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Wrote a guide that summarizes the science of building muscle: https://julian.com/learn/muscle/intro . It made a few thousand in Amazon referral fees after being at the top of HN, Product Hunt, and Designer News for 4 days. As these traffic spikes wear off, I expect it to continue at at least $1k/mo. To maximize referral fees, I use this clever service called A-fwd, which geo-redirects visitors to their appropriate Am…
What's PH and DN?
You guys are making cash off your side projects? Jeez. I usually just release them for free. I should get in on this. ...Assuming that I ever finish a side project. ...And that I ever come up with a side project somebody would pay for. Neither is very likely.
I am but I don't know how long it will continue! My side project is: "How to Make an RPG" ( http://howtomakeanrpg.com/ ) which I released in June. It's a collection of code samples, art and digital book that shows the reader how to make an old-school, Japanese-style RPG. So, it's super niche! I wrote a little about my process here: https://medium.com/@DanSchuller/my-first-side-project-part-1... There was supposed to…
Very cool. Just curious, what was your marketing plan? How much time did you spend on marketing?
http://gamedevelopment.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-build-a-...
I wrote it before starting the book (to test the waters) and had a link to sign-up to the mailing list. I used mailchimp for email collection.
I have ~50 articles related to gamedev on the same domain, so these get organic SEO and backlinks:
I quite enjoy writing them. The ones with a more technical bent get a lot more traffic than the others. 50% of my traffic is organic SEO. I haven't tried ads yet, but it's on my list.
More recently I commissioned some new art that I give away as a mailing list sign-up incentive. This hasn't worked very well so far :) I have to work on the messaging.
Tracking time spent is something I want to do but don't - each article at the very least takes a couple of hours. So there's 100+ hours, done in a very incremental way.
Created http://encycolorpedia.com a few years ago, kind of neglected it until recently (it's looking very dated), a version implemented in Rust is 90% complete - cheaper to run (more beer money, thanks Rust team!) & more features than the node.js implementation it will hopefully replace in the coming weeks.
Feem ( http://www.feem.io ) is making over $1K/month online; and I'm from Cameroon, Africa. Feem is a great cross-platform way to share files within your LAN.
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Yes, it's a simple purchase and then the customer has access to all the content.
This great stuff , few questions if I may , What payment getaway are you using? How did you market your site I have also gaming how to site that I plan to monotize but not sure how Www.gamedevcraft.com Any tips ?
As for marketing, I've just replied earlier in the thread with a little more detail.
For a site with tutorials on game development, most of your readers will be using adblocking software. Therefore most popular monetization methods are: selling a book, a course or locking off content behind a paywall.
Here's an example of premium content: http://aigamedev.com/premium/interview/dying-light/
Here's an example where the author sells the source code for his articles http://www.wildbunny.co.uk/blog/
This blog is about all sorts of tech stuff but he sells his book "Game Programming Patterns" (which is very good!) in the side bar. http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/
I make well over $10,000 / month operating several mobile games.
Care to convey some details?