Ask HN: How much do you earn from side project or passive income?
What is working for you and how much is your income from side project and/or passive income?
I did a "passivity test" recently where I essentially took October off, just to make sure I still could. I'd do a morning email spin, then shut down and go bouldering or just play with the kids all day, averaging just shy of two hour weeks. Monthly Recurring Revenue grew on its normal path.
This month, I'm back working 6 hour days, 4 days a week, building the thing that will take up the slack [2] once those other products plateau. Fortunately, it's been raining a lot, or I might still be out climbing every day.
I'll reitorate once again that as a software developer, you absolutely should build one o' these SaaS things. It'll change your life.
[1] https://www.s3stat.com & http://www.twiddla.com [2] https://unwaffle.com
In my current role I'm an Jr Dev, and have only recently graduated and started working full time but this sort of thing interests me.
I built things in the past. But they were the wrong things.
I dream of having a similar income setup, I am in college and have more free time than ever; I must make most of this. I am reading through your articles on expatsoftware for some inspiration.
I also wrote a book [2] about game development in Haxe, and self-published it on gumroad. That brings anything from £40 to £150 a month.
[1]https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=leoncvlt&hl=... [2] http://discover-haxeflixel.com/
I'd love to know if users would pay for something like unlimited multi-day search or ... more data like UV Index.
an ad on each page. I expect it to generate about $50-100/month