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I run https://officesnapshots.com which highlights office design projects from around the world. I guess I don't technically qualify for these posts anymore since I've hired a couple employees, but it was a one-person business for 9 years before doing so. The basic origin was seeing photos of Google's offices and looking for a website that showed photos of other offices. There wasn't one so I made it.
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And it makes sense. Why would you want to continue running an online dating site after entering into a relationship? Not only would I think the motivation would mostly disappear, or at least drop off precipitously; but also, you have to think your significant other would always be kind of suspicious, and rightfully so.
He was single in the sense of the single person to work on.the site. I don't know what his relationship status was. His main motivation was probably financial, not finding a partner.
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On more levels than just one. Take a look at the bottom right hand corner of one of his projects[0]. No publicity is bad publicity, but I'm certain that violates proper attribution for Open Maps. If it were Google Maps instead, I'm sure he'd have gotten a very suggestive letter by now. [0] https://hoodmaps.com/ithaca
Oops! That wasn’t on purpose. I have “by @levelsio” on most of my projects on the bottom right corner: see https://nomadlist.com and https://remoteok.io . I’ll try moving the map attribution to left tomorrow or move the “by @levelsio” box! Thanks for telling me.
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Then why not just list the profit? Typically when I see revenues posted it means the profit must only be a fraction of that amount.
I guess it's mostly his living expenses and some hosting fees.
I've only made about $5.00 on it so far (certainly not enough to retire on), but my latest endeavor is looking quite promising: http://fastcashmoneyplus.biz
She even featured on Dragons Den: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1ktZRZ5ZM
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After re-reading that thread I can see why you were frustrated with the people arguing over minutiae. So I apologize for that.
Thanks!
Just had to add that...
Let me tell you there are many bad guys injecting bad just because the ad exchanges do not care. Most of them do it because "no one would know". So, we just scrap ads and put them on display.
2. We sell a subscription to our service where we charge $200-400 month for access to this data. Many malware researchers, ad agencies, regulators are subscribed to our data set.
3. It's a private business, high 5 figure revenue. Scraping cost per customer is $10
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Yes, this guy is truly an inspiration. If you're a one person business, you will find this tweet very useful: https://mobile.twitter.com/levelsio/status/93870716650815488... (aka stop running after shiny new things and just do it!)
No offense but Pieter Levels seems like a bit of a bastard, and you can see it in that thread. I don't pay much attention to him, but when I do come across his social media posts they're pretty off-putting. He's pretty successful yes, but €50k/mo is not exactly f-you money.
I got started just by writing about what I saw in reality, and how it contradicted what we see in the press. The press for the most part just prints the stories that realtors feed it, which is not a good situation. Realtors and the NAR are hardly unbiased reporters about housing. Their sole goal is to get you to spend as much as you possibly can, and beyond, to maximize their own profits. This resonated with a lot of people, and told others.
The key for me, I think, was that the press's lack of good judgement (and the revenue provided by real estate ads) created a gap in the media where certain things were just missing even though people wanted to see them.
Lately I feel the California market is shaky, so I'm starting to get back into writing about housing.