Is it too late for creating content on YouTube?
Ask HN: What is your strategy for significant passive income in 2021?
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#2related from last year "Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25316912 and "Ask HN: What is your passive income 2020?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24859111
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#3I am seriously considering getting back into premium web design and management for the restaurant industry.
The lockdowns have been brutal on the restaurant market but just as after a forest fire, new plants appear that are no longer shaded, the same explosive growth potential is there for new restaurant startups.
A few hundred bucks a year contract for a simple menu website and domain name, with future service potential is an easy sell and they add up quickly into a substantial passive income.
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#4I guess everyone's definition of significant can be different. I'm probably just playing the stock market.
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#5ETF's.
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#6Tangential to this: I started uploading videos to YouTube recently. I was amazed by the fact some trivial things are not possible.
For example: I uploaded videos to my account, and then wanted to transfer the videos to another account. This is not possible. I have to download the already uploaded videos, then upload them again to the new account.
Second: in the Contents view of Studio, there's no way to know if the videos are in a channel, so I selected videos and added them to a channel. Result? The operation is not idempotent. The channel now contains several references to the same video.
This is unfucking believable, as the product has existed for ages and there's no way I'm the only one to have this problem. The worst thing is that, the documentation and all the guids on the internet casually tell you to re-download the videos, and then upload them to the channel. How on earth this flow seemed acceptable is beyond me.
Now, the next step obviously was to sort the videos in the channel by duration or name so I could quickly find the copies and remove them, right? Wrong. You can't sort videos by name or duration, only by upload date or publication date. What in the name of fuck.
If I had time, I'd make a service to do just that. Based on the tutorials and questions and answers on reddit that find it totally normal to re-download videos that are already uploaded in order to upload them again, this is insane.
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#7I am seriously considering getting back into premium web design and management for the restaurant industry. The lockdowns have been brutal on the restaurant market but just as after a forest fire, new plants appear that are no longer shaded, the same explosive growth potential is there for new restaurant startups. A few hundred bucks a year contract for a simple menu website and domain name, with future service poten…
The best restaurant website is a single page.
Literally, one page.
Address and phone number at the top.
Days of the week and hours.
Link to a PDF of the actual exact print menu.
Link to their online ordering option of choice.
Done.
Re: Ask HN: What is your strategy for significant passive income in 2021?
#8I am seriously considering getting back into premium web design and management for the restaurant industry. The lockdowns have been brutal on the restaurant market but just as after a forest fire, new plants appear that are no longer shaded, the same explosive growth potential is there for new restaurant startups. A few hundred bucks a year contract for a simple menu website and domain name, with future service poten…
The best restaurant website is a single page. Literally, one page. Address and phone number at the top. Days of the week and hours. Link to a PDF of the actual exact print menu. Link to their online ordering option of choice. Done.
> Link to a PDF of the actual exact print menu.
One would that that would be universally useful. But on mobile I find reading a PDF can be a pain sometimes.
But yes, that should be good for 99.99% of restaurants and 99.99% of their customers.
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#9I am seriously considering getting back into premium web design and management for the restaurant industry. The lockdowns have been brutal on the restaurant market but just as after a forest fire, new plants appear that are no longer shaded, the same explosive growth potential is there for new restaurant startups. A few hundred bucks a year contract for a simple menu website and domain name, with future service poten…
Good luck. I can't see any reason why a typical restaurant would not just use one of the many online ordering services that throw in a splashy front page theme for free.
We observe this as we serve vendors to restaurants.
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#10I am seriously considering getting back into premium web design and management for the restaurant industry. The lockdowns have been brutal on the restaurant market but just as after a forest fire, new plants appear that are no longer shaded, the same explosive growth potential is there for new restaurant startups. A few hundred bucks a year contract for a simple menu website and domain name, with future service poten…
I've worked with two startups in this space.
Restaurants are pretty bad customers. Not tech-savvy, high churn, can suddenly stop paying with no warning, don't have a lot of money.
They won't be seeking you out, so you've got to do phone sales or even in person, then you're only charging a few hundred bucks? Doesn't work.
It's one of the worst segments you can target, especially as you'll essentially be up against them simply having a Facebook business page or something like Wix with a PDF menu on it.