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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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I have a small iPhone app that generates around 200 a month. Nothing spectacular but not bad for a bit extra.

I always thought that building something like this might generate an initial income (and potentially a profit) but that consistent, longer-term revenue was much harder to come by. Any chance you'd expand on what your app does and what the revenue generation/ongoing promotion model is?

You can do reasonably well (if you're just after pocket change) with a decent utility app - let's be honest, most of them have shockingly bad UX, and reap ad revenue.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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100-200 a month from having an android app.

The free version has had 483k downloads, makes ~5$/day advertising (admob/adsense). ~250 downloads a day, been on the market since 2011.

The paid version ($2.99) has had Unfortunately I've no time to keep it updated so last update was in 2012.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate and from what?

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Stocks, depends on the month: 1000-2000 on average. Link: http://mays.co/i-made-6k-this-month-doing-nothing/ Webhosting: $20 (Mainly just pays for my VPS) Launching soon: http://gymbrew.com (Subscription box service for protein goodies)

By stocks, do you mean dividends? Or do you cash out the gains you make periodically? Otherwise, I don't think I would count that as 'income'.
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