Ask HN: Side project of more than $2k monthly revenue? what's your project?
I run HTTP Toolkit (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;httptoolkit.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;httptoolkit.com</a>) which passed $2k a couple of years back. No longer a side project, as it&#x27;s made enough money for me to work on it full time for a fair while now, but it certainly started that way, and it&#x27;s still a one-man show (plus many wonderful open-source contributors).<p>I suspect that&#x27;ll be a common theme in answers here though: if you have a side project making $2k a month, in most of the world that&#x27;s enough for you to go full-time and try to take it further. If you can make $2k&#x2F;month on something working only part-time, you can definitely make a lot more if you focus on it.<p>On your questions: HTTP Toolkit is a desktop app (plus a mobile app and other components for integrations) but it&#x27;s an Electron app that effectively functions as a SaaS (with a freemium subscription model) that just happens to have a component that runs on your computer. And actually getting to $2k wasn&#x27;t overnight at all - it took a couple of years of slow steady slog. A few inflection points that made a notable difference (releasing rewriting support &amp; Android support particularly) but mostly it was a matter of &quot;just keep pushing&quot;, trusting the trajectory would keep going, and steadily grinding upwards. It&#x27;s great where it is now, but it&#x27;s hard work - a solo business is not for the faint of heart!