<story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell</title><text>It seems this question hasn&amp;#x27;t been asked for some time, so I&amp;#x27;d be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>crobertsbmw</author><text>My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates.&lt;p&gt;I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon employ my little sister to manage all the shipping. She’s been an Amazon driver for the last 2 years and I think she’d appreciate a change of pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>SJMosley</author><text>When I backed this, It is the first book I ordered for my future kid. The day the campaign ended my wife told me she was pregnant!&lt;p&gt;Very much looking forward to it. Great work!</text></comment>
<story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2021 – Show and tell</title><text>It seems this question hasn&amp;#x27;t been asked for some time, so I&amp;#x27;d be interested hear what new (and old) ideas have come up.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>crobertsbmw</author><text>My little hardware book, Computer Engineering for Babies launched on Kickstarter a few months ago and blew my mind by raising almost $250k. It’s a simple book with buttons and LEDs to demonstrate different logic gates.&lt;p&gt;I just shipped out the first batch of books a week ago and now waiting for the next batch of books. It’s gotten pretty demanding pretty quickly but I’m really excited about it. I’m hoping I can soon employ my little sister to manage all the shipping. She’s been an Amazon driver for the last 2 years and I think she’d appreciate a change of pace.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sshine</author><text>Kudos for providing jobs. If I were to create a successful company, making others busy doing something nicer than what they would otherwise have given themselves would be the greatest accomplishment I could think of, professionally. But starting with oneself on exactly that is not a bad starting point, at all.</text></comment>