Online Solitaire

On Turning An Online Solitaire Game Into A $1.5K/Month Side Hustle

July 21st, 2020
Holger Sindbaek
Founder, Online Solitaire
$15K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
0
Employees
Online Solitaire
from Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark
started June 2018
$15,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
0
Employees
market size
$783M
avg revenue (monthly)
$63.4K
starting costs
$13.7K
gross margin
40%
time to build
210 days
growth channels
Word of mouth
business model
Advertising & Media
best tools
Moz, Instagram, Twitter
time investment
Full time
pros & cons
35 Pros & Cons
tips
9 Tips
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hello everybody! My name is Holger and I’m a designer-turned-developer from Denmark. In the last couple of years, I’ve been working on a solitaire gaming website called Online Solitaire, which features the most popular solitaire games such as Klondike, Spider, and Freecell.

The game itself has actually been somewhat of a side-hustle of mine for a while now. It initially started years back as a Mac app that was sold through the Mac App Store, where it earned around $800 a month.

After having made the app, I ended up going to New York to start a startup called Slang which was a marketplace for sneakers and streetwear, with a friend of mine. That venture effectively led me to have my solitaire app on a perpetual backburner. And after a few years of no maintenance, the app got so buggy it was eventually thrown off the app store.

Sadly, I and my friend’s startup got beaten by our competitors after a few years as well and after 3 years of hard work, I felt somewhat burned out and I frankly didn’t know what to do next. I ended up taking some time off to figure things out and maybe work on a project on a much smaller...

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