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Ask HN: Who has turned a side project to full time gig? And at what revenue?

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Side projects seem to remain side projects as long as they don’t make a lot of money. But I think just asking about side project is not really useful if you really want to know what’s the chance that a side project could find something bigger.

I’m curious to know who here has had a side project transitioned to a full-time business, and at what revenue numbers, if you’re willing to share, the transition occurred.

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When you say "Full time gig" are you referring to full-time revenue to live on or full-time such as 40 hours a week? I turned my micro SaaS (B2B) company into a full-time gig (After about 12-15 months), it generates around 45K per year of revenue and requires little time to maintain (around 5 hours a month), albeit it took me 750-1,000 hours to build it and another 100-150 hours of customer dev before I could reall dial in the business problem. My other more truly full time gig is a SaaS company (B2B) that generates around 100K and that takes up nearly all of my time (30+ hours a week). They both started as ideas, then on-to side-projects, and finally to full-time gigs. It did take some time and I had to keep coding away until I say enough traction to really know it would evolve though. Does that answer your question?

Inspiring!

Very inspiring. Would you mind to share what your SaaS's are?

Hey, This is a really good site for your question. https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses

As a follow up question: I'm pretty curious as to if you are working on a sideproject should you create a business and than products for that business or just label it as products. For instance Microsoft has Bing, Azure, and other products.

https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/wjRD/solo-founders-with-...

I'm currently in the process of deciding whether to sell my most recent side-project($400 recurring profit in 1.5 months), transfer it to a friend from business school and keep a large percent of profits, or to hire some part time digital assistants to run the support. Its a tough decision but I realized that the weekly support emails and upkeep was keeping me form developing my other ideas.

Maybe you can contact me and tell me what the project is about, I might be interested. Check my bio for email.

Sent you an email.

Check Indie hackers https://www.indiehackers.com/

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