I make about $5/month on Food Trucks Near Me [1] through ads. At least it's not losing money! [1] http://foodtrucksnearme.com
I've wanted exactly this site. Please add SF and Austin as locations.
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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PUT MORE ADS! In between each row should be an ad unit! Contact all the Food Truck owners and get them to put up an ad on a monthly basis. Food Truck owners are relatively easy to sell to (I have experience here) because their business is small. Take that money and reinvest it back into generating traffic and build your own list of food truck customers and then charge for blasts etc...
Fair enough! I'm writing a Stripe page to allow food truck owners to buy a 'priority listing.' It's currently set at $100/month and you are put in the top row. I'm thinking of dropping it to $20/mo. Any input on pricing?
Impossible to offer pricing advice without knowing about your traffic. Done right, you are offering a fairly valuable form of advertising and one that restaurateurs understand well.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
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great job! These are the sort of success stories from you regular joes that are more common than the typical "1 billion dollar acquisition" startup. A couple of questions if you don't mind: a) What technology stack are you using/did you use to develop planscope? b) How did you deal with scalability? c) Are you doing everything by yourself? Support, Development, Marketing, etc. Thanks in advance!
a) Ruby/Rails on the backend, Backbone.js on the front b) I really don't have any scaling issues. I have about 120 paid customers, and on a given workday half of them login at some point. It probably takes quite some time for the average B2B product to run into scaling issues (unless you're doing some sort of extreme number crunching or something) c) I do everything. 20% of my product time is spent coding, the rest i…
thanks for the answers! And yes, I will definitely drop you a line if i ever get my site up and running. I'm still in development mode now. :)
Again, congrats on your product and hope it gets better in the near future.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#194I created FRUJI.com (Twitter Analytics service) and it keeps generating a minimum of about $50 a day, sometimes (often) more. It's fully self-maintained (unless the server or database crashes), which is just purely amazing. The machines sell, process the orders, upgrade, and provide the customer experience. All I did was programming it. I go for a run, my phone rings a couple of times, I look, PRO account purchased,…
ablabs.me (mentioned in your profile) doesn't seem to work.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#195Earlier quoted context omitted.
PUT MORE ADS! In between each row should be an ad unit! Contact all the Food Truck owners and get them to put up an ad on a monthly basis. Food Truck owners are relatively easy to sell to (I have experience here) because their business is small. Take that money and reinvest it back into generating traffic and build your own list of food truck customers and then charge for blasts etc...
Fair enough! I'm writing a Stripe page to allow food truck owners to buy a 'priority listing.' It's currently set at $100/month and you are put in the top row. I'm thinking of dropping it to $20/mo. Any input on pricing?
Since you have 4 cities, you can test different prices in each. $100 sounds a bit steep for a food truck unless you can guarantee ROI for them. I think it would be smarter to just add more cities and keep the price lower.
I would try something like $25 a spot and try to make them sign a 3-month advertising contract. If they balk, just remember you have 30 other food trucks and only 3 spots. This makes more sense if you had a good amount of traffic.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#196I created FRUJI.com (Twitter Analytics service) and it keeps generating a minimum of about $50 a day, sometimes (often) more. It's fully self-maintained (unless the server or database crashes), which is just purely amazing. The machines sell, process the orders, upgrade, and provide the customer experience. All I did was programming it. I go for a run, my phone rings a couple of times, I look, PRO account purchased,…
Been trying for 15 minutes and haven't been able to get the site to come up.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#197i made ~80$ in the first month after launching http://www.themescroller.com
i had a lot of traffic coming from my show hn thread (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4354376) but since then i'm struggling to find new traffic sources...
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#198-$20/mo from http://www.golfingstat.com . Can't get any traffic and the traffic I do get doesn't click on ads. FML
My 3 cents worth.
* General design needs rework especially the blog.
* Can you make an app to allow quick data entry.
* Most importantly why not try and build a social aspect? Forum / Leaderboard functionality. Is that too 2009?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#199About 500€ with an Android app (a Facebook client, link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.flipster), though I do not know if it will go up or down in the future, since I've just activated payment options in my app. (activated In app purchase on 1st August, released Pro version a few days ago)
Haven't done any marketing other then contacting a bunch of blogs (~20) before realizing that this feels a lot like "farming" in a MMORPG, which I hate doing, so I stopped. ;-/
Other than that, it's a nice playground for trying new stuff, which in some cases is directly reused in the products I build for the startup I am working for.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#200In august I made about $122,000 from display ads, mostly Adsense. 5-10% of that is spent on stuff like server space and freelance employees. I can imagine that this will not be taken seriously due to lack of details, but for anyone interested, I'm open to answering non-specific questions. Edit: I see 'from what' is also the question; I have a bunch of entertainment related sites.
- So is it niche marketing?
- Are all your websites revolving around the same niche?
- How many do you deploy for particular keyword and its long-tail keyword?
- How many years/months you spent on keyword research? I mean when did you eventually ended up on this niche?
- All your income is just Adsense? or Affiliate marketing too?
- All yours websites are ranked #1 on SERP or few just somehwere on page #1?
- Is your traffic source completely organic?
- How much of black hat SEO involved?