Building a really unique book recommendation platform to help readers find books they might not otherwise know about. We just started working on a full book app that will be a private book diary, along with recommendations and insights based on your Book DNA. Think Goodreads, but rebuilt for readers who want a private space to track what they read, keep notes, and get truly personalized book recommendations (like Pandora or Spotify for books).
This is a fun one I do with a good friend. Basically, to see if a website is down, or if it is just you, along with reported reasons from the community. We are working to add user accounts so you can create your own custom lists of websites/services to track.
I’ve been running a job board for remote Human Resources roles since 2019. In 2022 I started generating some revenue by referring traffic to large job aggregators on a cost per click model. I still do everything manually from curating the jobs to daily uploads but it has become a good routine for me. You can see it here: https://www.hrjobsremote.com/
It now grosses around 1,000$ per month on average. Money left after taxes and fixed costs (~650$) I put in a all world index for retirement.
Recently I also started a newsletter built on top of Hacker News that curates a weekly roundup of AI links and the discussions around them. I am not sure whether it will be monetized at some point but that is how I started the job board too. It is a side project to keep me occupied during evenings and weekends. The latest issue is here if you are interested: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=df548fb0-e8b0-11f0-97f9-35...
How do you find jobs to post? Mostly from the same sources or from everywhere?
How long until you got 100 visits per day?
How many jobs do you add per day?
Why not build more in adjacent industries?
The jobs come about 70% from the feeds with the paying parters. I pull about 20k jobs their feed, then run my script to select about 100 relevant jobs. The other 30% I get them manually from Linkedin, Indeed, etc. I have alerts on all big sites with some deep filtering.
It took about 2 months to get a constant 100/day average visits, but I had ~5000 connections on Linkedin in the HR space (I work in HR Tech). I also got to 2000 newsletter subs in about 2 months.
My advantage was that I was already active in the HR community, I would need another “me” to build in more industries.
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Building a really unique book recommendation platform to help readers find books they might not otherwise know about. We just started working on a full book app that will be a private book diary, along with recommendations and insights based on your Book DNA. Think Goodreads, but rebuilt for readers who want a private space to track what they read, keep notes, and get truly personalized book recommendations (like Pandora or Spotify for books).
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
This is a fun one I do with a good friend. Basically, to see if a website is down, or if it is just you, along with reported reasons from the community. We are working to add user accounts so you can create your own custom lists of websites/services to track.
Recently I also started a newsletter built on top of Hacker News that curates a weekly roundup of AI links and the discussions around them. I am not sure whether it will be monetized at some point but that is how I started the job board too. It is a side project to keep me occupied during evenings and weekends. The latest issue is here if you are interested: https://eomail4.com/web-version?p=df548fb0-e8b0-11f0-97f9-35...
It took about 2 months to get a constant 100/day average visits, but I had ~5000 connections on Linkedin in the HR space (I work in HR Tech). I also got to 2000 newsletter subs in about 2 months.
My advantage was that I was already active in the HR community, I would need another “me” to build in more industries.