<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>matt_the_bass</author><text>I’m almost there. Hopefully that will be the case by 2020.  But mine is not a Saas or app. I actually make things as a hobby and sell them in low volume.&lt;p&gt;A few years ago, I started making word clocks as presents for people. After a while I started teaching a workshop on how to make a simple clock at a local maker space. Now I have a refined design that my wife and I are producing in our basement and starting to sell at low volume: www.finewordclocks.com
Making clocks is also a great excuse to buy cool tools. We have a probotix asteroid cnc in the basement. I have a 3yo and 6yo. It’s been fun getting them involved in making things. Most of the presents for their friends’ birthday parties are home made (mostly by me but with the kids’ participation) and are REALLY well received.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – 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>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>synack</author><text>Running &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;diskprices.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;diskprices.com&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;battprices.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;battprices.com&lt;/a&gt;, I&amp;#x27;ve been consistently making &amp;gt;$500 in Amazon affiliate fees each month for the last couple of years. It&amp;#x27;s still growing, slowly. I&amp;#x27;m working on some improvements to the software to add more metadata about the drives like warranty and advertised performance numbers.</text><parent_chain></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2019 – 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>