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Improvely reached $10,000/mo RR recently, less than a year from launch ( https://www.improvely.com ). I also run W3Counter (freemium) and a couple smaller services and paid plugins for Shopify stores.
Well done... those numbers are impressive to reach. How many other people do you work with or are you solo?
Previous discussions: Sep 3, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4467603 Sep 4, 2012: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4470293 Sep 24, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3029771 May 21, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2567487 Mar 9, 2011: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300599
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.benhirashi...
It might sound kind of obscene here on HN, but I'm making about 3500 euros per month, semi-passive from adult related site/community. It's subscription based and the content is user submitted (that's why it's semi-passive). Some moderation is necessary, as well basic user support, but overall - not so much hustle.
How did you break into this industry? I've done random work as a freelancer for a few different adults sites, but I've always felt like running my own was the real "money shot" as far as passive income goes. Can you elaborate on how you got started and how you keep an edge in such a competitive space?
I saw the service of acquaintance of mine and what revenue he's making, so I though I can do better.
Generally, in this industry there's massive shortage of talent, ideas and innovation. This is a big opportunity for people who are delivering value in the "mainstream" startup scene and that was one of the reasons which made me try - you can get in and disrupt pretty easily if you think out of the box, which is not so hard in this context.
Most of the stuff is almost scam, the customers are threatened like idiots and technologically the year is 2002-2003.
There are people who say there's no money anymore in this industry and they're right - there's no money for people who are short on skills, ideas and execution, but there is huge potential for people who are coming from other "mainstream" industries.
My prediction is that lot of talented kids will enter this industry with great services - I see it as emerging trend at the moment.
I started 'The Wiki Game' by building this web game: http://thewikigame.com - but all revenue comes from the iOS apps, not the site. Been meaning to potentially monetize the site some day. It gets ~30,000 players per month, with time-on-site ~9mins.
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Telling people that you should blog makes it actually less likely that you will actually do it. Read that on some psychology website once. ;)
In this case I have to disagree, as these positive replies are removing any concerns I had about nobody reading this hypothetical blog :)
~$1000 a month. Designed, edited and published a book of Warren Buffett's letters to shareholders (see http://amzn.com/1595910778 ). An opportunity I stumbled into. But I suppose "get publication rights from Warren Buffett" isn't a repeatable business model :)
Do you have to share revenue on the book? I'd be curious to know how you went about obtaining the rights and what the process is like.
$2500/mo from AdSense on http://coverphotofinder.com/ Zero-maintenance, which is nice.
You know, what I would love to know is how you attracted the initial audience. This stuff is always so easy to make, but my past attempts never really got enough traffic boost. I'm wondering how you got over the 'plateau' (which in my experience seems to be ~1000 visitors a day.
Dirty "viral" tactic.