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Clean Up Your Mess (http://www.visualmess.com/) is just a mini visual design tutorial and not a product, but it was a side project and it's made a few hundred bucks from amazon ads. I did not intend to make money from it, so it was nice surprise that I did.

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The OP asked about profitable side/weekend projects. This is a project I worked on on the side, and it made money. So why did my comment get downvoted?

Beats me. It's a cool project, my guess is there's a lot more money to be made there.

Most awesome to-the-point short web design booklet, I bookmarked it the first time I saw it on HN some moths ago and visit religiously. I lost the bookmark at some point and made great efforts to find the site again. Great job. (I'm a programmer not designer but I like the instant gratification of the booklet. It's similar in feeling to http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/ for JS)

Thank you! I worked very hard to keep it short and useful, and it's nice to see that appreciated. Thanks, too, for the link to JavaScript Garden. I've only scanned it, but I love the table of contents and I know that will come in handy.

How many people are visiting the page? I am curious to hear how much a well-targeted Amazon ad can extract from a visitor.

During the month where I made about $277, I had around 80k visitors.

Just to throw a stat out there, my forum gets 80k visitors and makes $1,000/month in Adsense revenue. And a good portion of those visitors are super-repeats that are blind to the banner ad.

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