Comment by scarface74 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by scarface74 | Hacker News Reader

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That even lessens the chances by starting it on the “side”. You will be competing with people who are better funded and are able to commit to it full time.

What are the chances that a “side business” is going to make $150K to 200K a year?

On a side note, why are you so relentlessly negative? Most of the comments you've made in this thread are needlessly hostile, sarcastic and bitter. Did a side project touch you inappropriately as a child?

The whole point of the article is about people who don’t want to be in management. It’s makes no sense to start a business if you don’t have any desire to be in management.

Also, one thing that I’ve learned over the years, is the easiest way to make money during a goal rush is to sell shovels. There are plenty of opportunities out there to make good money working for a consulting company that matters to well funded startups and corporations who want to outsource development/infrastructure. Guess what my two areas are?

Some examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8844083

If I had to guess, I'd say that for every hacker news user that ships and markets an mvp, probably somewhere around 1-10% hit 150k/year from it. It's hard to find good data on this though.

I skimmed the articles from the link. Most of them made less than a $1000 a month.

One that made money was spreading malware and the author who seem to be making a decent return said.

It was really hard to write - took me 1.5 years, tons of research and re-writing. This isn't something I slapped together over a weekend. Far from passive income.

Being in management is way different than running your own company.

One side project doesn’t have to earn 200k/yr. you can have 5 of them, each making 50k. Running them as single software company is way less management work than managing your team in big company environment.

So you’re going to run 5 $50K side projects by yourself, including maintenance, support, marketing, feature addition etc?

How much maintenance, support, marketing and feature addition is needed?

Let's say you need 1-2 hours a day for every of your product (all activities combined)

Being a manager means 5-8 hours a day managing people, not working on products.

So the time is similar, but your work on product, not manage people. Way different.

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