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

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Post by xiaoma »

patio11 wrote: post #128
cmaxwell wrote: post #122

Earlier quoted context omitted.

patio11 is a god...can't imagine his consulting offerings will fail.

While I appreciate the sentiment, I would appreciate it even more if you that that I was impressive for shipping stuff and gradually doing process tweaks targeted at things that actually matter. People jump directly from "X is a god" to "I am mortal, and therefore, cannot be like X." Pretty much all HNers capable of shipping product are equally capable of doing the sort of things I do to tweak those products' success…

What drew me into your blog is that you started it when you weren't very successful. I don't remember the specifics but it seemed like you weren't all that confident and you were super conservative about how much you spent on your side project that has now become so much more.

That makes for a much more interesting (and useful) read than a blog in which the author is apparently cut of a different cloth than normal humans from the beginning.

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

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Post by omgtehlion »

phil wrote: post #190
suresk wrote: post #17

I make between $200 - $400 per month off my HTTP testing tool: http://www.uresk.net/httpclient/ Not very impressive (who knew selling a niche tool in an environment where $5 is considered "expensive" wasn't the road to instant riches?), but it has been fun to make and it is always cool to hear about how useful the tool has been to fellow developers.

That's kind of a strange attitude to have. Your competition (more or less) charges $50: http://www.charlesproxy.com/

compare this to $0 fiddler2.com (only windows though)

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Post by ctek »

dherken wrote: post #175

I make between $500 und $100 per month off my stand-alone cross-browser testing tool: http://www.browseemall.com The product was launched on february this year and it's growing nicely so far. Not real recurring yet, as every sale comes with one year of free updates.

Interesting. How many unique views a month does your site get now and what kind of conversion rates are you seeing? I am planning to launch a paid version of my app, http://www.pageblox.com and my potential customers are also developers/designers.

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

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Post by nodemaker »

I made an app for reading Hacker News called HackerNode which makes about $300 a month.

http://www.hackerno.de

Do you guys have any ideas on how I can increase revenues?

Thinking of a subscription based model with a lot of killer features but don't know if there is a market for it.

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

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Post by [deleted] »

nodemaker wrote: post #217

I made an app for reading Hacker News called HackerNode which makes about $300 a month. http://www.hackerno.de Do you guys have any ideas on how I can increase revenues? Thinking of a subscription based model with a lot of killer features but don't know if there is a market for it.

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

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Post by rdm2234 »

lmirosevic wrote: post #184
rdm2234 wrote: post #38

Created an iOS dev company few months ago w/ a friend. We made $50k in August from a successful free iphone app. (around $40k in a regular month). We are only two in the company and we are still college students. Don't know what to say more about this but feel free to ask any question (except what is the app ^^)

That's awesome! You said it's a free app. What's your business model? Free+ads, In app purchase, freemium? And how do you market, do you use CPI/CPC networks?

Business model is ads only (well you can pay to get rid of ads but it only generates ~$40/day)

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Post by negrit »

philip1209 wrote: post #62

I make about $5/month on Food Trucks Near Me [1] through ads. At least it's not losing money! [1] http://foodtrucksnearme.com

Damn you should try San Francisco(The bay area). The food truck business is big there ! There is food truck 'party' every weeks. May be LA and Seattle as well. I was looking for a website like this when i was living there.
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