I run a Facebook fan page for a TV show, and use Teespring (http://www.teespring.com) to monetize the page.
Every few months I do a sale, which nets around $4,000 USD.
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Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#252I run a Facebook fan page for a TV show, and use Teespring ( http://www.teespring.com ) to monetize the page. Every few months I do a sale, which nets around $4,000 USD.
Isn't that illegal, making money off someone elses product? How many subs do you have?
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#253Interesting point against recurring revenue for some products: We increased overall sales by charging a fixed price for permanent access vs. recurring billing. The lifetime value of the customer turned out to be less in the recurring model. It took us about 2 years to discover this. Just something to keep an eye on.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#254I gross just under $10K per month from http://www.letscodejavascript.com , a subscription-based JavaScript screencast for professional developers [1]. It's a full-time job: I put out two new episodes every week, plus a "special" every month that takes quite a bit more effort. That leaves me with about half my time for developing the business. I'm bootstrapping this, so it's just me. I don't plan to hire any employees…
I'm a PHP developer that's been looking to become better at JS. Right now I'm at the level where I basically can write some simple JS to do what I want, most of the time, but the code is a mess of spaghetti. I am also a huge testing fanatic, and absolutely love that you're teaching using TDD from the first episode! Consider me signed up and a paying customer!
Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#255Interesting point against recurring revenue for some products: We increased overall sales by charging a fixed price for permanent access vs. recurring billing. The lifetime value of the customer turned out to be less in the recurring model. It took us about 2 years to discover this. Just something to keep an eye on.
Very interesting. I've gotten a decent number of requests for a la carte purchases on my site, so I'm strongly considering doing it. (It's a big change, though, which is why I've held off.) Can you say more? I'm particularly interested in how you set your prices, whether you kept the recurring model alongside the permanent model, and how you saw customer behavior change. Thanks!
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#256Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not really into the industry - my main income is coming from working for major brands in the ("mainstream") ad industry. 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…
Is technology really that behind? I mean redtube/et al are some of the largest websites out there and the blog posts seem to show a pretty high level of technology behind them although with a larger focus on cost than most startups.
99% of adult sites run on single servers using out of date PHP/MySQL scripts. Sites like RedTube, etc use newer technology, like at Confoo a dev for YouPorn talked about their stack and they use Symfony, Varnish and Nginx.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#257I pull in anywhere from $400-$600 in adsense off my blog, it's not exactly passive because I have to contribute content to it. But I originally only put AS on there to cover hosting costs (and other servers for dev, etc) but now it's starting to get closer to "income".
I'm still putting it into things like Raspberry Pis, Arduinos, Parallellas etc for stuff to write about on the blog. I use that money to try out other services as well, it's nowhere near what I'd call a "business" at this point.
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#258Couple hundred dollars from running ads on http://standartgost.ru
Re: Ask HN: How much recurring income do you generate, and from what?
#259I run a Facebook fan page for a TV show, and use Teespring ( http://www.teespring.com ) to monetize the page. Every few months I do a sale, which nets around $4,000 USD.
Isn't that illegal, making money off someone elses product? How many subs do you have?
Hopefully not. :-) I have 345,000.