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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?

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Post by mcdowall »

pmichaud wrote: post #157
mise wrote: post #152

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Any generic advice on selling ebooks? I'm preparing one and it will be the main offering of the site besides an established forum.

I do most of my volume through e-book reader sales like kindle. A lot of people do this whole "launch formula" thing with e-books, but I've never tried that, I just pick topics that gets decent google juice and let organic search bring in people to the sales site. I also pick topics that aren't covered, or at least not well cover, on amazon and the like.

I have seen the typical affiliate style 'how to make $100 a day on autopilot from adsense' e books around for a while and sold via click bank and the like. I take it yours are more mainstream?

Are you then saying that your sales channel is Amazon and selling PDF/kindle books. Any examples your willing to give of one of your titles?

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Post by systemtrigger »

jdvolz wrote: post #95

Until about 2 weeks ago I was the largest creator of stores on CafePress. I was earning decent residual income on existing stores that I had put up, but due to some external forces (some in my control, some out of it) I got my accounts shut down by CafePress. I still expect to earn some residual income for the next couple months on things I had already sold. I had just started to seriously follow this path but I was…

Your software sounds clever. Are you confident CafePress will let you use it? How automated is the process? You're planning to use it yourself, correct, not sell the software? A blog post on your lessons learned sounds interesting, definitely.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Post by luke_osu »

http://tweetclaims.com pulls in around $100-$200 per month. If we get big press (like a blog post), we will get a spike and triple that. I literally haven't updated the code in a year. Runs like a champ and does what it's suppose to.

I would love to expand on it or market it more, but time does not permit right now. I've started playing with Google Adwords, so we will see how that goes. We are also working on getting the site redesigned.

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Post by matt1 »

I generate about $700/month from a web-based timeline tool called Preceden that I built in about six months in my spare time [1].

Preceden's been in maintenance mode for about a year now, as most of my free time is spent working on a new web design tool called Lean Designs (formerly jMockups) [2]. Lean Designs isn't profitable yet, but it's getting there. Preceden, meanwhile, continues to grow organically. Lean Designs is more of a swing-for-the-fence project, but I've got high hopes for it.

Plan is to transition to full time sometime in the fall of next year.

[1] http://www.preceden.com

[1a] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1114834

[2] http://www.leandesigns.com

[2a] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2497266

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Post by nhangen »

jashmenn wrote: post #78

I make ~$2,000 a month with an iPad game for cats. My co-founder and I were working on a "more serious" game and it was taking a long time. We needed a quick win, so I agreed to do it if we spent less than 4 weeks on it. We completed the game from idea to app store in 3.5 weeks and it is now, by far, our most popular game. * face palm * EDIT: We split the revenue 50/50, so the revenue (after apple's cut) on this game…

I'm impressed. Super clever, and I dig the website. How did you get the game in front of jungle animals?

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Post by nhangen »

flyosity wrote: post #39

I generate about $1000/mo from an iPad app I wrote (that I haven't updated in a long, long time) and then between $5-10k from iPhone user interface design/development tutorials that I sell.

This is awesome, just what I needed. I can see how it's making so much money for you.

I'm curious, what do you do for traffic? Just SEO?

Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?

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Post by elechi »

doubleconfess wrote: post #132

I made between 12k-20k a month for a little more than 3 years as an online poker player. And that was only "working" on average between 4 and 5 hours a day. Sadly I am an American and that is no longer possible.

If you were making that much money, why couldn't just move to another country and make the money there? Is it illegal to do so?
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