Software and apps side hustle ideas

A web app, SaaS, mobile app, browser extension, bot or API that people pay for or that earns from ads.

3 ideas

Software and apps
Game server and compute hosting
Began hosting game servers for friends, grew into renting servers including scientific computing to universities.
Over $10kHands-offOnline
Hacker News, 2022
Software and apps
License data compression to software publishers
Built a compression tool that was slow to compress but fast to decompress and licensed it to big software vendors who shipped floppy disks.
Hands-off
Hacker News, 2022
Software and apps
License trading models and financial tools
Builds trading models and financial tools and licenses them to others.
Hands-offOnline
Hacker News, 2011