About $150 per month with http://www.catgifpage.com (growing fast) and 10 bitcoins per month with a speed logo design service, I really enjoy earning money this way!
whats the total monthly traffic (including bandwidth), if i may ask?
Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#122Seems I commented on this last year, so what the heck: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month Sales are up by about 40% year-to-date over last year, owing to a combination of increased AdWords spend, organic growth in the business, and a successful redesign (and related conversion optimization) right before summer. Appointment Reminder is doing fairly decently -- monthly recurring revenues (on the publi…
patio11 is a god...can't imagine his consulting offerings will fail.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#123Seems I commented on this last year, so what the heck: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month Sales are up by about 40% year-to-date over last year, owing to a combination of increased AdWords spend, organic growth in the business, and a successful redesign (and related conversion optimization) right before summer. Appointment Reminder is doing fairly decently -- monthly recurring revenues (on the publi…
Patrick, big fan of your writing and projects like most others here.
Any new Kalzumeus Podcasts coming down the line?
I'd love to see some more posts on Appointment Reminder too. I think many of us could benefit from your insights on selling B2B SaaS products.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#124A couple of years ago I started a food blog with my mom (www.theyummylife.com). She does all the writing, and I do programming, design, and monetization. I spent a lot of time setting it up originally, but now it only takes a few hours each week of my time. Right now we're making $5000-6000/month after expenses, and I get 40% of that. My main business (a bootstrapped SaaS startup) generates more than that, but the pr…
Food looks good... are you a fat fuck?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#125Seems I commented on this last year, so what the heck: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month Sales are up by about 40% year-to-date over last year, owing to a combination of increased AdWords spend, organic growth in the business, and a successful redesign (and related conversion optimization) right before summer. Appointment Reminder is doing fairly decently -- monthly recurring revenues (on the publi…
Patrick, big fan of your writing and projects like most others here. Any new Kalzumeus Podcasts coming down the line? I'd love to see some more posts on Appointment Reminder too. I think many of us could benefit from your insights on selling B2B SaaS products.
Any new Kalzumeus Podcasts coming down the line?
Yes, we're recording one in next week or so.
I think many of us could benefit from your insights on selling B2B SaaS products.
If that subject is interesting to you, join my email list, as it seems to get most of what I write on that topic.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#126Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't sell it to developers. Sell it to their bosses.
Generally speaking, I agree with you. In this case, however, this was just a weekend project and easy distribution was a goal of mine - hence the app store. If I were trying to make a full-time living off something like this, then there are a bunch of things I'd do differently - such as what you suggest.
Ah, OK. It's actually good you've thought it through.
"Sell to the boss" is one of those little revelations I've had lately and, like any Damascene conversion, I'm being a bit of loudmouth about it.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#127I have a free website/webapp in the education space that does about $90k/m right now (2012-2013 school year) while school is in session, and grows about 2.5x each year. Revenue is 100% Adsense. I'm happy to answer any questions that don't give away what the site actually is.
Is the site/app targeted towards educators or students?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#128Seems I commented on this last year, so what the heck: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/stats/sales-by-month Sales are up by about 40% year-to-date over last year, owing to a combination of increased AdWords spend, organic growth in the business, and a successful redesign (and related conversion optimization) right before summer. Appointment Reminder is doing fairly decently -- monthly recurring revenues (on the publi…
patio11 is a god...can't imagine his consulting offerings will fail.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I would appreciate it even more if you that that I was impressive for shipping stuff and gradually doing process tweaks targeted at things that actually matter. People jump directly from "X is a god" to "I am mortal, and therefore, cannot be like X."
Pretty much all HNers capable of shipping product are equally capable of doing the sort of things I do to tweak those products' success upwards. There's not really any secret sauce or black magic involved, and to the extent that I'm better at it than other folks are, that's largely a function of a) having six years of practice and b) actually using the bag o' tricks. (Most common process failure with A/B testing: not A/B testing. Most common failure mode for lifecycle emails: sending 0 emails. Most common pricing mistake: doing no work on pricing whatsoever. etc, etc)
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#129Earlier quoted context omitted.
patio11 is a god...can't imagine his consulting offerings will fail.
While I appreciate the sentiment, I would appreciate it even more if you that that I was impressive for shipping stuff and gradually doing process tweaks targeted at things that actually matter. People jump directly from "X is a god" to "I am mortal, and therefore, cannot be like X." Pretty much all HNers capable of shipping product are equally capable of doing the sort of things I do to tweak those products' success…
Now that I have your attention.. my site: http://www.golfingstat.com
Should I quit it (brokeback style), spend some time making it mobile + setting a annual fee and trying to find the magic adwords amount to grow my userbase without losing money or keep on keeping on (trying to make some ad revenue with my current userbase of 150ish)
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#130I generate about $1K-$2K a month in passive income. I spend approximately zero hours on maintenance every week, and I bootstrapped it while holding down a full-time job. It took an extra 5-10 hours per week for about a year. Here's what I did: a) Got a job at a major software company for very high comp. b) Spent an extra 5-10 hours a week working intelligently at my full time job; got promoted. c) Invested the salary…
I've been saying for a long time now that people with the ability and motivation to make money in tech could probably easily do as well or better in other avenues. Tech entrepreneurship has its own rewards but on average it's hardly easy money.