Show HN: Profit Hunt - Get inspired by profitable online projects

[dewey]

Or with more products and Stripe verified revenue:

https://www.indiehackers.com/products?revenueVerification=st...

[jkeuhlen]

I'm at a stage where I have a side project that works well for me. I'd like to open it up and allow other people to start using it, but I'm not really sure how to take it from fun project to side business. Do I need to hire a lawyer to draft a Privacy Policy and ToS? Do I need to incorporate an actual business in order to open an account with stripe to accept payments? Anyone have resources on the legal/operational part of this process?

[jv22222]

Hiya, I've written some stuff about this. Hope it's helpful.

Don’t Form a Company https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/dont-form-a-company/

Debunking Some Conventional Startup Wisdom https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/thanks-for-the-advice-grandp...

[heliodor]

Go to https://IndieHackers.com, copy paste the story you explained here, give a brief description of your product, ask for a few people to try it out. The crowd there is helpful and is willing to spend the time with you.

[gnicholas]

The good news about ToS and Privacy Policies is that every company you do business with makes theirs publicly available. So find a couple companies that are similar to yours in terms of business model and/or size, and read theirs. Then put together something of your own. If you have a friend who is a lawyer or has worked on these sorts of issues at a startup (as a non-lawyer), have him/her review it. But don't stress out about this part too much, since you're not much of a target for enforcement actions when you're very small.

[hopia]

I'd advise getting other users to use it for free first before you dive into any paperwork. Basically, make sure you're solving a problem worth money for others first.

[buzzy_hacker]

If you're already looking into Stripe for payments, you should check out Stripe Atlas: https://stripe.com/atlas It might be too much for what you're looking for, but could give you an idea

[grantsch]

you can sell it to my team then you won't have to

open to potentially doing a profit-sharing deal as well if it's good.

grantschiller18 at [google's email service] dot com

[OJFord]

Good god, is this real? https://karmabot.chat/

Am I wearing enough pieces of flair?

[jfk13]

So basically, companies are supposed to reward people for being gregarious/outgoing/funny/popular on Slack, rather than for getting their work done?

Some of the most valuable team members just quietly get things done, without making a song and dance about it and drawing everyone's attention. Sucks to be them, I guess.

[idreyn]

I have less of a problem with the product itself than the way it's marketed, with completely unsubstantiated claims about improving employee retention. The message I get here is "your employees are like small children that need to be managed with Slack trinkets", which is too bad, because I think the bot itself looks kinda neat.

[hkt]

Somebody monetised karma bots. Wow. I remember making one of those in mIRC script twenty years ago.

[iudqnolq]

Reward your high-karma team members with Amazon gift cards or a day off ... guess that could never be exploited?

[jetti]

We actually use this at work and it seems to be ok. I don't know anything about it other than your able to use a command in slack to give somebody karma and there is a running total that the individual has.

[quickthrower2]

Bad idea. I prefer a big gong in the office we ring when someone has merged in 1000 LoC. With a trip to the Bahamas on 100KLoC. Our LoC OKR is being crushed!

[tonyhb]

I suppose if you're an engineer out of touch with humans that wants to automate the motivation of your team...

I have no idea.

[jamil7]

I'm very confused. Can someone explain what this does?

[turbostyler]

The mobile UI is horrible. It’s impossible to tell when one starts and another begins. You could solve this very easily by wrapping the list items in a card component and using different font weights and sizes for different pieces of information. Hint: business name should be the largest. Good luck.

[andrewash]

Thank you! Really appreciate the suggestions and pointers. Will improve the mobile layout within the next 2 days

[tryitnow]

I love this. In literally less than five minutes it's already given me some really valuable insights and inspiration.

Feedback: make the table sortable and filterable, everyone's going to want to sort by revenue and people might want to filter by source.

[werber]

On mobile the list items are really hard to differentiate

[Ancalagon]

Favorited this post. Wow this was really eye-opening for me. I think this is proof I've been thinking about implementing ideas that are too complicated in the tech space. Thank you for posting.

[swat535]

I guess this is the time for a friendly reminder to read your employment contracts and agreements carefully and exercise caution before launching an online side project business whilst being employed.

Failure to do can have serious consequences and the laws/enforceability vary greatly depending on your country of residence and the company.

That being said, great website OP!

[crispyporkbites]

> serious consequences

Any citations? If you're not launching a competitor, using your employers IP or doing some nefarious, why would they care?

How many employers would want some side project generating 20k/year, what would they do with it? Would they sue the employee? What for?

Genuine question.

[_hao]

First row entry has the link to the second row entry.

[zapstar]

Do you have a threshold for how much a project should make each month?

My project has $30 in profit a month, but hey, that’s more successful than most! (And more successful than any other project I’ve launched!)

[omarchowdhury]

The Makerpad data is incorrect. The source: https://www.makerpad.co/blog/building-without-code-and-reach... is referring to a different company generating 55k/mo revenue, not Makerpad.

[andrewash]

Thank you! Corrected.

[abinaya_rl]

I just submitted mine -> https://remoteleaf.com

[hbcondo714]

Great UI / UX of getting visitors to pick & choose a paid plan right on the homepage.

[andrewash]

Thank you! Added to the top :)

[yboris]

This is awesome! Thank you!

[saadalem]

I m just in love with the simplicity of the website ! Good Job !

[martinle]

It's very difficult to read on mobile..

[nikodunk]

Agreed - it takes a lot of restraint to get a website this simple and clear. Great job!

[servercobra]

Interesting...is this a Notion page?

[mirap]

Link to Eastros is missing.

[alokdhari]

http://c2x.eastros.com

[andrewash]

Thanks! Fixed

[mushysyntax]

awesome job, a real great resource for bootstrapped companies

[z3ncyberpunk]

Nothing about capitalism is "inspiring". I'm inspired by projects that lift humanity, not ones that worship money.

[therealdrag0]

I mean I love my work and I love getting paid. "Worship" seems overly pejorative.

[omarchowdhury]

What are some good examples of that?