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

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Post by mox1 »

goshx wrote: post #93
tjbiddle wrote: post #53

Just wanted to add a note: Most people who aren't making anything won't be posting, so results will be drastically skewed. So for anyone here getting discourage because they think their a minority - think otherwise (And then get back to work on trying to get your own setup ;))

People on H1B, like me, simply can't. It is ilegal to have any income coming anywhere else other than the employer associated to the H1B... It is ilegal to even make money on ads on a blog... this completely sucks and is very frustrating.

Ask your mom,brother,uncle,etc to open a Google / iTunes developer account, get a little creative here :)

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

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Post by mastef »

plehoux wrote: post #75

Conferencebadge.com(+Leanticket.com) started in January 2013, generates ~$36k / month and growing. Interesting to note we were reject after interviewing in SF for YC S2013. We are a team of four working on this. Mostly part time, customer support, fulfilment with partners. The money from this enables us to focus most of our time on a newly not announced projet, which we plan to launch in spring 2015. We plan to apply…

impressive!

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

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Post by lovelearning »

Osiris wrote: post #79

I earn about $1500 a month from a program called BatteryBar, it's a laptop battery meter for Windows laptops. Sales are driven mostly by referrals from web forums and Q&A sites where users recommend it. It's a freemium model with the vast majority using the free version.

I find that both eye opening and inspiring.

Couple of years ago, I developed a battery meter and alerter for windows. I never thought anybody would buy it, much less use it. Never published it anywhere :(

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

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Post by bussiere »

why-el wrote: post #94
bussiere wrote: post #83

Stocks 300 / month with a custom data analysis (very simple, it's based on event. It analyse stok data and highlit regular period of high on the stocks on the same date each year, and after by hand i try to find why it goes high, and i can put past event also and it told me if theses event have an influence on stocks in the past). http://www.skruge.in/ https://github.com/skruge/skruge.github.io I'am limited by the am…

I am fairly clueless about stocks. Would you mind sharing how would one start? How much upfront cost does it require?

Play only money that you don't need, my program aims to 3% per month.

Choose a sector that you like (biotech , videogames etc ...).

Take care of trading costs.

And if you are a programmer try to find pattern in stocks.

https://www.quantopian.com/home

If you play even with an algorithm or without, write your rules (i play this amount, i go aout at this date or if i loose this percent).

Have a clean head when you play.

By analysing data you can earn a little.

For the upfront it depends of what you aim.

And in the end if someone talk you about technical analisys , run it's bullshit like horoscope for trading -_-

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

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Post by putlake »

goshx wrote: post #93
tjbiddle wrote: post #53

Just wanted to add a note: Most people who aren't making anything won't be posting, so results will be drastically skewed. So for anyone here getting discourage because they think their a minority - think otherwise (And then get back to work on trying to get your own setup ;))

People on H1B, like me, simply can't. It is ilegal to have any income coming anywhere else other than the employer associated to the H1B... It is ilegal to even make money on ads on a blog... this completely sucks and is very frustrating.

That is not true. You can be on H1B and not work for a business as an employee but can own a business. Making money on ads on a blog is perfectly legal.

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

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Post by graeme »

tjbiddle wrote: post #53

Just wanted to add a note: Most people who aren't making anything won't be posting, so results will be drastically skewed. So for anyone here getting discourage because they think their a minority - think otherwise (And then get back to work on trying to get your own setup ;))

The flip side is that a lot of people with highly successful recurring revenue streams don't post at all, because it would invite competition into their niche.

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

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Post by phreeza »

rawrnosaur wrote: post #109
phreeza wrote: post #37

Crappy t-shirt designs. I have a bunch of random shirt designs (I am no designer, just made some mediocre SVGs with funny ideas I had in Inkscape), and sell them on the German spreadshirt marketplace, makes about 20 Euros/month. Most of them trivially translate to the English-speaking market, I should really do that. Does anyone have a hint where the best place to sell 'low-end' t-shirt designs in the US is?

I think that you can start on threadless.com

I believe threadless designs are much more refined that what I have produced.

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

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Post by zo1 »

johntdyer wrote: post #7

I am a Google apps reseller and have a few customers. My customers get the accounts for a small discount then what they would direct and I make a small margin. Right now the total on that is about 1200 a year. I pretty much use that as a "toy slush fund" and use it to buy geeky stuff without getting in trouble from the boss ( wife ).

Would you mind telling us how you got into such an area?

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

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Post by ufmace »

jliptzin wrote: post #48

Around $2k / month from real estate rentals after expenses. It'd be a little less if I hired a property manager to make it fully passive, but I actually enjoy doing the property management myself as it gets me away from the computer and exposes me to things I would never otherwise be involved with.

Do you have a normal full-time job also? I sold my rental property partly because it was taking up too much time on top of mine.
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