Ask HN: What is your side hustle? How much money does it make you?
Just curious and wanting to learn how you started and scaled.
I do have a lot of money in stocks and with those I don't do nearly as well but clearly I learned enough to make a quid or two in crypto markets.
I'll give you one tip.
Look at a graph of bitcoin, litecoin etc. that extends past the last bubble and collapse and ask yourself if you are willing to eat those kinds of losses if they occur again.
https://99bitcoins.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/bitcoin-ma...
I think you haven't looked at a 6 year graph if you think the 'trend' is only ever going up. The point of my post was to highlight the risk of (another) crash.
Link to my latest project - https://github.com/DrRoach/DynamicImage (It's a dynamic image generation library if you're interested)
It is really easy to get started (just sell stuff that you can find in your house and don't need anymore) and I really like this treasure hunt feeling when entering a thrift store or looking for clearance.
made me so far around 300€ in less than 30 days and still have inventory left for about 150€. and I'm still learning what might sell and what not.
Interesting. What is the process for getting started and then doing it? Can you provide some links? And by flip I suppose you mean buy and then sell?
Just one tip for eBay: don't do auctions. You will usually get low-balled. research the market price and price the item accordingly.
Yesterday I have launched https://submit-sitemap.com and I have shared link to it on various platforms. How much traffic I got:
- reddit - side project - 4
- hacker news - 11 (+2 from different aggregators)
- I have added link into 2 communities on Google+ with around 200k people - 3
- producthunt - 3
- Facebook where I have shared it in group with 5k people - 5
- StumbleUpon - 1
And I think that I can subtract 1 from these numbers since I have clicked on them myself to test if those links works. :)
Last month I made ~$4.5k
Do you perform all of the keyword research ahead of time (before finding your writer), and build out an index/table of contents so that every chapter in the book is planned ahead of time, or do you leave all of the research, chapter creation, and writing for the ghostwriter?
For instance I publish a lot of LGBT erotica/romances. I write up about 1-2 paragraphs of what I want the story to be and pass it to the ghostwriter. I have a few different pen names and each stick with one genre. Example: "Mary Sue" only publishes BDSM Gay Romances. That way if you find one of my books and like gay bdsm romance, you're more likely to buy the others or subscribe to learn when new books come out.
I have a simple wordpress site for each author with an email list. I provide 1 book free for signing up.
I've used the same ghostwriting service for ~2 years so they're pretty consistent.
I'm currently working on a nonfiction politics book. I basically provided a word doc of research (news articles/etc), and a theme. I only specified 2 chapters and a word count. The other chapters are up to them.
~ $30/month from donations covers my Digital Ocean bill for the month.
I'm also trying to get some sales & affiliate revenue going with athletic wear designs on Zazzle. Starting with a niche to get rolling then probably expanding to more general designs. The biggest problem I've hit so far is their fulfillment times & prices.
It's pretty unobtrusive up in the corner there. I'm sure it suffers from banner blindness. But I don't want to load the page up with ads. It's a tool for other devs, not really a revenue source. But the donations are nice.
Makes me zero money and some knowledge.
Is the term "hustle" not extremely negative to you?
Merriam-Webster defines "hustle" as to push or shove someone in a rude way.
Urban Dictionary says "Anythin you need to do to make money... be it sellin cars, drugs, ya body. If you makin money, you hustlin."
Obviously, you don't seem to think that the word "hustle" has negative connotations, so I'm wondering how you came to that view?