<story><title>Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what&apos;s your project?</title><text>I plan on starting a side project but don&amp;#x27;t really have a niche yet.&lt;p&gt;I am interested in knowing what business you run is it a mobile app, website, Saas?&lt;p&gt;And how long it took you to reach $2k monthly revenue?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>agotterer</author><text>A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe menu. The food is served family style and is authentic to the region we are hosting. We typically host the dinners on a Tues or Wed when the restaurants in our region aren’t too busy and could use the extra business.&lt;p&gt;So far we’ve hosted 12 dinners over the past year. Growing from out first meal with 13 friends to as many as 80 guests for this months meal. Our mailing list has over 400 people on it and we’ve sold out every event since our 4th. Sometimes we end up hosting multiple nights.&lt;p&gt;It’s not a very scalable business as it exists today. For now is just a passion project that makes a few bucks, allows us meet interesting people, and provides the opportunity to discover new foods and restaurants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sebiandev</author><text>This is actually a really cool idea because for those of us who only dine out once or twice a month, it&amp;#x27;s nice to make it a unique or fun experience rather than a humdrum outing to eat average or templated food.&lt;p&gt;I would definitely be interested in something like this coming to our area.</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what&apos;s your project?</title><text>I plan on starting a side project but don&amp;#x27;t really have a niche yet.&lt;p&gt;I am interested in knowing what business you run is it a mobile app, website, Saas?&lt;p&gt;And how long it took you to reach $2k monthly revenue?</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>agotterer</author><text>A friend and I host a monthly dinner club for people interested in ethnic cuisine. We work with a single restaurant each month to create an 8-12 course all inclusive price fixe menu. The food is served family style and is authentic to the region we are hosting. We typically host the dinners on a Tues or Wed when the restaurants in our region aren’t too busy and could use the extra business.&lt;p&gt;So far we’ve hosted 12 dinners over the past year. Growing from out first meal with 13 friends to as many as 80 guests for this months meal. Our mailing list has over 400 people on it and we’ve sold out every event since our 4th. Sometimes we end up hosting multiple nights.&lt;p&gt;It’s not a very scalable business as it exists today. For now is just a passion project that makes a few bucks, allows us meet interesting people, and provides the opportunity to discover new foods and restaurants.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>StephenSmith</author><text>Very cool! Any advice for someone who would want to replicate this endeavor?</text></comment>