Ask HN: Are side-projects still a good way to generate passive income?

The bottomline being, use income to maximise assets and eventually use assets to maximise income. Reasonably good income. Absolutely no assets yet (except my software-making skills that I’ve acquired over these years)

I’ve decided to write softwares (likely a SaaS product) that would generate passive income, which would serve as my first asset and then start from there to maximise them.

Source: news.ycombinator.com