Profitable Side Projects
The cluster focuses on developers sharing success stories of side projects, web apps, and SaaS generating passive income like $1k-$6k/month, alongside skepticism and motivation to build monetizable ventures.
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Created a pet project this year, it has ~400k hits/month and I earn more than $1k/month with ads. It is completely passive outcome.
"the chances of building a $10k/month webapp business is pretty high" is this true? oh god, what am I doing with my life?.
People make money on side projects?! Not me...
I run https://updown.io since 2012, a website monitoring service I created. I'm working about 5-10 hours per week on it. It makes about $6,000 per month and is still growing linearly. I also keep a full-time job alongside for now as an engineering manager. The key for me is to take time, make something useful, delight your clients, and don't try to become uber or airbnb.
Post a link to a site that you created following this that is making $2k a month.
I spent 2 years making a web app and it's making about $4k per month now.
Have you started a side project and after 3 months you were making 10k per month?
Make your side project profitable enough to pay your bills.
I run https://webtoapp.design where I convert websites to apps. Been working on it for 2 years now. I started it while attending university as a side-project, but now my studies have definitely taken a step back. That has allowed me to get the business to around $1500/month (bad months are $500, best month was $4000). That's been possible due to free education in Germany and me being able to move back in with my p
I like your honesty. The solution? Build something. I was once in your shoes. I simply started selling CMS sites to clients to support my side projects. $100 per month is easy... go for it!