025
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
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…
Started as Pay-per-use service (upload the file and receive an email with transcript). Now we also offer subscription based service for media library, AI summaries, chat Q&A, insights/highlights.
Makes between $200 to $600 per month.
Tips for sub growth in transcription space?
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
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Was helping a Porn addict friend, turned out there are a ton of people need it.
I develop apps for experienced operators who want to start their own business.
It averages well over $500 / month in side income. Typically about $3-5K depending on the amount of time I have.
I spent perhaps a decade pushing going independent due to inability to get a product ready. I ended up learning the skills and now to solve that pain point for others.