ralphholzmann | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Who is hiring? (March 2017)
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ralphholzmann | 11 years ago | on: Those making $1,000+/month on side projects – what did you make?
Send to Dropbox. Allows you to email attachments to your Dropbox. Makes roughly $2,500 a month currently. More info in this other thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8699687
ralphholzmann | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
I wrote my app before Dropbox had published any branding guidelines for developers (3+ years ago), so I was essentially grandfathered in. Perhaps my phrasing of "special exemption" was a bit strong. I apologize for that. I dug up this email exchange: http://i.ralph.io/95cc7ww3.png
ralphholzmann | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
Single tier - $3 a month or $29 a year
ralphholzmann | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
They're essentially paying for the ability to customize their email address, set up incoming whitelists/blacklists (so someone with your address can't fill up your Dropbox overnight), as well as expedited email support.
ralphholzmann | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
Yeah, I got a special exemption from them for the name. :)
ralphholzmann | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
I don't. All subscribers and traffic are organic from Google searches.
ralphholzmann | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: Examples of profitable little free web tools?
I created sendtodropbox.com (email attachments to Dropbox) as a side project about 3 years ago. After the initial prototype, two-ish rewrites, and monetizing it with a freemium model, it's now got 1100 paying subscribers and brought in $20k in revenue this year. I did the whole thing myself (aside from the website template design, which a buddy of mine helped out with). This doesn't technically fall under the "informative value" category, but going solo on a project to make it profitable is definitely possible.
ralphholzmann | 13 years ago | on: Show HN: I spent two years working on an HTML5 game. I finally released it
What's with the all seeing eye?
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Node.js + React -- we're going to upend the finance industry.
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