Ask HN: What is your best passive income in 2017?

I really appreciate you taking a look as well as providing your feedback.

Regarding the design, I just wanted to get something out the door quickly with a suitable look out of the box, so I decided to use MaterializeCSS (http://materializecss.com/). It's getting the job done so far, but I may revisit the design after I get all the content up.

And I'll look into poppler. Thank you for the recommendation.

- Improvely (https://www.improvely.com) and W3Counter (https://www.w3counter.com) are my SaaS apps and make about $600K ARR. I check the support e-mail twice a day on weekdays and once a day on weekends. There's typically less than 20 minutes a day of work. One day a week I block a few hours to hack on new features or tweak ads or something productive.

- I have a couple open source projects, and hosted "webmaster tools" type projects, with one-page websites like http://www.daterangepicker.com that get ~10K visits/day, and run one AdSense ad on each page, which brings in a couple hundred dollars most months.

- I run a web store where I resell another company's products (with permission) targeted at a different customer group than their own website. I advertise it on Google AdWords and Bing Ads on just a handful of keywords. Fulfillment is automated through the other company, so I haven't touched the store except to update the design every few years, and it brings in $500-$1000/month in profit. Sorry, don't want to link to this one, too easy to copy.

- Dividends from stocks and high-dividend-yield index funds are totally passive. But first you have to earn and save the money to invest in them. I also have some money in REITs, investing in real estate without having to buy and manage the real estate.

- I used to run some referral ads on my sites for a merchant account provider I used 5-10 years ago. A couple businesses signed up through those links and still use that company for their credit card processing. The commission agreement was a lifetime residual based on their monthly processing volume... I'm still getting $100-200 transferred into my bank every month from that company even though I haven't been referring anyone to them for years.

Should active projects really considered passive income?

I'd consider passive something that requires virtually no involvement: stocks, bonds, real estate, etc

Extremely impressive list, do you mind me asking how you initially get the projects off the ground in terms of users / traffic?

Also as a side note, thank you for daterangepicker! I've integrated it into a couple little things I've built like chrome extensions and absolutely love it.

Stock: https://www.google.com/finance?q=clm

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cornerstone-funds-announce-con...

Supposedly has an 18% yield, which is pretty darn good. What's the catch?