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Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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https://www.bankaccoountchecker.com Pretty passive as validation rules are fairly static, and I have automated data source import and refresh. Around £900 MRR Existing customers have asked about other validation types like email which I might offer under a new site.

You typo'ed the URL

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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I started a niche YouTube channel on Python for Stock and Crypto Trading, very beginner level: https://youtube.com/parttimelarry Over $2K/month as of November from a combination of YouTube ad revenue, Buy Me a Coffee donations, and affiliate links (TradingView Pro Subscriptions, Tradier, Amazon books etc). Should hit 10,000 subscribers in the next couple of weeks. Plan is to grow this to 100,000 subscribers over the…

Just my 2¢: For better results, change the channel name to something relevant to what you are doing and start adding relevant (to the video) information in the video descriptions.

Some people might get a stronger emotional attachment to his channel because his name is unique and personal. Versus just another channel called "CodingStocks" or some bs like that.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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I make about $400-500 per month on https://shortkeys.app - a browser extension for custom keyboard shortcuts to do all kinds of stuff.

Just a heads up I bought the extension and then tried it on Brave Browser, keep getting Failed Needs Authorization message when it tries to install.

Ah yeah sorry, Brave doesn't support paid extensions. It's a known issue with the browser. I usually direct Brave users to download a release package directly: https://github.com/mikecrittenden/shortkeys/releases

Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile) with your order number and I'm happy to refund you.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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When the lockdowns started happening in March, I began trading the stock market. My YTD realized gains is equal to my base salary. About 140k. I am proud of all the trading I did. Living on the west coast it also turned me into a morning person, where market opens at 6:30am. Good side effect :)

I trade for fun as well. I am doing it with a rather small account, but if you feel like having a conversational partner from time to time feel free to email me.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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I made a few hundred bucks licensing my Fuzzyset.js library: https://github.com/Glench/fuzzyset.js#license

It seems licensezero.com is shutting down, does that impact your license? Do you still consider fuzzyset.js as open-source?

The creator of licensezero said that as long as I'm still making money, he'll still run licensezero, so that's useful, though I may transition to his new thing once it gets going.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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I made a watermarking software 10 years ago, still makes 1000$ every month, with almost zero work. http://watermark-image.com :)

Very cool! How did you get started, knew there could be a market and finally reached your customers?

I needed it myself, and the other pieces of sw did not work proper, then spent 3 years of spending a few hours every evening promoting it, posting it to forums, etc. (And a little time prorgramming, but promoting it took waaay more time)

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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me and my partner own several "niche sites". over 100k income in 2020. monetized with Mediavine and Amazon affiliate, but we're moving in the direction of pure ads slowly - Amazon is getting worse every year. these are pretty much passive(in my case), my assistant handles all the content outsourcing, and I just check the analytics and make decisions once in a while. I also sell premade specialized turnkey niche sites…

Would you go into more detail about this?

How much do you invest in content? How do you pick niches?

What those the turnkey niches site have in terms of content, custom theme, domain?

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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Just a heads up I bought the extension and then tried it on Brave Browser, keep getting Failed Needs Authorization message when it tries to install.

Ah yeah sorry, Brave doesn't support paid extensions. It's a known issue with the browser. I usually direct Brave users to download a release package directly: https://github.com/mikecrittenden/shortkeys/releases Feel free to shoot me an email (in my profile) with your order number and I'm happy to refund you.

Its no problem, i got it working from the repo, don't need a refund, it saved enough mouse clicks for me today to make me happy! I have carpal tunnel and this made a difference today. You may want to include a template of hotkeys that people use or create a default set to get people going.

Re: Ask HN: What was your best passive income in 2020?

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Is there a book or learning source you recommend?

I don't have any books specifically for options, I learned options through random online courses, and read other general books about investment and stock trading. What's important is to not take other people's experiences in the market as "knowledge". People say a ton of stupid shit and give you the sense you cannot even make 1% more than whatever the market does so you might as well just buy an index and hold foreve…

Thanks for the answer, it is a believable number, I'm up 30% and have only a moderately aggressive portfolio. I went in at near the bottom and just figured it would recover and could shop cheap.
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