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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…
Loads of fun while it lasted! Gave me a nice income bump for 3 holiday seasons.
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Do you have any plans for a linux release? Or a windows?
Well, I don't think Linux would be my target market. I feel like Linux users are tech savvy enough to use open source scripts like Gmvault etc. I must think about Windows however.
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.
Being able to successfully ship things is a useful muscle to develop. People who can program radically overestimate where the bar is for being able to charge money for things. (And underestimate how much money businesses pay for just about everything.)
I created Meteor Toys, available at http://meteor.toys It's been very good to me, but also trending down as people seem to be diversifying from Meteor. Certainly not what I expected when I got into it. The story for it is a simple one: I solved some of the annoyances during development for myself with by making a devtool, and then open sourced it. The reaction was very positive and encouraging. Between the opportunit…
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It is $1/mo/user over 3 users. Says so on the FAQ. Curious if they've tried other pricing models. Beyond, say, 10 or 20 users the value proposition shifts against that pricing model IMO.
Definitely worth experimenting with some more. I have some 15+ user teams that think it's worth it though :-)
I started Hacker Paradise as a side project in 2014, and now we're a full-time team of 3. We organize trips around the world for developers, designers, and entrepreneurs who want to work remotely while traveling. People pay us to organize housing, accommodations, and community events wherever we go (past speakers have been CIO of Estonia in Tallin, Matz in Tokyo, etc.). Happy; to answer questions about running more o…
In my experience local (Here in Peru) shops are very interested on learning from foreign developers.
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…
It also seems like a good fit for the HN / entrepreneur space. Was this intentional? IE did you plan it this way before starting the guide, or was it a marketing plan you figured out after it was already done?
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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 ?
I'm using Gumtree for payment and distribution, it's worked very well for me. 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: h…
Congrats on your work.