Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2023 – Show and tell

Good feedback!

That's there to help bump people over the "Eh I'll buy this eventually" hump, which is common with nice-to-have infoproducts. Because I don't want to do the open/closed cohort based approach at this time.

I don't have the traffic volume or brand strength to go with the "You'll remember to come back when you're ready" approach ... yet?

Depends how you count. It's based on ~10 years of working on my own career. But it's also a collection of essays so a lot of writing happened live while the career was happening.

My time tracker says I spent 139 hours last year on this project.

Pretty simple tbh. I hit just about all the major buy/sell sites, Facebook, marketplaces, etc. to buy/sell/trade. Your standard buy low, sell high type of situation. Or, have relationships with the dealers and get watches and retail that sell for more.

Rolex for example is great if you can get it at retail or find a good deal but typically the margins aren't that great otherwise. Other brands have way better margins. Rare or hard to come by (but ones people would want) can bring in great returns.

It's a higher cost business to get into but have plenty of friends in the low to mid market that make some decent money. Less barrier to entry. You can do it with just about anything. Some friends are in collectibles, cards, shoes, etc.

Authentic only.

Ezoic

For example Synthetix SNX is paying like 30% right now

https://staking.synthetix.io/

Then take the minted SUSD and put into Curve for 8%

https://optimism.curve.fi/factory/0

Then take the OP minted and put into XTK pool for another 60%

https://app.xtokenterminal.io/mining/pools/optimism/0xDa62d1...

This in general is known as yield farming

It is indeed mostly green tea, although different kind of green teas: "standard" green teas (from Sencha to Gyokuro), teas made of twigs (Karigane), roasted green teas (Hojichas), green tea with rice (Genmaicha), green tea flavored with yuzu (Yuzu Ryokucha), etc. Sometimes we throw in something completely different, like a Zaracha, a Sobacha, or even a Japanese black tea.

This is the 2023 lineup so far: Sencha (January), Yuzu Ryokucha (February), Karigane (March), Genmaicha (April). But while there definitely is variety, yes, you need to really like green tea to fully enjoy the subscription...

I do print. Just the self-published POD stuff via Amazon’s KDP.

Cryptograms, wordsearch, fill-a-pix, nonograms, and the like. Sone types (like cryptograms) are simple generate using a program. Others, though, are pretty damn tricky… it’s a puzzle in and of itself figuring out how to make the puzzle. Currently working on some Logic Grid puzzles… the program I’m writing to make them is a real pain-in-the-ass. But, unlike most here, programming is a hobby so I throughly enjoy wasting time in the challenge.

Fraud for one. If I print a 7 and you read it as an 8 or change it to what ever you want with that pen. I get charged more and there really isn't I can do about it. Why not just have tipping on the machine you are paying with anyways. The only country that has tipping on paper still is USA that has modern payment services.

And please I make money on the transaction not the fact that you tip on paper.

Also, why do your server have to take my card to go swipe it behind some counter still? Portable devices exist. Use them. I do not want to let you handle my card.

Current situation. Server comes to your table and I ask for the bill. Go back to the POS, get the bill. Come back, I want to pay with card. Either they have a portable machine or they don't. If they don't They take my card then bring it back with a tip slip too.

Now imaging a server comes to your table with a payment device that can handle everything from the above. No more going to POS system to cash out. Need bill split, done, need pay at the table done. Need to calculate change, done for you.

Saves so much time and at the end of shifts you don't have to consolidate receipts. Just make sure cash float is correct and you're done.

As a customer in the US recently. Restaurants and bars still didn't accept tap and pin. Tap speeds up lines and table turn over so much that you wouldn't understand until you implement it.

Rant over.

This guy doesn't make any money off of it ;)

I used https://acquire.com/ in this case. I looked at maybe 80 companies just from the surface. Then inquired about 15-20 of them for more details. After about a week of thinking, zeplo wouldn’t leave my mind. There was one other close contender but zeplo was more present in my mind and had better metrics.

From there it was letter of intent, due diligence, asset agreement, escrow, and asset transfer. Hopefully this helps.

yep!

we have a long term lease for an IP block. we've considered buying one. They're quite expensive to buy but aren't getting cheaper!

Business sites to increase customer leads.

Fair comment.

Retention during downtrends is pretty hard, so although we've gained a good amount of new users, old ones have left too.

3000 were paid users at that time, the total users were about 35k. We now have 54k total and about 3500 paid!