Comments on: Side project profitability

By: Nicolas Chevallier

Nicolas Chevallier — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:09:05 +0000

The hardest part is the business one when you are engineer developement. I prefer to negotiate contracts for the long term with good CPC, rather than putting adsense that do not pay most of the time.

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By: Eduardo

Eduardo — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 20:37:09 +0000

Hi,
One idea for a mini-ebook: write one scrutinizing hemingway. How it’s structured, the reasons for your design choices, how to tweak it, and maybe how to tweak it keeping the good taste (like some typography advice, etc).
I bet you have in your head. And you have already created the audience: the need is there, all that’s left is market the ebook.
Good luck!

By: Farid Hadi

Farid Hadi — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:14:39 +0000

Really nice to read an article like this. My only project at the moment is PixyJobs (which I’m advertising on your blog).

By: David

David — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 16:47:53 +0000

Hey thanks for sharing about your projects. Most people don’t really explain what they are working on and what is working (or failing) for them. Like you said, “job security” keeps people like us from being able to learn from people like you.

By: Spencer Alexander

Spencer Alexander — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 04:35:26 +0000

God, I've got an ever expanding list of side-project-ideas. Only if people paid money for silly ideas...

It was really nice to see the scaling income of your side-projects; knowing that a good side-project brings in X dollars, an okay side-project brings in Y dollars, and so forth was really helpful to me. Good luck increasing your income!

By: Ryan

Ryan — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 07:44:32 +0000

Really interesting run through and analysis of your projects. Very interesting and surprising your Dreamhost referrals went over so well, congrats.

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:05:45 +0000

I’ve been thinking along the same lines lately – I really need to put my “downtime” to good use and work on some side projects. First I just need to learn a “real” programming language :)

By: Paul Stamatiou

Paul Stamatiou — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:16:12 +0000

Great post Kyle. The only side project I have to speak of (not including my blog) was flickrslidr.com that was a weekend of coding, 2 months of traffic building and then a $3k sitepoint sale.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:18:22 +0000

Ah, I guess I just didn’t post it in there — I do have plans to do more with Hemingway and more with WP/other themes in general. That’s what I get for writing posts at 2am :)