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How about if the income is in your country of origin? Can't your side project just pay out where ever you're from? It's the Internet, websites aren't really located anywhere.
It is doable, but still not legal :)
Long live SDKs, APIs and other ways to get a product out the door without coding every bit myself.
Fun teamwork results from these side projects also. Such as my wife recording her custom mix of "Old McDonald" + "Hail to the Chief" to be used as my background music for the game. She did this at 1AM of election day, 2010 so I could release the app that day.
Can lessons in life be measured as recurring revenue? Maybe not monetarily but certainly in wisdom and the ability to execute better the next time.
Personalized kids books on the iPad ( https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/little-heroes/id477247738?ls... ) ~ 2K / month
Bingo Card Creator is pretty firmly EOLed. Sales YTD this year are about $30k, probably $35k all-in for the year. Profits are stable at about 60% unless I miss my guess. This is down substantially from previous years, partly as a result of Google changes which I haven't made the least bit of effort into looking into. Also have ~$1k a month from books/courses, and hoping to get out another course before the end of the…
> partly as a result of Google changes which I haven't made the least bit of effort into looking into Do you know what google changed at least or simply that google changed _something_ and organic traffic dropped significantly?
http://moz.com/google-algorithm-change
In 2014 alone there have been more than a dozen of major updates. Keeping up takes significant effort.
I own and run a website, in the category of special-interest news stories, that's making 10–15k a month consistently for almost 10 years. (Yeah, we got started early, which is probably why I have good search engine rankings.) Google AdSense is the only means of income. We get close to 1 million unique visitors a month. Just me and one other part-time employee running it, so it's been a pretty spectacular (and unexpec…
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 ;))
It's been several years now that I'd like to launch a few side projects. But contrary to the crowd here I'm just a normal human : when I come home I'm just exhausted and / or want to do something else than coding. I could use the extra cash though. This month I even tried placing bets on soccer and tennis and failed miserably.
The closest I can get to making the process formulaic is to find a hobby that requires gear of some kind. Before you ever build something to improve that hobby, you need to enjoy the hobby. Then, find some aspect of that hobby that could be improved, most likely through some sort of automation.
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It is doable, but still not legal :)
It's not legal to launch a web service in your home country that makes money from people in your home country? How do other businesses operate?
You could just ignore this, like I do, but if you're in America on an H1B visa, which I'm not, then you're probably best off following the rules, lest they expel you and never let you back in, without giving you time to organise getting all your stuff back first.
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 ;))
It's been several years now that I'd like to launch a few side projects. But contrary to the crowd here I'm just a normal human : when I come home I'm just exhausted and / or want to do something else than coding. I could use the extra cash though. This month I even tried placing bets on soccer and tennis and failed miserably.
$0.00 from my free game "Barnyard Politics" on Android. Immeasurable wealth realizing I could make the game in 4 days with a game sdk verses the whole summer I spent chasing an idea that I never released but used OpenGL, Android NDK, OpenCV. All the technologies I learned led to the next couple years of my work innovating for my employer so it was a good thing. Time well spent. Long live SDKs, APIs and other ways to…