Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2026 – Show and tell

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▲ 80 points • 105 comments • by kaladan • 2w ago • HN discussion ↗

Pangram verdict · v3.3

We believe that this entire text is human-written.

0 %

AI likelihood · overall

Human

100% human-written 0% AI-generated

SEGMENTS · HUMAN 1 of 1

SEGMENTS · AI 0 of 1

WORD COUNT 66

PEAK AI % 0% · §1

Analyzed

Aug 24

backend: pangram/v3.3

Segments scanned

1 windows

avg 66 words each

Distribution

100 / 0%

human / AI fraction

Verdict

Human

Pangram v3.3

Article text · 66 words · 1 segments analyzed

Human AI-generated

§1 Human · 0%

There was another one of these a couple of months ago and it did not get any traction. Lets hope this one does better. I myself am at $0/mo from my side projects and am really hoping side projects still have a future.So, those of you making $500/month or more on side projects in 2026, what are you doing these days?https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39110194 (2024)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34482433 (2023)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29995152 (2022)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29667095 (2021)https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24947167 (2020)